Its kinda funny how someone who has only played two games online and not tried the multiplayer co-op writes a review slagging the online modes off. Yeah great stuff jisthebest50. Bungie.net logs everything people do btw.


TNA Inception what are you on about ? everything you mentioned is what people do in Halo multi-player. There are radars, if you crouch walk you disapear from radar so people will sneak about and general tactics ? Well in Team Slayer you will see teams locking down areas, controlling power weapons, team shooting and basiclly communicating non-stop telling their team mates where the enemy is, what weapons the have etc etc. Thats not even getting into Team Skirmish which is all about creating different set-ups and tactics for every gametype on every map.


Im starting to believe Moo when he said most people who hate Halo its cos they are shit at it or havent played in properly.

I played a bit of Halo last night. Done the first mission and didnt really understand what was going on but it was fun. Done a couple of online games, got completely mutilated in the first 2 but won the 3rd one. I agree with the menus not being easy, how many online "training" games do I have to do?

Graphically it isnt the best, but its decent enough I thought.

Got the limited collector's editon halo 3, but the tin was dented and the CDs were scratched. gonna have to ring GAME for a replacement!

no saving the galaxy for me just yet!

Funny you should mention that, I was talking to my buddy from HMV and apparently 1 in 3 of the Tin editions had fucked up discs. Theyre not even bothering to recall them yet.

Im not saying its a AWFUL game, its just plain average, I would play online co-op but none of my xbox 360 friends will buy halo 3, I would just ask anyone but Halo 3 doesnt provide that option. Just ebay the game, im sure the game isnt selling at over £100 now. I will complete Halo 3 on legendary on my tod, though it seems mission 8 and 9 were extremely hard on normal, now on legendary should be fun.

Dont get me wrong Halo 3 is a "GOOD" game, it does have decent graphics, game play etc... Its just not a AMAZING that MS and bungie are trying to make out. Apparently Assisns Creed or Cyrsis are going to wipe the floor with any FPS (including goldeneye 64)

I do have more than one account on my 360 you know. Thats why ive only played it twice online as jisthebest50

On Other news:
Dead Rising I hear is only out for the 360, though it was originally meant to be out for the ps3 and pc too. Though if Capcom made Dead Rising with all those zombies look how easily they could do resident evil with mazzives amount of zombies. Though resident evil 5 is looking good with the return of Chris Redfield in some African place where the enemies actually run at you, more like dawn of a dead feel. Res 5 should do well, come on who didnt love Res 4 (though the knife fight was smegging difficult)

Dead Rising was badass, hope they make another one sometime. More comic zombie games is what we need!

Dead Rising was indeed awesome. I think I've seen everything the game has to offer many times and I still like going back in and crushing zombie heads with a rock.

My girlfriend was well into it to, and used to ask me to play it so she could watch. No other game has allowed me to spend so much time on my Xbox

I wish someone took a photo of my face the first time I saw that lawnmower there with all the zombie standing in front of the door....

just played my first online match in halo 3, no lag what so ever.............i was looking at film mode and was wondering what all this was about and then i noticed it recorded the whole online game, all the kills and from different people at multiple angles. LOVE THIS GAME

i even uploaded my first death.

In other news, Mario Kart tracks "not great for racing"; and Half-Life 2 level design "a bit boring".

i went out and bought "Skate" today, as i now acyually like it alot

and skateboarding games seem the only thing im good at!

how good is it? might get it myself tonight or tomorrow (f i can be bothered to go to asda right now)

id suggest playing the demo a few times first

how does skate compere in terms of gameplay to tony hawks ?

I downloaded this the other day and been trying to get it to work since. So far no look. I've made sure my firewall and stuff are not blocking it but it doesn't seem to play anything.

Anyone else had any luck with this?

Well I have the demo, damn addictive, would love to try the X-games on that thing.
bought that new world series of poker 2008 too it was only a few quid off ebay

i will still be more of a Tony Hawk fan for the overrall crazyness of the game

SKATE requires more thought into the moves you do, and the timing on it is very hard to master, but its very addictive!


