Paid Members JLM Posted December 29, 2007 Paid Members Posted December 29, 2007 I've always played the Halo campaigns on Heroic or Legendary with a friend, and I believe that the campaign is intended to be played in this way. I love the enemy AI, even on the original I would be amazed at how kiling an Elite would send the Grunts into chaos or the fact that sometimes I'd be holding a position and find that I'd been flanked my a sneaky enemy manouver. Love it. In fact, that's probably the thing I missed most about the Campaign in Halo 3 - the elites made for great opponents in the previous games and I never thought the brutes quite matched up to it despite being pretty terrifying at times. Nothing is worse than a well placed Jackal with a beam rifle though. Even if you put aside online deathmatching, not giving the campaign a go in co-op mode is another oversight and one that makes it an unfair review. Hell, even split screen co-op is a fantastic experience when played on a high difficulty with a capable friend. Playing through the game once on the default difficulty is, as you say, a way to form a first impression of the game, but I don't think it's enough to form a completely valid opinion on it. You rightly point out that the multiplayer takes at least a few hours to get going, but then if he's not willing to put in at least a few hours then he doesn't really have a right to be spouting off about the game having only given it about 8 hours of play. I agree that it's not especially accessible to people who haven't played the first two games, but then this game was given much of its hype on the basis of the series being such a success up to now - it's not that unreasonable for Bungie to assume that a good chunk of the audience will have played the first two, particularly when many 360 owners will also be Xbox owners. I'd agree that it was somewhat ballsy on Microsoft's part though, given that the 360 is clearly destined to reach far further than simply targetting people who bought the original Xbox. The main pointt of objeciton for me is not that he points out some of the campaign mode's flaws, but the way he sums the whole game up as being "average" when he's only sampled a small amount of what it has to offer.
Paid Members Supremo Posted December 29, 2007 Paid Members Posted December 29, 2007 Mario Galaxy. Wow.
Larryboy Posted December 29, 2007 Posted December 29, 2007 Speaking of Mario Galaxy, can anyone help me? I'm already stuck. I got through the first level onto a planet with a boss on it, you have to run around the back of him and hit his tail which breaks the egg shell on his head, then he starts chasing you. He keeps getting faster and I can't get round behind him to hit his tail again. What do you do?
Paid Members Kookoocachu Posted December 29, 2007 Paid Members Posted December 29, 2007 Assassins creed is possibly the best game of 2007.Imagine Prince of Persia, but 10,000X better, with lots of blood, guts and drool worthy graphics.Man that sounds incredible. I've been putting off buying it because I still have lots (and lots) of games to finish, I am really tempted though. I've seen nothing but disappointed reviews for this game. I think I'll rent before making a decision.This week I have been mostly playing Boom Boom Rocket, Pacman Championship Edition, Halo 3 and the Burnout Paradise demo. Gems, every one.Burnout Paradise is so fast and detailed, my eyes nearly fell out of my head. There's times (actually, pretty much all the time) when there's nothing you can do but react to something that happened milliseconds before. It's quite the adrenaline rush. Having the freedom of a city to tear around in, with non-compulsory, user-triggered "event" races, rather than jumping from on preset race track to the next is very refreshing.I think the full version may need to be purchased when it's out. I found the Burnout demo a bit tricky in the races - you are going so fast with lots of trafic and need to see which turn to take at a junction? Made life difficult.I do love the webcam integration though! Trust me, these people know nothing! Creed is awesome!And the new Burnout LOOKS good, Other half reckons that its 'just fine.' and he tells me that you need the crazy speed to crash well.
Mattyc Posted December 30, 2007 Posted December 30, 2007 Mario Galaxy is taking me over right now. It is absolutely magical. I am about 30 stars in and so far the Sling Pod Galaxy was the galaxy I found the hardest due to the timing of the jumps having to be dead on to avoid death. I have a feeling things are going to get much harder soon enough.
GIB Posted December 30, 2007 Posted December 30, 2007 Has diving ever worked for you lot on PES? I think it worked once with me but the player may have actually fouled me...
