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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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Although Flashpoint is the more realistic in terms of AI and freedom. Had a quick go on it today along with a few other Xbox titles.
Been playing a silly amount of Hexic and loving the sniper rifles in GRAW. Taken a break from Oblivion while I do some work.
Been playing a silly amount of Hexic and loving the sniper rifles in GRAW. Taken a break from Oblivion while I do some work.
GRAW is amazing on the 360, if not a little repetative.
Still need to play the demo of GRAW to work out whether I can be patient enough for it. If I like it, I'll order one sometime next week. Thought about getting Fight Night Round 3, but the demo is enough for me and I can't be bothered with the rest.
Table Tennis is great though, been starting to play through it over the past few nights and it takes a lot of concentration at times. Watched a match the other day on live to get 5 more Achievement points too...
Table Tennis is great though, been starting to play through it over the past few nights and it takes a lot of concentration at times. Watched a match the other day on live to get 5 more Achievement points too...
Wow, I thought Oblivion might've been doing a Fable and making itself incredibly easy but I've met some tougher opponents now.
Met some Daedra and had a good 4 minute run around with a Goblin Skirmisher who's extra skill made for a really decent fight where I had to use most of my health potions and a mixture of quick blasts with my hammer and short ranged attacks with my bow to finally emerge victorious.
I 'borrowed' my horse from a pryory place because I was doing a quest for them and it seems everyone and his dog knows the horse is stolen, but they only react when I bet back on it. :S
I ended up beating some priests senseless after I'd had a friendly conversation with them. I got back on 'my' horse and they suddenly went 'thief!!11' and launched themsleves at me. :D
I think they were essential characters as I beat one of them unconscious (which normally would've simply killed them) and the other one suddenly acted as if nothing had happened!
Also I accidentally hit my horse whilst fighting off a wolf and it went for me and even after being magically calmed by me for 15 seconds carried on going for me. I thought 'oh well' and carried on hitting it to finish it off but it seems like it had infinite health as my weapon gave out before it did, thankfully I'd saved just before meeting the wolf so a quick reload was all that was needed. Pretty weird though.
Aside from the horse incidents this is one fine game, really like the traps and magical weapons dotted around the necromancer lairs, also like the way the wizards are weak so once you've got past their spells, traps and summoned creatures a few whacks and it's all over.
That's the way necromancers should be. :D
There's loads more I could say but I don't want to start spewing out spoilers.
Great game. :)
Met some Daedra and had a good 4 minute run around with a Goblin Skirmisher who's extra skill made for a really decent fight where I had to use most of my health potions and a mixture of quick blasts with my hammer and short ranged attacks with my bow to finally emerge victorious.
I 'borrowed' my horse from a pryory place because I was doing a quest for them and it seems everyone and his dog knows the horse is stolen, but they only react when I bet back on it. :S
I ended up beating some priests senseless after I'd had a friendly conversation with them. I got back on 'my' horse and they suddenly went 'thief!!11' and launched themsleves at me. :D
I think they were essential characters as I beat one of them unconscious (which normally would've simply killed them) and the other one suddenly acted as if nothing had happened!
Also I accidentally hit my horse whilst fighting off a wolf and it went for me and even after being magically calmed by me for 15 seconds carried on going for me. I thought 'oh well' and carried on hitting it to finish it off but it seems like it had infinite health as my weapon gave out before it did, thankfully I'd saved just before meeting the wolf so a quick reload was all that was needed. Pretty weird though.
Aside from the horse incidents this is one fine game, really like the traps and magical weapons dotted around the necromancer lairs, also like the way the wizards are weak so once you've got past their spells, traps and summoned creatures a few whacks and it's all over.
That's the way necromancers should be. :D
There's loads more I could say but I don't want to start spewing out spoilers.
Great game. :)
Oh how I want a 360 now, but I still want to hold out for a PS3... I only really have enough for one, and I refuse to get a job! :-D
Yeah, then we can both get kicked off for having mikes! :D
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Started Oblivion today, brilliant stuff, really liking the sneaking as it's just like the last thief games. The ranged battle are good with opponents properly dodging and in general the combat feels a lot more polished and worthwhile.
The graphics, well what can I saw about them? They remind me of the graphical style of the Baldur's Gate:Dark Alliance games except in fully realised world rather than pre-rendered environments. Another nod to Baldur's Gate seems to be the music which at it's creepier points is very much like the effective music from the BG:DA titles.
