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PVB · Post by **PVB** » Fri Oct 12, 2007 12:54 pm 0

Demo: Virtua Fighter 5

Content: VF5 Demo
Price: Free
Availability: All Xbox LIVE regions
Dash Text: [ESRB: T (Teen) SUGGESTIVE THEMES,USE OF ALCOHOL,VIOLENCE] Virtua Fighter 5, the world-renowned fighting game, now features online gameplay. VF5 also lets you download replay data of top players from its online leaderboards, and includes the latest updates to game balance, in-game items, and CPU rival character AI. Experience the fun now in this downloadable demo.
Size: 674.39 MB

BioShock Music list
A few weeks ago I was talking about how, courtesy of Ken Levine, I had a list of the ambient music that you come across while playing BioShock. Now that I have found the list again in my office move, I can finally share it:

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Title  Artist 
20th Century Blues Noel Coward 
Academy Award Stanley Black 
Avalon Django Reinhardt 
Bei Mir Bist Du Schon (means youâ€™re grand) The Andrews Sisters 
Best Things in Life Are Free The Inkspots 
Brother Can You spare a Dime Bing Crosby 
Danny Boy Mario Lanza 
God Bless the Child Billie Holiday 
How Much is that Doggie Pattie Page 
If I didn't care The Ink Spots 
It Had to Be You Django Reinhardt 
It's Bad For Me Rosemary Clooney 
Jitterbug Waltz Django Reinhardt 
Just One Of Those Things Lee Morgan 
Just Walkin' in the Rain Johnny Ray 
La Mer (Beyond the Sea ) Bobby Darin 
La Mer (Beyond the Sea) Django Reinhardt 
Let's Fly Away Lee Wiley 
Liza Django Reinhardt 
Night and Day Billie Holiday 
Papa Loves Mambo Perry Como 
Please Be Kind  Django Reinhardt 
The Party's Over Now Noel Coward 
The Waltz of the Flowers Pytor Llyich Tchaikovsky 
This Is A Changing World Noel Coward 
Wild Ride Faux Frenchmen 
World Weary Noel Coward 
Wrap your troubles in dreams Bing Crosby 
You're Getting To Be A Habit Harry Edison  Bing Crosby 
You're the Top Cole Porter

BTW: I highly recommend the Django Reinhardt tunes.

Anyone want to find these on Amazon and send me the above list with links?

Edit: Thanks to Sam at Amazon who sent me a nice spreadsheet with the above links that link to the .89 song download at Amazon.

In Game Content
Title: Band of Bugs

Content: Band of Bugs - Ninja Sticks of Fury
Price: 250 Microsoft Points
Availability: All regions
Dash Text: [ESRB: E(EVERYONE) MILD FANTASY VIOLENCE] Includes a new tile set (Snow) a new campaign consisting of ten levels and a new unit (Ninja). The unit and tile set will be accessible to users of the Level Editor. Additionally, the tile set may override the defaults used in some levels of the initial game campaign. There are no refunds for this item. For more information, see http://www.xbox.com/live/accounts.

Guru-Meditation · Post by **Guru-Meditation** » Fri Oct 12, 2007 10:40 pm 0

Simpsons demo was very nice. Every line of dialog got a giggle or two from the people in the room. Looks stunning too, very faithful.

Puzzle Quest is decidedly naff. This type of puzzle game was not meant to be played with two people on the same board. You can play the perfect pieces each time and if the wrong ones come down afterwards you still get screwed. In a similar vein you can do silly moves and still win because the computer didn't get any luck and when it becomes your turn an obvious move is there. The mana system on top of that sucks.

benedictw · Post by **benedictw** » Sat Oct 13, 2007 9:41 am 0

Puzzle Quest: Absolutely love it TBH, I would like to see different types of puzzles for different activities (look at Puzzle Pirates!) but for me the damm things as addicitive as crack. Build up your character, capture bad guys for mounts or spells, buy stuff, betray kings!!!!

The Captain · Post by **The Captain** » Sat Oct 13, 2007 11:46 am 0

benedictw wrote:Puzzle Quest: Absolutely love it TBH, I would like to see different types of puzzles for different activities (look at Puzzle Pirates!) but for me the damm things as addicitive as crack. Build up your character, capture bad guys for mounts or spells, buy stuff, betray kings!!!!

Not a bad idea, but the execution is about as inspired as the title. Something with originality or class in this vein would be very welcome, but its all beyond cliche and quite style-free, with completely unmemorable plot/characters, I don't understand the need to foist a shit story on a puzzle game. fair enough if you've got a tale to tell and an unusual way to tell it, but. . . Otherwise all the RPG stuff gets in the way.

Zookeeper was more stylish and had a better story, IMHO

benedictw · Post by **benedictw** » Sat Oct 13, 2007 12:24 pm 0

So, do you think it might be a Marmite game then?

CarlBillen · Post by **CarlBillen** » Sat Oct 13, 2007 8:23 pm 0

The big trick in Puzzle Quest is the RPG element... But you can't have an RPG element without some kind of a story. When you play the campaign, you might do a few hundred (or maybe even get upto a thousand) puzzles, all thanks to the 'if you play you get a bit of money and a bit of XP and you can buy new stuff and grow a bit stronger' RPG-trick.

