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Hey guys, I recently signed up for a rental site (Gamerang) and I'm looking for some other games to rent.

So far I've played:

Gears of War (love of course)
Call of Duty 3 (great)
Dead Rising (save points suck ass)
Saints Row (Loved it, just beat it)
Lost Planet (hated it)

Rainbow Six: Vegas is on my list (played it on PC), as is Bullet Witch

Any other recommendations?

Although Gears is the more fun game, Vegas is actually the better game. More options, more to do, far better tactical, and more and better modes, including multiplayer. But Gears has the far higher fun factor. So even though Vegas is the better game, I turn on Gears more.

Check out Viva Pinata. Game really is better than you think it's going to be and Microshaft seems intent on supporting it with downloadable episodes monthly.

I'd HIGHLY recommend Lego Star Wars 2. Game is insanely fun. The XBLArcade disc is cheap and has some great little games on it, especially Geometry Wars. I can get one for about $10 Cdn now, so you should be able to find it cheap. PGR3 is great if you love the series. Nothing new, just a very good version of it. And, of course, Oblivion if you like RPGs

Those and Dead Rising are the only games I'd considering "worth it". Most other stuff is overdone fluff. I got Prey cheap and it's just there.

splinter cell - double agent is a nice entry into the series. I'm really enjoying the multiplayer.... with the exception that I am terrible at it. I am so intimidated by it that I don't play it, I just sit and yearn for it, and thus I don't really know the maps well and just get annihilated regardless of which team I'm on (spies v mercs for those who haven't tried it). So I say pick it up and give it a spin.... single player is a little more unconventional than the previous ones (sometimes the levels are bright), but the multiplayer is really intriguing.

Crackdown is pretty much the only next gen game that's gotten my attention so far.

Kupek wrote:Crackdown is pretty much the only next gen game that's gotten my attention so far.

Over Gears and R6?

I can't really recommend anything else. The only games I've played a ton of are Gears and Dead Rising.

I've heard nothing but crap about this Bullet Witch.

I'm really excited for Mass Effect and BioShock but they won't be out until the summer.

From demos I've played recently, the new NBA Street is really fun but the new Def Jam game is garbage. As for Crackdown... I've only played the demo and it didn't do much for me. Since I'm already in the Halo Beta, I don't think I'll be picking up Crackdown.

Crackdown is a great game (but if you didn't like the demo, you won't like the full game), the problem is it is a little lacking in content.

I can add a few to the list:

COD2 (great game imo)
Enchant Arms (worth a rental)
Top Spin 2
Oblivion (obviously)

And I don't know if you had an Xbox last gen, but if not, there are some great games you might wanna catch up on.

Fight Night Round 3 is worth playing on the 360 even if you played the PS2 version. The graphics are utterly ridiculous, and it just *feels* real. Highly, highly recommended.

The only other game I own for the 360 is Project Gotham Racing. I haven't played it enough to really judge, but it's shiny as fuck. Very very pretty. It was fun the one or two times I played it before getting snowed under with work... (shrug)

Another recommendation for Fight Night from me. It's a really solid game.

CRAAAACKDOOOWWWWN is unbelievably awesome. I'd have bought the system for it. I've probably played better games over the past few years, but I can't think of anything I've had more fun with. Kali's right, though; if you don't dig the demo, you won't like the full game. I've been playing the demo daily since it was released and bought the full game last week and haven't put it down since then. It's just so, so much fun.

Geometry Wars and Lumines Live are both worthy buying from Live, and are similarly fun time-killer-y.

Gears is lovely, but lacking something. It didn't hold my attention.

Viva Pinata is great.

GRAW and Oblivion are both excellent. Splinter Cell: DA comes close to being completely awesome but lacked inspiration.

(tangentially: I'm really surprised by how many great games have been released on the 360 - I bought it mostly because I had cash to burn, but I've never regretted the purchase. And so much really good stuff coming out!)

I'm kinda the opposite on the 360 as you, Andrew. I got it 'cause I was able to get it for cheap. Really, Gears and R6 are the only games I think are actually worth it. Lots of fun other games, but nothing worth buying a system over. Live is great, very well done, but I wouldn't actually pay for it. And there are about 5-6 games anyone could get.

But the vast majority of those games came out since September. Really, before that there was very little on the system to really warrant the purchase and no "must-have" IMO. The system is starting to pick up steam now but it really did have a pretty poor first year. And even know I don't know if it's worth the very high cost.

I definitely get where you're coming from. The 360 did have a very dry first year, and even now there's only the one game I would really consider buying the system for (the aforementioned Crackdown). But it's reached a critical mass of really solid titles now, and with those titles and the exciting stuff that's coming out for it within the next year (Bioshock, Mass Effect, Halo 3, Valve's stuff, etc.), I don't think many gamers* would regret the purchase.

