Def Jam: Icon (Xbox 360)
Customer Review: Utter drivel it really is
ok like other reviews i wont repeat in depth THIS!!! is not fight for NY nor is it vendetta what they have done here is made this game so simple my dad can play it and thus no sick blazin no fast paced button bashing frenzy and no fun really the fighting is clumsy and slow and really boring with a capital B also as u progress through the game it gets rather repetative and im an avid gamer i play through games in a matter of hours and make it my goal to finish to end but thisithe 1ST game i actually did not want to finish andso it stays in its box and i willgive it to oxfam shortly but seriously dont be temted to buy this game at all if ure a fan of the series becuse this is a massive let down and as for graphics they are nice but they still dont beat Gears of war HD im afraid to say anyway hope this helps and if u do buy this game i give u my best wishes on playing and hope u dont also feeel the utter dissapointment and betrayal byt the def jam interactive team. peace out

Customer Review: A great series ruined
Def Jam: Fight For New York was one of the best fighting games on the PS2, mixing wrestling with street fighting and starring so many of the best rappers of the time. Def Jam Icon on the Xbox 360 however has completely changed this winning formula and comes off as a dull, below average beat ‘em up.

The first thing you’ll notice when you start playing Icon (regardless of whether you have played Vendetta or FFNY or not) is how unbearably slow and unresponsive the fighting is. The characters crawl along at a snail’s pace and also seems to have only about 3 moves each, as opposed to the previous Def Jam games that had dozens of moves per fighter and was also pretty fast. You also have a move where you can scratch the beat of the background music to use the environment to attack your opponent. A bit of a daft and novel idea, which makes this otherwise realisitic game seem a little ridiculous.

Next is the appalling roster. In the first 2 Def Jam games there were over 40 top-name hip hop artists like Snoop Dogg, DMX, Xzibit, Flava Flav, Erick Sermon, Warren G, NORE, Busta Rhymes and Keith Murray as playable fighters. The only decent ones that have made it into Icon’s pathetic 20+ roster are Ludacris, Method Man, Ghostface Killah and Redman, who are amongst some newer and not so good stars like T.I., The Game, Lil John and E-40.

Then there’s the story mode, one of the best features of Vendetta and FFNY. In Icon the D-Mob storyline has been replaced with a “Build a Label” mode where you create a fighter, like in the previous games, and then have to take over your boss’s record label, which involves signing artists, funding their songs and promotions and fighting with rival labels’ artists, crazed fans and police. A good idea but takes much of the fun away from the story as there isn’t a lot of choice in fights as you only get a selection of about 2 at a time. Then once you have beaten your opponent you come back to have to read through about 20 emails and voice messages from your friends in the game, which is terribly boring and you must read them all or else fights will be missed.

The graphics are one of the only decent things about this whole game, offering some of the best textures and character models ever seen on the Xbox 360. Some of the fighters look so realistic, it’s scary.

The soundtrack is ok, but not brilliant. Featuring a few new(ish) tracks (not exclusives) from Redman, E-40, Outkast, The Game and Ludacris. Then there’s some classics like “Ante Up” by M.O.P and “Hate Me Now” by Nas & Puff Daddy.

Overall, Def Jam Icon is a huge disappointment and a massive let down after the first two brilliant games in the Def Jam series. The game is slow, boring and not very much fun. If you’re after a decent fighting game, I’d perhaps dig out the old PS2 and play one of the first two or stick to something like Mortal Kombat Armageddon, which is by far the best fighting game out at the minute. As for a decent fighter on the 360, I’m still waiting.

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I just recently bought a 32″ HD tv and was unsure to go with this cable or the VGA one. After reading many reviews I opted for the component cable and it works perfectly. The HD quality of the 360 games is amazing. I have also heard that the other third party cables dont have the proper protection so it is most likely best to go with this official microsoft one. If you are after a cable to make the transition to HD gaming this is the one to get. Gears of War and Fight night look like stunning. Cant wait for Mass Effect and Halo 3.
Customer Review: Great cable…..
This is an excellent pick if you have a HDTV. It does what it says on the box & I was surprised between the difference from the RGB scart cable to the HD AV cable (ofcourse keeping in mind that HD graphics have a much higher resolution than standard). There is a connection for an optical out which is useful, and the HD setting control on one side of the cable. So to sum it up….don’t think twice if yo have a HD capable TV!

