All scores are out of 5


Typically, 3=good/worth watching/play, 4=very good movie/game, 5=awesomecopterhelmet. 2=not worth watching/playing, 1=lolwut, not even so bad it's good, don't even try it!
Latest seen/played movies/games are put on top. Old additions inserted at the bottom.
3Rage60Hz. Same mission setup as Fallout 3, Dead Island, Borderlands.



3.5Dead IslandLike Fallout 3 but with zombies. Last memory is chap 8, 53% 21h



3Red Faction: ArmageddonPlayed 48% 5h30min so far. It's trying to be Dead Space / Gears of War / Resident Evil. At least you get to wreck some tiny buildings, but it's extremely linear. I'm still hoping it will suddenly open up and become the lovely open world kind of game RF:Guerilla was, but I know it won't.



2Portal 2More of the same. Slightly less crap graphics, now it only looks 6 years old and now 12. Probably played 3 hours, so I'm told there's a whole more hour in there waiting for me.



3Dead Space 2It's Dead Space 1 with 1% refinement. Too bad I've already played the first. Couldn't be bothered with much more than disc 1.



3BulletstormPlayed maybe 5-7 hours. It's gears of war in color, nothing more.



2Exit1000 boring levels to keep you busy. Horrible controls.



3.5BraidPretty good timewarping puzzles but bad platforming/jump mechanics. meh



5LimboBeautiful well-composed 3 hour puzzle. Great atmosphere created by good sound and graphical effects like filters.



4SingularityExtremely similar to Dead Space and Resident Evil 4 and 5, with some puzzle elements borrowed from Portal and a few visual effects from Silent Hill. This is by far the most linear game of the above mentioned. There's no backtracking, no replay value, no second playthrough, and every section of the game is like 3 rooms, then a door is closed behind you and you're presented with 3 new rooms. This linearity I think helps telling the story which is pretty well presented, and thankfully without lots of boring cut-scenes. You get checkpoints every two meters, except of course in those few places you actually need them. The weapons are fun, but with no open world to play around with them, their variation is kind of moot. I'm guessing the game is some 9-12 hours depending on if you check all pieces of storytelling placed throughout the game. Playing on normal difficulty would probably have been best, as easy is way too easy.



3Alan WakeMore linear than an audiobook and darker than an Anal Kawe, this shooter/cutscene lasts about 8 hours. The first impressions of the one hour long episode 1 are pretty good, but there's not much more to it after that. The story is told pretty well, but not interesting. The visual effect when the enemies are around is pretty cool, but that is the only effect and it is used throughout the whole game, no variation. Why did they throw in the pointless coffee thermos achievement? Why do I keep losing all inventory at least once per episode? Definitely a "rental". I'm sure the reason this game got pretty good reviews is cause reviewers actually had time to play through it in a short time, part thanks to checkpoints being set at every footstep you walk.



2Lost Planet 2Supposed to have offline splitscreen coop, but instead of a real splitscreen, this game has that shitty split like Resident Evil 5. You get a fourth of the screen each, and then half of your tv is left black. I didn't buy a 46" tv to play at 23", thank you. After a boring 5min intro cutscene, the game started out looking like some old n64-game, after barely seeing what to do and what was where, we gave up and never returned.



2DarksidersCrap button-mashing dmc/gow clone. Horrible tearing, bad camera and flimsy controls. Nothing zelda-like at all, why did reviewers and others keep saying it was similar?



3.6Lego Indy 2Like the previous Lego games but more polished. Check out their new cool splitscreen solution.



3WolfensteinGood standard FPS action with good controls. The game would have got a 4 if it hadn't deleted my saved progress twice. I heard it might be related to the consoles internal clock not being set.



4.5BorderlandsCoop GOTY. Thankfully there's no gameplay-time counter in the game. The splitscreen offline coop works well, though I heard the PC/PS3-versions online play is very bad. Only a few small annoyances I would have wanted fixed; Let me disable the hold-X-to-replace-gun feature, I never needed that, and it was just in the way when quick-looting. Picked up weapons should have been placed in a new list so I can more easily compare them to previous weapon I've chosen to keep. Streamline the startup procedure of the game, why not an option for just "continue where you left off?" which would login both coop-players, pick the character you had last time and start the game, probably not possible with the 360's user profile system though. Also, the rocket launcher was crap, it had the properties of a slow sniper rifle. Ever heard of a shockwave?



3.1Overlord 2It's like Overlord 1...



3Batman: Arkham AsylumThe closest to an interactive movie you can get. The story is pretty good, and you barely play at all, just walk from one cut-scene to another.



