Ten 360 Games You Haven't Played – Part 2

clevernickname - 205 days ago

I liked TimeShift and thought it was a little underrated. The time control mechanic is actually quite cool, but like the glaive in Dark Sector the novelty soon wears off. Yeah, the storyline is a bizarre mess and the time control aspect is not fully realized with the use of intriguing puzzles, but the graphics are quite good and the combat is satisfying with some spectacular explosions.

I quite enjoyed Dark Sector. It was a challenge at first to nail down the glaive, but once that was done I thoroughly enjoyed finishing the game even though it did get repetitive.

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indysurfn - 204 days 22 hours ago

Seeing that the xbox360 has over 500 games (more than any other console). I wonder how they chose these? Multiplatform games? There are way over two hundred that are not on PS3. HEllo! This is a PS3 fantoys dream list (to put the 360 down that is)

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Aloren - 204 days 21 hours ago

Timeshift was great imo, better than dark sector, though dark sector was still ok. They're in my collection in the "games that had a good idea that ended up being used too much" section, along with fracture...

Anyway, nice article, except that I own like 8 of those "ten 360 games I haven't played" :-D

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ambientFLIER - 204 days 8 hours ago

Timeshift's beginning and end missions were great, but the middle, in the forest, was pretty boring and repetitive.

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REALgamer - 205 days 3 hours ago

Was surprised how engrossing it was.

I'm still waiting for the aussie release of Star Ocean 4. =) I've been loving Infinite Undiscovery so anything from Tri-Ace (and Tri-Crescendo for Eternal Sonata) is always on my radar.

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Immortal Kaim - 205 days 3 hours ago

Never played Enchanted Arms, I suppose it's dirt cheap now, may have to pick it up.

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Superfragilistic - 205 days 3 hours ago

Not sure about enchanted arms.

But Viking and Too Human are definitely worth your dollars. Must be the Nordic stuff that does it for me! lol

But seriously both great fun, long playtime and some cool new ideas.

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Godem - 205 days 2 hours ago

Kaim, you gotta get Enchanted Arms its great fun! You can get it for cheap as now!

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RememberThe357 - 204 days 23 hours ago

It's really freakin short for an RPG (8hrs), but for the price, it was definitely worth it. Every gripe I heard about was present, but not to the degree it was played up to be. The game had a ton of potential, but was just too short and unpolished.

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Superfragilistic - 204 days 22 hours ago

Agreed.

Too Human was a great idea, poorly executed.

I didn't have a complaint about the length because it's meant to be replayed over and over, but I had a serious complaintabout the lack of randomly generated levels, particularly when you level up and the enemies become much tougher and varied.

Hopefully they can fill out the story, figure out what to do with cyberspace (Resident Evil puzzles please!) and just improve the polish. But I hope they keep the dual joysticks, I actually came to love that.

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indysurfn - 204 days 22 hours ago

NO!!!! After Lost odyssey by mistwalker the next best RPG is Blue dragon also by mistwalker. Then FableII by Microsoft. Then Star-Ocen IV by Square Enix-triace. Then tales of vesperia by namco. Then Last remnant by Square Enix. Then infinite undiscovery by Square Enix. The last three depends on the kind of fighting you like. I liked enchant arms, but it was all by itself, and the first next gen-ish RPG graphics. It is not in the top nine.

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callahan09 - 204 days 18 hours ago

Enchanted Arms was great. Perfect battle system!

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Soda Popinsky - 205 days 2 hours ago

Didn't like it at all. The level design was completely broken and left you with trial-and-error gameplay since you never knew where to go. Having to retry the same parts of the game over and over grows old pretty fast. Less art direction and more gameplay would have made it better.

Viking: Battle for Asgard is an awesome game. I recommend everyone to try it out.

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Godem - 205 days 1 hour ago

by the end of the game, it becomes more of a test of willpower, as you will be throwing your controller at the wall.

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Superfragilistic - 204 days 22 hours ago

Agreed mate. The level design just became trial and error and infuriating on higher levels. I'm still yet to finish it and don't plan to anytime soon.

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II Necroplasm II - 205 days 2 hours ago

I enjoyed both games, well I have AIDS as well.

I'm joking.

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REALgamer - 205 days 1 hour ago

I've actually be the reverse of your comment!

Hated Bullet Witch, but enjoyed Enchanted Arms and Too Human.

But I reckon the best game on the list is Viking: Battle for Asgard. It seems everyone who's played it really likes it, it's just that hardly anyone has played it.

Anyone reading this, GO AND BUY VIKING NOW. Awesome game.

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II Necroplasm II - 205 days 2 hours ago

Hack-n-Slash based games are not that popular anyway.

EDIT: I'm talking about real Hack-n-Slash games.

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clevernickname - 205 days ago

The god-awful control scheme and the annoying death animation mechanic killed whatever desire I had for this game.

I seriously wonder if they did any play testing on this title at all.

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Panthers - 204 days 22 hours ago

Maybe most of that Trillion that downloaded the demo didnt like it.

