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CBFcarl
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PostPosted: 13:36 - 03 Jan 2014    Post subject: Xbox 360 Games with gold Reply with quote

This month (jan 1st - 15th) is Sleeping Dogs. If you have Xbox Live Gold, it is free. I picked it up in October for a tenner and it is worth every penny.
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sabian92
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PostPosted: 18:02 - 03 Jan 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote

Can vouch for this.

Bloody fantastic game. Only downside to it is that 99% of these games drive on the right and I kept crashing into other cars thinking I was on the right side of the road Laughing
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PostPosted: 21:48 - 03 Jan 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote

I know what I'll be doing tomorrow then!
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metalangel
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PostPosted: 23:41 - 03 Jan 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote

Very strongly recommend this game, the fighting alone is worth the price of admission, and I hate fighting games. My advice is learn the leg break move as soon as you can, it's great fun to do both to baddies and just passers by.
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sabian92
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PostPosted: 01:12 - 04 Jan 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote

metalangel wrote:
Very strongly recommend this game, the fighting alone is worth the price of admission, and I hate fighting games. My advice is learn the leg break move as soon as you can, it's great fun to do both to baddies and just passers by.


I cringe at that, I can't bring myself to do it Laughing

Actually another downside - the amount of sodding button combos for moves. I just end up button-mashing my way through the fight clubs.
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metalangel
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PostPosted: 02:17 - 04 Jan 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote

sabian92 wrote:


I cringe at that, I can't bring myself to do it Laughing

Actually another downside - the amount of sodding button combos for moves. I just end up button-mashing my way through the fight clubs.


It (and the arm break) serve a useful purpose, they make the other gang members recoil just like you did Razz buys you a few crucial seconds to reposition or pick a new target.

Trick is to let them just come to you, and then counter the hell out of them, especially if there's a lot. The fight club was pretty hard, as I always struggled against the big grappler guys. They do far too many moves that hurt a lot and require a QTE to avoid.

Playing the fight club is very very good practice for the proper game, as you can get into the habit of dragging the weaker guys over to the railings at the end and just chucking them over, useful for the environmental kills later on.

One guy I know says one of the girlfriends showed up outside his apartment mouthing off so he broke her leg! Laughing
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sabian92
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PostPosted: 20:16 - 04 Jan 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote

metalangel wrote:
sabian92 wrote:


I cringe at that, I can't bring myself to do it Laughing

Actually another downside - the amount of sodding button combos for moves. I just end up button-mashing my way through the fight clubs.


It (and the arm break) serve a useful purpose, they make the other gang members recoil just like you did Razz buys you a few crucial seconds to reposition or pick a new target.

Trick is to let them just come to you, and then counter the hell out of them, especially if there's a lot. The fight club was pretty hard, as I always struggled against the big grappler guys. They do far too many moves that hurt a lot and require a QTE to avoid.

Playing the fight club is very very good practice for the proper game, as you can get into the habit of dragging the weaker guys over to the railings at the end and just chucking them over, useful for the environmental kills later on.

One guy I know says one of the girlfriends showed up outside his apartment mouthing off so he broke her leg! Laughing


I know they're really good moves to use, which makes it worse!

I used to just button-bash, throw them off the edge and hit the fat ones then run off Laughing

I never really bothered with the girlfriend thing, too much hassle. I play The Sims for that Laughing
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metalangel
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PostPosted: 22:38 - 04 Jan 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote

The girlfriends tend to be one mission each, it's not like GTA, and they're often related to the main story. Not Ping was quite cute too.

Fat ones, run up and bash and then run is the best option. The arrival of the guns was almost a disappointment after all the hand to hand fun.

I never bothered much with the cars either, taxi everywhere. The driving physics sucked, though the car chases were decent, I guess.
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PostPosted: 16:33 - 16 Jan 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote

From today until the end of the month it is a Lara Croft game.
Reviews point to something decent. Will download tonight / tomorrow and give you my two pence worth.
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PostPosted: 12:24 - 17 Jan 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote

they finally give something slightly more recent and not an live arcade game they've had pretty much no sales of for years and i've sold my xbox Laughing

is the lara croft one the isometric co-op one? if so it's very very old but it's a decent enough game when played co-op
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PostPosted: 13:10 - 17 Jan 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote

Quite liked sleeping dogs although I already own it, car handling was arcade but some of the bikes looked like they could actually exist, which is novel when you consider the spaztacular POS bikes found in games like saints row.

New one is a crap Lara Croft game, not the excellent newish Tomb Raider game. There are exceptions but most of the freebies are pretty crap.
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PostPosted: 01:11 - 01 Feb 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote

UPDATE

Februarys games:

1st - 15th - Dead Island https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Island

16th - 28th - Toy Soldiers: Cold War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toy_Soldiers:_Cold_War
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CBFcarl
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PostPosted: 10:59 - 22 Feb 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote

Has anyone played Toy Soldiers yet? I had half an hour on it, not a bad tower defence game where you can play as the toys...

Also, World of Tanks is free on XBL, went to stick it on last night but it took about 30 minutes of updating / downloading tanks and maps so I lost interest before I played anything... is it worth sticking with?
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metalangel
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PostPosted: 16:47 - 22 Feb 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote

CBFcarl wrote:
Has anyone played Toy Soldiers yet? I had half an hour on it, not a bad tower defence game where you can play as the toys...


The first one was fun... especially the amount of effort they put into capturing the feel of both World War 1 and tin miniature toys. It was also rather disturbing watching your machinegun nests cutting down waves of soldiers as they charged across No Man's Land.

The second one should have appealed to me (being a child of the 80s) but it just didn't hook me, it felt like it was trying too hard to show how 80s it was.
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