4Shadow ComplexImagine our beloved SNES Super Metroid 2d remade with Epic's Unreal "cube of meat" Engine, giving it that modern Gears of War feeling, that is: sluggish high latency controls, tearing, buggy physics making bodies jump around forever after dying. This is a glimpse of half of what we could have got if Nintendo had bothered releasing a modern console and made a new 2d Metroid for it. The game is about 6h long, possibly another hour if you backtrack to collect some extra upgrade.
The game is worth playing since there's a lack of similar games out nowadays, but why couldn't we get a SNES Metroid + more? Build on that and make it better, don't give us something LESS 15 years later. The only new things you get are really just cause of modern hardware, i.e. higher resolution, lighting effects, polygon characters, cut-scenes, voice-art etc. The game does have good music at a couple of places, though very few, what's up with that? Using a proper d-pad instead of analogue controls would've been much better too, sadly the 360 lacks one.
The game should have been bigger, but given the price (1200 poins = approx 118 SEK, 16gbp, 18.6eur, 32aud, 26.7usd thanks to MS' shitty point cards system), it is quite a good deal anyway. The game was far too linear for my taste, this makes me just want to finish such games to get over with the cut-scenes and crap, but if there's no replay value, then bah. I know Super Metroid was quite linear looking back at it now, but not this much.
Why does the game upgrade the main gun and armor now and then? It's not like you can miss the upgrade and there's no effort involved in getting it. It feels like nothing more than another cut-scene. And oh, you got 4 alternative weapons to choose from on the d-pad, guess what, they're not in the 4 directions, you have to flip through them with the left and right buttons.



2GhostbustersNice idea with original cast voices. The game looked more fun in the trailer, but destruction in the hotel restaurant was far from satisfying, and the capture of ghost procedure was tedious and didn't leave much room for skill. Awful tearing and low framerate too. Got bored after ~1h.



4Dead Space18hrs of Resident Evil 4 ripoff - and that's a good thing. You got the suitcase upgrade, the healthbar upgrade, save place, merchant place, and weapon upgrades with the same features: reload time, ammo, damage, although in Dead Space the upgrades are laid out in a map-style configuration, just like in Final Fantasy X. Great ambient sound. I wish you could go back and explore, RE4 had the same problem. The game had a massive bug at the final boss, make sure you stand in the middle or front of the area, I didn't and had to replay it. Stunning fact: there's no tearing!.



3.5Prototypeffffffuuuuuuuuuu, prototype was boring. cut-scene, loading screen, cut-scene, hold RT to sprint to the next checkpoint. if enemies are in the way, button mash X. repeat. and try not to fall asleep under the extremely boring cutscenes. of about 1 hour of "gaming" i only got 17mins of gameplay according to the statistics screen. millions of tutorials, tips and hints before you even get to play anything. the game tries to be cool and live on visual effects while giving you crap controls and boring gameplay.
After finishing the game in about 8 hours, I must say it's a bit more fun than gta4. it passes the time, but is way too shallow. Rockstar should've used this engine for rendering manhattan.



4.5Red Faction 3: GuerrillaGOTY so far. I actually played this one to the end, all 26 hours of it. Great gameplay with lots of destruction, rally driving and easy aiming shooting. There's lots of cool different weapons and a variety of vehicles. The number of cut-scenes and their lenghts are kept low, which is great. What would've been absolutely super is a split-screen coop campaign mode.
There are a few things that ofcourse could be done better, some I can forgive and others not.
inexcusable:
  • tearing (both in 720p and 1080p) - it's just plain laziness to not vsync. this is the biggest graphical flaw of the game.
  • control mechanics - why not use the dpad for switching weapons instead of RS + dpad? it's far more commonly used than zooming in or out on the minimap. i didnt have use for that during the whole game. also, why do you keep flying when you release the jet pack button just cause you held the run button down? strange decision.
  • Why do I have to wait with playing left over missions until I've finished the game?
    Things I can forgive, not cause they're okay, but because all games are doing it wrong:
  • AI - The AI friends are in the way, they run in your line of fire. The worst part is when you get into a car and they keep running in front of it and all around it, very close, even between the wheels, so it's impossible to not run them over. You could at least have them keep a distance when you're in a tank?
  • Invisible walls - Oops, we didn't think you'd go that way and we didn't make the terrain high enough so you could still jump or fly over it, but if you try to, you'll hit the invisible wall and bounce back.



2Terminator: SalvationA crappy Gears of War ripoff with graphics that could be mistaken for previous gen xbox. Horrible tearing, laughable face textures, amazingly silly T800 walking animation. The only thing making it playable for a while is the offline splitscreen co-op.



