Now that 2007 has passed us by, the staff at Gaming Nexus took a look back at the best games they played last year. 2007 was a banner year for games with some awesome releases. So here`s what we thought were the best that we played.


Dan Keener - Staff Writer
Crackdown - This sandbox game was bought by most for the Halo 3 beta, but proved worthy of many hours of play hunting down those ****ing orbs!

Rock Band - While this may not be nearly as fun going it solo as it is with a house full of drunk party guests, it is still worth the $170 for the bundle as long as your Guitar works fine.

Call of Duty 4 - This game succeeded where halo 3 did not,and that is having a topnotch single player campaign that looked and played fantastic. throw in some great multi-player levels and the abundance of class types, and you have yourself a hit.

Mad Tracks - This little party gem on Xbox Live Arcade is the perfect game to bring together young and old gamers into a fun party style game. You don`t fully respect it until you again have a houseful of guests.




John Yan - Senior Hardware Editor
Rock Band - Can`t say I didn`t see this coming as playing with it at E3 showed me early on that rocking with toy instruments with a group is more fun than going solo.

Call of Duty 4 - Loved, loved, loved this game even though it didn`t do anything really new. Everything was just held together really well and the game flowed smoothly. Glad to see it back on the PC.

Portal - The cake may be a lie but this little gem isn`t. Besides a catchy song at the end, GLaDOS was a hoot to go up against and provided some great comic relief.

Team Fortress 2 - The Orange Box scores with two of my favorite games this year. The style is really fun and the updated gameplay to a classic multiplayer game really had me sitting at my computer for many many hours this year.




Rachel Steiner - Staff Writer
Rock Band - This one will always be one of my favorites as I`ve never been too great at guitar.

Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker - Sure, I`m a long time fan of the franchise but at the same time? This one has a solid story to go along with the monster catching mayhem.

Final Fantasy XII: Revenant Wings - I`m not too big on the tactics based FF games however, the real time element of Revenant Wings has me hooked....