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come on guys wheres the zombie spirit.
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You shouldn't dissapointed, specially with all the top draw games coming out between now and Xmas.
Now the only problem is finding the time and funds to spend on them, my social life (what social life?) is gonna be in the decline once Splinter Cell, Pro Evo and all the other sweet looking games hit the stores.
Now the only problem is finding the time and funds to spend on them, my social life (what social life?) is gonna be in the decline once Splinter Cell, Pro Evo and all the other sweet looking games hit the stores.
Really tempting me now to buy the 360. At least I can get 10% off in Argos!
Buy before christmas by the looks of things!
Buy before christmas by the looks of things!
Funny how that Roadhouse map is the best one (and most played) considering it's the only map that doesn't feature the gravity changing elements.
Have to say it's grown on me over today and I've been throughly beating all-comers on Roadhouse this evening.
Shame the ranked matches are all but gone, it's a bit like Far Cry in that that respect - everyone's on the 'player maps'.
When it's down to ten quid I might buy it if I can find out if ranked matches are still going on it.
Couldn't face playing through it again on the higher difficulty - it's simply not that interesting next to the multiplayer.
Have to say it's grown on me over today and I've been throughly beating all-comers on Roadhouse this evening.
Shame the ranked matches are all but gone, it's a bit like Far Cry in that that respect - everyone's on the 'player maps'.
When it's down to ten quid I might buy it if I can find out if ranked matches are still going on it.
Couldn't face playing through it again on the higher difficulty - it's simply not that interesting next to the multiplayer.
I enjoyed Prey, it managed to do the whole sci-fi space setting without becoming too repetetive. Though it did seem to run out of party tricks about halfway through, and I expect Halflife 2 to school it on the use of Portals next year.
Still fun though and one of the best shooters I've played this year, was a bit short though as you said and could have done with a few more open sections instead of the usual corridor style levels. It's a shame really that it didn't manage to keep up the same feeling of excitement and wonder that the opening sections had.
Still fun though and one of the best shooters I've played this year, was a bit short though as you said and could have done with a few more open sections instead of the usual corridor style levels. It's a shame really that it didn't manage to keep up the same feeling of excitement and wonder that the opening sections had.
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> Speaking of which, I rented Prey for free today. Woop a di doo
Finished it already.
If I'd have bought it properly it'd be back at the shop by now, short multiplayer achievements too. The whole thing seems geared towards making it just rental fodder. :S
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Finished it already.
If I'd have bought it properly it'd be back at the shop by now, short multiplayer achievements too. The whole thing seems geared towards making it just rental fodder. :S
Only real problem I've had with the game is the survivor AI can be a little dumb at times, but then again when you see the size of the crowds of zombies you're guiding them through, it's not really suprising they get a little eaten at times. As long as you have plenty of pointy objects on you, and make sure to give them all their own weapons, it shouldn't be too muchb of a problem. Though guiding large amounts of survivors at night can be a little hairy, you think they're all with you then you realise that some dumb blonde is actually about 50 aisles back getting gang raped by a load of undead pusbags. Best to keep the large escort missions confined to the day time I've found.
The save system while annoying at the start, really isn't as bad as people have made out. You get used to it and it's soon no problem at all. The time schedule while rushing you about at times, really creates a sense of tension as you run back and forth attempting to save as many people as possible. Also if you ever get fed up with the tight time schedule, you can just completly ignore it and go off on a killathon and fail the main story, but still finish the game with a bad ending.
Personally I'd say it's one of the best and most original games on the 360, I loved every minute of it and intend on playing through multiple more times even though I've completed it 3 times already.
The save system while annoying at the start, really isn't as bad as people have made out. You get used to it and it's soon no problem at all. The time schedule while rushing you about at times, really creates a sense of tension as you run back and forth attempting to save as many people as possible. Also if you ever get fed up with the tight time schedule, you can just completly ignore it and go off on a killathon and fail the main story, but still finish the game with a bad ending.
Personally I'd say it's one of the best and most original games on the 360, I loved every minute of it and intend on playing through multiple more times even though I've completed it 3 times already.
I'm sold already on Dead Rising. Was going to pick it up today in town but £48.99 de-sold it. Amazon are doing it for £39.99 and I'm tempted again, but might wait a while until I can grab it for £29.99 as I'm so cheap.
Probably worth reading IGN's review of it, states the flaws of the title pretty clearly.
Speaking of which, I rented Prey for free today. Woop a di doo
Speaking of which, I rented Prey for free today. Woop a di doo
Only Hitman and Ghost Recon have impressed me so far on the 360 but apart from them I just ended up buying loads of games, playing them once and never bothering again.. Saw this the other day when looking round and it looks pretty sweet, always enjoyed State of Emergency so hopefully it will be everything State of Emergency should've been had it not looked so rushed.
You can play music and view photographs from an external USB hard drive/mp3 player or digi camera. Not sure about backed up DVD movies though - doubt it.
If you have a PC running windows media edition you can connect to the xbox and watch movie files from your PC and with some additional software watch various movie file formats so you could probably do it that way.
If you have a PC running windows media edition you can connect to the xbox and watch movie files from your PC and with some additional software watch various movie file formats so you could probably do it that way.
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