I don't think I even played Zookeepr 'for hundreds of puzzles'

And all the RPG-stuff has a Skip-button (which is very important).

I did notice a few differences to the PSP version; I can't 'powerlevel' as much as I want (when you start the campaign on the PSP, your city earns money after a certain set of steps... A nice trick was to go left and right for a fez minutes and you'd have several thousand of gold, meaning you could start building your complete citadel. As soon as you had your temple, you could also start leveling yourself up by buying characteritic points (which get more expensive as they become higher). BUT that meant if you don't spend the points you get when leveling up, you can save them up for later (so you use the temple during your early levels and the earned points during higher levels, which saves you loads of money).

But in a way, that's good, because on the PSP I had a Lvl.10 character with all its stats 'reasonable high' and a full citadel a good equipment...

I noticed that the 'Stun spell' now has a 'recastability of 2 or 3 turns' which means you can't stun somebody to death (Stun does damage + opponent loses one turn; if you had good equipment which gave you the mana needed to cast stun again, you could stun somebody to death).

But the computer still is a bloody cheating bastard

Look, what can I do? Aha, I can only join up these 3 coins, but then the computer will be able to line up 5 skulls... Hmmm... Ah, and he has a bazillion-combo which does massive damage to my weak spot

It's still addictive like crack though...

Guru-Meditation · Post by **Guru-Meditation** » Sat Oct 13, 2007 11:29 pm 0

benedictw wrote:So, do you think it might be a Marmite game then?

After playing the demo through, most definitely. When a sports game turns on the "There's no fucking way you're winning this game" chip it is still possible to fight your way to victory against the odds, and you feel vindicated against your console. When this game throws that switch and an innocuous move all of a sudden cascades into a 10 move combo 40 HP blow because the gems mysteriously fell into perfect spots to give him 4 and 5 gems in a row, giving him the extra turns to exploit all those skulls on the board into further combos, finally ending because there are no moves left on the board wiping out all that mana you had .... you can't help but feel completely helpless to the whims of the games rand() function ... or rather, the TNFWYWTG's special rand() function.

Anders · Post by **Anders** » Sun Oct 14, 2007 12:43 am 0

Downloading a bunch of demos right now. Bladestorm, Conan, FEAR Files, VF5, and the Simpsons...

Also, I love Puzzle Quest, but I can see how it might get repetitive and boring for some. For me, it falls into the digital crack category.

chub · Post by **chub** » Sun Oct 14, 2007 12:52 pm 0

Yeah, I'm loving Puzzle Quest too. I've never played it before now, but I'm finding it very addictive. Although the story is very cliched, I find the game interesting in that it gives purpose to the puzzling. As for the random combos, I've had quite many myself, although I've also been able to engineer multiple turn goes with the help of some spells. I find it satisfying to come back from a severe blow by dealing a few of my own to win the battle. It doesn't always work though.

Anders · Post by **Anders** » Sun Oct 14, 2007 2:07 pm 0

Conan turned out to be a lot of fun, if you like violent and bloody games like I do. I hate the camera, but I'm willing to put up with it. Intense fighting, drinking wine for health, heads and limbs flying through the air, etc.

PVB · Post by **PVB** » Mon Oct 15, 2007 11:38 am 0

In Game Content: Oblivion (Free)

Content: The Fighter's Stronghold
Price: Free
Availability: Australia, Canada, New Zealand, United Kingdom and United States
Dash Text: [ESRB: M (Mature) BLOOD AND GORE,LANGUAGE,SEXUAL THEMES,USE OF ALCOHOL,VIOLENCE] Become the Lord of Battlehorn Castle; a sprawling stronghold nestled deep in the Colovian Highlands.

Sir_LANs-a-lot · Post by **Sir_LANs-a-lot** » Mon Oct 15, 2007 11:42 am 0

Sweet - I'll grab that later.

benedictw · Post by **benedictw** » Mon Oct 15, 2007 7:33 pm 0

This Wednesday

Every Extend Extra Extreme - 800pts
Speedball 2 - 800pts

Free expansions for Lumines ! (woo)
And a price reduced Lumines (800pts)

fog · Post by **fog** » Mon Oct 15, 2007 7:45 pm 0

PVB wrote:In Game Content: Oblivion (Free)

benedictw wrote:This Wednesday

Every Extend Extra Extreme - 800pts
Speedball 2

Free expansions for Lumines ! (woo)
And a price reduced Lumines (800pts)

Christmas has come early. Cheers chaps

Anders · Post by **Anders** » Mon Oct 15, 2007 9:16 pm 0

PVB wrote:In Game Content: Oblivion (Free)

Content: The Fighter's Stronghold
Price: Free
Availability: Australia, Canada, New Zealand, United Kingdom and United States
Dash Text: [ESRB: M (Mature) BLOOD AND GORE,LANGUAGE,SEXUAL THEMES,USE OF ALCOHOL,VIOLENCE] Become the Lord of Battlehorn Castle; a sprawling stronghold nestled deep in the Colovian Highlands.

Off-topic, but PC users can get the PC version here.

http://www.elderscrolls.com/downloads/u ... ghold.html