Hitman has great replay value if you're a perfectionist and liked previous chapters in the series. Dead Rising is a no-brainer, the replay value is through the roof. As for awesome games with not that many replay value, QUAKE 4 and CONDEMNED are some of the best FPS I've played in a long time.

And yet since when has Condemned been a FPS. Sure its first person, but not everything first person is a shooter.

Hitman, Oblivion, Saints Row(When Its Out).

Oblivion, Hitman... Aaand, I really can't recommend anything else. Saints Row is nothing but a GTA look alike. If that kinda game floats your boat, go for it, but it really isn't that spectacular.
I'm working my way through Chromehounds, so it's a bit early for me to either agree or disagree with Skills.

Hi there.

You're fairly new so I'll give you the benefit of the doubt this time. Generally though, we try to encourage discussion in threads at Gamingforce. Whilst those might be your favourite games, you didn't tell us why you like them or why we should get them. Lists are no use to anyone without a bit of justification.

In future, please try to add a bit of content to your posts or you might end up saddened and disheartened when they all get deleted.

All the best,

Your pal, Shin.

Saints row was started a year before GTA: SA started getting created. I just finished chromehounds last night on soldier. Now i'll have to finish the rest. :doh:

The point of CH is not in the single player.

And Saints Row's development cycle timeline really has nothing to do with how shitty it turned out to be. It's really piss poor. When the most fun a game gives you is in the character construction part in the first 5 minutes of the game, you know something's wrong.

I'm not really into GTA type games, I think they're overrated but that's just me. :) I'll give Blood Money, CH & Oblivion a look, although I've been meaning to ask if Oblivion is online playable? :eyebrow:

Also I should bring up this interesting bit of news. First it was the DS Lite and now it's the Xbox vision camera. Yep, Toys R Us broke release date once again so those interested should find this article useful.
I've come across a few gamers on Uno with their cameras all setup and the quality isn't that bad. With Texas Hold Em out soon, can anyone say strip poker. :lolsign:

Random UNO players getting flashed with my hairy nutsack comin'.

It's a shame though that your picture that you take for your gamerpic can only be your "friend" picture, as opposed to your gamerpic.

Almost EVERY site mentions that that would be a bad idea because of mass genitalia though. So I guess I'm turning into that stereotypical Xblive faggot afterall.

Hey dudes. Just wanted to tell anyone awake at this hour, that Eurogamer has a live text feed from Leipzig. There're rumors about a Forza Motorsport 2 demo and such =o
Clickmeohgodclickme!

This is going to be an unbelievably gigantic advantage in Europe. =o

It saddens me how many of my friends fall into the stereotype of European gamers only playing football games and racing games.

At least they could try something different once in a while. :(

Is there any way you can get XBox Live contents for XBOX360 without having to sign up for XBOX Live?

No you have to sign up to get a silver account. And anyways you want a Gold account no matter what you are thinking inside. Trust me.

Yeah, if you own a 360 and don't have Live, something is wrong with you. A Silver account is free and lets you download both premium and free content, but Gold is extremely inexpensive and makes almost all of your games that much better through multiplay.

I see. Thanks. I dont need to play online, I just want the games and the new updates. BTW, you can play games like Street Fighter 2' Hyper Edition without going online after downloading it, right?

Yeah, there is a single player mode, but spending 10 bucks to download a game that's over a decade old just to play by yourself is defeating the entire point.

The game does suffer a bit with online play, it can get pretty bad at times with lag and nowadays hardly anyone is online playing SF II' HF. :doh:

Really? I never fail to find competition when I'm looking for it. Try Player Matches instead of Ranked matches.

I just saw the television ad for Saint's Row and it looks fucking terrible. From what they showed on the tv ad, it's a cheap San Andreas knock off only with ridiculous 50 Cent style characters, worse graphics and a god-awful soundtrack. The ad was even shot to look like the rather awesome San Andreas ads from back in the day.

If anyone buys this game, it'll only be because they don't own a PS2 or because their parents wouldn't buy 'em GTA. Laughably shoddy advert for what looks like an awful game.

SHin, gamerankings seems to like it. Granted I have no opinion on it.

http://www.gamerankings.com/htmlpages2/928235.asp

Like I say, if you only compare it to all the other 360 releases, it's probably not so bad. From what I've read it has a fair bit of depth to it and I guess you can forgive the lack of next-gen graphics and pathetic voice acting. As soon as you start comparing it across consoles though, it loses appeal rapidly. If I were a fan of GTA style games (Which I am), I'd wait for Vice City Stories to tide me over until GTA 4 comes out.

Based on the demo that is up on marketplace, it feels, plays, and sounds just like San Andreas with better visuals. I guess for me, if I were to be in the mood for mindless mayhem and slaughter, I'd just go play San Andreas, which I already own, instead of buying a new game. Though it is kind of cool that you can customize your player character's appearance, so you can play as a skinny white punk if you wanted, instead of being stuck as someone you can't visually relate to.

I find Saints Row to be fairly decent. Yes I have had a PS2 since launch(still works, amazingly) and yes I've bought every GTA since the original for myself. I think that Saints Row basically does everything GTA has done so far, gameplay wise, better. One of my main gripes with the 3d GTA games was the lock-on targeting system... it was pretty frustrating at times. In saints row, targeting is like a lot of other third person shooters in terms of allowing free aiming. Shooting while in a vehicle is also fairly easy. Especially when you want to shoot another driver.

The presentation of this game is downright awful. The dialog and jokes just arent funny and the way the scenes are directed give it a crappy, amateurish feel. It makes you wonder why they spent so much money on the voice actors.

Online play is pretty fun with some interesting modes, but theres a large amount of trash talking idiots, but I guess that should be expected.

Ugh.

I bought a 360 on July 21st from Amazon.com.

It broke after 6 days (3 red lights of death).

I called up XBox support. They mailed me a pre-paid box (after 3 business days) to ship the broken 360 to TX. It took 3/4 business days to get to TX. Then it took 2 weeks for them to "fix it." Then it took 3 business days to get back here to NY.

I open the box, plug in the "new serial number" (old, refurbished, made at launch) XBox. Play for a while.

Next day, the 360 is freezing randomly in the Dashboard, and in Project Gotham Racing 3 (can't even complete one race).

We call up, same bullshit. It's gonna take another whole month for this process to complete again, and the next XBox they send me... who knows if it's going to work. At least I'm still under warranty, because I've only played 2 damn systems for a TOTAL OF 7 FUCKING DAYS.

I hate this. Thank God I have a ton of old systems to catch up on.