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In all honesty though...
There's one thing and one thing alone that gives the PS3 any graphical advantage over the 360, and that's Blu-ray discs (more space, more stuff you can pack in). I've heard a lot of talk about all how the 360's online features are much better, and that may be the case, but the PS3 has decent enough online features, it's free (I don't have an extra $50 a year) and on the two games I actually play online, there's enough people (Battlefield: Bad Company and GoldenEye 007 Reloaded).
MGS4, the Uncharted series, the Resistance series, God of War, The Last of Us... these are all good enough reasons for me to pick the PS3 over the 360. I was never a Halo fan (I prefer the books) and other than that, the 360 doesn't have many exclusives anyway, now that nearly every game is cross-console. It's main center of exclusives is the Xbox Live Arcade, and none of those games really appeal to me.
http://i.imgur.com/VIaBF.jpg
Seriously? You're a lucky man. I went through 10 360s in 2 years. Constantly returning the replacements they sent me after only a month or two due to the next RROD. The last straw was when the, then new, Elite I bought to try and get out the loop went down after 6 weeks!
Got it replaced and immediately traded it for a 60Gb PS3. That still works and is used by the kids, and I bought a 250Gb Slim when those came out. It has had the BluRay drive give up the ghost but I replaced it myself. Piece of cake.
I really liked the 360 when it worked but, after the reliability issues I had, you can understand why I'd never buy another!
I stumped up for PS Plus and don't regret it at all. They've given away over £400 worth of games in the last 18 months!
I will be reserving the Premium Edition from GameStop as soon as it's available. I've already played the hell out of BM, but SA and 'Contracts' haven't been played by me in many, many years, and I recall the amount of fun I had on those. It's most certainly worth the $40.
Amazon.com is now taking pre-orders.
At a price like this, go ahead and give it a shot. I can commend it and point out how great the graphics were, how entertaining the new features were, and how fun the bits of foreshadowing were throughout the game, if you knew when to look out for them. I just felt the formula and gameplay had changed entirely, so most of it felt like a run-and-gun. But, give it a shot. I will say this: going back to the world of Hitman with 'Absolution' has made me that much more excited for this 'Hitman HD Trilogy.'
I'm not sure. What's the point of a 'trilogy?' Just add in 'Codename 47.' I've never had the chance to play it.
I'm sure my hours will already be sucked into 'Hitman 2' and 'Contracts.'
Contracts is pretty much a Remake of Codename 47 but removes 47's backstory and starts directly after Codename 47. It's confusing. And from what I've seen of codename 47, you're not missing that much.
Here's the 'Tomb Raider' Guide to Survival trailer:
http://www.xbox360achievements.org/news/news-13687-Tomb-Raider-Guide-to-Survival-Trailer-Looks-at--Smart-Resourceful-Lara-.html
I went ahead and bought Absolution today. I can't get used to not having the silenced Silverballer(s), but it is a really nice looking game. I have played up to...
I was about to post that, after having just seen it on IGN, it's looking good.
I play the Petronas Towers missions in SA for hours. Basement Killing/Graveyard Shift/Jacuzzi Job. Reminds me of Nightfire a bit.
Awesome! It looks very promising. Thanks for the link, @Creasy47!
@MajorDSmythe, I know how you feel. Don't get me wrong, there are some missions that take you back to that old Hitman feel, but most of it is so far past what I expected, in a bad way.
It was refreshing to have a game that doesn't use Call Of Duty and it's snap on shooting as it's inspiration for the combat.
I played the first Borderlands but I haven't played the new one, or Brothers In Arms. I didn't know they made Half Life, I love the 2nd game and I have all the other Episodes for it.
Anyway, was that actually Michael Biehn's voice at the beginning? Was that a voice clip from Aliens?
Anybody else notice that one guy (the one you see in the player when you haven't pressed play on the video, otherwise he's at 1:09) kind of looks like Woods from COD Black Ops?
"I'm Captain Crews and you're my crew" - good line.
Yep it was. Apparently he's in the game but nobody knows how big a role he has. It might just be the message for all we know.
I hope not though. It'd be badass getting to fight alongside Hicks.
Xbox has Splinter Cell Conviction, Forza (not a huge fan but the new one looks good) and Gears Of War. As well as a much better lay out for the homepage, etc, and I've found it to be more reliable than the playstation.
Well, let's see... From what I've played, Conviction wasn't exactly the best game (so far, that goes to Double Agent), never been a racing fan and Gears of War always felt like a very generic shooter with crappy characters.
Altogether, MGS4 beats the bunch.
As far as the layout... well, I don't know. Both the Xbox Dashboard and the XMB have their advantages, but neither really excels at anything. I have heard that Xbox Live is better than the PSN, but I don't play enough online games to care, and the two that I do play (GE Reloaded and Battlefield Bad Company) are just fine on the PS3.
Conviction improved most of the stealth by streamlining it. The whole light/shadows thing was really improved. It had lots of great new features, and if you were spotted you didn't get an instant fail and you weren't killed by the guards in just a few shots. You could get to a good hiding spot and escape.
The only downside is you couldn't drag bodies, etc. And since most of that seems to be coming back in Blacklist, I think that it might top Chaos Theory as my favourite one.
That is a shame, but it doesn't bother me that much thinking about it now.
Ironside is still involved, and they had a good reason for replacing him. They want all the animations, etc, to look as good as possible, so they need an actor that can do the mocap stuff.
And I don't think it'll hurt to get a fresh take on things. You never know, the new guy might actually be better.
He moves like a 20 year old because of the same reason a 50 odd year old Ezio (and snake? idk, I don't play Metal Gear) moved the same way he did as a teenager: It's a game and it'd be no fun playing as a character who stopped in the middle of an action scene because of his bad back or something.
I don't think Ironside is that great, he sounded monotone alot of the time, and we won't know if he's irreplaceable or not until the game comes out. I'm sure people said the same thing about Sean Connery but if everybody thought "he's irreplaceable, there's no point!" we wouldn't have so many great Bond films.
Best voice in video games imo is either the bloke who voiced Ezio or the one who voiced Duke Nukem. Actually Max Payne has a pretty badass voice too, he'd be a contender.