Everything to do with our favourite pastime! Reviews, recommendations, sells/swaps, problems etc. Whether they are on the latest consoles, arcade or retro classics. It's not the winning or losing, we came to play!
I started playing Prototype yesterday. Only a few missions in but I am enjoying it a lot so far. Never played Assassins Creed so this is the first game I've played with the whole "adaptive parkour" mechanic but it works really well and is extremely satisfying. Its been criticised for its poor visuals but to be honest that hasn't dampened my enjoyment of it one bit. Its not as stylish as Crackdown or as realistic as GTA but it does the job. Combat is fun, throwing cars at helicopters is not going to get old in a hurry and the upgrade system does well to keep things fresh.
One criticism that I have seen in the "proper" reviews is that the action gets too frantic at times. I scoffed at this notion at first but it really does heat up quickly. The targeting system is not great. The problem is that everything is your enemy. I won't give away any spoilers but at one point you are caught in a large battle between the two forces of the game and asked to assist one by eliminating the other. The problem is that the targeting system doesn't take this into account and you end up targeting the wrong enemy or some random pedestrians on the street. Still, gliding from skyscraper to skyscraper and sweeping up victims to consume for health goes a long way to make up for those controller-chewing moments
Overall, its not perfect but well worth a shot. I certainly don't regret handing over 37 notes for it.
PVB wrote:Started CoD4, took half a dozen tries to complete the initial tutorial within the time limit.
Guessing I won't be getting very far in the game if I try to use anything other than the lowest difficulty setting (Recruit).
I couldn't even make it through on recruit. Just a big frustrating game for me. Glad I just rented it instead of buying it.
I'm fully expecting not to finish the game (I rarely complete anything), but I've got through the first couple of levels by hanging back a bit and not running straight into trouble.
CoD4 single player is a deeply flawed and frequently frustrating, but with some spectacular set pieces and scripted events that are well worth the effort to play through at least once. A couple of levels in particular are unlike anything you've ever seen before and will surprise you.
It's all about the MP of course, consider the campaign as a bit of a training level for that.
Rod_S wrote:CoD4 single player is a deeply flawed and frequently frustrating, but with some spectacular set pieces and scripted events that are well worth the effort to play through at least once. A couple of levels in particular are unlike anything you've ever seen before and will surprise you.
It's all about the MP of course, consider the campaign as a bit of a training level for that.
I don't do MP, so the single player will suffice.
Had a little go of Prototype last night and quite enjoyed it.
Didn't notice the draw distance issue as you don't need to look that far (in the early game anyway).
Logged in to the 360 this morning to try out that Magic the Gathering arcade game and it's not there yet. There also seems to be a bit of a cock-up in that there's a few other bits and pieces missing - all the Sega arcade games from last week are gone and a couple of demos which cropped up have vanished too. Click on the 'Sega Arcade Games' icon and it just says 'No data available'. Anyone else getting this too?
Well, I'm back on the 360. My nephews "borrowed" my old launch unit and my games a while back and I will of course never see them again. I have sold my Wii (hooray!) and bought a fancy 360 Elite for the money. I had forgotten just how lovely and crisp graphics can be and how wonderful the controllers are. And the fucking thing is quiet. My old launch unit sounded like a jet engine, but this is dead quiet.
peter_cushion wrote:Logged in to the 360 this morning to try out that Magic the Gathering arcade game and it's not there yet. There also seems to be a bit of a cock-up in that there's a few other bits and pieces missing - all the Sega arcade games from last week are gone and a couple of demos which cropped up have vanished too. Click on the 'Sega Arcade Games' icon and it just says 'No data available'. Anyone else getting this too?
I'm trying to look at Sam & Max in the Arcade section, and I keep getting messages like "Can't retrieve information from Xbox LIVE. Please try again later. Status code: 80004004". Also got status code 8007065d from another message.
It's b0rken.
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peter_cushion wrote:Logged in to the 360 this morning to try out that Magic the Gathering arcade game and it's not there yet. There also seems to be a bit of a cock-up in that there's a few other bits and pieces missing - all the Sega arcade games from last week are gone and a couple of demos which cropped up have vanished too. Click on the 'Sega Arcade Games' icon and it just says 'No data available'. Anyone else getting this too?
I'm trying to look at Sam & Max in the Arcade section, and I keep getting messages like "Can't retrieve information from Xbox LIVE. Please try again later. Status code: 80004004". Also got status code 8007065d from another message.
It's b0rken.
I think bcass in Bleatings is having issues with LIVE after the update as well. I'm not sure if I want to update LIVE tonight or not now...
RageMatrix wrote:I think bcass in Bleatings is having issues with LIVE after the update as well. I'm not sure if I want to update LIVE tonight or not now...
There isn't an update. All the changes are server side.
