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Xbox 360 Bargain - ‘Command and Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars’ for £24.99
August 14, 2007
Command and Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars is the a really good follow-up to the previous real-time strategy games in the series and given it’s only been out a couple of months now, £24.99 is a cheap bargain price for this game!
Continue reading »Xbox 360 Bargain - ‘Prey’ for £10.95
May 6, 2007
Another cheap Xbox 360 game! I’ve not played ‘Prey’ myself, but it seems to have been reviewed fairly well at sites such as Gamespy where they gave it 4 out of 5 stars -
Xbox 360 Bargain - ‘Ridge Racer 6′ for £12.57
May 5, 2007
Ridge Racer 6 was one of the original games from the Xbox 360 launch and is a racing game in the classic arcade sense, what with hugely exaggerated power slides round every corner you take.
Continue reading »Xbox 360 Bargain - ‘Crackdown’ for around £15
May 4, 2007
Another recent Xbox 360 game is Crackdown which is a GTA-style free-form game that sees you taking on crime with super-human abilities and also includes multiplayer co-operative gameplay.
Preview of Speedball 2: ‘Missing Subtitle’
May 2, 2007
A couple of months ago now I mentioned that the Commodore Amiga classic ‘Speedball 2: Brutal Deluxe’ was going to get a re-make for the current generation of machines. Well the first details have now emerged over at Eurogamer.
The main points that stood out for me are that they’re having a retro style game mode that mirrors the old game with its simple controls and viewpoint (topdown) while also having a new more challenging for today’s gamers, controllers and machines, including a more 3D view of the arena.
Continue reading »Halo 2 on Xbox and PC Windows Vista - Graphics Comparison
April 30, 2007
I found this interesting article at GameSpot that talks about the impending release of Halo 2 on Windows Vista and includes some examples of the upgraded graphics that you can expect from the PC version.
I mentioned that I was thinking of taking a look at Halo 2 when I was recently commenting on the Halo 3 multiplayer design. I was basically thinking of picking up Halo 2 for Xbox on the cheap and play it on my Xbox 360.
Now when you see the comparison between the Xbox and Windows Vista versions of this game, it does me you wonder whether I should just hold and wait until I’ve upgraded my PC to Vista, which I’m planning to do in the coming months.
Continue reading »Xbox 360 Bargain - ‘Dead or Alive 4′ for £14.99
April 23, 2007
I’ve played the downloaded demo of Dead or Alive 4 on Xbox 360 and was thoroughly useless (as I usually am in these type of games), you either play it loads and get really good at it, or as I seem to do with all ‘beat-em-up’ games, only play against other people which leads to resorting to a whole load of ‘using the force’.
For me, the fun in this kind of game comes from playing multiplayer with (hopefully) people of the same skill level = a night of complete and utter button mashing frenzy.
Continue reading »Xbox 360 Bargain - ‘Lego Star Wars 2′ for £17.99
April 22, 2007
I’ve been waiting for the Lego Star Wars 2 game to drop to a bargain price since I got my cheap Xbox 360, I’ve played the first game on the PS2 and also the downloaded demo on the 360, but for some reason it’s taken longer than some other, more recent games to drop in price, but now it’s here and can be picked up for just £17.99!
Also, if you order it right now, you can use the voucher code of “SALE5″ when you go to place your order and get a further 5% off your order, which is always welcome!
The great thing about these Lego Star Wars games is that you despite being designed as kid’s games, they are still really fun to play and usually you don’t need a Lego Star Wars walkthrough for it, but I have encountered a few tricky parts to these games.
Continue reading »Xbox 360 Spring Update - An In-Depth Video
April 20, 2007
Following up on my previous post about the Spring update to Xbox 360, there is now a video segment that you can view that covers a lot of the main features (apprantly there are hundreds of new things in this update) in detail and shows some real improvements to many areas of the console and your user experience whether it’s playing games, watching video or simply chatting with friends.
The video stretches to nearly 24 minutes long, but is very informative (thankfully in a relaxed manner) and worth sitting through - when the update goes live on 7th May, you’ll be familiar with and be able to use the major features pretty much straight away!
Continue reading »Designing Multiplayer Halo 3 - The Video
April 18, 2007
I found this Halo 3 multiplayer level design video rather interesting - I’ve not really considered the thought processes and all the small changes that are made along the way which go on with a game like this to ensure the gameplay is as good and as fair as possible before it ever sees the light of day sat on a shelf in your local shop waiting for you to buy it.
Just from that multiplayer video, it certainly looks like it will be a good game which should hopefully live up to the hype and will be one of the 360’s defining games.
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