Sports: Amped 3. Totally underrated snowboarding game. PROBABLY the best game soundtrack ever (Anberlin? O'Doyle Rules? Hellogoodbye? Gatsby's American Dream? It's like an indie rock fan's dream). EASILY the best story in a sports game ever. The gameplay isn't perfect, but the game is SO huge with SO MUCH to do that it totally gety my vote. Shooter: Half-Life 2. I've never played such a great PC to console port. I normally don't like console FPS games, but Halo 3, Bioshock, and Half-Life 2 were quite able to rip me from my mouse and keyboard. RPG: Mass Effect. Can't disagree here. It's just one of the best RPGs ever made. Oblivion isn't far behind though. Action/Adventure: Assassin's Creed. Keeping in mind that I was studying the Crusades this semester, playing AC was just awesome. And that's just something so cathartic about having to read about Robert de Sable for three hours and then brutally murdering him.
I've been playing 360 games on the PC (GoW, CoD4, Bioshock, Assassins Creed) and I can't wait for Mass Effect to come out on the 28th. Also waiting for a price drop on the PS3. Have you played Path of Radiance? Backward compatibility is nice...
I would definitely rent it at the least. I don't think it has much value on repeat play (others will vehemently disagree), but I think you'd find it at least worth the rental. It was a ton of fun. The action is great, and you get to really direct your character (lots of very interesting moral decisons come up that have a BIG impact on the game). You can be a total ******* or an angel, or something in between. Give it a try.
I'm almost finished with Assassin's Creed (going after de Sable when I get home from work today ). It's a beautiful game, and I love the historical aspect to it. But the one thing I think that keeps it from being a masterpiece is that the objectives you complete prior to going after the assassination target gets really repetetive. I don't have the motivation anymore to save all the citizens, climb all the viewpoints, etc.
Yea Bourne is extremely clunky, the driving is very loose even though there isn't alot of it in the demo. And you have to beat the complete snot out of anyone to take them down. You can slam them into desks, walls, windows, fire extinguishers, trucks, pipes, ledges, anything and they take forever to go down. It looked promising but man did it let me down.
I played this game for a half hour and then took it back. I could not stand all of the cutscenes you cannot skip and the story was stupid.
Aside from all the ridiculous conspiracy theory crap, Assassin's Creed was remarkably accurate for a video game. Most of your targets were real people, and a couple of them actually were killed by the Hashashin. The city settings were great, Acre was PHENOMENAL, and they did a great job representing the clash of cultures in the Levant. But... The Knights Templar and the Hashashin were not adversaries (remember, I just wrote a 25-page term paper on the Knights Templar) The Hashashin mostly took out Saracen targets (which is why the Temple looked the other way) The Knights Hospitaller did NOT perform medical experiments etc. etc. For any student of Medieval history (especially the Crusades), Assassin's Creed is a great game. Even the whole conspiracy created in the game is historical; it is an amalgamation of many long-existing myths that started during the Crusades.
Fight night-(360) was made faster than the ps2 version so its missng a lot...cant wait for the follow up gears of war- had the best graphics for a while halo-its just a fun game to play...nothing tactical just kind of an arcade type game COD 4- best game i have possibly ever played...completely kicked gears of war a** in graphics. im not really good at tactical games so i may be missing out a lot on games like rainbow and so on...i almost forgot i wanted to play graw 2. a found assasins creed kind of lame...
That may be true, but medieval history didn't make you sit through a 10 minute cutscene every 45 seconds.
I could go out and buy a PS3 like now. But I don't have a HDTV. Just a regular one. So I ask you, how much would I be missing out on? Sure, I could go out and buy a HDTV as well but I don't really have the space to put a massive TV in. So my second question is, what is the smallest size for a HDTV that would still let me enjoy the games? Sorry for the off-topic.
Bigger the better, but any size HDTV is signficantly better than standard def for gaming. You'll definitely notice the difference.
good advice mayorocket. playing a next gen system on a tv that was made for the atari 2600 is not a good idea. that's like putting a ferrari engine in the back of horse carriage. that's like saying you leather seats on your row boat. that's like buying expensive michael jordan shoes and not buying the basketball to play basketball with its like trying to swim without water
I thought the medieval storyline of Assassin's Creed was far better than most games around. It gets real repetitive, but I had no problem hacking and killing guards whenever I felt like it. My favorite was fighting on a rooftop and looking down at the pile of bodies once my rampage was over. It had the feel of GTA but without the depth of a sandbox game. Which is too bad because the city and graphics are real impressive. I wish they added more voice samples to the villagers too. I also heard the PC version had 4 added missions, so I can see some complaints by console owners. Not being able to skip the cutscenes was a pain, but my ADD self just read a magazine. The future storyline seemed kinda interesting, but I didn't sneak around so I read it online. It was too incomplete and unsatisfying to take seriously.
Gears of War and FEAR. Those two games alone made my 360 worth the purchase. I also like GRAW 2 & Halo 3, but neither touch the first two.
