The 360 thread!

PVB · Post by **PVB** » Fri Jun 08, 2007 4:24 pm 0

Flabio wrote:
RageMatrix wrote:Also: Where the fuck is the UK demo version of Vampire Rain? I want!
It's not appeared for the USians either, so I suspect it's suffering age ratings delays.

Japanese profiles still work, for now.

PVB · Post by **PVB** » Fri Jun 08, 2007 4:27 pm 0

Flabio wrote:There's a demo of Overlord gone up today. Looks like Pikmin crossed with Dungeon Keeper and Fable.

Might grab that later then.

Details:

Demo: Overlord

Name: Overlord Demo
Price: Free
Availability: Not available in Asia or Mexico
Dash Details: Do you want fear, respect, gold and power? Take control of a horde of Minions and become the Overlord!
Size: 891.8 MB (approx.)

also:

Monster Madness: In Game Content

Name: Monster Madness â€“ Battle Field: Zack's House
Price: 200 Points
Availability: Available in all Xbox Live regions
Dash Details: A unique 4-player Capture the Flag level, this house is full of physical weapons and environmental traps to use against the opposing team. One team's base occupies the front porch, the other's is in the backyard, while the close-quarters ensure non-stop action!

Name: Monster Madness â€“ Battle Field: High School
Price: 200 Points
Availability: Available in all Xbox Live regions
Dash Details: Massive 16-player level for Xbox Live & System Link, filled with close-quarters indoor action and epic outdoor vehicular combat! After the sudden Martian invasion, the ruins of L.R. Jenkins High School have turned into an urban warzone. Experience intense confrontations inside & outside the shell-shocked buildings, and in the skies above, to see who can lay claim to the 'Pride of the Kitty Kats'. School's out... forever!

chub · Post by **chub** » Fri Jun 08, 2007 5:23 pm 0

I'm downloading the Overlord demo now. I like the sound of 'minions'. I could do with some of those in real life

Mark · Post by **Mark** » Fri Jun 08, 2007 5:26 pm 0

Terrypantsman wrote:Anyone Getting Wartech Senko No Ronde Today,

I really like the look of this, so i might see what my lunch time jolly brings

I've been keeping an eye on this for a few weeks now, but even though I've got more money than sense I couldn't bring myself to part with the Â£50 that everyone was asking for it in town, or even the Â£40 it costs at Play and Amazon.

However, a quick visit to PlayAsia confirmed it's Region-Free, and it comes in at just under 27 quid with postage. Sold!

http://www.play-asia.com/paOS-13-71-fc- ... -1z67.html

CarlBillen · Post by **CarlBillen** » Fri Jun 08, 2007 6:27 pm 0

Mark wrote:
Terrypantsman wrote:Anyone Getting Wartech Senko No Ronde Today,

I really like the look of this, so i might see what my lunch time jolly brings
I've been keeping an eye on this for a few weeks now, but even though I've got more money than sense I couldn't bring myself to part with the Â£50 that everyone was asking for it in town, or even the Â£40 it costs at Play and Amazon.
However, a quick visit to PlayAsia confirmed it's Region-Free, and it comes in at just under 27 quid with postage. Sold!
http://www.play-asia.com/paOS-13-71-fc- ... -1z67.html

Yup, it is indeed priced 'very full price'... Anyway, I couldn't resist

.

So I put the disc in, not knowing what to expect. It starts in Japanese, with English subtitles

about a story of someone/something which started to cry and they decided to abandon Earth until the crying thing died

(That's Japanese storytelling for you!).

I saw several options : Stroy, Score Attack, XBox Live and Training.

I choose training, and I expected a tutorial, but it's more a beat-em-up training (like the one in DOA)... OK, I can try out the buttons... I have a shooty button, a missile button, a 'run' button (euh, 'fly') and then some other which I don't really know what's it about. Aha, I have a 'Shield trigger'. And what does the 'Boss trigger' do? Suddenly you change from a little ship to a 'Boss ship'

...

OK, Let's try 'Score Attack'. Choose character? OK, different characters have different ships with different abilities. Aha, it plays like a beat-em-up (you both have health-bars) but you're actually flying mechs which shoot at each other... If I use the 'dash' button I can get closer and start punching them in close combat... OK.

I manage to beat some of them, and then they start using their 'Boss attacks'. Suddenly you're in Ikaruga dodging bullets like never before...
Level 5 suddenly is a bonus stage where you have to destroy a special 'Boss ship'.. I die.

OK, let's try the 'Story mode'. Basically defeat the other guy or gal. It's Story mode so they are having a conversation during the fight. To bad I don't have time to read the subtitles

Let's try XBox Live. Let's take 'Ranked Match'. My opponent is a Japanese fella who manages to kill me before I manage to hurt him. Probably because I wasn't sure which ship was mine (need to learn to recognize those first

). Second round I manage to bring his health to half before he pwns me to oblivion. I earn 2 grade points and the 'Novice' Achievement. I have 0 Wins, 1 Loss. He has 98 Wins, 10 Losses. Ooookay...

In the game settings I managed to change the 'world' flag to the Belgian flag. You have to represent your country!

And that's my impression after 40 minutes of play.
It's a cross between a beat-em-up and a bullet-hell-shooter, and it works

I wish to thank Ikaruga for all the practice, and I'm off to read the manual...