2.5Bionic CommandoOkayish looks but gets repetitive after 10mins. The whole spider-man swinging mechanics don't feel entertaining at all, partly cause no laws of physics applies.



2.5Onechanbara Bikini Samurai Squad2-player splitscreen coop. Slashing zombies with swords while wearing a minimal bikini in a quite crappy game engine using bad controls and a camera that never points where you want it to.



4Resident Evil 5Near identical to RE4 but better graphics and an optional drop-in co-op mode. On the downside though, there are lots of things that got worse since RE4.
If you happen to have the 360 dashboard set to 1080p, and who wouldn't since most people with a HDTV has 1080p, then the game has the worst tearing in history, unforgivable, it ruins the graphics and makes it way worse than the gamecube version. This ruined the impression for me during the first 3 hours I played, until I googled the 'fix' to set the dashboard to 720p, now there's practically no tearing.
More things that got worse in RE5:
  • no merchants
  • you always buy between chapters or during game start
  • No typewriters
  • the game saves when it wants to, usually in the beginning of new chapters.
  • you can only access your inventory suitcase between chapters, not during.
  • the currently equipped inventory box has way too few slots
  • switching items with the co-op AI is annoying since she keeps running around and won't do it if she's in a battle, and you have to do switching or equipping weapons in real-time, yes, the game doesn't pause when you access the inventory screen
  • There seem to be too few levels, going from 1-1 up to 6-3.
  • the levels are way too linear, I know RE4 was quite linear, but this is silly.
  • almost no puzzles in the game, and the ones there could be solved by an idiot.
  • why can't I pick up handgun ammo when my handgun is empty just because I have no empty slot in my inventory to store it before I reload my weapon and clear that slot anyways. Reload while picking it up, dammit!
  • co-op mode, nice idea and addition, but why do we only get to use 2/3rds of the screen when played offline? oh that's right, it still needs to keep aspect ratio cause your code is crap.
  • what's the fun in playing with a friend if you got 100x better weapons and sheeva only gets to use a gun?



3LOTR: ConquestSeems to be quite crap, and would get a score 2 if it wasn't for the co-op splitscreen which makes all games 1 score higher right away. It seems to be a simple button masher.



3.5Tom Clancys Rainbow Six Vegas 2Pretty good and well made, fun in co-op splitscreen. You can easily lose track of each other, but there's some on-screen map for finding each other again. The settings are of course boring since it is supposed to be 'realistic', killing monsters and zombies is much more fun (like gears of war).



3Left 4 DeadIt has splitscreen co-op... not much more reason to play it.



3.6Gears of War 2Near identical to the first game, but this time in color and longer! As before, the co-op mode is what makes this fun.



4.6Fallout 318h into the game, so far superb! GOTY. The only big complaint I have is the (always terrible) tearing, even in the intro cut-scene.



3.5Lego BatmanBest Lego game so far. Fun co-op. Still stupidly buggy and crap graphics. It however runs at full hd on the xbox360 so it looks better than the previous games. This and the fact that the wii version this time had waggling (pointing the batarang with the wiimote) is good reason to play it on the 360 instead.



4.5GTA4Annoying flickering shadows, just like most modern games. Laggy low framerate. Story about stupid people you don't care about killing other stupid people you don't care about either. Graphics which barely makes it visible if it's day or night, good weather or raining. Fun sandbox gaming, which really is what this is all about. Missions seem easier than previous GTAs, which made me play more of them. EDIT: increase in-game brightness and contrast and the game will look much better!



4Army of TwoPlays just like a polished Gears of War (co-op splitscreen) but without the monsters. Supposedly not very good in single-player mode. 8h long.



3.5Gears of WarFun in co-op splitscreen. Almost black and white graphics, with a touch of dark red for blood. Quite buggy and slow controls. 7h long.



2The DarknessBoring story. Dated graphics. About 3 small "levels". 7h long.



3PortalFun tech-demo. 2-3h long.



2.5Halo 3It has splitscreen co-op. Average graphics and super boring story with a faceless bloke trying to be cool.



4OverlordFun Pikmin-ripoff. Too bad about the 360's noise.



1TurokWhy did they bother making this? It has nothing new not seen in other games. On top of that, it has sub-standard graphics showing off UE3.



3Assassins Creed



2Beautiful Katamari



3BioShock



3BlueDragon



4Burnout Paradise



2Dead Rising



2Lost Odyssey



2Devil May Cry 4



2.5Earth Defence Force



3The Elder Scrolls IV Oblivion



2Rainbow Six Vegas



2Time Shift



2Virtua Fighter 5