I love it. Has a lot of replay ability in my opinion as you keep all your guns and can get bonuses maxing them all out and such. It takes like two or three hours probably to get fully used to the controls, then it's a non issue.

It's an absolute blast to play co-op with.

Neighbor bought that game and plays it all the time. I played it a couple of times. Easy pick up and play.

Tried the demo last night, I love it. Wife did, too. Will likely be picking it up at some point.

I got the 360 version as a gift and the frame rate drops are very annoying (to the point that I may never finish it.) Otherwise, the graphics are fine from what I've seen so far.

Thanks.. I think I'll pick this one up soon when it's $54.99 used at Gamestop and then I can get an additional $5.49 with my Edge card.

Wow......heavy duty PS3 sale over on Amazon UK. Not sure how long it lasts. 50% off a ton of PS3 titles. Great deal for both Euros and even North Americans. Shipping is relatively cheap to the U.S., so you can still get the game for cheaper than its American counterpart in most cases.

After some more time with this game it is a great game IMO. Solo play has been a blast, and pretty challenging at times. They did an excellent job of keeping it from being the same thing. Every 'mission' has felt different, none of it like the same thing just in different scenery.

I have done some online play now. The first time I thought it was just ok, but of course have played it a couple more times. The more I play it online the more I like it, and overall I like how things are done. The game modes are cool, but mainly I think it is great how you can do all the game modes in one game and it switches from one to the other right away while playing.

Sounds great

Lots of Wii deals today, though your mileage may vary.

Toys R Us has Trauma Center: New Blood for $14 shipped.

Amazon Deal of the Day is Wii Music for $29.95. In addition, there will be 5 Amazon Gold Box deals related to Wii being offered today.

Guessing from the clues, it looks like the 2PM PDT deal will be Mario Galaxy and 6PM will probably be Animal Crossing- just guesses tho

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What's a Gold Box deal?

It's their "deal of the day" sort of thing- there is a daily one and then a few hourly ones. To get to them, go to Amazon and just click on the "Today's Deals" with the little treasure chest next to it

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For those of you who are still stuck at the turn of the century, the PS2 will have a new price point of under $100 dollars come April 1st.

Link: hxxp://videogames.yahoo.com/feature/ps2-to-drop-under-100-on-april-1/1300867

48 hour madness sale ongoing over at GoGamer.com. PC games for as little as $1........

Slickdeals.net - The best coupons, lowest prices, and hottest deals.

I'm obsessed with Peggle. Been playing about 4 hours a day.

I'm trying to perfect my ball dropping technique, like a still developing male fetus.

LOL. I've been playing it about as much as my 5 year old. Trying to get my scores up on individual boards to improve my ranking. My boy thinks I'm a god now because I cleared the board on 3 different levels. Gotta love kids. Peggle's just a fun little time waster game. Easy to play and strangely addicting.

any of these games worth a damn?

If you've never played it and don't mind older graphics, Dungeon Siege with Legends of Aranna is worth the 3 dollars.

Sid Meier's Railroads is pretty good at $4. Also, ParaWorld is a fun game and it's only $2. Those were the ones I noticed.

I was thinking of getting Railroads, and maybe Diplomacy. Anyone know much about that?

I got a good laugh out of this.

Couple of great deals that I saw over at GamerDays at GameStop. GH: Aerosmith is only $9.99 on all systems.

For the people who own a PS3 and haven't enjoyed Valkyria Chronicles, it's on sale for $29.99. It's a great mix of turn-based and live-action strategy. It's a can't miss title and for under $30, it's an absolute steal.

Who is getting the new DSi?

I wonder what American demand is going to be like. I walked into Walmart this morning and bought one. They had about 20 of them.

I don't know of anyone even considering one. I certainly have no interest as of now. It would take a lot to make me interested, frankly.

There aren't enough exclusives yet for me to pick a DSi up but I'll get one eventually.

Hot New Video Game Consists Solely of Shooting People Point-Blank In The Face (Onion)


Hot New Video Game Consists Solely Of Shooting People Point-Blank In The Face

Looks like a potential million seller based on current trends. Loved the IGN reviewer.

Bobbie Battista is down to reading fake news? Wow. Wasn't she on CNN not too long ago?

Left after the merger in 2001, opened a PR firm with her husband & several ex-CNN mgmt types shortly after.
Bobbie Battista thriving off the front lines - US News and World Report

That closed a couple of years back, she briefly hosted a show for Retirement Living TV but left when they were about to go under and then ended up working with The Onion.

