Red Dead Redemption

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I picked this game up Yesterday and had a bit of a blast on Multiplayer last night.

I have two words to describe it 1)Cowboy 2)Awesome

I joined into a game with three of my mates, the traditional gaming lobby you would see in games such as COD:MW and Halo has been replaced by a free-roam area with 16 players in it within that lobby you can form a Posse with your friends and roam around the huge gameplay area on your horses, fighting other posses taking out gang hideouts/bandit settlements, blowing up gang weapons caches and plundering Gold Mines, trying to raise your wanted level and having a stand off with the lawmen.

All of this is available before you actually enter any of the specific gametypes like Free-For-All, Team Deathmatch, Capture the Flag, Gold Rush etc. etc.

I haven't even touched the Single Player story yet which I have heard very good things about but the Free Roam lobby was brilliant, up to 8 of you riding around in a group occassionally being ambushed by NPC bandits, cougars, black bears, coyotes, wolves as well as the other player controlled posses.

There is also something extremely satisfying about throwing a knife at an enemy on horseback and knocking him clean off his horse from the safety of your own 4 legged steed.

If you haven't picked up this game for your 360 or PS3 yet do it! Do it now!!

If you're on Xbox Live feel free to send me a FR my gamertag is seraphseven (just say in the request your Ratz username so I know how I know you) and we'll go and pillage some settlements before settling down for a nice cold whiskey in a saloon.

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It's in my amazon.com cart

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It's in my amazon.com cart

Very good choice, Let me know what you think once you've received it and hogtied some outlaws!

[ficklefiend]

WAAAAANT.

Trading Splinter Cell for it at Game as soon as they have it back in stock, probably two days or so. Had some other games to trade today so I picked up Prince of Persia instead, because I do hate leaving a game shop empty handed.

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WAAAAANT.

Trading Splinter Cell for it at Game as soon as they have it back in stock, probably two days or so. Had some other games to trade today so I picked up Prince of Persia instead, because I do hate leaving a game shop empty handed.

Haha I didn't preorder so ended up having to buy the Limited Edition at £10 dearer seeing as that was all they had left.....get it ASAP it's fan-bloody-tastic.

What's the new PoP like? Any good? I assume they just brought it out to coincide with the film release for some extra moolah so gave it a miss, feel free to change my opinion

[ficklefiend]

WAAAAANT.

Trading Splinter Cell for it at Game as soon as they have it back in stock, probably two days or so. Had some other games to trade today so I picked up Prince of Persia instead, because I do hate leaving a game shop empty handed.

Haha I didn't preorder so ended up having to buy the Limited Edition at £10 dearer seeing as that was all they had left.....get it ASAP it's fan-bloody-tastic.

What's the new PoP like? Any good? I assume they just brought it out to coincide with the film release for some extra moolah so gave it a miss, feel free to change my opinion

The opening paragraph of the IGN review sums it up perfectly -

Okay, hands up if you thought this was going to be rubbish. We've got our hands up at the moment too, if you were wondering. Blame the fact that Ubisoft practically kicked Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands out the door in a brown paper bag, or blame the fact that it's arriving dangerously close to Disney's Prince of Persia movie. Call us pessimists but this latest iteration in the long-running franchise virtually had 'quick movie cash-in' stamped all over it. Turns out our cynicism got the better of us, and - particularly if you're a fan of the series' pre-2008's PoP reboot - you should be very happy indeed.

http://uk.xbox360.ign.com/articles/109/1090392p1.html


It's Sands of Time for the new consoles. It feels like the developers got handed the project of a release to coincide with the movie and used it as their chance to retcon everything about the latest horrible reinvention of Prince of Persia (should have had a subtitle) 2008.

They've brought back the original voice actor and the sarcastic remarks and the time rewind. They have also brought back the button-mashing combat. Old stuff that was good = still good. Old stuff that was bad = still bad. Normally that would be a pointless stick in the mud for a game- not to have moved on- but with this series history it's just nice to see the original material getting a little love and not being shat all over.

To sum up - good for nostalgia, and the same fun acrobatics as PoP has always done well, but they've taken the difficulty level down and the rush-job marks of a movie release show through in the combat being taken back to SoT, the worst in the series, and the plot being thinner than rice paper.

[Trolldor]

It's amazing to think of what Prince of Persia is now compared to what it used to be.

Blue pixels turning in to red pixels when they hit grey pixels was about as fancy as it got when I played the first one, now you can leap over opponents and throw weapons and rewind time and...

*sigh*

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I just got a Lasso, nothing beats being able to lasso a bandit from your horse, dragging them through the centre of town before hogtieing them and leaving them on the train tracks to get obliterated by the 3:03 to thieves rock. Alternatively you can leave them in bear/wolf/coyote country and spread bait all around the area, sit back and let the wild animals do their thing :twisted:

Muahahaha! also some fucker tried to steal my horse last night! He was shouting for help by the side of the road saying he'd been robbed etc. being the altruist that I am I pulled over to help him and he grabbed me from my horse jumped on and sped off, I whistled for my horse and it bucked him off before running back to me and to punish him I decided to shoot out both of his kneecaps so that he was kneeling on the floor before slitting his throat with my knife man I love this game

[ficklefiend]

I finally got hold of a copy yesterday. Been playing it pretty much since (with a break for doctor who and eurovision last night )... CAN'T......STOP.

[leo-rcc]

Perhaps I should unwrap it after I get home then.

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I'm getting this on saturday as a belated birthday present

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I'm getting this on saturday as a belated birthday present

You won't regret it! I jumped from my horse onto the train last night back to the future III style!

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I've played a few hours now and though I don't think it is a bad game, unless something really great happens soon I don't think I will enjoy it as much as I didwith the Saboteur.

[ficklefiend]

Oh shiiiiiiiit. I had a long gaming session on red dead yesterday and I think I've ridden my xbox to the edge of a RROD.

Getting crazy colours and dots today when I put in a game. Playing videos and menus fine, but games seem to be fubar. My xbox is 2007/11/09 (is that mm/dd or vice versa?) so not long till warranty is up on rrod. Right on queue for a shafting. (and worst possible time since I'm about to move and have NO MONEYS)

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUHHHH!!!!!!!

[Trolldor]

Install the damn game on to your harddrive. Played bioshock 2 for six hours without so much as a hitch.