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Posted by French Toast on Wed Mar 22nd at 10:28pm 2006

I got the Premium package on my 360. So far I've got

Project Gotham Racing 3: Good game, annoying sometimes, butthe bestest racer out there. THe first person view is done beautifully.

NHL 2K6: Fun, but easy.

Ghost Recon Advanced Warfare: Best f**king game ever.

Halo 2: Less fun then it's cracked up to be.

Unreal Tournament: Apparently the 360 isn't as backwards compatible as it was said to be...

(waiting on) Oblivion: ooooooooooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhh baby.






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Posted by KungFuSquirrel on Thu Mar 23rd at 7:30pm 2006

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I just got my XBox360 last weekend, the core system. I also bought the hard drive and the HD cable. I picked up Perfect Dark and I am alittle dissappointed in my first game, but thats just me. I need the wireless controllerts, wireless adapter and a better game. Perhaps I'll look into the new Ghost Recon next payday.


Of the 360 games I own (Kameo, PDZ, PGR3, Q4, Kong, Condemned, DOA4, Call of Duty 2, Ghost Recon, Oblivion, Burnout Revenge and Blazing Angels very soon), PDZ is by far the worst. Clunky, frustrating, annoying, ugly, etc. etc. :P Though I am getting Gun from the company store because it's cheap, maybe that'll win... The entire rest of that collection (Q4 excluded for personal bias reasons going both ways) has been absolutely fantastic; no previous system has ever offered so many games I've enjoyed this much within such a short few months of its launch (even if I did come in late on the last rounds, getting this many titles was years worth of releases). PDZ isn't even terrible per se, but I doubt I'll finish it outside of coop.

Mr. Toast: The 360 is exactly as backwards compatible as they said it would be. Games need small updates downloaded to have the emulation work, and not all are currently available. The currently supported games can be found here: http://www.xbox.com/en-US/games/backwardcompatibilitygameslist.htm


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Posted by French Toast on Thu Mar 23rd at 10:34pm 2006

Hmmm... no listing for Unreal Championship (or whatever the game's called)

Sigh...




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Posted by parakeet on Thu Mar 23rd at 11:08pm 2006

i know it's sad but i'm going to get nintendogs.. and it sounds like fun :P

i'm hoping my gf will get it too :P but i've read up on it and it actually looks like a well made game , so i can't wait to try it out <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif">.


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Posted by French Toast on Fri Mar 24th at 4:07am 2006

Oblivion comes my way tomorrow...
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Posted by ReNo on Fri Mar 24th at 3:49pm 2006

Oblivion arrived for my flatmates today. I was tempted to get it, but decided it would be a bit too much of a distraction during the last month or so of my honours project, so instead I'm putting it on hold. Looks like a pretty epic game though, and the reviews so far have been hugely positive.



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Posted by parakeet on Fri Mar 24th at 5:26pm 2006

annd i've found splinter cell and splinter cell pandora tommrow in my sisters closet , my sister has left the house a while ago .. and the games have stayed.. so i've been enjoying that :P


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Posted by French Toast on Fri Mar 24th at 9:21pm 2006

AAAAAHHHH s**t f**k bitch damn crap

It's outa stock... I have to wait for it to ship here from BC...




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Posted by Victor-933 on Sat Mar 25th at 3:06am 2006

Been playing Blast Doors lately.. It's a fun game -- turn-based strategy (I suppose that's what it is) where you each have one bunker. You buy weapons and supplies and such at the beginning of each round, then once the game starts take turns calculating the elevation of your bunker's turret and the power behind each shot to slam someone in the face with high-explosive ordinance.

It's somewhat old -- originally released in '96 but the latest version is from '99.

It's a free download; I'll provide the link:
http://www.fiends.com/Index/Blast.jsp



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Posted by Juim on Fri Mar 31st at 12:53am 2006

Just finally finished COD2 in veteran mode. While it was insanely repetive near the end,(You almost can't tell the difference between the british and the american campains in Europe) I will say this. It is the longest, hardest FPS I ever played. Definitely got my moneys worth in those terms. There were times I wanted to throw my keyboard out the freaking window.There were several choke points, where, no matter what I tried, I just kept getting mowed down over and over.....and over and over! I spent at least two or more hours at three or four of the missions critical endings and while I prayed for the game to finally end, I was ultimately satisfied with the experience in general.

So whats next on the FPS horizon?

Episode 1 of course, but I think I like CRYSIS for my next big thrill. I know it's going to be ages before we see it though.

Any suggestions?




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Posted by FatStrings on Fri Mar 31st at 2:41am 2006

so i got blast doors
very interesting concept, not really addicting to me but nice when i have nothing better to do
besides it beats minesweeper




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Posted by Crono on Sat Apr 1st at 2:11am 2006

Crysis looks really awesome. If not just for the abilities it will use from CryEngine 2.

Slowly, but surely, games will be pretty environment interactive. I'm looking forward to it!

There's another game coming soon, one of the first I've seen advertise usage of Ageia's Physics processor (I think)

It just looks insane and crazy. It's like a mix between vehicles in Halo, Look of Far Cry, and Telekenesis.