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Customer Review: Great Value,Good sound,Fast Delivery
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Hitman: Blood Money (Xbox 360) In a nutshell:
Agent 47 is back in the game that finally does full justice to the Hitman concept, with huge improvements to the graphics, controls and, most importantly, the number of ways for you to plan your hits - from wading in guns blazing to making it all look like a simple accident.

The lowdown:
Although the Hitman games were always a great idea they never quite worked the way you expected, with an awkward control system and camera and far less freedom than it at first seemed. This latest sequel solves almost all these problems, starting with a standard third person camera over which you have full control. Although you can ask for hints on how to carry out a hit you’ve so many options the game’s almost like a macabre graphic adventure - do you use the remote detonated bomb on the chandelier winch in the ballroom or plug the secretary’s Coke with poison and hide in the cupboard? The new notoriety system seems a bit pointless but otherwise this gets almost everything right.

Most exciting moment:
The game features tons of new additions like grabbing human shields, a quick draw for your gun and the ability to hide bodies. The most fun though is the simple sounding push option, which allows you to sneak up behind someone and send them flying off a balcony by “accident”.

Since you ask:
Blood Money includes various references to previous Hitman games, the most prominent being the Paris mission in an Opera house, which acts as a prequel to Hitman: Contracts.

The bottom line:
The best Hitman game yet, that makes a real effort to fix the flaws of the previous games.
Harrison Dent
Customer Review: the world shall kneel !!!!!!!!!!
i have just got this game and it is the best game i have played on there is nothing that you can’t do you can get human shields, take uniforms, push people off cliffs to make it look like suicide and people do not just collapse on the floor when you kill them.the only thing that needs improving is that there is not enough of it there are fourteen levels and considering the length is more than substantial but all outstanding games cand be improved by making it longer.
Customer Review: A great sequel from a great series
Sadly, it shows that it is a last gen port. The graphics range from PS2 standard to excellent. Fortunately the gameplay is still excellent regardless of the games graphical standards. It doesn’t deviate much from the previous installments, so fans will knowwhat to expect.

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Happy Deal: 3600 mAh Battery Pack and Charging Cable for XBOX 360
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DVD Remote Control (Xbox 360)
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Ciscotech Xbox 360 VGA Component Audio Cable & 2RCA & 2 year “replace for new” warranty!!
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AV Control Centre (Xbox 360) Bring order to the next generation of entertainment with the JOYTECH Control Center 540C. State-of-the-art technology fuses with organic design and cutting edge aesthetics, allowing you to organize and customize your AV universe like never before. Exclusively designed to compliment your Xbox 360?, the Control Center 540C not only matches the design of the console, but also the flexibility, automatically adjusting the exterior LCD display for horizontal or vertical use. Exhaustive next generation connections and removable faceplates ensure that the Control Center 540C will remain an essential part of your gaming lifestyle. Proprietary Xbox 360? connection carries all console video and audio through one simple lead 4 HDTV ready Component Video inputs, 5 Composite Video and Stereo Audio inputs, Built in 5 port 10/100 Ethernet Lan Hub provides reliable connection to PC, Xbox Live? Customizable Backlit LCD Display allows user to name individual Inputs for simple navigation Remote control included for effortless switching between AV Equipment Component and Composite cables included
Customer Review: Wii Compatibility
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Customer Review: Just what I needed
Well, all I can say in response to the people above is that it works absolutely fantastically 100% with an old fashioned non-HD TV!

So if, like me, you haven’t made the jump to HD yet, and you’re not planning to just yet - this works brilliantly. I’ve got all my consoles plugged in through composite - from Megadrive to XBox 360, and they all work really well.

The addition of having a network hub built in is great, and the only thing I would add as a “wish” to the product would be to have a web-server interface on it to save the complicated high-score-table-esque naming of the channels.

