Gamers...what are you playing right now?

trademeursharks said:
the creed series is been great so far and cant wait to play the brotherhood..... i will be picking that game up
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I've been playing it a lot for the last two days and I'm really liking it. I got part way through the story missions and ended up getting sidetracked into the countless side activities. I love these open-world games that let you explore and do your own thing in between missions, the linear stuff isn't for me.
 
I've hit a snag. I really want Force Unleashed 2 or Assassin's Creed 3 but Best Buy has a deal where I could get NHL 11 or Smackdown! vs Raw 11 for the price of one of those. Not entirely sure what to do. Opinions on the first two? Are they worth full price?
 
I heard Force Unleashed 2 was garbage if that helps you any. Seriously, I have not heard any person have one good thing to say about it. My local seller had a couple new copies for $30 and I passed.
 
TanguayFan said:
I heard Force Unleashed 2 was garbage if that helps you any. Seriously, I have not heard any person have one good thing to say about it. My local seller had a couple new copies for $30 and I passed.
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Agreed. I've yet to hear a positive thing about Force Unleashed 2. Our reviewer at XBoxAddict said the main story line is about 5 hours long. I suspect you could probably rent it over a weekend and be done with it Ryan.

Bought NBA Jam last night because I'm a sucker for old remixes and NBA Jam TE is one of my alltime favorite games.

Ryan...in terms of Smackdown vs. Raw and NHL 2011, both games are part of Best Buy's Black Friday sale which I'm sue you've seen. For $70, if I had my chocie of Assassin's Creed, or both the games above, I'd take the package deal. Then again, I'm not an Assassin's Creed fan :p
 
chadsexington said:
Agreed. I've yet to hear a positive thing about Force Unleashed 2. Our reviewer at XBoxAddict said the main story line is about 5 hours long. I suspect you could probably rent it over a weekend and be done with it Ryan.

Bought NBA Jam last night because I'm a sucker for old remixes and NBA Jam TE is one of my alltime favorite games.

Ryan...in terms of Smackdown vs. Raw and NHL 2011, both games are part of Best Buy's Black Friday sale which I'm sue you've seen. For $70, if I had my chocie of Assassin's Creed, or both the games above, I'd take the package deal. Then again, I'm not an Assassin's Creed fan :p
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Yeah, I saw the Black Friday deal. I think I'm going to pick up AC3 today then put the Black Friday deal on my CC come next friday.
 
Who the hell's playing FU2 for story? Again, totally amoral game where you get to kill stuff with force powers. How's that a losing proposition?
 
Firepro Returns for PS2 - the cheap crack of Wrestling video games. highly addictive, and a great create a Wrestler feature. I inadvertantly made a dead-on Randy Rajmoolie
 
TanguayFan said:
How so? I had it in my hand for $30 but put it back. Figured I may pick it up later this week.....
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If you're buying it for the Wii, it's worth full purchase price for the controls alone. That's definitely half the fun of the Wii version. It's still worth the price of purchase really for the 360 and PS3...it's little things about the in-game mechanics that annoy me more than anything else. As someone who logged hundreds of hours in the original and TE, there are little gameplay flaws that irk the hell out of me, like...

-Console specific content. WHY must they continue to do this? Why can't they just release the same game for the Wii, the 360 and the PS3 without worry of the fact that certain teams are only available on certain consoles?

-Unbalanced computer assistance in peer to peer play. It tends now to penalize the winning team more than benefit the losing team. The winning team can't make their shots, but at the same time, the defensive team don't benefit from the computer helping them score, nor do they have any heightened defensive awareness...so if there's a 30 point difference in score, it's just as hard to come back as without CPU assistance. You can tell it's there because the computer sure benefits from CPU assistance, but your friends don't if they suck. You also cannot turn CPU assistance off because...

-No gameplay options. You can't change quarter lengths, CPU assistance, etc etc or modify gameplay in the slightest outside of difficulty. This is the barest of bones in terms of actual gameplay options. I was really surprised to see this.

-Awkward controls for 360 that you cannot customize. Again, this is specific to the 360 since the Wii controls are in an awesomeness class of their own and I haven't played it on the PS3. Every sports game since 1996 has placed turbo controls on the top right side of the controller, but this one goes top left, and then doesn't allow you to change them for your comfort. The shoot and pass buttons are also transposed from the norm of old games (this again normally isn't an issue if you have the option to change controls,) and we found a few people were still jumping on defense when they meant to try to steal because it was what they were used to from past games.

-Poor defensive mechanics. Compared to the originals, it's way too easy to steal a ball, way too unforgiving to shove (basically, if you miss a shove, there's no recovery and an automatic free shot for the offence.) The difference between goaltending and blocking is just as inconsistent though, and must be the hardest thing in the world to get 100%, so I don't fault them for this.

Still, everything else is great. The graphics are great, the sounds are great (even if you'll probably have gone through the majority of Tim Kitzrow's one liners and speeches after 2 or 3 games,) and it's still fun as hell when you're playing with buddies. I think EA realizes that they don't quite have a full retail game's worth of time and options put into this, which is why the shelf price is 20-30% lower than a regular game.

As a side note, it would have been primo if EA bought NBA Jam out of Midway's bankruptcy sale and hidden the old versions as-is (or done like they did with Madden 20th Anniversary and put a playable version of a previous version with the current players) which would'v
 
Hey Chad, what's the site where you do your game reviews? I have a guy that works at best buy and I can get used games super cheap so I wanted to check out some reviews before I order some up
 
jdg573 said:
Hey Chad, what's the site where you do your game reviews? I have a guy that works at best buy and I can get used games super cheap so I wanted to check out some reviews before I order some up
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Hi John...the site is xboxaddict.com. I'm listed there under my real name and my gamertag (mattandlaura) as well as an alternate user ID (12buckmafia-XBA) on that site.

Adam Dileva (Mustache Collector on this site) is also there under his real name and his gamertag (variation)

Join up on the forums too if you want to say hi. I don't post there that often, but they have a few discussions here and there.
 
[QUOTE-Console specific content. WHY must they continue to do this? Why can't they just release the same game for the Wii, the 360 and the PS3 without worry of the fact that certain teams are only available on certain consoles?[/QUOTE]

Because this is how developers defray their production costs. Hey, consoles! Do you want a Batman costume and game feature exclusive to YOUR system? We're making it anyway - you pony up the dosh and it's yours.

Not materially different than retail/hobby releases for wax, or chain-specific releases for toys.
 

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