Check out "Cell Factor" here: http://www.gametrailers.com/gamepage.php?id=2510

Also, there's a new Zelda coming out for DS, Phantom Hourglass, it looks pretty sweet. It "looks" like four swords adventure, but seems to play like older zelda games. A nice feature, is you can draw on your maps. You can draw paths for your boat, and many other things. Here: http://media.ds.ign.com/media/694/694756/vids_1.html

I wish I had money.


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Posted by French Toast on Sat Apr 1st at 2:32am 2006

I think this is the Cell Factor thing Crono was talking about, but here's a streaming video instead of a download.

Looks pretty hectic, I can imagine you'ld need one hell of a machine to run that.




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Posted by French Toast on Sun Apr 2nd at 4:53am 2006

Well, Oblivion came in and I must say that it's quite possibly the best game ever. That's all I can say as I have to get back to playing it.



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Posted by SpiKeRs on Sun Apr 2nd at 11:03am 2006

I really want to try Oblivion out but I wanna try a demo first. Is there one out/coming out? Gone are my days of just buying a game cause it looked/sounded good <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif">




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Posted by French Toast on Sun Apr 2nd at 3:19pm 2006

I'm not sure. I've got it on my 360, so I haven't really checked. If you've played any of the other Elder Scrolls games then you're sure to enjoy this one. Many computers can't handle it though, it's pretty demanding.

THere was a website that tested your specs though...




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Posted by ReNo on Sun Apr 2nd at 3:43pm 2006

Played two demos yesterday, both of them pretty good.

First up was Tomb Raider: Legend, which felt a bit wierd at first (it is soooo not Tomb Raider controls), but ultimately I'm impressed with. It looks great and the platforming takes some good influences from Prince of Persia while still retaining the Tomb Raider vibe. The combat is a bit s**t, but nobody played Tomb Raider for the combat anyway <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif"> The demo was easy but had a nice puzzle at the end, which DID involve crates but also involved physics, which combined to be just...well, cool <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_smile.gif"> I was planning on waiting for a 360 to get this, but I think the PC version looks great so will probably just buy a control pad and play it like that.

Next up was Condemned, which is an Xbox 360 FPS I wanted but is now coming out on the PC. I was a little disappointed, as with the melee focus of the game I expected there to be various ways to, well, swing stuff! Despite that, it is really atmospheric and the melee combat is pretty brutal if less developed than I'd have liked. You can use a whole load of stuff in the environment as a weapon - from pulling out the metal rebar from a broken pillar, or a plank of wood out of a broken wall, to ripping a pipe off a wall or just pistol whipping people with your sidearm. I'd probably rather wait for this on the 360 as my PC had trouble running it well with good graphics settings, and to be honest it didn't FEEL like a PC FPS to me.



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Posted by G4MER on Sun Apr 2nd at 4:03pm 2006

I just got done Beta testing AutoAssault.. the game is pretty bad ass.

And its not just about in car game play.. you do get out and move about as a person. Think Mad Max or death race 2000.. not bad.



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Posted by ReNo on Sun Apr 2nd at 5:07pm 2006

I did a little beta testing of Auto Assault, and wish I could have done more but I've got too much on my plate. Maybe after I'm done with uni I'll pick it up.

At the moment I'm trying out a little Planetside, seeing as it is free (with tiny level caps though). There are a lot of horrible things about the game, but in general it is hard to be annoyed when you are part of a mammoth assault against and enemy base, or when you are desperately trying to hold your own against swarms of enemies while reinforcements reclaim the spawn tower they are using. Fun times.



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Posted by Agent Smith on Sun Apr 2nd at 11:09pm 2006

Is Planetside free now!? I've wanted to play that since it came out, but by the time I got broadband I figured it would be too old, and most people would have moved on.

Oh, and also picked up a 360, damn its good. Been playing Advanced Warfighter which is a pretty hard game to get the hang, but great fun when you can actually hit the enemy. That bit with the minigun in the trailer is intense. The xbox seems to look okay on a regular tv, but man does it shine on a 42 inch plasma. The detail and environments are incredible in GR:AW, and when you go split screen co-op or multiplayer the size of each window is about that of a standard tv monitor.

Advanced Warfighter is probably the most enjoyable Ghost Recon game I've played, the squad control is great and the game is really well balanced. So far I've been controlling a squad of 4 guys, a surveillance drone, an Abrhams battle tank and an Apache attack chopper. Getting the Apache to strafe ground targets and troops from a distance is a great. Co-op is good, though they remove some of your movement abilities like hugging walls and peaking around corners, sliding/diving behind cover, the little things that make it cool. Also the co-op isn't actually the single player game, just a few missions from it, though no where near as complex. The weaponry is great and there is a huge variety to choose from. The guns also have a very slight auto aim function, so that if your pretty much pointing at a target and he's in the open your bullets will be drawn to him. It makes up for the less precise and fast controls of the console compared to the PC. A great game and highly recommended.



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