dusted off the old megadrive this week. been playing desert strike, micro machine 96, the original nhl hockey and pga european tour golf. Quality.

Man, the first perfect dark was my life for about a year! And this was only about 2 years ago, it completely bypassed me when it first came out. It was the year I had a flat with 2 of my mates and the rest of the guys where usualy over anyway, thus ensued many a game of PD and many a tired day at work! I think it was challenge 18 that had elvis sims in villa, how hard was that! Trained up on it so hard me and my mate ended up being able to do it with dead controllers for the 3 and 4 stars! Hence the start of fighting harder elvis sims! tranquilizers where the way foreward on that challenge! I havnt played it for ages now but when I was in my prime I was near unbeatable! One hit kils all the way though!

Edit : Did they keep the facility level on the new PD? I know they carried it over from goldeneye to PD and called it falicity(!). That was blatently the best level, I knew it like the back of my hand!

Sadly they did not, they switched to more open, internet friendly multiplayer maps as opposed to the tight, closed in maps that had made the original so much fun. The new maps are fun if you have a lot of people playing, but it's not as fun for 4 players sitting around the console.

Yes, I found the game somewhat of a letdown altogether really.

I got Kameo: Elements Of Power. Only played the first level but it seems good.

Also does anyone else have the sound track not synchronised with the visual track when watching dvds on the 360?

Not so far.

Just finished Call Of Duty 2 last night. Felt like a bit of a chore to be honest. I'd been really looking forward to it before Christmas, but it's very disappointing. It's a well polished game, it just that the gameplay is just utterly boring and repetitive.

I'm glad I didn't spend £20 on that then.

I'm looking forward to this, please say it gets a UK release...

Watched my mate playing this a ton recently. It is indeed a chore of a game but he loved it. He finished everything on Veteran difficulty. I actually sat and watched him do one single section for about 45 minutes because it was so hard.

OH YEAH



More Knights of the Old! Now thats a game I can look forward to.

Up to 50% on GTA Liberty City Stories now. Have just opened up Shoreside Vale, but pretty much abandoned the regular missions to try and crack o few more of the side quests. So far completed:

Car Salesman
Noodle Delivery
Trash Dash on all 3 islands
Slash TV - both difficulties
Karmageddon
A smattering of RC missions
A couple of Street Races
Love Media Radio List
68 Hidden Packages
Avenging Angels: Staunton Vale

3/4 of bike salesman
1/4 of See the Sights before your Flight
No Paramedic, Vigilante or Firefighter missions!!! Not for the want of trying

If you've seen one section, you've pretty much seen them all. There's no variety to the gameplay whatsoever. It's pretty much just all edging forwards while you fight so that enemies don't just keep respawning. There's very little tactics required. The only time things change is in a section where you get to drive a tank, but that's a rubbish level because all you do is point at an enemy tank, click, and boom, it's dead. Boring.

Re-playing The Warriors on 'Hardcore Bopper' setting. It's a little repetitive, but a lot of fun. And beating Vergil was nearly impossible til I looked at a couple of insanely useful hints.

Must just be my bad luck with consoles oh well, it's easily sorted, just pause and unpause. Sowted.



I enjoyed this game immensely, just what I wanted out of a WWII fps. The feeling of being part of an actual army was great and the only part of the game I didn't enjoy was the tank bit 'cause they're just shit.

Played a bit more of Kameo and it's a great little title, once you get past the first level. It's somewhat strange to just be thrown straight into the thick of it without any real story or anything.

Also I'm tempted to trade-in my Gamecube and DS seeing as I owe my mum about £100, does anyone know whether I'll make this sum of money with these two consoles, I'm also trading in Battalion Wars, Super Mario 64 DS, Zoo Keeper, Mario KArt DS and Nintendogs. Any info will be of much help.

Had to save thread from dissapearing onto the cursed second page.

What's wrong with you people, have you lost the will to talk about games?

sold my playstation now playing on my snes tryig to beat earthworm jim which is much harder than i remember

Enemy Territory

Good game based on the Castle Wolfenstein Engine (also Jedi engine), It's completely free, customisable and is alot like that brilliant game 'Goldeneye' of old.

Def a game worth downloading and playing, just read up on networks and port forwarding abit though if your a noob to it. If your ever on give us a tinckle, some 1 on 1 via skype can be alot of fun.

