Xbox Live Marketplace and Live Arcade Discussion

[Acid]

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Just got done playing some of the Just Cause demo, and it's pretty badass.

I'm definately getting it, when does it come out?

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Nevermind, just looked it up, 9/26.

[jgo777]

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Anyone try the new Test Drive demo? How is it?

[Pratt75]

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Very cool, downloading both of these now. Hopefully the NHL demo will be up soon.

[23]

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What is just cause.. and can anyone explain to me how it works

[Admiral50]

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Syhpon Filter mixed with Far Cry, with a small touch of GTA.

I hated the demo actually. Crap animation, scripted stunts, bad collision detection, aiming and shooting gameplay of a PS1 game, above average graphics, stiff controls overall.

Test Drive is not bad. Definitely better than the E3 demo with slightly better graphics and handling. But after playing and enjoying so many open ended games, it's annoying that you get a screen reset whenever your vehicle goes slightly off road into the forest or beach areas.

In general as a racing game I wouldn't rate it against PGR3, but for an online racing game it could be fun.

Pity the demo freezes your 360 often when playing it online.

Again, bring on Madden and Live demo's

[warnerwlf98]

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What is just cause.. and can anyone explain to me how it works

Just cause is a GTA type game, where the main character is an agent who wants to bring down an authoritarian government in some islands near South America (I think). It's like GTA in that it's a 3rd person perspective game with tons of weapons and tons of vehicles to drive, including fighter planes and helicopters.

It's different in the fact that this game focuses on stunts - whenever you're in a car, you can press a button to get out and stand on the hood. Couple that with a parachute that you're permanently equipped with and you can jump off cars off cliffs and so on.

In the demo you get to mess around on a small island of the chain in the upper left corner of the game map. This small island is small on the map, but it's pretty big to get around - I'd liken it to Las Venturas in GTA- SA or so. Compare that to the rest of the map and it's less than 10% (approximately) of the whole world, a humongous world.

While it has all these good things going for it, there are some things that could be improved and hopefully will turn out better for release - maybe a few will and some can't be fixed.

- As admiral said, targeting is pretty bad - Matrix Path of Neo was easier to use, and that wasn't great. Press LB to target, but that doesn't work too well - you wind up just shooting a lot and enemies get automatically targeted.

-When you drive, you can't look behind the car easily - you have to use the right stick to rotate the camera (a la the way PGR 3 lets you look around the car while driving).

-The controls say you can crouch, but I couldn't get it to work. You can't run either, and the controls do seem sort of stiff as Admiral also said.

-When flying the helicopter, you can't control yaw (azimuthal movement), while you can control pitch and roll. Sort of awkward.

It's not revolutionary (no pun intended . . . because the game is about revolution) and not head and shoulders above others that came before it, but it is fun, pretty to look at, and maybe they'll touch it up before it gets released in a month. To me, this game has more "soul" than Saints Row.

[CaptainZombie]

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Just cause is a GTA type game, where the main character is an agent who wants to bring down an authoritarian government in some islands near South America (I think). It's like GTA in that it's a 3rd person perspective game with tons of weapons and tons of vehicles to drive, including fighter planes and helicopters.

It's different in the fact that this game focuses on stunts - whenever you're in a car, you can press a button to get out and stand on the hood. Couple that with a parachute that you're permanently equipped with and you can jump off cars off cliffs and so on.

In the demo you get to mess around on a small island of the chain in the upper left corner of the game map. This small island is small on the map, but it's pretty big to get around - I'd liken it to Las Venturas in GTA- SA or so. Compare that to the rest of the map and it's less than 10% (approximately) of the whole world, a humongous world.

While it has all these good things going for it, there are some things that could be improved and hopefully will turn out better for release - maybe a few will and some can't be fixed.

- As admiral said, targeting is pretty bad - Matrix Path of Neo was easier to use, and that wasn't great. Press LB to target, but that doesn't work too well - you wind up just shooting a lot and enemies get automatically targeted.