LLLOOOOVVVEEE the side missions!

That is one of the few times I've actually LOL'd at my desk at work...

There is a website for Close Range, and there is a demo!

Close Range Game

Wii Sports Resort and Wii MotionPlus will be released in July for North America (one month after Japan).

The swordfighting game Nintendo showed off at last year's E3 looked pretty fun but I'm really looking forward to this for Tiger Woods 10 and Grand Slam Tennis, both of which will use the peripheral.

kotaku.com link

Very good deal for PS3 owners who haven't picked up the official headset yet. Newegg has Endwar /w headset for $39.99.

Newegg.com - Tom Clancy's End War w/Headset Bundle Playstation3 Game UBISOFT

I see the release date is May 19th for UFC 2009 Undisputed. Looks like they have a decent roster of fighters and what I have seen video of looks potentially promising. Sounds like it could be a bear to learn all the controls for the ground game though.

DL'ed the Demo. I went in with no real expectations but wow it's fun. The ground game is amazing, better then I would've imagined. Striking is great too. It's just bad ass all around.

Demo comes out thursday, right?

Yup. Tho there is a way around that though.

Sweet. Fess up, how did you get the demo...

It involves a dark alley and a large tube of KY.

I think I can wait until Thursday then... now if this was an indoor lacrosse game...

New trailer out for inFamous. If the world needs anything, it's more sniper lightning........

Infamous Empire City Gameplay Clip Videos - G4tv.com

So, you get to be like Sylar? Cool, I'm game.

New 'Battlefield' game coming to Xbox Live and Playstation Network in June and PC in September. Price will be $15.

Because we need more plastic peripherals in our living rooms, http://www.gametrailers.com/player/48068.html.

Looks like Sony is taking a page from the Microsoft playbook. Anyone who preorders inFamous will receive early access to the inFamous demo and will also be able to play in the Uncharted 2 multiplayer beta. No word on whether it's a retailer exclusive or not.

inFamous Pre-Order = Early Demo and Uncharted 2 Multiplayer Beta - Loot Ninja

Good trade in deal on a console right now. Gamestop is paying retail price ($99) for a PS2 trade-in when you use the credit towards the purchase of a PS3. So you can get a PS3 for $299 with trade in of your PS2.

Has anyone picked up The Path ? Great game if you f.e. like David Lynch Movies .

official page : The Path -------- a short horror game by Tale of Tales
steam : The Path on Steam
IGN review : IGN: The Path Review (there´s more on the official page)

for me as a very casual gamer it has been brilliant, even if not considering the price of 9,99 (dollars). I almost never play anything other than possibly NBA2K or Pro Evolution Soccer along with text sim games though, so i´m not a good reference.
Saw an advertisement in a cultural newspaper here, read some very enthusiastic reviews and decided to give it a try.

It´s based on the popular children´s legend of Little Red Riding Hood (The Brother´s Grimm told the most well known variation).
You have 6 characters (6 sisters) of varying age and personality to choose from (though in the end you´ll have guided all 6 one after the other) that you then have to guide to the Grandmothers house. If you stay on the path though, nothing happens at all. So you have to stray off the path and then a story unfolds.

There´s not much gameplaying really, but for me that´s a good thing as i suck at it ;)

Basically it´s an animated story with a ton of atmosphere. As you guide each of the characters (i have started with 2, so it´s preliminary anbd based on reviews) through the world you experience things differently and get sucked into the characters issues and fears as you go along.
It´s like a good short film just as a video game. Not a ton of action or a great deal of storylines, but still has you thinking.

How good is inFamous supposed to be?

Uhm, good.

The general e-consensus seems to be that the Infamous demo rules. I don't have a code so I'll have to wait until it's on PSN (May 21 iirc)

Ok, Conduit kindof snuck up on me. I know it had been mentioned once in this thread before but I really hadn't read anything about it. I really hope that because the Wii has a larger install base that it doesn't become another Perfect Dark- a great game which didn't sell as well as it should have (tho PD's biggest problem was being at the end of a dev cycle).

I started reading into it, and I'm definitely intrigued.

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11 more days!!!

Yuzzur. I cannot wait.

Contra Rebirth coming to WiiWare May 12th (in Japan)


2 player co-op confirmed, but no idea if online or local only.

Guitar Heroes Greatest Hits is going to ROCK!!! As long as it had Freebird (which it does) it's a day 1 buy for me.

7 days

In case you weren't aware, Freebird in on Guitar Hero 2.

