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By Jeremy Azevedo

Of all the great games that were at E3, there were a select few that just a certain special something...

These  games might not be the most buzzworthy games of the show (actually most of them are), but they were the most fun to play as well as having represented the most exciting developments in gaming culture. Check out our picks for the top five games of E3 2008!

Lips



Everybody knows that the third most awesome thing to do whilst drinking copious amounts of alcohol, after fucking and fighting, is karaoke! So imagine my delight to hear that the newest contender in the karaoke game will reportedly allow you to use your own goddamn music collection! I don’t know how this is expected to work, or what the legal ramifications are, and I don’t care. My copy of Singstar only came with like 30 songs on it, only about 1/3rd of which were actually fun to sing. I own like 30 bajillion CDs, so if Lips delivers on it’s promise, it’s destined to become the number one party game in my household without cluttering up my living room with plastic drum sets and other such bullcrap.

Alpha Protocol



If KOTOR, The Bourne Conspiracy, Syphon Filter and James Bond all mated together in some twisted circle jerk that resulted in the world’s most badass espionage action RPG, Alpha Protocol is what we would end up with. This game offers up tough choices that can affect the course of your game with alarming frequency. You have to think fast at all times, as you cannot repeat conversations or events. Alpha Protocol is the first truly immersive spy simulator that brings it al together, the double agents, the weapons contractors, the safe houses, the weapons and gadgets, the women, the smooth talking and the gunplay. If truly becoming immersed in your character is in any way appealing to you (but you’ve been turned off by all the fantasy and space opera crap offered up by this genre), than Alpha Protocol is your chance to get in on the game.