Viva Pinata (Xbox 360)

In a nutshell:
Ex-Nintendo developer Rare is bringing a rather different style of game to the Xbox 360 as you tend a virtual garden to attract and tame magical talking pi?atas. It may sound twee but its ability to addict is far more powerful than its cutesy graphics suggest.

The lowdown:
Unlike most first party Xbox games this is not an action game, but a gentler, more family friendly, simulation in the tradition of Animal Crossing. The basic premise is that you have a plot of land that you can turn from an overgrown mess into a beautiful garden. In so doing it will attract a range of 60 different pi?atas who, depending on how you treat them, will then decide to live there. For something as simple as a pi?ata worm you just have to have a patch of earth for them to play in but other pi?atas are a lot more demanding, while others first need to be tamed from their aggressive wild state.

Most exciting moment:
Not only can you accessorise your pi?atas with items bought from Xbox Live Marketplace but you can also swap items and pi?atas with other friends that own the game online.

Since you ask:
Viva Pi?ata has been conceived as a Pokemon style cross media franchise from the off, with all kinds of toys and merchandise already planned, as well as a new 4Kids cartoon series.

The bottom line:
At last there’s an Xbox 360 game the whole family can play and enjoy.
HARRISON DENT

Customer Review: when it didnt come in time
When I first saw this game I thought it was a good deal, nearly half price so I bought it, I waited a few working days and it hadn’t dispatched, so I cancelled the it, I have been waiting for over a week now and I still haven’t got my money back, Microsoft and ripped me off.

If you can wait weeks for a game and your 100% sure you want it the get it, but if not don’t or the same thing will happen to you as it did to me.

Customer Review: surprisingly fun
if u are infact an older gamer 18-30 u may well enjoy this barrage of colours were u takr control of a garden and beat up the animals which soon inhabit it (if ure a sicko :P) okay this game isnt very fufillig its rather like the sims but its great for a night in of boredom worth the buy u will be mightilly surprised well wat do u expect from thr makers of the best game to grace this mighty competitive world thts right Goldeneye for the N64 oh nad banjo kazooie

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Connect & Cool (AV Centre with Cooling Fans) (Xbox 360)
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Customer Review: This device DOES work !
I didn’t buy this for its cooling function, but for the AV-outputs. I have my 360 connected to a Sanyo PLV-Z5 projector and a Humax LDE-40A 40″ LCD-TV, optical out going to a JBL DTS/AC3 Surround System. The problem was I always had to change the cables (VGA/Beamer and Component/TV) AND the optical each time. Besides this being a hassle I felt the connectors wearing out, sitting not too firmly anymore. Now I have all cables connected simultaneously and just turn 2 little switches ! VGA working perfectly in 1280×720, component 720p/1080i. No pink screens, no 480p-only - everything works as expected. People facing those problems are doing something wrong I think: You cant switch output while the 360 is running - it checks the connections when booting; pink screens may indicate wrong cable-connections; VGA/component settings on the display-device may bet set wrong … This is a passive device meaning it does NOT have any special circuits, it’s nothing more than a “cable” with 2 switches and more connectors, so theres no reason why this shouldn’t work properly. The fans are working silently, I doubt they’ll help much, though. It may be a good idea to remove them, or connect an external power-supply to them. Im not sure if the extra-load on the AV-out is “good” for the 360. Great product for the AV-Outs ! Maybe a good cooling-soultion - not sure, though … Ordered sunday-night, delivered tuesday-morning (from the UK to germany !) Thats damn quick

Neo Se Advanced Controller (Xbox 360) Customer Review: the worst replica controller available
ok, so ive been through a few controllers in my time. Enough said. I bough this from virgin for about the same price as on this site, i have to say it is abvsolute rubbish. The build quality is cheap, it feels too small and the button layout is not anywhere near as good as the official one. Start and back are inaccessible when playing and the triggers and so spring loaded that you have to pull them all the way in to start shooting. The axis sticks are very poor and unresponsive also mine sticks in the up-right position. Very poor, never buying this crap again.
Customer Review: Cheaper, but noticeably worse than the official controller.
I wanted an extra controller for when playing with buddies at home. Since this only happens occasionally, I didn’t want to spend more money than necessary. For the purpose of this review I will compare with the official controller.

