The Old XBOX Megathread

[alldaws1]

RSV 1 & 2 are both very entertaining games. 2 feels like a big expansion pack really but the online play in particular is awesome. GTA IV is good too I think Dragsy just prefers Saints Row.

[Cactus Drags]

IV came across to me like they couldn't decide whether to make a film or a game, and the lack of customization felt like a step back from GTA:SA. Also, the city's too fucking big.

[tristy]

Mirror's Edge is pretty badass, The Orange Box is a goddamn steal if you can find it used/cheaper than retail price. GTA IV + Lost & Damned isn't a bad combo at all if you're into GTA. Also, Fallout 3 + Operation: Anchorage will consume your entire world, I can almost guarantee that.

I hated Saints Row 2, personally. Worst game I own, right next to Ninety-Nine Nights, probably. I played Skate 2 at a friends apartment, who is a bigtime skater. Myself, I'm so used to the Tony Hawk games that the control scheme of Skate is really hard to get used to. But it's a really good game, not alot of tricks from what I could see, but the environments are pretty cool, and the AI is funny most of the time (gotten punched, pushed down, tazed, etc.)

[Kaney]

anything that involves shooting stuff that isn't just a clusterfuck of random killings

I think Left 4 Dead was one of the games I was looking at so I might pick that up

These don't really work together. L4D is one massive clusterfuck after another, it's what makes it so tense and fun.

[Matt]

anything that involves shooting stuff that isn't just a clusterfuck of random killings

I think Left 4 Dead was one of the games I was looking at so I might pick that up

These don't really work together. L4D is one massive clusterfuck after another, it's what makes it so tense and fun.

After watching a video of the gameplay, I don't think it is my thing... Glad you pointed that out before I ordered it.

Customisation wasn't something I particularly gave too much of a shit about in SA, and big islands = fun IMO, so yeah, coupled with the L&D package, I'll probably get GTA even if it's only because I've finished the rest of the series.

I think I'm looking at Burnout, GTA (although I might pick this up in a couple of months rather than now), RS:Vegas 1 and I think my lass has bought me Mirror's Edge (which I hadn't heard of until she said she'd bought me it, so I'm glad Tristy thinks it's good although from the videos it just seems to be some chick doing a lot of running and jumping). I'll probably pick up Fallout 3 within a few weeks too.

Cheers guys, your more helpful than my mates at college who's advice was "Get COD and FIFA", "I already have COD and FIFA on the Wii", "It'll be different", "The controls will be, but the game will be pretty much the same", "Nah, you need you get COD and FIFA"

[King Ellis]

CoD Wii probably doesn't have multiplayer which is like a whole other game.

[Matt]

CoD Wii probably doesn't have multiplayer which is like a whole other game.

It does (assuming you mean online) but it's not as comprehensive as PS3/Xbox versions but its hardly terrible either - it's certainly not worth buying the game twice for. If you mean offline multiplayer, there is a multiplayer campaign but player 2 is just an extra gun really (IIRC), not sure what it's like on 360/PS3 offline. But yeah, it's obviously better on 360 but I'd rather get a new game...

[RoyWill Rumble]

The city's too big? I'm pretty sure that's a good thing.

[tristy]

Mirror's Edge sounds like a shit game, I was even hesitant to buy it. But once you get into the groove of things, it's pretty badass. And really pretty.

[Cactus Drags]

The city's too big? I'm pretty sure that's a good thing.

It would be if they did anything with it other than giving you a taxi to skip through it all.

Mirror's Edge is ace, it's caught a fair bit of flack from the gaming press (mainly for trying to do something a bit different rather than being genuinely shite), but it's one of the better looking and unique titles on the console.

[Toe]

The whole "city too big" thing is why I never got too far in San Andreas. I had no desire to spend so much time driving across the huge world to do one mission, then going all the way back to do the next one.

The taxi feature in GTA IV makes the huge city feel easy to navigate. I am just so bad with the helicopter that I haven't been able to finish the game.

[9 to 5]

Let me guess, now I got GoW 2 cheap no one plays it? >_>

[King Ellis]

No one has played it since about a week after it came out.

That said, i've had a standing offer to do some Horde mode for quite some time now so maybe we could rustle up some people for that.

[9 to 5]

I will have to learn how to play it first. >_>

[King Ellis]

And learn how to not make your mic echo.

[9 to 5]

I think I had it plugged in not right at the weekend, but yes it shall be looked into.

[Kaney]

As I've said before, I'm up for some Gears.

[LL!]

And also learn to get Halo 3.

[King Ellis]

IT'S COMING

2AM GMT

9PM EST

Something o'clock for whatever time zone you're in (work it out yourselves)

HALO 3, BITCHES! Be there, be square.

[Kaney]

I thought we were gonna do something that isn't lame, like play Gears 2?