Review
Pros
1. A very intriguing storyline, TWD is more of an experience rather than just a game.

Cons
1. Time limit to choose your response - In most of the conversations you have to select your response within a time limit. True that in real life you don't take minutes to reply back but in real life you don't have to go through user interface to speak. Time limit is just few seconds and many times you can't even read all the 3 dialogue options. At least don't increase our reading time by writing the whole sentences, just put one word options like Mass Effect.
2. I like QTEs which comprises most of the gameplay in TWD but the game lacks precision. You usually die not because you do not understand the situation but because your input is read differently by the game.

Save System: Autosave at the end of mission only. Hidden checkpoints through out the level and they can be used multiple times to save progress.

Review
Pros
1. Disguise system is more realistic. People know about their co-workers, so they need to be suspicious if suddenly someone new is amidts of them. This is fair and reasonable.
2. More interactive AI, there is usually a conversation going on around you.
3. Though stealth is the way you should play Hitman but Absolution can be easily played as a shooter too.

Cons
1. Hitman Absolution is both amazing and irritating at same time. The save game option as it was in earlier Hitman games is removed, so you need to do the missions in one go. There are some additional checkpoints but you may not always find them, even if you do you have to reach the place of checkpoint which could be a challenge in itself. There are multiple paths to your objective and path you choose may not include any checkpoint. So ultimately you end up doing same thing over and over again untill you become perfect in each and every part of the mission. Such an atrocity shouldn't be in a game of 2012. The blame was put to consoles that 360 and ps3 lack the firepower, what a shame!
2. You have to do lot off waiting, I understand it's 47's job to wait but why us? Lot of time you have to wait for guards to be at perfect position for you to make move or someone ahead is having a conversation and you can't move untill they finish. For first time it's good but with no checkpoints/save points you do this for thousand times. Why do I have to put my controller down? Why can't there be a 'fast forward' button to move time faster? It's all about strategy but why punish us to do the same? Either they should have kept the 2 saves(7 in easy) at any place option like in previous games or allow to fast forward time. I enjoyed the first half of the game but last 5-6 missions (Attack of saints and later) were serious pain on hard, God bless who will be playing at purist difficulty.
3. Most of the game is running rather than assassination missions, the levels are smaller and divided into parts.
4. You can't choose weapon load out before starting the mission.

Save System: Checkpoints

Review
Pros
1. Treyarch knows how to make single player campaign really good.
2. Role play - Different outcomes are possible in every mission based on your actions or decisions, which ultimately affect the game's endings. Many of these actions are silent, lot of people won't even realise when they took a critical decision affecting the ending unless they hit google but I appreciate this. At least in first playthrough you should enjoy your game and not worry about achieving a better ending.
3. Thanks to RPG elements, good storyline.
4. Futuristic setting, guns are nice.

Cons
1. Limited chances to try Strike Force missions - I approve of this new addition but there are plenty of reasons about why limited tries is wrong? SF missions are more of a tactical/strategical nature, something that is new for a COD fan. It took me a while to find the right approach, now add the pressure of only 'x' tries left to it. Eventually you will either just ignore these missions(as they are optional) or cheat the game. Alt-Ctrl-Del > Sign out works for PC and Dash button for 360 before game is saved. Another absurd thing was that later SF missions were more easier. One more reason, being experienced in FPS genre I usually play a shooter at hard in first playthrough but these missions are more tactical, something entirely new, something I am bound to fail.
2. Like always, a very short campaign.

Review
Pros
1. For first time Halo was not made by Bungie but by new dev 343 Industries. This could have gone either way but it's good that 343 took their job seriously.
2. Bringing back Master Chief surely helped the campaign.
3. The 5 episode series 'Forward unto dawn' was a good initiative. It's good to see that so much effort was given toward game's storyline.
4. New enemies, new weapons.

Review
Pros
1. Solo campaign is the attitude era(wwe between 1997-2000), the events that actually happened in WWE. So no lame storyline this year.
2. Every event has optional objectives, which help you to learn several moves you would otherwise just ignore.

Cons
1. Bugs still haunt this game, a lot more in audio this year. Sometimes cinematic audio is barely audible. Sometimes after finishing the match the commentary volume will become too loud to feel comfortable.
2. Several small bugs which could have been easily fixed had someone done a single playthrough of the game or given more time to the development if these bugs were already known to them.
3. Another year and no updates to graphics.
4. Lot of optional objectives required tutorial about how to do them but only few were covered. Try to beat this game without the help from your friend or Google.