Overall feel and design - sits well in my hands, and feels comfortable in general. I don’t like the placement of the back/start buttons though, as it feels a bit awkward reaching them. Still, there is less risk of pressing them by accident like this.

Buttons - feel a bit hard, which is not necessarily a bad thing. I suspect that button-mashing games will make your fingers hurt though. Sensitivy is on par with the official controller.

D-pad - this actually feels more precise. I always had a wee bit of problems with the official D-pad, and especially the diagonals feel imprecise. This one’s better, and should be good for fighting games.

Triggers - firmer and with more resistance than the official controller. Neither better nor worse for any practical purpose. With driving games I actually think it’s easier to maintain exactly the right level of acceleration. If you need to repeatedly press the triggers fast, they can feel a little too tough.

Analog sticks - these feel flip-floppy, imprecise, and not that analog. They are too soft, and movement often becomes all-or-nothing. On shooters this can be compensated by turning overall sensitivity down, and it’s ok. But play any game which recquires precise sequences of movements (trick games, driving, FNR3) and it becomes a major pain. It is a noticeable handicap playing with this controller, which is not how I want my coop or vs games at home.

Conclusions - if a good D-pad is crucial for you, to the point of not caring that much about the sticks, buy it at good value. Otherwise, wait until you can afford a better controller, or you will regret your buy like I did.

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Cabela’s Alaskan Adventure (Xbox 360)
Customer Review: Something Different.
If your after something a little diffrent from CoD 4/GoW etc, you could do a lot worse than this game. Granted its not realistic, I doubt any game could offer realistic hunting. But if your intrested in hunting/fishing/shooting/Archery this could be some fun for you. Set in Alaska the player travels from hunting lodge to lodge (about 5 in total I think) each lodge features 3 hunting areas, a fishing area and a challenge. The hunting areas vary from wood to snow to swamp and are quite well designed. Each hunting area will typically have 2-3 hunting tasks (Eg: Hunt a Black Bear with a bow). The fishing areas feature two fishing tasks and are again fairly well designed. The challenges seem like a little extra the developers threw in, theyre not really needed and are quite hard even on the easiest option. Examples of challenges including Dog sledding/Bird hunting etc.

There are a few let downs to the game.

- It could be classed as repetative to some people.

- It features a rule system that leaves you guessing what youve done wrong. For instance, your under attack by a bear (to attack back is lawful) yet the game penalises you for self defence.

- Driving seems to offer no purpose at all, the maps dont support it why they put it in I’ll never know.

- Houses are not marked on the map, it is ilegal to shoot near a house, often you do this by accident (house covered by forest for example) and are penalised.

- A few of the hunting tasks are boring, shooting a 10 beaver with a handgun gets dull. Although its orth sticking with it as the next task will be better.

However, a fun game for those with intrest in the area. A lot more gritty and realistic than its cousin “Cabelas African Safari”. Out of the two I’d get this. Oh, its got really easy achievement points for xbox 360 players.

4/5

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Digital AV Cable - SCART (Xbox 360)
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Amazon Price: ?9.98
Customer Review: It’s all true
I’ve got to agree with the other positive reviews. Although I’m sure you can buy much more expensive versions of this cable, for ?10 the benefits are incredible. I’m one of those people who’s not in a position to be able to afford a HDTV, and was disappointed with the performance of the lead that came in the box with my 360 console, wondering where my next-gen graphics were! However, after getting this cable, Gears of War looked not just good, but incredible, Pro Evo 6 was brighter and clearer, Crackdown looked even more shiny, and DVD playback looked more crisp. Plus the fact you get handy audio connections, which means you can hook it up to your hi-fi or Dolby Surround to get huge sound. For those with a standard TV who are holding off buying a HDTV, this is an essential purchase which I can’t recommend enough. In fact, when you get a 360, get this at the same time because the cable provided with the console just doesn’t cut it. Buy this product now.
Customer Review: WOW!!!
I suppose your looking at this item due to the fact that your main aim is to get the best visuals out of the 360 without having a fancy HDTV. Well so was I and this lead has made so much difference. Compared to the standard and downright horrific composite lead microsoft supply people with for standard definition tv’s, this is nothing short of amazing. Im using it on a quite decent panasonic 28” CRT and after comparing the picture with a 32” panasonic HDTV, I have to say there’s not a lot of difference. Certainly not enough to make me worry about not being in ‘HD’ PGR3 looks unbelievable, the colours are vibrant, the lines so crisp, and gears of wars is equally impressive. So what are you waiting for, buy this lead now and enjoy the 360 how it’s supposed to look without having to spend ?600+ for a HDTV.

