Introduction
Greetings PlayStation 3 fans. It's Christmas again, a time I know that many of us associate with gaming. Whether it's having nothing else to do but spend those dark, cold nights inside playing a game, opening that new gaming console on Christmas Day and setting it up on the big TV, or perhaps playing a family game like Buzz and having arguments about who has the dodgy controller.
I remember Christmas 2008. I was fortunate enough to get Quantum of Solace and Fallout 3 for my PlayStation 3. I spent the whole of Boxing Day (the day after Christmas Day in the UK) playing Quantum of Solace in particular - I think I had decided it would be easier to get the short shooter game ‘out of the way’ so I would have more time for Fallout 3 later, which I knew would be much longer.
Occasionally, I still get PlayStation 3 games for Christmas from my family members, but it gets harder every year now that they can only purchase them on eBay and have to check my spreadsheet to ensure it isn’t one of the 324 PlayStation 3 games I already own.
I am still on the lookout for what I call a Christmas Game. Most of us have a movie or two that we try and watch every Christmas as part of a tradition, and I feel like there should be something similar for games, but I need one short enough that I can fit it around work, family, and the general busy-ness that this time of year creates. Something snowy like Skyrim comes to mind, but it’s way too long to completely comfortably. So perhaps a game like Lost Planet, which is short and snowy, but perhaps the central gameplay of fighting aliens doesn’t feel all that Christmassy.
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