The 360 thread!

[ESY]

Yep - breezed through the R-Type demo. Not feeling the dificulty thing at all. I was amazed at how quickly my brain remembered all of the patterns.
Plan to get a SF4 stick to play this properly with - that way I can justify the price of it by playing them with more than just one game!

[Phineasfool]

I also breezed through the R-Type demo. Found it pretty much the same difficulty as the arcade version. I'm waiting til I get my SFIV stick before I actually buy R-Type though.

[Phineasfool]

Just tried the Halo Wars demo and surprisingly I actually like it. Kinda tempted to get it, but I fear it might have the problem I always seem to have with RTS games where I have fun for the first few levels and then the difficulty just ramps up ridiculously.

[ESY]

I know I am the target demographic for Halo Wars (Played all the Halo games, still play Halo3 Multiplayer) but no - I really tried to like this but I switched it off after half an hour. God bless you RTS fans but for me - Zzzzzz....
The effect it really had on me was to make me look forward to the Mythic maps and ODST even more

[PVB]

I know I am the target demographic for Halo Wars (Played all the Halo games, still play Halo3 Multiplayer) but no - I really tried to like this but I switched it off after half an hour. God bless you RTS fans but for me - Zzzzzz....
The effect it really had on me was to make me look forward to the Mythic maps and ODST even more

I doubt very much the latest game was specifically aimed at just existing Halo players. They're two entirely different game types, just using the same game world/subject.

[ESY]

Well, I do believe that they would be looking to "upsell" existing Halo fans. I totally buy into the Halo universe. For instance, I would absolutely go and watch a Halo film, unless it was absolute tosh. Halo Wars is not absolute tosh but it is the equivalent, for me, of Star Trek: The Motion Picture.

[Rod_S]

Well, I do believe that they would be looking to "upsell" existing Halo fans.

Most definitely - Halo Wars LE contains a code for the new H3 Mythic Map pack, well in advance of it being available on Live.

If the cam in Halo Wars swept down into a first person battle mode and gave you full control over the fights it would've been fuggin' amazing. It's too much of a cruel tease being so far away from the action and all those lovely shiny purple Elites.

[ESY]

Well, I do believe that they would be looking to "upsell" existing Halo fans.

Most definitely - Halo Wars LE contains a code for the new H3 Mythic Map pack, well in advance of it being available on Live.

If the cam in Halo Wars swept down into a first person battle mode and gave you full control over the fights it would've been fuggin' amazing. It's too much of a cruel tease being so far away from the action and all those lovely shiny purple Elites.

Yep - now Halo Wars with a VATS equivalent could have changed everything for me. I am really surprized that nothing like that was done.

[teamonkey]

It's a very polished, very slick RTS. The trouble is that it could be any other console RTS with a Halo skin; there are absolutely no new ideas on display at all. That is to say, I've played through the demo campaign twice and had a couple of single player skirmishes, and really enjoyed it. It's good, but extremely generic.

Is there any way of grouping your guys into squads? I've just been hitting LB then X and Y to beast the opposition, which probably won't work past the first few levels.

[PVB]

I've just been hitting LB then X and Y to beast the opposition....

[Rod_S]

Yep - now Halo Wars with a VATS equivalent could have changed everything for me.

WANT!

[Kronos]

I tried the RE5 demo, and I didn't like the controls either. The aiming seemed pretty woolly, and not being able to move at the same time hampered things, although I gather that's normal for an RE game. I'll have to try RE4 on the Wii first instead, then see how this compares.

Do it. Best game on the Wii IMHO.

Totally agree (well GC version I played) and is the only version of RE I've ever liked because the control system is just perfect....and they appear to have messed with it

Anyway...been 360less for yonks but now got a bit of time and my old console back to play...so...recommendations for XBLA and full price sine about 9 months ago?

[chub]

A demo of HAWX is coming out on Wednesday, it says here:

http://www.xbox.com/en-US/games/h/hawx/ ... camp=Games

For Gold members only though.

[Rod_S]

Tried the H.A.W.X demo tonight.

S.H.I.T

[benedictw]

Tried the H.A.W.X demo tonight.

S.H.I.T

D.A.M.N. Tom Clancy games were beginning to be a bit of a touchstone for good games. (Splinter cell, rainbow 6, endwar etc).