Just Cause (Xbox 360) In a nutshell:
Grand Theft Auto might give you the freedom of a whole city or county but in Just Cause you’ve got the task of overthrowing a 250,000 acre island all on your lonesome in the world’s first Che Guevara simulator.

The lowdown:
Taking inspiration not just from Grand Theft Auto but also Mercenaries and old Amiga classic Midwinter you play CIA black ops agent Rico Rodriguez as he attempts to overthrow the evil dictator of the fictional island of San Esperito. Despite the huge island and the complete freedom of movement you have on it the game actually only has 21 story missions. There are over 300 side missions but it quickly becomes obvious that these fall into only a very small number of different styles, not all of which are all that entertaining. What makes the game fun though is just wandering off and doing your own thing, which invariably involves upsetting the local military or drug lords and instigating a massive, impromptu firefight. The game may lack depth and variety but it offers a freedom to explore and cause chaos that few others can rival.

Most exciting moment:
As impractical as it may seem you’ve always got a grappling hook and a parachute, which allows you to lock onto any vehicle and commandeer it whenever you want. It also lets you perform some utterly outrageous stunts as you parasail behind boats and jump from a moving aircraft straight onto a road convoy miles below you.

Since you ask:
Instead of storing the island of San Esperito as a gigantic map the game uses a new technique called procedural synthesis to create the landscape on the fly. This is the only way to make such large scale graphics work on the PS2, especially when you’re flying miles above the island.

The bottom line:
Che Guevara meets James Bond in this shallow but satisfying sandbox game.
HARRISON DENT
Customer Review: big game, big fun
I first got this game when it came out and got it as part of my xbox 360 package. Although I liked the game I decided to trade the game in after 2 weeks as I only had this and PGR3, I really wanted TDU at that time. Then after about 5 games later I started to get cravings for Just cause after seeing various reviews etc on it and decided to buy it back for ?18. Now that I fully understand the gamer points system and have got used to the xbox 360 controls properly I have found the game a lot better than the first time I played it.
I decided to take my time and not just fly through all the missions, this makes the game a lot more fun as you discover hidden volcano’s and varous citys and settlements etc.
The graphics are very good and you easily get sucked into the beauty of the landscape (you can almost feel the warmth of the sun and sea etc). Every time I play it I find new stuff to do, new vehicles to use from cars boats and planes. The weather changes as you fly around the island and you can be blown about abit during storms adding to the adventure, this list just goes on and on. You have to play it a bit differently from GTA games in that some of the cars are easy to loose control of but then when you do have an accident the police are fun to defeat and also good fun to run from.
On the down side there are a few glitches and the cars are not in top detail compared with the scenery. But this is a small price to pay for such a big game and hardly ever spoil any fun.
In reflection I think that this game for the money it can now bought for is a bargin and I’m pleased to have it back in my collection once again
Customer Review: Fun for a day
For the first day or so, it is quite entertaining, just being able to freely fly, drive or parachute around but after a while it gets really boring because all the cars are old bangers and the map is basically just trees so its the same everywhere and also the missions are all pretty much the same dispite it saying theres side missions, main missions and liberations which are all the same. a really annoying thing is the way he runs which is really spastic and he is constantly wheezing and his highj heels are always clicking its really annoying after a while. The game is really un realistic such as you being able to jump out of a helicopter or a plane at the highest point and hold on to the back of it, steer it while out there then jumping forward and landing inside it again!!!!!

