^{DEAD SPACE 2 C'mon, Isaac, no need to beat yourself up.}

Since playing the campaign for Call of Duty: Black Ops, and more recently since playing Dead Space 2, I've been thinking about how video games deal with the trope of the unreliable narrator.

Despite the Call of Duty reputation for forgettable, cookie-cutter campaigns, Black Ops surprised me.

VOTE NOW: The Laser Orgy 500 - the Phoenix's quest to crown the greatest video game of all time.

I often use Counter-Strike as the game to which I compare all other first-person shooters, mostly due to its old-school minimalist style. The game originated as a mod of Half-Life, took off unexpectedly, and remains an oldie-but-goodie for PC gamers.