Mark · Post by **Mark** » Fri Jun 08, 2007 6:58 pm 0

Ta for the review CarlBillen - I can't wait to give it a go now.

(boo hiss estimated 5-10 day delivery time

)

This is exactly the kind of game I feared would never get made for the 360, so it's encouraging to see. Fingers crossed that more follow it, but with that price tag, and releasing on the same day as Forza 2, I can't believe it'll sell well enough to inspire many companies to follow suit, sadly.

If anyone else is interested in seeing what it's about there are a few videos here:

http://www.gametrailers.com/gamepage.php?id=3009

PVB · Post by **PVB** » Fri Jun 08, 2007 7:16 pm 0

PVB wrote:
Flabio wrote:There's a demo of Overlord gone up today. Looks like Pikmin crossed with Dungeon Keeper and Fable.
Might grab that later then.

Details:

Demo: Overlord

Name: Overlord Demo
Price: Free
Availability: Not available in Asia or Mexico
Dash Details: Do you want fear, respect, gold and power? Take control of a horde of Minions and become the Overlord!
Size: 891.8 MB (approx.)

Warning for Yak (and other fluffy lovers):

After the inital tutorial, the first 'level' mission requires the killing of sheep and cute lickle lambs.

CarlBillen · Post by **CarlBillen** » Fri Jun 08, 2007 8:34 pm 0

Mark wrote:Ta for the review CarlBillen - I can't wait to give it a go now. (boo hiss estimated 5-10 day delivery time )

Feel free to send me a friend request if you want to slap me around (I'm not very good at either beat-em-ups or bullet-hell-shooters). I looked you up in the big list (http://www.yakyak.org/viewtopic.php?t=46252) but I didn't find you...

And achievement junkies, you can earn them on 'Very Easy' too; I tried Story Mode with Karel (is a Dutch name and close enough to Carl

), and that's pretty good 'as a tutorial and trying out the buttons'. The final boss is not the problem, it's the big boss

.

Just open the manual first so that you know which indicators indicate what and what nice things you can do. (So that you know what your life is, what your charge/shield is, and so on...).

It still feels far more shooter than beat-em-up, and that's a good thing

Bubba · Post by **Bubba** » Fri Jun 08, 2007 10:14 pm 0

Ohh, Overlord is a little bit special

Wonderful length of demo with a decent amount of stuff to do. So many demos seem to throw the tutorial level and 5 minutes at most of gameplay at you whereas Overlord gives you a really decent amount of play time (~30 minutes). It was enough for me to slap down a pre-order for it straight away

Yes, it does involve killing of fluffy video game sheepies. But if you fancy something distinctly Dungeon Keeper-esque in humour and don't mind being a teeny bit evil then do check out the demo. It looks remarkably pretty as well - nice art direction, feels distinctly World of Warcraft and combined with Fable in graphical style, wrapped up in a nice evil portion of Dungeon Keeper

.

Out at the end of this month, Â£39.99 from Play, Â£34.99 from dvd.co.uk or a bit less from Ebay Preorders.

Cheers

Bubba

PVB · Post by **PVB** » Fri Jun 08, 2007 10:18 pm 0

Bubba wrote:Ohh, Overlord is a little bit special Wonderful length of demo with a decent amount of stuff to do. So many demos seem to throw the tutorial level and 5 minutes at most of gameplay at you whereas Overlord gives you a really decent amount of play time (~30 minutes). It was enough for me to slap down a pre-order for it straight away

Yes, it does involve killing of fluffy video game sheepies. But if you fancy something distinctly Dungeon Keeper-esque in humour and don't mind being a teeny bit evil then do check out the demo. It looks remarkably pretty as well - nice art direction, feels distinctly World of Warcraft and combined with Fable in graphical style, wrapped up in a nice evil portion of Dungeon Keeper .

Out at the end of this month, Â£39.99 from Play, Â£34.99 from dvd.co.uk or a bit less from Ebay Preorders.

Cheers

Bubba

Cheers

Bubba

It just seems to me to be a bit lazy (for want of a better word) to have real world 'friendly' animals as energy-fodder, in a game which is fantasy-themed.

Why not just invent some ugly little monster beasts, like those small things on the old Oddworld games?

Flabio · Post by **Flabio** » Fri Jun 08, 2007 10:27 pm 0

It's a game where you're meant to be being evil, so it does sort of fit. From what I know of the game, squishing sheep is only the start of it...

benedictw · Post by **benedictw** » Mon Jun 11, 2007 6:56 pm 0

Prince of Persia : 800 points this wednesday.

Flabio · Post by **Flabio** » Mon Jun 11, 2007 7:06 pm 0

benedictw wrote:Prince of Persia : 800 points this wednesday.

If you liked it back in the day, you'll want to get this. It's very very pretty.

chub · Post by **chub** » Tue Jun 12, 2007 2:47 pm 0

Speedball 2 out on XBLA in August: http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=77634

Woo!

Misfit · Post by **Misfit** » Tue Jun 12, 2007 4:27 pm 0

chub wrote:Speedball 2 out on XBLA in August: http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=77634

Woo!

Great.

Although I would have liked to have seen it look a bit shinier, just looks like they made the screen a bit wider....

Having said that the screenshots for the new PC version of SB2 are shinier but don't look that amazing.