I say don’t buy it its poor quality. also take a look at how many are up the for sale (35 when i last looked) and you should take a hint from that

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Viva Pinata (Xbox 360)

In a nutshell:
Ex-Nintendo developer Rare is bringing a rather different style of game to the Xbox 360 as you tend a virtual garden to attract and tame magical talking pi?atas. It may sound twee but its ability to addict is far more powerful than its cutesy graphics suggest.

The lowdown:
Unlike most first party Xbox games this is not an action game, but a gentler, more family friendly, simulation in the tradition of Animal Crossing. The basic premise is that you have a plot of land that you can turn from an overgrown mess into a beautiful garden. In so doing it will attract a range of 60 different pi?atas who, depending on how you treat them, will then decide to live there. For something as simple as a pi?ata worm you just have to have a patch of earth for them to play in but other pi?atas are a lot more demanding, while others first need to be tamed from their aggressive wild state.

Most exciting moment:
Not only can you accessorise your pi?atas with items bought from Xbox Live Marketplace but you can also swap items and pi?atas with other friends that own the game online.

Since you ask:
Viva Pi?ata has been conceived as a Pokemon style cross media franchise from the off, with all kinds of toys and merchandise already planned, as well as a new 4Kids cartoon series.

The bottom line:
At last there’s an Xbox 360 game the whole family can play and enjoy.
HARRISON DENT

Customer Review: when it didnt come in time
When I first saw this game I thought it was a good deal, nearly half price so I bought it, I waited a few working days and it hadn’t dispatched, so I cancelled the it, I have been waiting for over a week now and I still haven’t got my money back, Microsoft and ripped me off.

If you can wait weeks for a game and your 100% sure you want it the get it, but if not don’t or the same thing will happen to you as it did to me.

Customer Review: surprisingly fun
if u are infact an older gamer 18-30 u may well enjoy this barrage of colours were u takr control of a garden and beat up the animals which soon inhabit it (if ure a sicko :P) okay this game isnt very fufillig its rather like the sims but its great for a night in of boredom worth the buy u will be mightilly surprised well wat do u expect from thr makers of the best game to grace this mighty competitive world thts right Goldeneye for the N64 oh nad banjo kazooie

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Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter: Premium Edition (Xbox 360)

In a nutshell:
Mexico City has been overrun by terrorists and only the Ghost Recon team can restore order – through the use of extreme violence. You command not just your three team mates but a high-tech array of weapons, armoured vehicles and aircraft.

The lowdown:
Although it still plays very similarly to the last Ghost Recon game this is easily the most impressive of the series so far. The graphics, particularly on the Xbox 360, are extraordinary with a whole city sprawling out in front of you at a previously unimaginable level of detail. Unlike some squad based shooters the controls are simple and intuitive, allowing you to take part in the action and order about soldiers and vehicles at the same time with the minimum of fuss. The questionable artificial intelligence of your allies is the only serious flaw, but the ability to explore the city and plan your attack from any angle usually overcomes this problem.

Most exciting moment:
Calling in a helicopter gunship as you and your men are pinned down by a dozen terrorists, snipers and tanks.

Since you ask:
The game is set in 2013 and all of the high-tech weaponry is based on equipment the U.S. expects to have in operation by then – even the Metal Gear Solid style flying recon drones.