Review
Pros
1. Amazing detail - The town outside used to be plain simple grass, not anymore. Infact major portion of the game is forest with beautiful detail. I played first few sequences with awe for graphics.
2. Good side quests, though they don't appear for some time but when they do there are lot of them. Naval missions are nice addition too, strategic and fun. Citizen missions are disappointment though.
3. You get to kill some redcoats !
4. Finally a solution to map clutter with tabs for different type of icons.
5. Though combat is still easy but still some efforts have been done to make it better. You don't carry any health packs which made you practically immortal in previous games.

Cons
1. While AC 3 has good side quests, game's main storyline quests are uninteresting and lack challenge. They depend on optional objectives for challenge.
2. Too bad that Connor(protagonist) is not a businessman like Ezio. Buy and rebuild shops, which was my favorite part of AC stands dumped.
3. Poor tutorials - Lot of things remained unexplained or poorly explained. I had no clue about lot of things even after I finished the game.
4. Crowd doesn't lack kids anymore but they look like midgets.

Save System: Autosave at race completion.

Review
Pros
1. Challenging racing experience
2. Game takes a lot of things from the old Most Wanted. Few of the interstate roads feels similar.
3. Support for xbox 360 controller in pc version. Buttons appear in control layout as they are on your controller and not like few other games that show button0,1,2 etc
4. 41 cars and 5 events for each car, so a total of 205 events but yes events repeat a lot of times. Without repeat there are only 61 events, each event is available with 3 or 4 cars but they are set to different difficulty.
5. No storyline.

Cons
1. Over agressive cops, the only tool in your hand to evade is to go off road or just try to outrun cops. The old MW had pursuit breakers it had a systematic way to evade cops.
2. Cooldown may take around a minute at higher heat levels unless you stop your car. There are Ambush events where you have to evade in 150 seconds. It leaves almost nil time to evade. It becomes more a game of luck rather than a game of skill.
3. Pursuit continues even after the race completes, I know this is how it used to be in the old MW but there was a reason for that you were required to accumulate bounty to challenge the next MW racer so every pursuit was helping you. But in MW 2012 these pursuits are meaningless, one can simply quit the game to avoid the extra exercise. (Pursuits also add up your SP but almost negligible)
4. Hard to master controls. It takes about hour or two to get hold of it but once you do, the game is really fun to play.
5. Only 5 events per car.
6. No reset car button
7. No single place to see all the events and their status, you can only see 5 events at a time which corresponds to your car.

Length of this game depends on you. There are 3 options for you to choose.
Easy - You only want to be #1 most wanted. This doesn't even requires you to go through all the races or get gold in all. Will take only 5-6 hours.
Medium - Get gold in all 61 events with at least one car. You will come across few tough events.
Hard - Find all 41 cars and get gold for every event with every car. I hope you don't have any anger management issues because there are few really pain in the... events and you will be doing these multiple times.

Save System: Checkpoints

Review
Warfighter comes with it's flaws but is not as much disappointment as it sounds in most of the reviews on internet. If you are a shooter fan, you should consider it. The campaign was dull for the most of time but there were at least 2 or 3 enjoyable missions. Game doesn't bring anything new it's something you have already experienced in one game or another. Your enemies don't like to be in a cover, they will either charge up against you or stay in open to be shot at. Even when they choose to take cover, they don't do it properly and you can easily take shots. So only consider playing on hard difficulty otherwise game will be way too easy. You can say that for Warfighter, 'medium means easy' and 'hard means medium.' Graphics are like always but don't consider playing it without HD content installed in case you are playing on 360. SD textures are almost no textures at all. Critics can be aggresive at times, one should also look at average user rating before making decision about purchase.

Review
Pros
1. For the first time Forza experience was in open world environment. There are few street race events in Horizon but it's more of a simulation or you can say that Horizon is a hybrid of simulation and arcade, something not attempted by any other game.
2. Lot of variety in events, from normal sprint, circuit races to PR (show off driving) events, there is plenty you can do.
3. Collectibles (smash signs) were easy to find. They also help to decrease car upgrade cost.
4. Cockpit view is retained.
5. You need to visit event location to start a race, it's really fun to drive around the city. There are also fast travel locations for thoose who don't like free roam but I never bothered about them.

Cons
1. Environment is not rich enough especially in the towns.
2. Four difficulty levels and several assisst options so you can find what you need. But I still had trouble with this, at hard each and every race took time but at medium I did not find any challenge untill the final boss events arrived. Nothing beats the Dirt 3's 9 point scale difficulty system.
3. No car crash effects, even Forza 4 had some. I mean it's weird if you slam a 350 kmph car into a wall and it just stops there.