The review site I trust the most said it was good too. I think you can safely buy it without fear of being disappointed.



I agree with Nami. If you can find it for under $15 it's a good buy. It does get repetitive but the main storyline will last you a handful of days and is at least mildly fun. But don't expect to play the game much after you beat it, it isn't good in the replayability department.

Yeah Viking seems to be a sure bet on a fun experience actually, Vikings are awesome, and massive battles sounds pretty fun as well. So I'll be getting this when I have the cash and report back once I have it unless someone beats me to it.

How about the new medal of honor? I love bfbc2 also so if multiplayer is anything like it, I'll get it.

We are talking about Viking: Battle for Asgard right? In that case, please allow me to do just that.

It's not worth paying full price for, but if you can get it for say, less than 40 Euro I'd buy it in a heartbeat if I were you. It's a very fun hack and slash Viking experience. Completely awesome and over the top, I felt like Conan the Barbarian while playing it. The ending svcks though.

If it's the Viking I'm thinking of then the answer is NO! Though its premise is good, you will find yourself getting dragged down by the absolutely insane amount of repetition and absolutely frustrating amounts of cheap tactics by your opponents. Getting juggled between 5 behemoths that your character - who is built like a brick [censored]house and about as smart as one - can't even stagger? Yep. An absolutely idiotic AI for your 'friends' in battle, that can't seem to decide whether they want to just inanely charge right into the waiting enemies who can slaughter them in a second, or stop fighting the giant creature that will pwn all of them so that YOU can take care of it, while the littler forces pick them apart thanks to their absurd fragility? Quite common.

Then there's your character... Now I don't normally expect much from hack n' slash games, but not only does your character not speak a WORD, but he never even sees fit to change his expression. He gets himself killed in the first few seconds of the opening cinematic, gets resurrected by Freya, and then walks off to start the killing all without blinking once or losing this somber blank look like Conan the Barbarian would look if he got shot up with Botox before appearing on scene. Enough Botox to kill a horse by the look of it, since even when he gets stabbed in the gut, he still doesn't twitch! That's some extreme facial paralysis now.

The balance is also terribly output: You'll be cursing and snarling during the beginning of the game, but at the end of the game you can wade headfirst into endless swarms of enemies and take down the behemoths by spamming ludicrously powered moves the entire way through... Simply no thought to it. No tactics. Just 'Hit button until everything dies.' galore... Overall I found it to be a tedious experience, and not worth the 5 dollars I wasted on renting it.

It seems like BC2 with a dash of MW2 thrown in in terms of multiplayer. It looks like it could be fairly fun, and reviews have been fairly average so far(some quite good, some quite bad) if that makes any difference to you.

Does anyone have Rapala Pro Bass Fishing 2010?

is dantes inferno good?

Its pretty fun, but repetitive and not a ton of replay value makes it a rent.


Are any of these good?

Unreal Tournament 3
Red Faction Guerrilla
Legendary
(Any)F.E.A.R.
Call of Juarez
Call of Juarez:Bound in Blood
Rise of the Argonauts
Prey
Alpha Protocol
The Saboteur
Alan Wake

Anyone play Castlevania?



If you want a fun hack n slash game go for Darksiders.



I saw it in a bargain bin a week or two ago. For $5 or $10 new. Guess that store had leftovers.

UT3 is... well, there's the multiplayer, and then there's the singleplayer, which is essentially a couple dozen multiplayer matches against bots, with short cutscenes stringing it all together with a very poor plot. I'd be lying if I said a few of the matches weren't at least mildly fun, but only the ones that were on maps with certain fun vehicles. Everything else felt way too long and just felt like an extended multiplayer match, which everything essentially was. I definitely wouldn't buy it, and I'm hesitant to say you should even rent it because honestly there are a ton of better games out there you could spend your time playing instead of this game.

Buy it cheap, I got if for ￡8 and for that im happy, its fun to destroy everything, but it will get repetative, as there isnt much variation, not many ifferent was to destroy it either, I havent tried MP, I assume its dead, I will check. But SP is pretty fun, the places are nice and varied, the story isnt too great. I sa buy it, its a good bargin bin game.

Well it seems there are people online on red faction, just played "anarchy" which is free for all, which is basically men jumping around on jetpacks beating eachother to death with hammers.

Is SC: Conviction good? I'm looking at the playtough, halfway through mission 1, and it looks interesting, story wise.

Can anyone comment on it? Things you diddnt like/ things you liked about the game?

I thought it was pretty good, it takes out ALOT of stealth aspects the previous games had. No moving bodies, no light indicator, no sound indicator. But then there are a few new things added, new moves, kills and whatnot, and the deniable ops is really fun, alone or with a friend. I liked the game, and I still play the deniable ops alot. The story is RELLY short though, but the other game modes add on to the game length.