The bottom line:
Incredible graphics and one of the best squad based shooters ever.
HARRISON DENT

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Customer Review: Nice
As the 360 is my first console since the megadrive(!) and having played the rainbow six games on PC with mouse etc I was wondering how on earth you could translate a complex squad tactical shooter to a gamepad with only a few buttons. I was pleasantly suprised. The controls do take getting used to, but by the end of the first misson it was all coming quite naturally. It plays brilliantly too, If you ever stop and take a look around at this city its graphically brilliant, light shimmering off the high rise skyscrapers etc. The AI is fairly intelligent, focussing fire in chokeholes, making you work your way round, taking cover and reacting nicely although i’ve yet to encounter one that uses grenades. hat impressed me most though was the non stop aspect. You complete a mission and immediately go into your black hawk and have to use the gun to clear the landing position for your next mission…you’re in enemy territory and the game makes you feel that, theres no safe place to rest up. All in all impressed, four stars though because of a few minor gripes with the cross com controls and with the sightly linear maps, but overall a damn good buy
Customer Review: What a letdown.
This was one of the games that came with my Xbox 360 and after reading reviews online I had high hopes. The graphics are alright, not as good as I was expecting though and I can’t understand why there’s a quote on the box that says “a masterclass in what the Xbox 360 can do.” The gameplay is incredibly complicated. There are so many controls you have to remember and that sucks a lot of fun out of the game. It’s not much fun in the first place. The worst thing about this game is that you can barely take any damage. OK, this is realistic but it makes the game needlessly hard. Especially when your squadmates have been hit and you’re trying to revive them with bullets flying at you. The level of damage makes it very hard to take cover and return fire as well because every time you stick your head out to fire, there’s a very high chance you’ll get hit. I’ve only played this game on the easiest setting and it’s still proving annoyingly difficult. I’m really surprised it’s got all the hype it has when only one other game I’ve ever owned has been this disappointing.

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Halo Evolved: The Complete History (XBOX 360)
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Sonic the Hedgehog (Xbox 360) Customer Review: Sonic the Hedgehog review
I bought this game hoping against hope that it would be good, that all the reviews I had read were wrong. This was a mistake, which I shall not be making again.
Sonic Adventure on Dreamcast was one of my favourite games, and still is. It was one of the games that really got me into gaming. I still play it every now and then; it really is that good.
When I first heard that there was going to be a proper Sonic game coming onto PS3 I was ecstatic - Since Sonic Adventure 2 there hadn’t been a good Sonic game, and I needed a new fix of speedy goodness. This game was meant to provide it, with wonderful next-gen graphics.

This game has not provided it, for various reasons (although the graphics are very good indeed, this is probably the only really positive thing about this game).

