Re: Painting Wellingtons Brown 26/02/07


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Play
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Crackdown (360)
THIS GAME ROCKS MY WORLD, etc.
I can't believe that MS aren't pushing this as a system seller like they
did
with Gears of War. I'm already of the opinion that it could, possibly, be
the best 360 game to date.
I did as the game told me for a little bit, taking out all but a couple
of
the Los Muertos bosses, but then decided to go exploring. I know lots of
people have said it already, but the idea of agility orbs spread around
the
rooftoops is sheer genius, and you can happily waste hours just hopping
around collecting them, watching your jumping ability increase as you go.
I suppose it's surprising that it's taken as long as it has for this sort
of
game to appear. I can't believe that game designers haven't sat down
before
and thought 'Yeah, GTA is good and all, but imagine if you had all the
best
bits of GTA, but with super-genetically-engineered-crime-fighting-heroes
that can jump over builings and throw cars around'. Whatever, I'm glad
that
they got there in the end. :)
As yet, I haven't tried co-op, but there's so many people playing it, and
the Live interface is so good, that I imagine it'll only be a matter of
time. I heard rumours of an adversarial mode being added in a forthcoming
patch. That would be ace.

I guess it's just me and jochta that don't like Crackdown then. It was
the aimless not knowing what to do that put me off. I like a bit of
direction in my games.

Just in case I buckle based on everyone elses acebestness reviews of
crapdown what is the whoreability like? I at least want gamerpoints for my
money. :-)

Baaaaaa, baaaaaa, baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.



Fuzion Frenzy 2 (360)
I missed jochta and WCZ on Friday night, and at a guess they'll probably
not
be playing it much again. I got a message from WCZ proclaiming that he'd
managed to squeeze all 1000 achievement points out of it in a single
evenings play (WHORE!), and given that that was the most exciting thing
he
had to say about it, I can only assume that the online play is as dull
and
lifeless as the single player game. :(

You can't complain at 200 points an hour. Online Tournaments are terrible
cos you can't skip the DJ and no one is playing. Online mini-Frenzy is
not bad providing you avoid the truely awful mini-games. I suspect with a
load of mates and booze this could be rather good but you probably all
need to be round the same tele to make it fun.


Tiger Woods 07 (360)
Point proven. :)


Want
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5 day weekends, or perhaps a cloning machine, so I can send myself to
work
and sit and play Crackdown all day.

Bin
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Crackdown (360)
It's made all those other new games seem like a wasted investment, and
heaven knows what the chances are of me going back to those that I had on
the go beforehand (ie NFS:MW and Topspin 2).


Chris.

GT: SomethingWitty







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