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"F Zero first impressions..."

Pretty decent game so far although a few things haven't really lived up to what I hoped. For starters the game isn't as fast as I originally magined and although it runs like a dream I still feel well in control of the vehicles which is something I never fealt when playing the Wipeout games. The tracks I have done so far in the Free run mode are damn fine to look at but they are a tad on the short side with very little variation in terms of track layout aside from the obvious visual aspect.

The handling is sweet and the vehicles are quality to control and with one of the easiest control layouts I have ever seen. Great to control, great to look at and some pretty decent audio tracks. Nothing absolutely amazing so far but none the less a solid title that I am hoping will get better the more I go into it. Will crack on with the Story mode later but for now I just want to get used to different vehicles.

So far so good.

LIVE is great fun, but 4-player with three mates is a lot less competitive, more enjoyable and can pull the other player's controller sockets out if they're winning.

Brillaint.

I don't neccessarily think LIVE is as lame as PC online.

All I was saying is that is it not odd that you never give such fun a chance?

Half my friends don't gove a toss and yet they still love playing 4-player.

Maverick42 wrote:
> Offline, social multiplayer is much better than online, by yourself.
> If the game's good enough, it shouldn't matter whether the other
> players are into it or not.

Ah, but still, that leaves:

Single player online beats single play offline.
4 player splitscreen online beats four player splitscreen offline!

And you'd be all for it if Nintendo hadn't dismissed it all as a bandwagon! :-P


I remember when I first imagined that Goldeneye (yep, before the days of Perfect Dark kids!) could be played online AS WELL as having 3 friends to team up with...

And that this new Nintendo hardware with Rare's technical genius would make it possible!
Here's to shattered dreams! :'-(

:-D

Xbox Live takes offline gaming to school, give it a wedgie and then punches it in the face.

Only problem is it does suck up unhealthy hours of your life, god knows how much time I've spent on it since I got it. You can't criticise it until you've properly experienced it though. Thing is the only people who have Xbox Live and I've seen criticising it are people who probably don't have much of a personality and probably don't get on with people on xbox Live so will never truely get to experience the excellence of the service.

Trust me, before I got an Xbox I thought online gaming was for geeks and beardy chumps. It might be on PC's but Xbox Live is anything but that.

Nothing geeky about it. Play it at on College nights until early hours of the morning when there is sod all to do outside.

Sitting inside play multiplayer games during the day is with friends is completely nerd like when there is a footie outside to knock about. Might not be your cup of tea but I much prefer playing online multiplayers later on (like I have been doing for the last few hours) and then just messing on games in between doing other stuff. If I told half of my mates that I had all 3 consoles they would just laugh at me. Most of them know but aren't remotely interested in the slightest with a golf course, 5 aside football pitch and some 9 aside nets which I have outside. Not everyones idea but for me it works perfectly.

Oh and lets not compare the beardy none social side of PC gaming to Xbox LIVE where there is constant voice talk and the ability to invite friends in and set up servers just for those who you want to go into them with great ease. PC online gaming is full of nerds, LIVE on the other hand (aside from 90% of Americans) has some pretty sorted people. Until you have played LIVE you will probably continue to compare it to online PC gaming which is drastically different from a social point of view.

Of course all my opinion so I don't expect anyone to share this with me.

Indeed. If anything it enhances a geeky image.

Or 'beardy' as Alaister said about social mutliplayer.......

Tis odd.

Offline, social multiplayer is much better than online, by yourself. If the game's good enough, it shouldn't matter whether the other players are into it or not.

Microsoft seem to be promoting the image of the loner-gamer with their adverts, which are followed by a ridiculously inappropriate comment - "It's good to play together" - yes it is, so why do your adverts have people sitting by themselves in a dark room?

Cyclone wrote:
> friends (who aren't into games as much as me) +
> Monkey Ball/SSBM/any Nintendo multi-player game = Boredom.

Tbat = correct

How can you ever compare online play to proper multiplayer? There are loads and loads of people who enjoy multiplayer games, especially dance mat/eye toy games.

You can't compare 15 complete strangers to 3 real life mates and 12 CPU players.

Evidently beer + friends (who aren't into games as much as me) + Monkey Ball/SSBM/any Nintnedo multi-player game = Boredom. Riiight.

Do what you want, but I do find that most peculiar.