The 360 thread!

[PurpleChair]

Efficient driving is all well and good, but I'm sure I'm not the only person who practices doing handbrake turns off ramps and into crowds of pedestrians.

[Baggypants]

Efficient driving is all well and good, but I'm sure I'm not the only person who practices doing handbrake turns off ramps and into crowds of pedestrians.

with a bus

[Flabio]

So, Halo Wars.

Very pretty game, it definitely looks and sounds the part. It's unmistakably Halo, from the way the Warthogs turn to the shots from the Elite's needler rifles. The cinematics are top class as well.

First couple of levels are pretty simple affairs, the first proper base building one is a pushover. Some nice mechanics, it's not too hard to move your dude about, but trying to do anything complex like send some guys to one place and some others to somewhere else is very fiddly.

And then it throws mission sodding 4 at you. A 'protect three transports that are miles apart for 20 minutes with hardly any troops' monstrosity of a level. It's too damned hard simply because you can't group units and cycle through them, so you either end up manually sending a few at a time and losing track of where everything is, or you just lump your entire army from place to place.

Somehow I doubt I'll ever play it again, unless it's a bit less insanely frustrating on the easier difficulty setting.

[fog]

So, Halo Wars.

Very pretty game, it definitely looks and sounds the part. It's unmistakably Halo, from the way the Warthogs turn to the shots from the Elite's needler rifles. The cinematics are top class as well.

First couple of levels are pretty simple affairs, the first proper base building one is a pushover. Some nice mechanics, it's not too hard to move your dude about, but trying to do anything complex like send some guys to one place and some others to somewhere else is very fiddly.

And then it throws mission sodding 4 at you. A 'protect three transports that are miles apart for 20 minutes with hardly any troops' monstrosity of a level. It's too damned hard simply because you can't group units and cycle through them, so you either end up manually sending a few at a time and losing track of where everything is, or you just lump your entire army from place to place.

Somehow I doubt I'll ever play it again, unless it's a bit less insanely frustrating on the easier difficulty setting.

Ouch. Yet more proof that escort missions are just a bad idea regardless of the genre.

I haven't even tried the demo yet because regardless of how good the controls are by console RTS standards, I just know that sooner or later I'd end up blaming them for my failures.

[Terrypantsman]

Christ this rts control problem is a balls ache, why they don,t just have a USB mouse option I really don't bloody know.

[Rod_S]

the Elite's needler rifles.

Oh, stop it.

[Absolute_Zero]

XBLA leakage

Space Invaders Extreme... with a dab of Neon, presumably.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xC6yLEbQlbk

The Dishwasher: Dead Samurai
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gwid90XUF_o

Outrun Online Arcade
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8c5oUvymiM

[PVB]

XBLA leakage

Space Invaders Extreme... with a dab of Neon, presumably.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xC6yLEbQlbk

http://www.yakyak.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=73833

I wanna know when the fuck it's out?

[Phineasfool]

I wonder if Outrun will use the force feedback with the MS racing wheel. I've been thinking of getting the wheel and if this game uses it properly that would make my decision for me.

[Misfit]

XBLA leakage

Space Invaders Extreme... with a dab of Neon, presumably.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xC6yLEbQlbk

The Dishwasher: Dead Samurai
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gwid90XUF_o

Outrun Online Arcade
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8c5oUvymiM

Space Invaders. Does Llamasoft get a cut? If so I'm in.

Dishwasher looks 'bloody' interesting. Some good vids on youtube.

Outrun. Yes please. Make sure you watch the HD version of that video above...

[benedictw]

Dishwasher is still the XBLA game I'm most interested in (after I played the XNA demo last year) - the added guitar stuff looks hysterical - heres hoping I can use the Rock Band Guitar for these bits!

[mrsmr2]

Bugger, sounds like Space Invaders has the PSP sound track rather than the DS's. Muppets.

[disciple]

Is it me or does that OutRun footage look speeded up?

[mrsmr2]

It just looks odd as it's recorded at a lower frame rate than the game runs.

[teamonkey]

Anyone tried the Wheelman demo yet?