-m0r

I've finished Silent Hill and Silent Hill 4: The Room a while back. Now I'm working on Silent Hill 2 & 3. I'm trying play through them a couple of times before the movie comes out. So far I think that Silent Hill 3 is the scariest, since i caught a glance at my friend playing it.

Mercury on the PSP. One of those infuriating puzzle games a la Super Monkey Ball. Takes ages to load each level. You get so far and just want to throw it out the window...

Which Silent Hill game is "best"? I'm a big fan of Resident Evil (played 0, Remake, 2, 3, Code Veronica X, Dead Aim), so I was hoping to play something similar, or better. The controls look easier than Resident Evil, which is always a bonus.

I'm quiet because I'm waiting patiently for Oblivion. I'll be getting my 360 when that comes out. The things I've read about the AI and game world boggle my mind.

Aside from that all I've played in the last 2 weeks is a bit of Halo 2 multiplayer, Pokemon Leaf Green and Mario Kart DS. Got at least 1 star rating on everything. Took a fair few hours I can tell you.

There's not been many interesting games out for a long long time on any console. I'm in the position now where if I see a good game on a console I'd probably buy that console just to play it, but there's really nothing around on any system.

At least Everybody's Golf is still fantastic.

Hired out Gun yesterday and played it for hours, got it for another few days too. I'm really really enjoying it. I just love riding into town on my horse, and just riding around in general.

The story so far has been fairly interesting, the side missions are slightly annoying, especially when you ride into the middle of nowhere, gun down a wanted criminal, and before you can get back on your horse, the 'side mission complete' screen appears and then when it goes away, all the bodies and nearby horses have disappeared, stranding you in the moddle of nowhere.

Generally, I'm well impressed, BUT, I am about 40% through the game already and will probably have completed it by the time I have to take it back, which is good and bad. Means I won't have to buy it, but it also means there's no point buying it... if you get my meaning.

Resident Evil 4. 'Nuf said.



I haven't really read anything but I've seen some screens, looks purty.

And I'm selling my cube and DS Much sadness all round.



I played trough without doing any side quests, just try it and see how insanely hard the final boss is, and had finished the main storyline at 60%.

And the storyline is great, just when you think it's going to be another cliched(sp) boy meets girl type thing Bang, that lovely whore's been shot dead

EDIT: I'm a spoon

I had gone off my PSP for some time but since my Router has been working it has been given new life. I love all the little stuff this thing can do, and now my brother has one too... it's excellent. Thinking about getting a few more games just for the multiplayer features, will have to read reviews though because (for instance) GTA is a great game but the multiplayer is apparently shite.

Just been playing some more Condemned.

Great little title. I'm currently at the library and things are starting to get a bit fucked up, but not as fucked up as those dummies at Bart's Store ( I mean the ones in your senses dream type thing not the ones that attack you). I've just fallen through the floor and the liottle crawling fuckers are messing with my head, twats.

The story of Silent Hill is very interesting and hard to describe. If you like RE, then you'll probably like Silent Hill. I've read around places and everyone seems to agree that the first Silent Hill is the best, and if you don't play the first one, things could get a bit complicated while playing the others. I was freaking confused through most of Silent Hill 1, although the end cleared some things up that confused me. I'm probably going to start on Silent Hill 3 next since it is a direct sequel to the first Silent Hill.

The controls as far as I can remember were similar to Resident Evil, although I think that Resident Evil's controls are a little better if I remember correctly.

I am also rabidly awaiting Oblivion. But, in the meantime, I'm hoping my copy of Civilization IV arrives soon...

Tonight, I may try and play Homeworld again, and hope it goes better than the last time, when it would crash after about half a minute of playing...

Yeah, shocker, and she actually had her throat cut, complete with gaping throat, staggering and 'help me', great!

Oh yeah, it's been a while since I played it and my minds been pretty frazzled of late with the smacking upside the head of crazed pshychopaths.

I played Gun got to the final boss and kept shooting the large dynamite packs to knock the back pillars down... it didnt happen and it went back to blockbuster on the same day. As for the whore the throat cut is really shabby on Xbox, how this differs from the 360 i dont know but it was quite lame. (no where near enough blood)

The final boss is a toughie if you don't level up by doing side-quests, and Cornetto, spoilers please. And for the Gamecube ( I miss it so much) it looked purtyer than Futurama.

Just installed Homeworld. Hopefully this time I can actually play it, without my system crashing after 15 seconds.

