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#1  Edited By FordFairlane

I have a wife, a job, and a 7 month-old son, so my gameplay time is very limited.  I don't have time for much trial-and-error, and I want to make sure I see everything the game has to offer.

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#2  Edited By FordFairlane

The Terminator-X Box

  1. for the awesome Public Enemy tie-in.
  2. this one had better be built like a tank or an indestructible robot to erase their rep for poor design.
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#3  Edited By FordFairlane

I just rented the first one and the fact that touching water does not equal instant death is a major improvement by itself.  The repetitive nature of the missions was so uniformly criticized I have to hope that was one of the first things they tackled in the sequel.  The cities are created so lifelike that although this is an action/adventure game, it really calls for sidequests fleshed out at an RPG level.


I've read that people thought it was repetitive to go to the same cities over and over again, but I thought I'd rather they spend more time making three cities as lifelike as possible than give me more superficial locales.
One thing I do hope they improve is the distinctiveness of the districts within the cities.  When I play a game like Grand Theft Auto, after a certain point, I know the city well enough that I almost don't need the map anymore.  While the cities in the original looked great, they were so uniform that I could never tell where I was in the city without consulting the map over and over.  Also, please superimpose any of the intel you gather on the map; fishing out those attachments was so unwieldy that I never applied the intel I gathered to my mission.

As far as flag-fetching goes: In most games, this is an annoyance or a throw-in, but the  free-running mechanic in Assassin's Creed is so much fun, it's actually well-built for flag-hunting.
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#4  Edited By FordFairlane

I always liked the Mark of Kri and Rise of the Kasai games; maybe this will scratch that titch.

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#5  Edited By FordFairlane
Rent-A-Center will rent you a console, though I have no idea what they charge.
I pre-ordered MGS4, even though I don't have a PS3.  Sometime I'll take a week off and rent one.  I can only dodge spoilers for so long!
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#7  Edited By FordFairlane

I'm really digging the preview video on Live, but I've barely scratched the surface of Oblivion.  If I owned both of these games at the same time, I'd become a shut-in.

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#8  Edited By FordFairlane
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#9  Edited By FordFairlane
Punisher: War Zone
Punisher: War Zone
Was at the movie theater this week and saw this poster on the wall:

Now, I remeber the first one, and I like Thomas Jane, but by the time the credits rolled, "sequel" was not the first thing that sprung to mind.

Did the original make a load of cash while I wasn't looking, or is this just because Marvel is on a serious roll right now?
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#10  Edited By FordFairlane

Oblivion.  It's a total life-stealer.

In fact, if someone doesn't hide my Oblivion disc, I might not actually get around to playing any other 360 games.