Skates more realistic

Tony Hawk is probably a tad more fun

Both are great!

Skate SUCKS

Ive noticed a small problem with my 360. When I look on my friends list, If I click on one of my friends whilst theyre offline it goes onto thie profile thing, but when I try to exit that it just crashes. Its nothing major, at least I dont think it is, as I can just restart the console. Has anyone had this problem?

yes everytime

ive been playing skate for a few days now and im loving it!

Managed to get the 10.000 points achievement yesterday

Double post sorry

My tips for skate...

If you get pissed off quickly DONT get this game, if you get tick offafter a a few SCORES of attempts DONT get this game.

If you do happen to get this game, MAKE SURE your skate is GOOFY not normal, the game is alot harder with a normal footed skater.

ACTUALLY dont get this game. its take the piss more than Tony Hawk's does, people are having to try over 300 attempts to get one task completed, for a game which requires that much, its CLEARLY not worth it.

SKATE everything but the Stick control is good, just the stick control is extremely poor and i have really lost my rag with the game smashed my pad.

so the Skate disc is now in 2 piece's in the bin along with Halo 3 (only cost me 50p each)

So what a day...
Skate completely takes over annoying me to hell and causing me to destroy my pad.
My pc stopped working due to a hacker wiping a main file (yes i had a strongfirewall)

Sounds like you got what you paid for.

So its a common thing then? These little bugs in the 360 are really annoying.



Back on to Halo, spent a good amount of time playing it over the weekend and Im really enjoying it. The only thing I have against it is I really find it unfriendly for anyone new to Halo such as myself. The menus and options are really hard to navigate and I dont really get this "playlist" thing. Sure I should just be able to pick what game to do? It keeps throwing up that oddball game that I suck at. And how many players can you have online? I only seem to be able to get 5 player games unless its a team match.

The whole multiplayer interface does seem overly complicated and not very intuitive at all, which suprises me because Xbox Live is usually so simple and easy to use.

Anyway, here's a screenshot of a mate of mine flying through the air after I stuck him with a plasma... absolutely beautiful.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2001310...7450093,00.html

Your Welcome.

Enter your name to get a free demo and into the comp.

Once the demo comes, I will be looking at my PS3 with tears in my eyes

if anyone here wins, remeber me.... I will buy it off you, Cheap Price

cheers for that

Demo on XBL on october 15th

My 360 is back from repair! Hurrah!

Only took just over a week, and the good people at microsoft gave me a brand spanky new one and a free month gold membership.

In your face Sony!

looking through the list of games.

Im in a bit of a struggle of what Games to get for the 360.

Mind you no racing or soccer

Soccer? What the fucks soccer?

Ordered the Demo but I'm probably going buy it for the PS3.

My names TezzRexx (suprise!) for both the PS3 and 360 if you want to add me.

Aint it that game where you kick a ball around a field.

Football that game with Rough and tumble NFL stuff.

Dont really care for both.

On Other news finally got a game on halo 3 coop My god it was amazingly POOR. No problems handling two people but 3-4 it cant handle it Lag city and we was playing a mates 22mb connection.

Not just you dude. We only had a 2 player co-op on an eight meg connection and it lagged big time. Only last night though.

Football is that game where you kick a ball with your foot.

Had a great teritory game on that big ass sand map last night

Halo 3's campaign started of crappy then got better and better. Theatre and Forge features are fucking cool. I took a sweet picture of my pimped out character in the game, then went to bungie.net and set the pic as my desktop background.

I dont really understand the Forge, I can edit the map but how do I actually play a game on it that isnt just me running around?

Theater is fucking ace. You can spend ages fiddling with different viewpoints and stuff. Amazing that you can slow the footage right down, and can see the ammo shells scatter from the gun. Here are a couple of shots from me. Think this thread needs more screen shots from people.

From the Sand Dunes level, jumping/falling from that massive platform, and killing someone mid air. Head shot!