I miss adventure games.
Nobody makes them any more.

Grim Fandango and the Monkey Island ones were the best!!

I was so peeved when they cancelled the release of the new Sam & Max game last year.




So now I have only PS2 girl-games to console me.

Had a bunch of people round last weekend, drank copious amounts of red wine and played Buzz and all the Singstar games.
It was heaps of fun!

My bf isn't too fond of Singstar because it's the only game ever (not just computer games - boardgames, sports, whatever) that I can actually BEAT him at!!!

Cheers
AC

Not sure I understand what your saying you were trying to do... I've been pinging exploding arrers at the vents in the floor, so that they blow up when he walks over them, but he's so f'king hard!!! I've managed to get him down to about half health so far... thats the best I'v got. It doesn't help that it keeps giving me tips when I die that say I can do side missions to improve stats or purchase items to improve weapons. Yes, I'd happily do that, if I hadn't been locked into a series of missions and objectives for the last hour or two of gameplay!

The review I read complained that the later levels were too hard unless you did all the side missions before it.

Sam and Max is still a possibility. Think I read about another company picking up licence and what had already been developed.
Try out Fahrenheit on PS2 for a modern adventure game. Multiple ways of doing everything and a fairly decent story for the most part.

Unlocked all but one of the staff ghosts on Mario Kart DS. Can only beat a few of them now, time to get practicing.

Shortly after this he buggers off to a sort of shelf type structure and starts to throw bundles of dynamite at you. You have to shoot these in quick-draw to detsroy the two pillars supporting the roof of the cavern, making the roof collapse onthe fat ugly bastard.

Fantastic

Ha, unlucky. And It's true I didn't like the way taht you couldn't leave the final few missions

That is an accurate statement. Sam & Max 2 is currently in progress, and, if all goes well, should see the light of day sometime this year, thanks to the dilligent efforts of the fine folks at Telltale Games -- mostly ex-LucasArts staffers, and Steve Purcell.

And, if you haven't already done so, check out the Syberia series.

Cool, never played Sam and MAx but I absolutely LOVED The Day Of The Tentacle.

If you haven't got it, try and get hold of a game called The Longest Journey, quite a long game with a decent difficulty level, and considering the games a couple of years old at least now, the graphics were quite beautiful.

Everyone loves day of the tentacle.

Talking of day of the tentacle, Psychonauts (the platformer written by Tim Schafer, who created DOTT) comes out over here 10th February. Apparantly it's brilliant, but no-one bought it .
Of course, PC versions being region free, you can pick it up cheaply at CD-WOW.

i heard rumours there was going to be a land of the dead playstation game called escape from fiddlers green wouldnt it be great to have a game with the zombies of resident evi but the scope and grandeur of dawn of the dead!

Everyone surely does.

Anyone know where I can pick up a copy that'll run on windows XP? I never did get round to completing it

Played a demo of that about a week ago. It is indeed very good. The script is funny and the level design is cool. might be investing in it when it comes out on x-box.

Adventure Games- this months PCgamer magazine comes with 75 freeware games including 6-7 adventure games. Some very weird/cool games in there.

Day of the tenticle- saw a double pack with Sam and Max and DOTT quite recently in Game. I would emagine that would work on XP.

Awesome. Awesome to the max.

Def Jam Fight For NY... Die Snoop Dogg Die!

Am currently getting the shit scared out of me by the school level in Condemned. Damn that childish laughter/screams.

Currently playing Star Wars: Knights Of The Old Republic II: The Sith Lords: My Word This Game Has A Very Long Title. I'm liking it. More than I liked the previous one, which was lots.

Need for speed - Most Wanted

Funfun!

Well, who really cares whether or not there's a Windows XP version, when you've got ScummVM? This nifty little utility replaces the executables of all those classic, old adventure games that were built on the SCUMM engine -- games like Monkey Island, DOTT, Sam & Max, Zak McCraken, Loom, Simon the Sorcerer, Broken Sword, and others -- and allows you to use the exact same game data to play the games on such systems as Linux, OS X, OS/2, PSP, Amiga, PocketPC, and, yes, even Windows.

I use PocketSCUMM to play Monkey Island on my iPaq!

And Revolution has been kind enough to give the community free, downloadable versions of both Beneath a Steel Sky, and Flight of the Amazon Queen, so even if you don't have any SCUMM games of your own, you can easily pick up two to get started.