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The Darkness [30/03/07] - This also looks amazing. Being able to pick up and throw cars with your darkness powers looks great, really like the look of the whole setup where you have to power up in the dark to bring about your evil little minions.
Crackdown [23/02/07] - This looks like a metropolis straight out of 2000AD. Big cartoony (graphic novel) graphics, loads of over-the-top things to do and a big free space to do them in. Can't wait!
Bioshock [24/08/07]
Battlestations Midway [23/02/07] - This looks fun, plenty of playable craft (not just planes it seems) and it seems as if the delay has been used to add plenty more detail to it over it's nearest rivals (Over-G, Blazing Angels).
Assassins Creed [01/07/07] - A Medieval Splinter Cell with added crowd gimmic. The plot's shrouded in secrecy but it should do the business. Like the 'removed finger replaced with dagger' idea too. Freerunning concept is cool, plenty of bits to climb it seems - wonder how limited it'll actually be in the finished product. Really nice looking sword-fighting and a spicy level of difficulty to combat too it seems (but what else would you expect from a stealth game from Ubisoft?)
Mass Effect [30/03/07] - KOTOR meets Deus Ex meets Babylon 5. This is looking great especially with the Full Spectrum Warrior style battles.
Stranglehold [1/03/07] - Midway's Max Payne with super destruction and added moves. This should atleast be a great rental but hopefully there's more depth to it than it currently seems to have. Seems to be a lot less 'walk into a room' than Max Payne - the fighting seems to flow a lot better rather than Max Payne's stops and starts - more targets and more room for on-the-fly tactics equals more fun in my book.
Kindom Under Fire: Circle of Doom [TBA] - 4 player co-op over live. More of a hack and slasher than the previous games but don't expect the strategy elements to be completely non-existant.
Guitar is supposed to be a lot better as well, with an added connector for a future foot pedal and another for the Live headset so you can use it for future online games which are planned.
Best game I've played in ages, well worth the rather large price tag.
And of course, there is resi 5 in the line up now...
Think I'll be raiding the pre-owned bin for my next purchase, or might just save to get forza/C&C and Spiderman 3
Looks like they have a slot for the headsets and an extension for a foot pedal, which I believe will give access to firework effects on-screen!
Think my next game of interest will be either Forza, Spiderman 3 or C&C 3 Tiberium Wars (has an excellent achievement - just skip the tutorial :S)
Might order two and just end-up trading in one of the games.
Can you do co-op online or not? I read a couple of reviews but I think they missed that bit out.
> Seems the limited edition will give you some booklet and 3
> additional cars.
It does, plus if you pre-order with GAME you get an exclusive download (plus double your reward points for pre-ordering and buying it)
Well, Guitar Hero II out yesterday. Absolutely fantastic with some easy achievements! :D