The 360 thread!

[Rod_S]

Celtic Frost in the soundtrack. Hardcore.

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And Bathory? WTF.

ZZ Top as well. It's too good.

[benedictw]

How long is this? Any ideas?

[Rod_S]

How long is this? Any ideas?

I've read between 12-15 hours for the single player.

[Misfit]

How long is this? Any ideas?

I've read between 12-15 hours for the single player.

From the Eurogamer review:

With a fulsome single-player campaign that will soak up somewhere in the region of fifteen hours of your time while threading in a genuinely memorable story, and a pile of new distractions, there's no question that Rockstar has raised the bar on what players should expect from downloadable content.

And there seems to be quite a bit of other stuff too...

Alongside the story campaign, there's a generous range of additional treats: the new clubhouse offers gambling and arm-wrestling mini-games, as well as the strangely addictive 3D Tetris variation called QUB3D, and there's a mass of fresh internet sites, radio stations, races, and twenty-five new Gang Wars - brutal territory fights which are waiting to erupt between biker clubs at various spots around the city. Then there's multiplayer, with new modes like Lone Wolf Biker fulfilling your sadistic tendencies as the entire pack descends on a single player, while Turf War variant Own the City enlivens Team Deathmatch with its brutal land-grabbing, and Chopper vs. Chopper pits bike against helicopter for some highly asymmetric battle-racing.

[benedictw]

I'm getting the impression that this is raising the bar for DLC - IE that we are moving away from games-as-games but more games-as-platforms or as a series. This seasons GTA4 is Lost and the Damned.

[Jimaroid]

I'll likely get L&D at the weekend but there's no way it'll make me laugh as much as SR2 did. I really like the fact that L&D is DLC as I think it should be but I'm simply not looking forward to having to go and use that STUPID FUCKING PHONE again.

Dare I suggest any connotations present in a game featuring Harley Davidson's and male full frontal nudity?

[HGFB]

HE'S CALLING YOU ALL GAY!

[Flabio]

Achievment list for Eat Lead: The Return of Matt Hazard.

http://www.achieve360points.com/game/ea ... atthazard/

Some of those are funny. 5 points for pausing the game, 60 points for watching the credits? Heh.

[fog]

Lost and Damned is the best GTA since Vice City. Believe.

You might well be right there. I loved SA and GTA IV, but neither of them nailed the characters and atmosphere as well as LaD has.

I was a bit dubious about the gang based combat at the beginning as in previous games the AI has invariably got them killed, forcing a mission restart and much cursing, but not here. The fact your gang members "level-up" the more successful missions they complete, but can still die, reminds me a bit of Cannon Fodder. Some of them might be unimportant as far as the plot is concerned, but I care more about my combat hardened gang members than I did about most of the main characters in GTA IV .

[Mark]

Achievment list for Eat Lead: The Return of Matt Hazard.

http://www.achieve360points.com/game/ea ... atthazard/

Some of those are funny. 5 points for pausing the game, 60 points for watching the credits? Heh.

Looking forward to this. Looks nice and daft.

http://www.gametrailers.com/player/44815.html
http://www.gametrailers.com/player/44809.html

Any idea when it's out?

[Arthur Ringworn]

That Tetris game (QUB3D) is already in the original.

[louiecat]

downloading Lost now. Couldn't resist. Had to see how the bikes handle and now the main story is finished in GTA 4, I really can't be bothered to go at the other endings. For me, Niko has one shot and thats it....I shalll return to the assassin missions at some point, but am looking forward to another take on Liberty City.......wonder if it will be like Wild Hogs?

[Geenius]

"After the successful run the deal of the week had last December, we’re bringing it back on a regular basis."

Deal of the week for Gold members this week: Braid for 800pts (normally 1200):

http://majornelson.com/archive/2009/02/ ... -week.aspx

[DocDaneeka]

So it's only for gold members? Seems a bit petty and will probably cost them quite a few sales.

I am still enjoying Lost and the Damned, it's not that different to the main story but I loved Gta IV so I don't mind. I hope they do a real sequel with a new city soon though and hopefully bring back more of the silly and fun bits from the previous games(bicycles, Rampages a bit less 'realism'). They should also have a less morally ambiguous main character, the conflicted "oooh I don't want to kill all these people" stuff doesn't make much sense when in the course of a game you kill hundred of innocent pedestrians.

[Flabio]

doesn't make much sense when in the course of a game you kill hundred of innocent pedestrians.

You might do that, some of us are pretty decent drivers and generally don't...