THIS week’s Tech 5 is fun and exciting. So go out and get your Christmas games as they will make the perfect gifts for boys and girls.

Vietnam Battlefield Bad Company 2

This first-person-shooter video game is designed for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and iOS systems. It is a part of the Battlefield series and is primarily a squad-level online game based in a contemporary modern warfare setting.

The game includes a single player campaign, where the player reassumes the role of Preston Marlowe, the protagonist, as well as multiplayer. Battlefield features 15 vehicles, including new additions, such as the UH-60 Black Hawk, a quad bike, a four-man patrol boat, a personal watercraft, a ZU-23 mounted on a BMD-3 armoured personnel carrier and a UAV helicopter controlled via remote computer terminals.

The gameplay of the Battlefield series is that players must capture and defend flags for as long as possible. If a base is taken, it can be recaptured, and the cycle can repeat until the game’s end.

Bonk: Brink of Extinction

Bonk: Brink of Extinction is an adventure game continuing the Bonk franchise in WiiWare, PlayStation Network and Xbox Live Arcade consoles. There will also be online and local cooperation modes. Bonk’s world is threatened by a doomsday comet on a collision course with Earth. He has new transformations including fire and Bonk can spit fireballs.

The comet’s magnetic field is driving the planet’s creatures crazy and smaller bits of debris are smashing into the jungle near Bonk’s home. Bonk must swim, bite, climb, jump and run through jungles, deserts and volcanic caverns while earning power ups, reaching check points and gaining extra health on a perilous journey to the very centre of the planet.

Mass Effect 2

Mass Effect 2 is an action role-playing game in the sequel to Mass Effect, and is the second game of the series. Designed for the PC and Xbox 360, the game’s main character Commander Shepard is killed in an ambush by a mysterious alien species called the Collectors. Shepard is revived two years after the attack by an enigmatic organisation called Cerberus and is tasked with finding out more about the Collectors and why they are abducting entire human colonies.

Shepard must recruit and gain the loyalty of a diverse team in order to accomplish what seems to be a suicide mission. Many elements and locations from Mass Effect return, in addition to ones new to the series. The game also features regenerating health as its primary health mechanic and is more detailed not only graphically, but technically.

Dungeon Defenders

This is a video game by Trendy Entertainment that combines the genres of tower defence and action. The game takes place in a fantasy setting where players control the young apprentices of wizards and warriors and defend against hordes of monsters. Dungeon Defenders is designed for XBox Live Arcade, PlayStation Network, and PC platforms.

The game also has loot-driven gameplay of dungeon crawlers with the strategic decisions of tower defense. Players are faced with an oncoming horde of monsters and must protect their Eternia Crystals by both building defensive measures and taking the fight directly to the enemy. It will also feature four-player cooperative action both online and off line, 15 different arenas and multiple modes of play.

Dead Space 2

Dead Space 2 is a survival horror third-person shooter video game designed for the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and Microsoft Windows. It is the sequel to Dead Space and has a multiplayer mode. The game will begin in a hospital on board the Sprawl.

Players will witness the horror of the Necromorph infection as it begins in the station. Main character Isaac has to protect himself and others from this horrible infection.