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"Hmmmmm".
That basically describes my initial reaction to my Premium 360 (or whatever the harddrive ones are called). Me andm y mate hunted around looking for the best deal in town, we found a Core for £178 in Blockbuster with no games or offers and laughed at Woolie's pitiful attempts to put together a 'deal' for a premium with game at 260-something. We finally ended up going for the HMV '3 Games with a premium console' deal and got an extra controller too all for just over £300.
So I get it home and well... it's tiny next to the old Xbox! :D Quite impressed with the ridiculous power brick I'd heard so much about too.
When we picked the games we were heavily veering towards multiplayer titles so we got Ghost Recon:AW, Perfect Dark and Moto GP 2006.
Jumping straight into multiplayer of Perfect Dark the experience was rather 'so-so', it's really dumbed down and half the modes can't even have bots. Still atleast the aiming and accuracy was of the right standard and the bots were significantly troubling in our first few goes, even if they are really dumb in the 'hold the zone/zones' territories mode.
So I threw a lot of bots into a big two team battle and it was a lot of fun (if a little short as 18 combatants trying to get 50 kills a side doesn't take very long) and I unlocked a few achievements.
Then it was on to Moto GP which I brezzed through in multiplayer managing to get consistent first places after the first three races or so, thankfully there were other racers to race against although my friend couldn't get to grips with it a and had to settle for the back 2 places pretty much everytime! Extreme mode made it even easier and everything was fun enough, I'm going to play it some more today and see how it goes because if it's not all that fun in multiplayer then I may trade it in for Hitman: Bloodmoney as I think at the moment I'll get more fun out of Eidos' title.
Then we went onto Warfighter and played a 30 min 1 on 1 battle which never got dull and seemed to only take about 12 minutes. :D
Admittedly I haven't played any of these in single player yet but I have to say none of them have blown me away or made we go 'Wow this really is next-gen gaming', infact they really seem to be more of the same just with slightly nicer graphics.
That said, compared to the early days of the Cube when I had to deal with AUF, Monkey Ball, Burnout, Smash Bros and (OMG) Legends of Wrestling the 360's early titles are way way better.
Now I just have to play Moto GP a bit more and decide if Bloodmoney's where it's really at...
More stuff to say once I've properly got to grips with (or even started) the single player modes.
(Oh and as for the 'exclusive content' on the premium's HD, that's a bit of a joke surely? There's next to nothing on there!)
That basically describes my initial reaction to my Premium 360 (or whatever the harddrive ones are called). Me andm y mate hunted around looking for the best deal in town, we found a Core for £178 in Blockbuster with no games or offers and laughed at Woolie's pitiful attempts to put together a 'deal' for a premium with game at 260-something. We finally ended up going for the HMV '3 Games with a premium console' deal and got an extra controller too all for just over £300.
So I get it home and well... it's tiny next to the old Xbox! :D Quite impressed with the ridiculous power brick I'd heard so much about too.
When we picked the games we were heavily veering towards multiplayer titles so we got Ghost Recon:AW, Perfect Dark and Moto GP 2006.
Jumping straight into multiplayer of Perfect Dark the experience was rather 'so-so', it's really dumbed down and half the modes can't even have bots. Still atleast the aiming and accuracy was of the right standard and the bots were significantly troubling in our first few goes, even if they are really dumb in the 'hold the zone/zones' territories mode.
So I threw a lot of bots into a big two team battle and it was a lot of fun (if a little short as 18 combatants trying to get 50 kills a side doesn't take very long) and I unlocked a few achievements.
Then it was on to Moto GP which I brezzed through in multiplayer managing to get consistent first places after the first three races or so, thankfully there were other racers to race against although my friend couldn't get to grips with it a and had to settle for the back 2 places pretty much everytime! Extreme mode made it even easier and everything was fun enough, I'm going to play it some more today and see how it goes because if it's not all that fun in multiplayer then I may trade it in for Hitman: Bloodmoney as I think at the moment I'll get more fun out of Eidos' title.
Then we went onto Warfighter and played a 30 min 1 on 1 battle which never got dull and seemed to only take about 12 minutes. :D
Admittedly I haven't played any of these in single player yet but I have to say none of them have blown me away or made we go 'Wow this really is next-gen gaming', infact they really seem to be more of the same just with slightly nicer graphics.
That said, compared to the early days of the Cube when I had to deal with AUF, Monkey Ball, Burnout, Smash Bros and (OMG) Legends of Wrestling the 360's early titles are way way better.
Now I just have to play Moto GP a bit more and decide if Bloodmoney's where it's really at...
More stuff to say once I've properly got to grips with (or even started) the single player modes.
(Oh and as for the 'exclusive content' on the premium's HD, that's a bit of a joke surely? There's next to nothing on there!)
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Aye, but I'm getting my stealth kill fix from sneaking about in Oblivion and sniping in GRAW. :D
Hedfix wrote:
> Haven't played Hitman yet.
Really? It's supposed to be the best one yet, which says a lot for it.
Plus, didn't you trade in 'that' game for it?
> Haven't played Hitman yet.
Really? It's supposed to be the best one yet, which says a lot for it.
Plus, didn't you trade in 'that' game for it?
1) Oblivion
2) GRAW
3) Perfect Dark
4004th) Moto GP
Haven't played Hitman yet.
2) GRAW
3) Perfect Dark
4004th) Moto GP
Haven't played Hitman yet.
Lol, so out of all the games you've now played, what would you rate the highest?
Just looking for some advice on what to get :-)
Just looking for some advice on what to get :-)
No, that's a harsh racer. :D
Ah, I can't wait to try my hands at something other than next-gen adventure or FPS game.
Preferably, a nice racer... so not MotoGP :-P
Preferably, a nice racer... so not MotoGP :-P
Think I'd be saying the same thing about PGR3.
Horses for courses or something...
Horses for courses or something...
For an odd reason, I find Oblivion very irritaing and annoying... More amazingly: dull.
:S
:S
Indeed, after 18 hours play I'm now level 9. I think in the first week of play I could've easily gone for 50 hours. I did my first ten hours on the first day of playing it though. :D
I've met much more challenging creatures and outwitted a fair few too, found loads more hidden things and done some brilliant quests but no more details will I provide thee, find 'em yourself. :P
That said though, Oblivion is possible to simply dip into if you just do one of the shorter quests or clear a cave of bandits every-so-often then you can play it for about an hour a time.
I've met much more challenging creatures and outwitted a fair few too, found loads more hidden things and done some brilliant quests but no more details will I provide thee, find 'em yourself. :P
That said though, Oblivion is possible to simply dip into if you just do one of the shorter quests or clear a cave of bandits every-so-often then you can play it for about an hour a time.
Yeah, worried that if I get Oblivion I may never see my kids again...
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