Gwailofilms Posted December 30, 2007 Posted December 30, 2007 And the new Burnout LOOKS good, Other half reckons that its 'just fine.' and he tells me that you need the crazy speed to crash well.Crazy speed certainly helps. If you crash less horrendously, you can get a "Driveaway" which lets you... erm... drive... away. Somehow yesterday it let me do this even though the roof had been completely compressed down into the body of the car.Dove into Forza 2 as well yesterday. It's just like Gran Turismo, but, y'know, fun. GT to me is just Pokemon with cars and there's nothing remotely interesting about the unforgiving races. With Forza, you can skip all the "must collect/tune/repaint the cars" nonsense (although you can do all that if you wish) and just enjoy some close-fought racing. Battling my way up from 8th to a very close 2nd in the final two-thirds of a lap on the New York track was immensely satisfying.This may also be the game that gets my missus into "regular" gaming (she already like splaying Wii Sports), when she saw I'd downloaded her favourite car ever... a Renault 5. :DIn related news, I ordered a new HD TV to play all this wondrousness on... then went into Sainsbury's with my sister and saw that they were selling the bigger version for only an extra
Paid Members JLM Posted December 30, 2007 Paid Members Posted December 30, 2007 Has diving ever worked for you lot on PES? I think it worked once with me but the player may have actually fouled me...Once for me too. I made Didi Hamann dive on the edge of the box when someone was clipping at his heels and got a free kick plus a yellow for the other player. Like yours though, I suspect it may have been a foul anyway.
DrNo Posted December 31, 2007 Posted December 31, 2007 Not sure if anyone else has done this yet, and I'm not about to look through 90 odd pages to find out, but just this minute completed Mario Galaxy, well I say completed, I killed the final Bowser. And the final cut scene is amazing. The whole game is, and it has to be the most beautiful, perfect game I've ever had the pleasure to play. Not a thing wrong with it in my opinion. Anyone have a odnwload available anywhere for the theme tune or any of the soundtrack? I've just got to get 59 stars until I have finally completed it and have available to me 'another world'.
Gwailofilms Posted December 31, 2007 Posted December 31, 2007 After discovering that my Dead Rising disc is scratched and unplayable beyond the first half-hour (it's going back today), I fired up Bioshock.Wow!Immersive, exciting, atmospheric, scary and beautiful to look at and listen to. I was hooked within the first fifteen minutes and consistently blown away by some element of the graphics, the design or the story. The only thing I don't like is the ocncept of "Vita-Chambers". "Don't worry if you die, you'll be brought back to life in the last "Vita-Chamber" you passed..." Really? Why haven't the corpses I've been stumbling across (and indeed looting) been regenerated in the last Vita-Chamber they passed? A dumb plothole, but not enough to ruin an awesome game.
Paid Members Kookoocachu Posted December 31, 2007 Paid Members Posted December 31, 2007 ok, whos d/l the gameplay 15min long MGS4 trailer????I drooled
TheGameDD Posted December 31, 2007 Posted December 31, 2007 (edited) I Just finished playing the orange box on the 360. awesome. story, graphics and variety of the gameplay too, so it isn't too repetitive.Half Life 2 - Great and looks fantastic on the 360.HL2 : Episode 1 - Starts where HL2 finishes and add extra twist to the game. HL2 : Episode 2 - Bigger levels to explore and more variety to the game, as well as the great build up to the story in the most revealing sequel of the half life games so far. Can't wait to episode 3.I've yet to play Portal and Team Fortress on the game, but I'm sure I get around to it soon! At the Mo I've just started playing Mass Effect!If you enjoyed Knights of the old Republic you love this! Edited December 31, 2007 by TheGameDD
KrAzY Posted December 31, 2007 Posted December 31, 2007 My New Years Resolution is to own a Xbox 360, PS3 and Wii in 2008I already have 360 so 1 down 2 to go
The Gaffer Posted December 31, 2007 Posted December 31, 2007 Im currently playing The Shivering Isles expansion for Oblivion on the 360. Fantastic stuff. A nice breath of fresh air after playing in Cyrodiil for lord knows how many hours. The split Mania/Dementia idea works really well.
klown Posted December 31, 2007 Posted December 31, 2007 Games ive been playing as of lateWiiMario GalaxyBig BrainXBox 360Tony Hawk Project 8Strangleholdand im still hooked on Wrestler on Facebook
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