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Bloodlines with the 1.2 patch. I like it quite a lot so far, much better than Kingmaker or whatever that NWN mod that won PC RPG of the year over it.

You're a very funny guy.

It's an "On-Rails" Shooter. You press "A" to run forward and "B" to move backwards. When you get to the shooting parts it switches to first person. There are some reviews out for it already, and they're very mixed. Some positive reviews seem to be really positive and the negative reviews really trash the game. Killer 7 may replace Shenmue as the ultimate love it or hate it game.

Ninja Gaiden (not black) has a normal setting and not an easy setting. I think Ninja Gaiden Black has a "Ninja Dog" mode which would be the easy difficulty setting since Ninja Dog is the lowest rank you can have. I unlocked Ninja Gaiden 1, 2, and 3 in the Xbox version and I think that the original Ninja Gaiden is still the most difficult although Ninja Gaiden Black could change that. I can't believe Alma (the first battle) has a posse now. I remember the first time(s) I faced her. She'd screw me over with that weird move where she pulls you up in the air then knocks you to the ground while taking off half of your life. I was cussing up a storm during those fights.

Neither has really impressed me so far. Sony showed off a bunch of CG movies and tech demos of what stuff might look like on the PS3 3 or 4 years down the road. Microsoft showed off a bunch of chuggy games running on alpha dev kits and their press conference was really boring. Nintendo showed what the Revolution looks like (although it wasn't the final design) and said nothing about its "revolutionary" feature. E3 really sucked this year.

Duke Nukem 3D.

Xbox 360 is the dumbest name for a console I've ever heard of. I'll probably just end up calling it Xbox 2. I don't care much for the design of it either but at least it isn't a total beast like the Xbox is.

Uh, the Dreamcast was dead (sorry, discontinued which is as good as dead) by the time Xbox came out.

RTS games don't usually transfer well onto consoles. If they did, I imagine Microsoft would make the Age of Series an Xbox exclusive (or time exclusive). Lots of people have tried to make good console RTS games: Blizzard made Starcraft 64, EA put C&C on the N64 and the PS1 and none of them turned out very well. Hell, they even made Civ I for the NES and Civ II for the PS1 and let's just say that those didn't turn out quite as well as their PC counterparts. As for strategy games on Xbox there's the strategy/rpg Gladius, the strategy/action game Kingdom Under Fire: The Crusaders, and there's the pure RTS Goblin Commander: Unleash the Horde. I haven't actually played any of these games but I've heard a lot of good things from Gladius, a game from Lucasarts that sold like crap. I've heard decent to good things about KUF but I have no idea if it came out in the UK. As for Goblin Commander its biggest claim to fame was that two former Blizzard designers were the lead designers of it. I heard it was mediocre and I have no idea if it was released in the UK. There's also Phantom Dust, which is kind-of an action/strategy game with cards. Before you ask, yes it was made in Japan. It just came out in the States about a month ago so I don't know if it's out in the UK or if it will ever come out there. The game was made by Microsoft Japan and MS didn't want to publish it anywhere else in the world. Majesco picked it up and released it as a budget title. It got some pretty good reviews but once again, I haven't played it and couldn't give you an opinion on it.

It's not Warrior Within. Godsmack isn't in the game and the PC doesn't have a voice so they can't come off like an angsty Linkin Park fan. And what's wrong with blood squirting all over the place?

IGiveNines strikes again. I hope JE really is that good (I did pre-order it after all) but IGN has a history of inflating scores. Hell, they gave Fable a 9.3.

I pre-ordered it so sure, I guess I like it.

It will happen but I doubt it will be their next game. Blizzard is going to do at least 1 (probably more) expansion for WoW. Given their history with really long development times I don't think we're going to see Starcraft 2 anytime soon (hope I'm wrong though). Also, Starcraft: Ghost is supposed to be an extension of the Starcraft I story (at least I think I read that in some preview years ago). So if they do a Starcraft 2 it will have to come out sometime after Ghost. God knows when that game is coming out.

Not a difficult feat to accomplish given that the other games are crap.

-Neverwinter Nights: I thought it would be, at the very least, on par with Baldur's Gate II. -Fable: Linear hack-n-slash fest. There's no depth to the game, no open-ended gameplay. -Deus Ex: Invisible War: The release build was pretty much unplayable, Ion Storm removed the skills system and made a lot of other stupid choices. -Civilization 3: Too many lame balancing issus (i.e. watching a civilization stuck in the stone age roll over my marines with horsemen was annoying). It felt more like a step backwards for the series. The new resource system could have worked well but didn't, naval and air forces are made almost completely useless, and those damn horsemen raped my fortified marines. -Halo 2: What the hell happened to the single-player campaign?