-When you drive, you can't look behind the car easily - you have to use the right stick to rotate the camera (a la the way PGR 3 lets you look around the car while driving).

-The controls say you can crouch, but I couldn't get it to work. You can't run either, and the controls do seem sort of stiff as Admiral also said.

-When flying the helicopter, you can't control yaw (azimuthal movement), while you can control pitch and roll. Sort of awkward.

It's not revolutionary (no pun intended . . . because the game is about revolution) and not head and shoulders above others that came before it, but it is fun, pretty to look at, and maybe they'll touch it up before it gets released in a month. To me, this game has more "soul" than Saints Row.

I know many people are also forgetting the Pursuit Force influence here of jumping in and out of vehicles.

[goh]

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The TD demo isn't very different. It has a motorcycle. If you didn't like it before you won't now,if you liked it you'll probably like it more. I didn't like it.

I didn't like Just Cause very much but I can see the potentional. The controls are just horrid. I'll give it a few more chances though.

There's also 2 episodes of Viva Pinata up.

[jgo777]

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There's also 2 episodes of Viva Pinata up.

I'll be downloading the VP episodes. My 3 year old loves watching the E3 Viva Pinata video (which I'm getting pretty tired of).

[goh]

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To further the DLC bull....

About Lumines wich apprently cost 1200 points to begin with

"Citing a review in the latest issue of OXM, Gamingbits.com reports that further charges to gamers will be made to advance in the game. According to Gamingbits, the review states that gamers will be "prompted to buy the Puzzle/Mission Pack" for 400 Marketplace points at some point during the game's mission mode. In the VS CPU mode, the Web site reports that OXM says that players will be "blocked by signage declaring: 'You need the VS CPU Pack'" for 300 Marketplace points. (As of press time, GameSpot was unable to obtain a copy of OXM for confirmation.)

While the game "prompts" gamers for a Puzzle/Mission Pack, the verbiage doesn't necessarily say it requires it. More disturbing is the description of the VS CPU Pack, which apparently says, "You need the VS CPU Pack"." (http://www.gamespot.com/news/show_bl...stnews;title;4)

[Pared]

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That's pathetic... if there would actually be some games released for this damn stale system...

It's as if your only option is to buy one of the three games released a month or tons of XBL crap.

[USF11]

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That's pathetic... if there would actually be some games released for this damn stale system...

It's as if your only option is to buy one of the three games released a month or tons of XBL crap.

Welcome to next-gen. The same thing is gonna happen with the PS3. Longer development times and higher costs. And nintendo doesnt have the greatest 3rd party support either.

You have to admit Texas Holdem is great.

[Admiral50]

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Well the key for me is the so called 'A games' are actually, barely 'B quality'.

Stuff like Perfect Dark, Kameo, PGR3, Oblivion, DOA and Saints Row seems to be set to follow. I can actually see GOW doing the same.

Good, playable and fun games worth the purchase but as yet, nothing amazing. If there wasn't so much talk around all these crappy XBL arcade game, it would certainly be a quieter, almost stale feeling to the 360.

[ExtremeGamer]

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Keep it on the marketplace guys. The same poeple seem to complain every few days about the 360 in here. If you don't like the system, sell it. But this is the marketplace thread, nothing more, nothing less. Thanks.

[CaptainZombie]

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Just Cause is a cool game and even better than what some complainers have been crying about at other message boards. Not only does this game have elements from GTA and the engine/environments from Far Cry, but everyone seems to be forgetting about PURSUIT FORCE for the PSP where you can "Jump Stunt" from vehicle to vehicle. JC has nice graphics + I think the gameplay is very interesting.

Test Drive Unlimited, is a very beautiful game. I never had the chance to play the demo form before, but is this game stunning. I was talking with DXZeke last night and he told me that you need to turn off the CPU Assist and you will drive 100x better not swerving all over the place like I was. The details in the cars and environment is simply amazing, this game reminds so much of a game called NEED FOR SPEED in terms of gameplay + environment before they went Underground. Many forget that the Test Drive series goes back to 1987, even older than NFS which copied the TD formula.