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Yea, for me to even install Steam I had to log into my root Administrator account. Now that was lame. Needless to say, I don't run it.

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Guess what I bought today for the 360? The Orange Box!

I was going through a bunch of old uninstalled PC games last night and came across HL2, and remembered the nonsense I had to go through trying to get it installed via Steam.

I bought FM2009 when it came out and there was an option of activating it via Steam (Sega pushing someone else's DRM on to us, in other words) and, hey presto, the 100,000s who bought the game on release day crashed the servers meaning we couldn't play something we had just bought.

It pushes a lot of people towards piracy, I think. The Scene had a perfect pirate release up a few hours later and a lot of people were laughing at me because I decided to give the developers of one of my favourite game franchises the incentive to keep developing.

They were all playing away while muggins here had to wait 24hrs until the servers cooled down, both Steam and the alternative activation method...

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The Orange Box is great, but I've yet to finsh the games on it. I enjoyed the little I played of Team Fortress 2. It's very team based, as in, if you don't work as a team, you lose. It seems you need to play with friends for the best experience. I played it with one friend and randoms, not great team work done though we did win one game. Must play it more, when I can get a group of friends playing it.

I bought Heavenly Sword for 30 bucks last week. It was really fun but way to short. I beat it in about 3 hours. The graphics are spectacular.

In the middle of my 3rd playthrough of Oblivion. I've never finished it, due to formatting my old HDD or then trading one 360 for another. I've decided to so the fFighters and Mages guilds. Now I'm going to do the main quest. I love Oblivion.

Just completed the main story line of Fable 2... I think.

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I was wondering much the same things...

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Yeah I did the exact same thing.

I just finished the most beautiful looking, and sounding, game ever. Killzone 2. That game has GOTY written all over it.

Comparison of the first Killzone 2 trailer to the actual gameplay...

MGS4 set the bar on graphics and sound, and then Killzone 2 game in as the playground bully and knocked MGS4 right the hell off that bar. Sick.

so i bought deadspace a week ago, and now im loathe to even begin playing it. its just sitting on my desk. its odd, because I absolutely had to have it when i bought it. does this phenomenon ever happen to anyone else?

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All the time.

Every since watching that on the 60" with surround sound I have been dorking out on it. Nuff said.

The visuals in Killzone are some of the best I've ever seen. I just wish the gameplay was on the same level. It's good, but could have been better.

Still playing COD4, Bioshock and Fallout 3 here. All great games.

NHL 09 is one of the worst games to play online. So for those looking to get the game to play against a friend, it will be a huge hassle.

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Suspect's Reviews

COD:World at War on Nintendo Wii is very crap and hard to play.

If it was alot easier then it would be good but even on easy mode it was crap.

Lucky i rented it!

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I rented it and am glad I did. Was bored rigid after an hour - Once I got past the way it looks I soon found that everything had been done before. The Zero G stuff was cool but couldn't save it.

John - Killzone is an FPS so, even if it's the best, most brilliantist thing ever and comes with a free Scarlett Johansson I doubt if I'd like it. A couple of mates have it and say it's sluggish compared to Resistance II and COD4, but they can put up with it because it feels like it was designed that way.

I'll rent it, though, just so I know for sure that I don't wanna buy it...

Red Alert 3. All I'm playing right now. Has nothing on Zero Hour or the original.



Waiting for Empire Total War and DOW2.

I wouldn't say Killzone 2 is beautiful looking, yes the visuals are probably the best on any console, but beautiful? With all the greys and browns? No, just no. It's totally bland. Good game, though. I'm playing it on medium, and the enimies are to easy to kill with the knife, one slash and their dead. Way to easy with the knife. Cover system isn't as good as Rainbow Six: Vegas(2) or Gears of War(IMO R6:V has the better cover system,) Another problem, is sometimes(quite often) I'm shooting a guy in his leg or something, but because he's in cover it does not hurt him. Still, I use the knife more than anything now. Only use the gun against enemies up high. I'm really enjoying it though. I am hoping it gets better as I go along, need to try out the online.

I think Dead Space is great, it's really cool, with a very good atmospher. Yes, it's not invinitive, but how many games now a days are? Not many. You should play it Mack. It's very very good.

I could see that with the first Killzone, but not with this one. I have played both Resistance 2 and COD4. Killzone 2 is no faster than Resistance and no slower than COD4 (that game was murder for me in the controls). Tell them to use button layout Alternate #2. It makes Killzone 2 like God intended it.

TUS: What didn't you like about the gameplay? I could have done without the silly tacked on Six Axis, but that's my only gripe.

Been playing the demo for Empire: Total War



The demo tells me it is my GOTY already.

Yes, it is that good.

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