1)It isn’t very fast. For some reason, SEGA seem to have slowed Sonic down. It is so slow that I really thought at the start of the game that there would be some kind of upgrade coming along soonish to speed Sonic back up to his Dreamcast speed. None of the reviews I’d read had mentioned that Sonic was now relatively slow compared to previously, and I still haven’t seen one that has brought this up. Well, I am. To be fair, that’s not a major gripe, though it is vey annoying: I wanted next-gen speeds to go with the graphics (which are very good actually, but don’t compensate for lack of oomph.)
2)The story is poor. it bears no relevance to previous titles in the series and is simply quite atrocious. Again, not a huge deal, but you’d have thought they’d have made an effort with theirfirst next-gen game. Sadly not.
3)The game is chock-full of glitches which are so glaringly obvious you’d have thought any idiot could have irooned them out. Not SEGA unfortunately. There really are some whoppers here. Sometimes, when you’re going along, on foot or on a snowboard or however else, one (either after hitting something or not) stops dead still. To be going along (moderately) quickly, and then to suddenly stop, even if there’s nothing that is visibly impeding one’s progress, is very disconcerting and actually makes you think about just how little effort has been put into making this game. Other notable glitches include a character, for no reason, moving up a slope that they’re supposed to be going down, and then it being impossible to turn them around again, hitting against a wall and falling into the scenery, losing a life (it’s quite difficult anyway without the added handicap of being swallowed up without a trace for no reason at all)
5)The camera is godawful. This has been a problem in 3D Sonic games since the Dreamcast in 1999. That’s eight years! And now the camera is even worse, somehow. It gets stuck very easily and generally conspires against you to make you fall into holes that are impossible to see until you are in them, etc. Not good.
6) To compensate for the general slowness of Sonci in the game, SEGA have put in special “Speed Stages” (I’m not joking, that’s what they call them. The whole damn game should be a bloody speed stage. Sounds like “free speech zone”, it’s ridiculous). In these “Speed Stages”, you can’t stop or go faster or slower, do any of the moves you can normally do, and the sad irony is that it’s not even that “Speed”-y. No more that you’d be expecting for the game as a whole.
7)Gameplay is generally OK, but not as good as in previous incarnations - obviously the whole thing’s vastly slower (in previous games, other characters were almost as fast as Sonic himself, in this, Sonic’s not fast and the rest are just slow). They kept the horrible vehicles form Shadow the Hedgehog, which are just unnecessary and really aren’t fun to drive at all, and to add insult to injury Shadow now moves with a horrid waddling motion which is irritating to look at and, as mentioned above, isn’t fast.
Tails has a little girl’s voice - I don’t know if it’s the same in the Japanese voices, but the English one is the wrong gender and age. It sounds stupid. (Also, there’s no lip-synching. This is supposed t be NEXT-GEN,the least they could do is taking the effort to lip-synch it for the English release. Anyway, Tails controls badly, can no longer hover and has lost the ability to do a normal attack as previously. What this has been replaced with is frankly a joke and I cn’t quite bring myself to discuss it here. Rest assured, it’s awful. All the other characters have their good points, but most are flawed in irritating ways that taint the gamelay. Some bits are so glitchy as to be virtually unplayable, for example, thre is a snowboarding section that is actually beyond my power to describe it, it really is that abysmal.
This may just be my copy, but pre-rendered cut-scenes judder and have slow-down (somehow) if anything is happening much. It sucks, but I’m guessinhg this may just be mine as I’ve seen it running fine elsewhere. Whatever, it’s annoying.
9) Some bits just aren’t well thought out at all. For example, loading screens are very numerous and often the game will, when one has decided to do a challenge within the game world, the game will spend twnety seconds loading, then maybe a line or two is said, then it loads for twenty seconds again. I knew about this before I got it, so it didn’t get me annoyed to start with, but now, it gets me seething whenever it happens. They should have thought it through better.
10) Often, much of a level will simply consist of pressing forward on the analogue stick and not actually interacting very much. the majority of the game is either on a fixed, narrow track or on a rail, and in many areas, it’s possible to just sit back and watch the game play itself, which actually isn’t that fun.

To sum up, this game, while having some good points, fails in most categories to delier, and disappoints far more than it enthrals. To those new to SOnic, I’d say, if you’re interested, get Sonic Adventure or Sonic Adventure 2 and a Dreamcast. This is not only cheaper, but you will be playing a much better game. To fans of the series, sorry guys, this is another stinker, I’d advise you not to buy it. This is dross, SEGA needs a kick up the backside for expecting us to go out and buy this crap.

To be honest, this game probably deserves 2 stars overall, but it isn’t just any new game, it’s a Sonic game by one of the best developers on the planet, and they’ve spewed out THIS. So it only gets 1 star.
Customer Review: sonic 360? puh…
when i first saw this game on the market i got really excited and just had to ask for it for christmas this year, after aquireing my 360 console.As soon as i started this game the first thing i loved was the graphics, they are wonderful and i’m glad that sonic hasn’t lost its cartoon edge.
But as soon as i started to play the actual game i wasn’t overly impressed, the story seems good but it has a few patchy parts in where i lost interest fast. The level design is pretty cool in some areas but a few of them reminded me or Sonic Adventure, for example the first stage the beach level was almost EXACTLY the same as the emerald coast level in SA (and i mean exactly)heh it even included the race with the killer whale sound familliar?
camera controls….well sega has never been very good with those. some of the stages where sonics centre of gravity is STRAIGHT FOREWARD you aren’t in control at all apart from jumping and moveing around in left or right directions, these levels are very frustrateing not to mention the in game loading screens, some of them are absolutely needless they don’t need to be there but they are and the little glitches here and there in some levels annoyed me quite a bit. Its now easier to get A ranks and S ranks on the levels which is a welcomed relief, and gameplay is quite fun running smoothly without a hitch and the small tasks you can do to earn rings are usually very entertaining. all in all its a good game but with a few annoying bits and peices here and there.

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