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Aloren - 204 days 21 hours ago

Lots of reasons :
- people expected it would be an rpg, so a very long game, while it wasn't, it's just a HnS, something you're supposed to play through dozens of times, not something you spend 50 houyrs to play through once.
- people thought it would play like an action game, and that wasn't the case. The default camera was also a very bad one imo, the "HnS view" was much better.
- the storyline felt like the end of the game was the end of the prologue (which in a way, it is), that's probably why people felt it was too short, since the game stops when it gets interesting.
- the controls where not as bad as what people thought, but they lacked a proper tutorial. They were actually well adapted to the game and worked quited well...
- and finally too miuch hype and a stupid developer !

It wasn't a bad game, it was just "misunderstood" :-D

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KaBaW - 204 days 4 hours ago

Actually, I liked the control scheme.. It's different.
It takes a bit of getting used to, but once you do, it's good fun and works well.
Agree with the Valkyrie animation, though.

I still play Too Human every now and again.
Much funner with a friend, though.

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REALgamer - 205 days 1 hour ago

They're all around 70%. 7/10 is hardly 'horrible'.

It seems people just associated 'good' or 'decent' with horrible because they were surrounded by other big games that stole all the attention.

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XboxOZ360 - 204 days 21 hours ago

Hey mate, didn't youknow that any game that doesn't get an 8 or above is a failure now. . so why waste ttime even playing them if they get below 8. Jk btw.

That seems to be the dumb simplton view on many gamers these days. Games with scores around the 7 mark are still excellent games, A 5 is 'supposed' to represent a middle range game that's on average. Below that it's questionable at best. 7's and 8's are great games, 8-9's are excellent, and 9-10's are well above average (funny that) and worth the buy regardless.

SO a 7 should not deter anyone from buying a game. Many games these days get lower scores than gamers expect, and they are extremely harsh on new IP's. Not realizing that a new game is just that. An untried test to see how a franchise will go. Thing is, these days, some games are canned because they have figured out that they may get an average score of below 8, thus meaning they won't sell.

Several developers have tinned many games over the last 18 months because of that, some of then excellent stories and from the early looks, shapping up to be decent games.

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mastiffchild - 204 days 13 hours ago

Blame attention spans and Metcritic if you ask me. If I was marking a game out of ten then , yeah, 5 would be pretty nmuch average score-but then I wouldn't be handing out the 10's and 9.5's that sites do. Saldy, on most sites/mags 7/10 is now just about average and having played a few games that got a 5 or 6 just strengthened that opinion in me.

Some games that have got 6/10 have been totally broken and deserving of maybe 3 at best while in Edge I sometimes feel that 7 is a decent score which the give to decent games but then they spoil it by giving poor marks to great games(Killzone2 and Mass Effect spring to mind as ones deserving at least 8.5 from a harsh judge and would bth get 9's from me)just to get hits.

Also devs/pibs put pressure on to ensure 7's at the very least and as a result peoples expectations have risen to the point where even an 8/10 review can produce bile from fans these days.

I don't think that scores tell you mich generally and you can only hope to find either a site or writer that tends to share your opinion-otherwise the scoring varies so wildly that even aggregates are meaningless.

So while 7/10 SHOULD be a pretty good game the truth is it often isn't.

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Halo3 MLG Pro - 204 days 22 hours ago

I totally agree. Virtua Fighter 5 is the best 3D fighter around but not for the squeamish. Difficult to master and only the hardcore should apply. I understand why most people prefer the noob friendly games like Tekken. Challenging games usually send the weak to an easier option.

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XboxOZ360 - 204 days 21 hours ago

Soul Calibur is almost like game-pron ..a bit over the top in regards to female visuals though, which is to be expected from Japanese developers.

Any chance they can get to show a 'shorts' shot, they'll take it.

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Aloren - 204 days 16 hours ago

Because the only console where AAA exclusives fits the description of "games you haven't played" is the PS3.

See ? it's so funny to troll around..."ah ah" well no it's not, so why don't you make like a tree…and get outta here ? ;)

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Too_Hyped - 204 days 15 hours ago

Trolling reported.

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MadAdam4 - 204 days 15 hours ago

Your kind are not welcome here. If you don't have anything useful to say, then get out of here. Troll elsewhere.

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Too_Hyped - 204 days 14 hours ago

Hey, I was SERIOUSLY asking why there were no 2009 exclusives in the list... What's wrong with you ?

2009 games like Halo Wars could well be in the list...

Xbox fanboys are really nervous these days.

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Aloren - 204 days 14 hours ago

Oh wow, my apologies !! sorry, I was mistaken because at first you sounded trollish, but then I realized this post wasn't trollish, the trollish one was the almost exact same copy of it you posted in the open zone...this one was just SERIOUS business.

Be careful though, some might think that being the same person, you meant the same trollish thing, which would mean that you were trolling the gamer zone knowingly ...

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ambientFLIER - 204 days 8 hours ago

So, that didn't work in the Gamer Zone, so you had to try it here?

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