This is either a countdown to this...

UFC 2009 Undisputed for Xbox 360 - UFC 2009 Undisputed Xbox360 Game - UFC 2009 Undisputed Xbox 360 Video Game

or this...

Hannah Montana: The Movie for PC - Hannah Montana: The Movie PC Game - Hannah Montana: The Movie Computer Game

Next two weeks are going to get my wallet. UFC game next week followed by inFamous on May 26th.

I know but I can't get my PS2 versions of GH/GHII to play on my PS3 (well, I can't getthe guitars to register) :( There's no combo disc for PS3 like 360 has...

The set list for Smash Hits is phenomenal. There are maybe 10 songs that I'm "meh" about and I'm glad to have a bunch of these songs on the Wii and full band. It's got most of my favorite songs from the previous games, not just whatever crap they could throw into a package because they could renew the rights for cheap. I wish they had included something from Metallica, but I guess that's what GH:Metallica is for.



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NCAA 10 will have Create-a-school via the internet (http://insideblog.easports.com/archi...m-builder.aspx)

and also custom conferences. For me, that makes it a must-buy. And I generally can't stand console games. But inheriting a PS3 makes it a bit easier, of course.

It will be interesting to see how our FOFC conferences will want to use (or not use) the custom school creator. I'd love to see my alma mater Wright State Raiders (who don't have a football team) beat the crap out of the Big Ten. Many people would say doing that wouldn't take much (bazinga!).

Put in my deposit on UFC Undisputed. Have picked out the old games which I will be trading in towards it as well. Under a week to go!!!

Yep. Did that as well. Also paid off Fight Night Round 4. Talk about a great summer of violence.

Punch-Out!!! has the best video game advertisement of 2009 so far:

That's pretty funny

The downside I've heard about it is that it's only 5 or so hours long to beat. I'm guessing that depends on how hard it is. If it's too hard, gamers now get frustrated whereas before you'd just button mash for hours. If it's too easy, you could beat the game in an hour or two, I'm guessing.

The sweet spot will be if they can come up with a game where you lose a few times to each fighter before being able to beat them, making the game about 10 hours long. But even that probably won't feel like you've gotten your money's worth unless there are other facets to the game.

I'm still definitely getting it, but it's probably going to have to go on sale for me to jump.

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The impressions I've seen indicate that the single player mode is going to be relatively easy for the regular/hardcore gamer. Hopefully they have a tougher difficulty level in the works.

re: Punch-Out length - this could be considered a spoiler

Yep Big Fo, that's what I've read also.

reminds me of this video

Surprised they haven't done a Knock Out movie spoof yet...

Dandy trailer from Uncharted 2. First one was a must-have game. I'll be picking this one up on release day as well.........

PS3 Video: Uncharted 2: Among Thieves - ComputerAndVideoGames.com

Nice little gem on PSN that was released last week. I hadn't heard anything about ZEN Pinball, but it's a really good game. Pinball physics are good and there is an online tournament mode included. Well worth the $10 purchase.

Holy crap this sounds like the best sports console game ever... if they manage to implement this stuff on top of BAP properly.

hxxp://sports.yahoo.com/nhl/blog/puck_daddy/post/EA-Sports-embraces-first-person-fights-homer-fa?urn=nhl,164642#remaining-content

I just wanted to chime in here on a little puzzle game called Peggle. It's on 360 Arcade, DS, and PC. Definitely the best puzzle game I've played in a long time. The best way to describe it is a combination of pachinko, pinball, and plinko (that's right...the Price is Right plinko). It's seriously amazing and I definitely recommend it to anyone to try. At least download the demo. I heart Peggle :)

89% on Metacritic

hxxp://www.metacritic.com/games/platforms/xbox360/peggle?q=peggle

nice, but I'll stick to my good ole Mike Tyson Punchout on NES downstairs until the battery in the cart dies :)

1up.com gave Punchout for Wii a 100 out of 100 review score.

Yep, it's been awhile since I've gotten so much mileage on a game so cheap. My 5 year old loves it and I find it to be the perfect relaxing game when I don't feel like getting into a longer type of game. I'm now addicted to clearing the boards completely of all the balls, not just the orange ones. It's an excellent game.

Great news for PS3 owners who enjoy classic RPG's. Demon's Souls is being published in North America. It's received great reviews overseas. It's been a big import favorite.

PlayStation Insider - PSINext Discuss PS3, PS2, PSP - PS3 News

Nintendo World Report follows suit and gives it a 10/10. Must be tons of fun. Can't wait for it.

