The 360 thread!

Rod_S · Post by **Rod_S** » Sun Sep 23, 2007 9:49 pm 0

Another lovely looking shooter headed for Live Arcade...

Sir_LANs-a-lot · Post by **Sir_LANs-a-lot** » Sun Sep 23, 2007 9:58 pm 0

Looks nice - reminds me of Forgotten Worlds.

benedictw · Post by **benedictw** » Tue Sep 25, 2007 4:30 pm 0

Crash of the Titans demo - 530Mb

Quite what idiot thought about releasing a game demo today for I don't know.
Besides I thought Crash Bandicoot was a PSn exclusive character?

Guru-Meditation · Post by **Guru-Meditation** » Tue Sep 25, 2007 5:29 pm 0

Terrypantsman wrote:I'm seriously going to consider getting rid of a few crates worth of stuff now.

Just how many copies of Ikaruga and Radiant Silvergun do you own?

Jamesac · Post by **Jamesac** » Tue Sep 25, 2007 5:34 pm 0

The only thing out this week is Halo 3. To those of us who's have to come up with new and revolutionary ways of feeling indifference in order to care less, I'm glad there's something else to look at on the 360.

James

Misfit · Post by **Misfit** » Tue Sep 25, 2007 5:37 pm 0

Jamesac wrote:The only thing out this week is Halo 3. To those of us who's have to come up with new and revolutionary ways of feeling indifference in order to care less, I'm glad there's something else to look at on the 360.

James

Isn't Sega Rally due out on Friday? I'm much more interested in that than Halo.

chub · Post by **chub** » Mon Oct 01, 2007 11:58 am 0

I tried out the Jericho demo yesterday. I like being able to swap between members of the team, and that slo-mo psychic sniper rifle is a nice weapon. However the demo is just so dark. I know it's set in a sewer, but I had to use the torch most of the time just to see anything. I don't know if the whole game is like that, but I wouldn't be surprised if it is, being a Clive Barker thing. Oblivion had its sewers too, but they were more brightly lit, so much less squinting was needed.

Kamineko · Post by **Kamineko** » Mon Oct 01, 2007 12:04 pm 0

The magic bullet is really silly.

Have they included the 'go down the shaft' sequence?

benedictw · Post by **benedictw** » Mon Oct 01, 2007 12:05 pm 0

Thrillville: Off the rails demo. Looks a lot like Theme Park.

Kamineko · Post by **Kamineko** » Mon Oct 01, 2007 12:08 pm 0

World.

To be more precise, it looks a lot like the original Thrillville.

chub · Post by **chub** » Mon Oct 01, 2007 1:03 pm 0

Kamineko wrote:The magic bullet is really silly.

Have they included the 'go down the shaft' sequence?

The magic bullet is silly, but fun though. It reminded me of the bit with the arrow in that Robin Hood film.

If by 'go down the shaft' sequence you mean the QTE bit, then yes that's in the demo. Not sure why they decided to do it that way. Maybe the devs have been playing too much God Of War.

Arganoid · Post by **Arganoid** » Mon Oct 01, 2007 2:32 pm 0

benedictw wrote:Thrillville: Off the rails demo. Looks a lot like Theme Park.

I worked on this. I think (hopefully) that quite a few people here will enjoy the Tank Frenzy and Trojan Frenzy minigames which I largely wrote. The first level of the former is included in the demo.

RageMatrix · Post by **RageMatrix** » Mon Oct 01, 2007 2:39 pm 0

I downloaded the Jericho demo, as I love horror games, but I found the whole thing to be very bland and by-the-numbers. I think I've been spoiled by Bioshock and F.E.A.R.

Clive Barker's Undying was probably the best game he has put his name to. I'm still hoping for a sequel to it on the 360. <sigh>

fog · Post by **fog** » Mon Oct 01, 2007 2:45 pm 0

Well in the interests of balance I tried the Jericho demo and really liked it. The lighting and atmosphere were superb.

Then I came across the QTE 'go down the shaft sequence', surely one of the most unnecessary, jarring and ill thought through pieces of game design in recent years, and switched it off.

RageMatrix · Post by **RageMatrix** » Mon Oct 01, 2007 2:48 pm 0

fog wrote:Well in the interests of balance I tried the Jericho demo and really liked it. The lighting and atmosphere were superb.

Then I came across the QTE 'go down the shaft sequence', surely one of the most unnecessary, jarring and ill thought through pieces of game design in recent years, and switched it off.

Yup - thats the point where I also thought "fuck this" and deleted it. Nice graphics, but the enemies were dumb as a bag of spanners and although the graphics were nice, they didn't exactly grab me in a "horror" title vibe.

Shame.