So far I've been doing the main quest but have stopped off to fight vampires and contracted a few diseases. :D
Hopefully I'm not going to find myself turning into a vamp after only 3 hours of play! :D
Things certainly seemed to have become easier since Morrowind and starting at level 1 in Oblivion seems to be more like being at level 10 in Morrowind as you can manage to kill vampires very early on in the game.
As usual the city guards are hard as nails and are the only things that've forced me to reload a previous save so far.
Perhaps I've found it so easy because I grabbed a warhammer straight away? In Morrowind I didn't get a decent hammer for absolutely ages. I think perhaps I'm still in a beggining area of the map and I expect some Daedra will make mincemeat of my character sooner or later.
Perhaps it's also easier as they said they were focusing more on magic this time around, it'll be great to try out a load of variations and see how that magic kicks ass. :D
Good stuff.
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Started Oblivion today, brilliant stuff, really liking the sneaking as it's just like the last thief games. The ranged battle are good with opponents properly dodging and in general the combat feels a lot more polished and worthwhile.
The graphics, well what can I saw about them? They remind me of the graphical style of the Baldur's Gate:Dark Alliance games except in fully realised world rather than pre-rendered environments. Another nod to Baldur's Gate seems to be the music which at it's creepier points is very much like the effective music from the BG:DA titles.
So far I've been doing the main quest but have stopped off to fight vampires and contracted a few diseases. :D
Hopefully I'm not going to find myself turning into a vamp after only 3 hours of play! :D
Things certainly seemed to have become easier since Morrowind and starting at level 1 in Oblivion seems to be more like being at level 10 in Morrowind as you can manage to kill vampires very early on in the game.
As usual the city guards are hard as nails and are the only things that've forced me to reload a previous save so far.
Perhaps I've found it so easy because I grabbed a warhammer straight away? In Morrowind I didn't get a decent hammer for absolutely ages. I think perhaps I'm still in a beggining area of the map and I expect some Daedra will make mincemeat of my character sooner or later.
Perhaps it's also easier as they said they were focusing more on magic this time around, it'll be great to try out a load of variations and see how that magic kicks ass. :D
Good stuff.
That'll change when i bother to decide to get into GRAW online :-D
Yeah I have to admit getting Gauntlet and ploughing through it with a friend and a few drinks should be fun. :D
What the hell is up with GRAW on Live? I played for about 3 hours and heard a whole 3 people speak! I swear I got kicked for actually HAVING a mike which is a total reversal from Xbox where my mate Vex was getting kicked for not having a mike.
It seems there are way too many mikeless core systems about and it's currently made my Live experience one very quiet place.
I try giving people warnings and let them know where I am and where the enemy are approaching from but it's not much fun when no-one can answer back and it works against the whole idea of working as a team (maybe having a mike on causes lag, I don't know :S).
So far the quality of games has been good it's either you get into a lag-free game or you can't connect and there's no in-between.
As far as progression goes I'm now level 2 in online Graw and am the 2nd highest in my list of 5 (yes a WHOLE 5) friends who've actually got the game. :D
Gameplay's fine, just wish people would buy some damn mikes!
What the hell is up with GRAW on Live? I played for about 3 hours and heard a whole 3 people speak! I swear I got kicked for actually HAVING a mike which is a total reversal from Xbox where my mate Vex was getting kicked for not having a mike.
It seems there are way too many mikeless core systems about and it's currently made my Live experience one very quiet place.
I try giving people warnings and let them know where I am and where the enemy are approaching from but it's not much fun when no-one can answer back and it works against the whole idea of working as a team (maybe having a mike on causes lag, I don't know :S).
So far the quality of games has been good it's either you get into a lag-free game or you can't connect and there's no in-between.
As far as progression goes I'm now level 2 in online Graw and am the 2nd highest in my list of 5 (yes a WHOLE 5) friends who've actually got the game. :D
Gameplay's fine, just wish people would buy some damn mikes!
You'll buy some more points. You know you will...
Heh, a quick check on Live reveals there's 900 points worth of extra quest/equipment stuff for Oblivion and the GRAW maps etc download is 1200 points which uses up my points exactly. :D
No Gauntlet for me then. Gutted. ;D
No Gauntlet for me then. Gutted. ;D
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