The 360 thread!

fog · Post by **fog** » Wed Dec 12, 2007 2:45 pm 0

turk182 wrote:FYI.
I just got the The Darkness 2nd hand for 12 quid from blockbuster/gamestation combo shop
I recall peeps saying it was ok and fun.

It's slightly flawed but for the most part excellent. The atmosphere is great and the story very good with a few nice twists. Hell even the voice acting is decent and playing with the darkness powers is great fun. I'm regretting not putting it in my top-10 of the year.

benedictw · Post by **benedictw** » Wed Dec 12, 2007 3:12 pm 0

This Arkadian Warriors isnt bad - sort of Diablo lite. Hmm. Lego: Diablo sums it up I think. Would be pretty fun in co-op I think.

benedictw · Post by **benedictw** » Thu Dec 13, 2007 11:24 am 0

Burnout Paradise Demo 835Mb

chub · Post by **chub** » Thu Dec 13, 2007 12:26 pm 0

benedictw wrote:Burnout Paradise Demo 835Mb

Hurrah! I have to try this later.

Apparently there's a Frontlines demo on Live too, but that's 1.7 Gb.

Sir_LANs-a-lot · Post by **Sir_LANs-a-lot** » Thu Dec 13, 2007 12:41 pm 0

benedictw wrote:Burnout Paradise Demo 835Mb

And very nice it is too... worth a download for certain I reckon.

benedictw · Post by **benedictw** » Thu Dec 13, 2007 12:44 pm 0

Sir_LANs-a-lot wrote:
benedictw wrote:Burnout Paradise Demo 835Mb
And very nice it is too... worth a download for certain I reckon.

Care to give us some impressions? Upto Burnout 2 quality or more like the last 2 ?

Sir_LANs-a-lot · Post by **Sir_LANs-a-lot** » Thu Dec 13, 2007 12:48 pm 0

benedictw wrote:
Sir_LANs-a-lot wrote:
benedictw wrote:Burnout Paradise Demo 835Mb
And very nice it is too... worth a download for certain I reckon.
Care to give us some impressions? Upto Burnout 2 quality or more like the last 2 ?

Haven't played the last 2 games so I can't really compare those - Here's a summary (and some edits) of what I wrote over on the Rodent forums:

Ok...

Good things:
Looks VERY nice - Runs @ 60fps
Upto 8 players over Live
Nice car damage models
Like just driving through a petrol station to refuel boost

Cliche things:
Rawk backing track
Cheesey Radio Crash DJ voiceover

Hmmm... it's nice... very nice... and the combining of jumps and stunts and whatnot into a run/race could lead to online larks'o'plenty.

Handling seems "OK" and at first you think it's not that fast, but when you start boosting I kind of get that mental picture of Ahchay in my head when he was playing FZero-GX on the cube... and you sort of think.....whoaaaaAAAAAHHH FAST! FAST! FAST! SHIT!

Sigh.. another purchase pencilled in for next year then...

Kamineko · Post by **Kamineko** » Thu Dec 13, 2007 12:52 pm 0

Burnout Paradise is still silly.

It's probably the only game where you can completely total your car, and then recover it with 'minor damage' which then has to be repaired.

Terrypantsman · Post by **Terrypantsman** » Thu Dec 13, 2007 12:58 pm 0

Yes but games are silly.

I mean were else can you recover from multiple bullet wounds by eating a bar of chocolate hmm

Anders · Post by **Anders** » Thu Dec 13, 2007 2:24 pm 0

Anyone know if XBLA will finish the year in style or go out in a whimper?

Sir_LANs-a-lot · Post by **Sir_LANs-a-lot** » Thu Dec 13, 2007 2:31 pm 0

Anders wrote:Anyone know if XBLA will finish the year in style or go out in a whimper?

In terms of what?

I guess Sensi Soccer(?) will be popular on XBLA next week for some..

Bubba · Post by **Bubba** » Thu Dec 13, 2007 5:15 pm 0

benedictw wrote:Care to give us some impressions? Upto Burnout 2 quality or more like the last 2 ?

I love / hate this game. It drives and handles really nicely (probably slightly closer to 2 than 4 or 3 to be honest. But the much touted "drive anywhere" open ended experience is fucking dire. I want to race, and if for some reason (such as the poorly signalled race routes) I come in 1mm off first place I want to start again. Instantly. I don't want to have to drive back to the feckin start, totalling my car twice along the way.

And for the love of all that is racey you better be able to turn off that fucking radio announcer

This game has gone from a "will almost certainly get" to a "will pick up eventually". What it gets right (which to be fair is an awful lot) is showstoppingly ruined by the open ended nature of the thing though, stuff like stunts is ace but I have the uncanny ability to activate a stunt mission then drive for 2 minute without seeing a single bloody stunt!

All in all a massive disappointment, and while a contender to 2 when it comes to the actual racing the whole rest of it is vastly inferior IMHO etc

Perhaps as a racer fan I'm just not their target audience with this one...

Cheers

Bubba

benedictw · Post by **benedictw** » Thu Dec 13, 2007 5:34 pm 0

Bubba wrote: All in all a massive disappointment, and while a contender to 2 when it comes to the actual racing the whole rest of it is vastly inferior IMHO etc

Perhaps as a racer fan I'm just not their target audience with this one...

I've since had a tinker and on one hand its a racers wet dream but it just doesnt 'gel'. It looks great, but there seems to be sod all traffic on the road.

Dear Criterion, I would like for Xmas, Burnout 2, in HD, with Xbox live support. That is all.

In some respects I felt Crackdown did the motoring-with-traffic BETTER than this. (Actually this does feel similar to crackdown in some respects - feels like the same city).

The driving in a open environment is really NFS:Carbon - except that had a quickdrive map, specifically for the reasons you point to. In that I dont think I ever drove from A-B outside of a race more than once.

Rod_S · Post by **Rod_S** » Thu Dec 13, 2007 5:36 pm 0

This is Need For Speed/Midnight Club with a crash cam. Rubbish.

Kamineko · Post by **Kamineko** » Thu Dec 13, 2007 5:40 pm 0

In the version of BP I saw, different language versions had a different announcer. And they were all much more pleasant than DJ Atomica.