The 360 thread!

[betamax]

Finished Shadow Complex with 100% items. Haven't had that much fun playing through a game in a good long while. Very solid and consistent design all the way through, no overly frustrating sections and extremely well polished. One of the top games of the year so far, for me.

Agreed- All that remians for me now are the challenge rooms. Some of these are tooth-shatteringly frustrating though.

[The Caffeine Kid]

I thought Stranglehold was a lot of fun, although knocking up the difficulty slammed me into a wall of pain.

I might have to check out this demo. It's the game where the trailer looked like it was made by the same people who did House Of The Dead Overkill?

[Ratsoap]

Wet demo is a lot of fun, kind of like Kill Bill + Max Payne + Mirrors Edge + Killer 7 + Completely bonkers.

Utterly ruined by that QTE section of course.

[benedictw]

Bloody hell Shadow Complex is good. It ate yesterday evening with no problems at all.

My only nit would be the inability to aim a long way away - sometimes you get attacked by things you can't see. Would be nice to have a first person aim option and a sniper rifle or sommit. This has only happened about 3 times so far so I can't complain.

[Mat]

Wet demo is a lot of fun, kind of like Kill Bill + Max Payne + Mirrors Edge + Killer 7 + Completely bonkers.

Utterly ruined by that QTE section of course.

Pretty much my sentiments. When exactly are developers going to learn that we've had enough of quick-time events and that they're universally derided?

[Absolute_Zero]

Xbox 360 with 250GB HDD and Forza 3 spotted on Amazon Germany

[Misfit]

Xbox 360 with 250GB HDD and Forza 3 spotted on Amazon Germany

And two wireless controllers. For 279 Euros (about £245). For comparison the current price on Amzon.de for the Elite is 249 Euros (120GB, 1 controller). So I guess it's a price drop, but you pay and get more...

[chub]

My only nit would be the inability to aim a long way away - sometimes you get attacked by things you can't see. Would be nice to have a first person aim option and a sniper rifle or sommit. This has only happened about 3 times so far so I can't complain.

You get better guns as the game goes on, so I would say distance doesn't become much of a problem later on.

[benedictw]

My only nit would be the inability to aim a long way away - sometimes you get attacked by things you can't see. Would be nice to have a first person aim option and a sniper rifle or sommit. This has only happened about 3 times so far so I can't complain.

You get better guns as the game goes on, so I would say distance doesn't become much of a problem later on.

Yeah, full auto down a corridor does tend to kill the baddies. I just would like to know what I'm shooting at...

[Mayhem]

Trick is sometimes (especially on insane) to not let them know you're there until you're upon them...

Beaten this twice (normal and insane), both on 100% items. Currently on level 46, just grinding a bit to reach level 50... reaching the second weapon pickup on insane is about a level's worth of XP if you do it right...

[betamax]

Trick is sometimes (especially on insane) to not let them know you're there until you're upon them...

Beaten this twice (normal and insane), both on 100% items. Currently on level 46, just grinding a bit to reach level 50... reaching the second weapon pickup on insane is about a level's worth of XP if you do it right...

I may have run into some trouble here. Having finished on normal with 100% I tried to start a new game on insane, expecting some sort of "New Game +" kind of option allowing me to carry all the levels I have over to the next game. Instead I get a scary message saying that my current game will be lost if I start a new one. Any ideas? Am I jumping at *ahem* shadows?

*Edit*

I bit the bullet and started the game. All it seems to do is (understandably) nick your equipment. I think I have all my levels intact, the map is revealed and the golden gun room is open (means I can use the Inertial Element from the word go- moo ha ha).

[Mayhem]

The game saves just before the final battle you see. Pity you can't have more than one save on the go, but yes as you discovered, you start back at the beginning but you retain all your levels and stats (melee, bomba punting etc) to carry on. Level 20 gives you the map, although the ? are not marked if you play on insane. You can't do the insurgent run really until you get to level 30 btw...

[Meow]

Alpha protocol look interesting. A spy RPG that's different.

[Mark]

Indie favourite (and probably my most played game of the year) Spelunky is coming to XBLA. Spelunky with achievements! Oh yes!

http://www.spelunkyworld.com/

[juice]

** Xbox Indie Games review website self-promotion **
Link in the .sig below...

La la la...

216 reviews now - sad to say, things are likely to slow down now that I've used up all of the backlog

There's also a new feature: I hacked up a script to grab information from xbox.com, and said data can now be viewed/searched here:
http://www.caffeinated.org.uk/xbig/index_ms.html

So, if you want to know which games are still at 800MSP (4), who's written the most XBIG games (Justin Le Clair, North Squard and North East each have six games apiece) or check out the games which support System Link (30 to date), now's your chance...

Oh, and if you search for "Cost: deleted" on the main page, you can find out which games are no more (at least: for those I got around to reviewing before they went bye-bye)