Just in case you dont know the level that well, the ledge in the top left of the following pic is where I jumped from:




How I got my Triple Kill achievement (couple of grenades):




Just look at the detail...the ice exploding into the air, the grenades flying in mid air. Same incident, different angle, funny shot of dead guy with his head covered my snow:

What is Skate like as a game?
I liked the demo alot and played it countless times.
Aside from the new controls, does it differ in any way than a TH game?

Its good so far in. When the game started demanding Tony Hawk's like stupid tricks then the game can get REALLY annoying. It took me 4 hours to do a

a Nollie 360 flip to a grind (The Computer thinks it should do Nollie Pop Shuv-it 90% of the time).
Then a ollie onto a box manual, flip trick to another manual without stopping FUCKING difficult.

Though if you get the game REMEMBER make your skate GOOFY or it makes your game alot harder to complete.

MORE LAG with Halo 3, not impressed. Unless you have a 20meg+ connection between Friends to play CO-OP.

This has been floating round the www but for those that havent seen it...

http://gameroom.mlgpro.com/view/rhojIAED55g.html

Just bought Street Fighter on arcade, to relive some of my childhood gaming experiences. Holy shit, theyve made it fucking solid. Theyve done it so your opponent is a fucking machine. I was playing Chun Li, and she nailed me with about 5 fireballs in a row, then straight away did the spinning kick attack, and then finished me off with some more fireballs.


As I played it for a bit more, I can NEVER remember them doing this on the SNES/arcade. Anyone who can use a fireball does about 10 per match, usually 3 or 4 in ultra quick sucsession. They are just too fucking fast and good. And on a side note, even in trainning with a motionless opponent, I still cant do the 360 jumping piledriver.

Hey everyone. I've just lost my X-Box virginity and strayed away from Sony for the first time. I bought a 360 off my mate yesterday. It was only a couple of months old, has two controllers and the following games; Dead Rising, Project Gotham Racer, NBA 07, Fifa 07, Madden 07, Fight Night Round 3, Gears of War and Saints Row. I just bought Rainbow Six Las Vegas and I'm considering trading in Fifa, PGR, Madden, Fight Night and Saints Row for Halo 3. But I have a few questions about it.

1. Should I play the first 2 Halo games before playing this one, or can you just jump into this one. Like, its not 100% needed to have played Vice City before you play San Andreas for example.

2. I keep hearing that the game is very, very short and only worth it for online play. Is this true?

3. Like I said, I'm brand new to the X-Box, less than 24 hours into my X-Box life - I wanted it primarily for Dead Rising, Gears of War and Rainbow Six Las Vegas. Are there any other games (bar Halo 3) that people would strongly, strongly recommend?

Thanks for any advice.

i used to like playing skate, but i dont like it so much now, because half the fucking game keeps dissapearing from time to time so i cant do the challenges


heres a vid of it


http://myspacetv.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=...ideoid=19477312

Tonight I turned on my Xbox 360 and I got one red light and a black screen telling me to contact Microsoft Customer Support. This was the first time I have had any kind of problem with my 360. I then turned my console off and turned it back on and everything has been playing fine since.

I know all about the three rings of death but is just one red light flashing anything to be too concerned about?

1) Not really but it does help.
2) If you play it on normal it will fly by, on heroic and above it is a much lengthier and satisfying experience.
3) FEAR is easy to pick up cheap and is rather good.


Just out of interest who has played the expansion packs on Oblivion - isit worth getting the game of the year edition if youve played the normal version all the way through?

To be honest, you really need Live to get the most out of Halo 3. Ive only played the campaign for an hour or so because the online is pretty much the main part of the game for me and most other people. Its well worth getting live though, you get so much more out of games and your console. As for playing the other 2, I wouldnt say you NEED to. I hadnt played the others, I dont get some of the story but its not stopped me really loving the game.

For other good games, I really enjoyed Bioshock and The Darkness and would strongly recommend those. Burnout for multiplayer was great too

Get another copy of it, NEVER happend for me