* The exceptions: fans of Japanese-developed games. The system remains really weak for those, and will almost certainly remain weak compared to the PS3 for Japanese stuff. But this isn't as huge an issue for me as it was a few years ago, because the stuff I'm most excited about these days is coming out of the West.

Zeus wrote:Over Gears and R6?

Definitely. It's been a while since FPSes have excited me, although those both sounds like good games. But instead of being something new, they sounds like an excellent revision of the formula. I'd certainly have fun playing them, but not so much that I'd consider buying a 360.

Crackdown, on the other hand, sounds like something I've never played before.

Kupek wrote:

Zeus wrote:Over Gears and R6?

Definitely. It's been a while since FPSes have excited me, although those both sounds like good games. But instead of being something new, they sounds like an excellent revision of the formula. I'd certainly have fun playing them, but not so much that I'd consider buying a 360.

Crackdown, on the other hand, sounds like something I've never played before.

It just sounds so much like a GTA rip to me. I coulda gotten it for $30 and decided not to and got Cooking Mama for the Wii instead

Zeus wrote:It just sounds so much like a GTA rip to me.

It's not. I'm not sure I'll be able to play a ground-bound GTA-alike ever again; Crackdown has ruined me for them. I was really excited for Mercenaries 2 until Crackdown got its claws into me.

Crackdown is great..but you can beat it in a weekend.

Zeus wrote:It just sounds so much like a GTA rip to me. I coulda gotten it for $30 and decided not to and got Cooking Mama for the Wii instead

http://www.1up.com/do/reviewPage?cId=31 ... ec=REVIEWS

A short playthrough time doesn't concern me, since the order you take out the bosses effects later gameplay. It sounds ripe for multiple playthroughs. I really want to play this game, but I don't $450 want to play this game.

Kupek wrote:

Zeus wrote:It just sounds so much like a GTA rip to me. I coulda gotten it for $30 and decided not to and got Cooking Mama for the Wii instead

http://www.1up.com/do/reviewPage?cId=31 ... ec=REVIEWS

A short playthrough time doesn't concern me, since the order you take out the bosses effects later gameplay. It sounds ripe for multiple playthroughs. I really want to play this game, but I don't $450 want to play this game.

http://www.gamerankings.com/htmlpages2/930144.asp

Yeah, I know it's been rated well, but just the type of game doesn't excite me

Black Lotus wrote:I can't really recommend anything else. The only games I've played a ton of are Gears and Dead Rising.

I've heard nothing but crap about this Bullet Witch.

I'm really excited for Mass Effect and BioShock but they won't be out until the summer.

From demos I've played recently, the new NBA Street is really fun but the new Def Jam game is garbage. As for Crackdown... I've only played the demo and it didn't do much for me. Since I'm already in the Halo Beta, I don't think I'll be picking up Crackdown.

As a late continuation on this one, I picked up Def Jam Icon (which is the one I assume you're talking about), and I'm having a fucking blast. What did you find wrong with it?

the gameplay in Icon ust feels dry compared to the last games. even with the emphasis on beat and whatnot it just doesn't feel like it flows as well as the others did.

A game I will add though after playing it at Wondercon is The Darkness (Freaking insanely awesome usage of environment and enemy AI. The difference between being in light and dark is amazing. goes from weilding guns and weaker weapns to being a walking slaughterhouse. But the intelligent enemy AI kicks your ass by actually being smart. They fight the darkness with oh say flashlights and flashbangs.)

and no...I'm not just complimenting it because it's a comic book game.....I'm complimenting it ecaus it really was fun as hell.

Nev wrote:

Black Lotus wrote:I can't really recommend anything else. The only games I've played a ton of are Gears and Dead Rising.

I've heard nothing but crap about this Bullet Witch.

I'm really excited for Mass Effect and BioShock but they won't be out until the summer.

From demos I've played recently, the new NBA Street is really fun but the new Def Jam game is garbage. As for Crackdown... I've only played the demo and it didn't do much for me. Since I'm already in the Halo Beta, I don't think I'll be picking up Crackdown.

As a late continuation on this one, I picked up Def Jam Icon (which is the one I assume you're talking about), and I'm having a fucking blast. What did you find wrong with it?

This is actually a game I am interested in. I picked up the first game for a cheap price as a joke. As it turned out, the game kicked ass, so I bought the second one as well, and am wondering about the third as I heard a lot of good things about it a few years back when it was still early in its development. Now I will admit that the second game (despight having much more content) was a bit of a slip from the first game, but even so the game was still a must have for fans of the first. The second game did just about everything better than the first, but I felt the fight system of the first was more solid; and that's the thing that makes the difference in the long run.

this one is more generic with the fighting than the last. the beat thing is interesting but the game is so devolved from the last that it's hard to even consider them to be the same franchise. Really sad. I wanted to like it but just couln't get past how generic it was compared to the others.