IGN gives it 8.8, Gamespot 8.5. Seems short but that's really the only complaint anyone has (oh and the play control if you use the Wii Fit board, which just wasn't going to work with something involving pattern matching and quick reactions). As soon as someone has it on sale, I'm there.

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It shouldn't be surprising to anyone that the game is relatively short. However, I'm not sure that being short is a terribly good reason to give a game a lower score. The perfect scores are just as ridiculous for that matter.

I picked up a Wii and Punch Out last night.

Having a blast so far.

Yeah, I don't necessarily agree with the scores- I'll have to play to see. It's also not the reason I'm delaying buying the game either- that's just because I'm cheap ;)

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As a sidenote, has anyone been bad enough to lose to Glass Joe in either version of the game?

***prepares mocking laugh***

Nintendo games take forever to drop in price, right now I'm waiting on some kind of deal on Excitebots.

For Punch Out the best I've seen is a $10 gift card at Best Buy or a $54 game/nunchuck combo at Target.

I'm sure that anyone that buys it will enjoy the game and get their money's worth. I just think the 'OMG, it got a perfect score - it must be awesome' comments are better reserved for a message board where rational thought isn't involved.

:rolleyes:

So, I need to walk back to the store and get punchout? I have no desire to exercise and play, so how is the button mashing aspect?

I'm sure it's old news, but Wii Sports Resort is available to pre order, and comes out July 26th.

About time you admit you aren't rational.

:D

So true. :D

The preferred method of play is via buttons. You turn the controller sideways NES style.

Instead of doing New Play Control releases like some of the old Gamecube games reworked for motion/IR controls, Nintendo is going to release Metroid Prime Triology on August 24. Metroid Prime and Metroid Prime 2: Echoes are reworked for widescreen 480p graphics and the control scheme from Metroid Prime 3: Corruption which is also on the disk.

ign.com preview


Naw, the game can be played old-school NES style. As for whether you need to walk back to the store or not that would depend on how much you liked the old games or puzzle/quick thinking types of games in general. In case you're unfamiliar with the series it's nothing like EA's Fight Night or any kind of boxing sim.

wowowowow soooo good. (the Metroid thing)

It's pissing me off right now. I love pinball games, but I'm clearly not very good at them, because this one, it seems like half the balls I hit rebound *just* right to drain out without an opportunity to save them. Especially coming down the left side instead of the middle where I at least have flippers.

So, to the pinball community at large, how in the hell do you avoid shit like that? I see 46 million point tables, and that doesn't happen just because of lucky bounces. What am I doing wrong?

Nobody playing inFamous yet? I traded Warzone 2 in this afternoon and got it for $30. Spent the rest of the afternoon playing it up until it was youth soccer time. Loving the game. Honestly the only thing I can complain about after 3 hours of play today is the fact that I was kind of hoping for a little longer opening "movie" scene. Not a big deal at all though, and I am sure plenty of people will be fine getting to gameplay quickly.

I just like how the whole thing is set up so far, and they have done a good job of mixing it up some so far. The ability upgrade system is nice, having to earn points to buy upgrades. Some things have been kind of easy, while others not so at all, a good mix I think especially while learning to play. I like how early on they kind of explain (or give an excuse for) how you are not able to get in cars because of the power. Being in water is also very interesting.

Just insanely fun so far, it was more then worth trading in Warzone 2 for. I liked that game, but so far inFamous is twice as fun for me. So far it's my game of the year, though I have much more playing to do, I admit.

inFamous is a fabulous game. I'm a huge fan of The Show, but from a non-sports perspective, it's going to be extremely difficult to top inFamous. I absolute LOVE the way the story is told in graphic novel form. Comic book geeks will eat this up.

I might have to give inFamous a rental at some point. I must be in the minority that found the demo underwhelming. It looked snazzy and the powers were fun, but the world seemed kind of boring and I didn't care for the feel of the combat.

Should be a game right up my alley though, so maybe the full game will catch me more. I was looking forward to both this and Prototype.

I'll have to stop playing Undisputed long enough to try either of them though. :)

I didn't try the demo. What powers did they have for you to use? As I go on I am enjoying fighting more and more (woke up at 4 AM because of a storm and have played a couple hours this morning). The more powers I unlock, the more experience I gain, it is changing the way I fight. More variety of attacks, jumping around. The guys that disappear and pop up somewhere else are fun to fight. I just got the Precision ability and that is cool, like sniping with electricity.