Can't comment on the second, but I have the first and one of the expansions. Unfortunately it's really hard to say whether someone will find a horror game scary since everyone reacts to them differently, and F.E.A.R. seems to have two camps of either "really scary" or "not even slightly scary." I'm in the latter, but as a shooter, it's a solid game. It's well put together, has solid level design, and AI is above-average. It does suffer from repetition, in that most levels are a similar setting (buildings), and there is very little variation in enemies. The scary parts, while I don't find them scary, are usually at least entertaining to look at. So, fairly good game overall, takes the standard and does it well, but doesn't add anything exceptional to the formula.

It's decent. It honestly only lasted a little more then a week for me, it's really short with not that much re-playability. So rent it or buy it for 20$ or less.

The Insurgency pack is just maps right? And what are these challenges add-on thingies?

I have no clue what that is ( I dont have xbox love, so I don't keep up with DLC lol. ) , and the challenges I assume you are talking about the ingame like

" kill three enemies while holding someone captive"

The once complete, you get in game points, that can be used to buy new upgrades (scopes, silencers, dots) for weapons, also to upgrade/buy new uniforms for Kestrel or Archer

There are vanish challenges for 80 MS points and Prepare and Execute challenges for 80 MS points.

One of the descriptions are Former Third Echelon agent Sam Fisher is at the top of his game, but are you? As you play Splinter Cell: Conviction, your actions are constantly graded in a system called P.E.C.: Persistent Elite Challenges. Each challenge has three tiers, with increasing requirements – but also increasing point payouts. The Vanish Challenges test your stealth skills. If you know Sam Fisher, you know he’s all about melting into the shadows, striking without detection and disappearing again before his target’s comrades know what happened. Use the strategies in this video to complete all eight Vanish Challenges: Vanish Silently, Cat and Mouse, Last Known Position, Portable EMP Escape, FlashBang Escape, EMP Grenade Stun, Choke-hold Freedom, Reviving Teammates. There are no refunds for this item. For more information, see www.xbox.com/live/accounts.

Can we ask about DLCs?

if so, is Zombie island, and claptraps revolution good?
These are for Borderlands btw.

Whats Brutal legend like ?

I've played through all the games now, and I enjoyed the ones that are actually in the canon (FEAR 1, FEAR 2, Reborn) thoroughly. Gameplay wise they're solid--nothing to complain about, unless you hate bullet time. As shooters they're good, even verging on great at a lot of points. The story's enjoyable, too--and this is coming from someone who thinks story trumps everything except gameplay fundamentals. They dance merrily on that thin line between B-movie silliness and an attempt at serious storytelling, which...well, it makes for fun drama, IMHO. The games are like popcorn to me. They're just fun to play.

As for how scary the games are--it varies. I'm a baby when it comes to horror stuff, for the most part, and even for me there were parts that weren't that scary. But then there's also parts like a bit in FEAR 2 in which the game wound me up so tight that when the actual scare happened, I screamed like a little girl and quit directly to desktop. Monolith isn't all that great at doing actual scares, but the atmosphere's great.

The expansions to the first game (Extraction Point + Perseus Mandate), on the other hand...urgh. There's a reason they're not canon anymore. They keep the good gameplay, but aren't that scary, and also take a header right over the B-movie silliness threshold. Which wouldn't be so bad, except that Extraction Point especially hits every "stupid and nonsensical plot decision" stick on the way down. Even when they were canon, they were stupid and pointless. Extraction Point did lead me to coin the phrase "Cannibal Jesus," though, so I guess I have to credit it for that. If you buy FEAR 1 on Steam, though, you do get the expansions with it whether you want them or not. Maybe you could turn them into a drinking game of some kind.

I grabbed SC Conviction. I'm really liking the single player. I like the action route it took.

Also, has anyone got the Batman Arkham Asylum Collectors edition? I want to know if it has a regular game case inside it. I can get it for $10 but I dont want to get it if it doesnt have a normal game case that I can put next to my other games.

is darksiders (pc)any good? I know there is an old thread about it but indulge me

I played it on the 360. I had no problems with it. But, I heard there were problems with it on the PC. And, I heard it looked very very good on the PC.

The story was very awesome, with a bomb ending. The gameplay was wicked (like Zelda style). The sound is good, I always gotta turn the bass up so I can get a nice experience. The art is good too.

I'd give it a solid 8/10, mabey even a 8.5/10. Mabey I give it such a high score because I diddnt have any expectations and just played it to see what it is.