Which ones look like the best buys? Madden looks good, but is lacking a lot of features, since it was built from the ground up. No create-a-player, no challenging calls, and no owner mode.

Tiger woods looks pretty good, but i'd hate to drop 60 bucks on a golf game.

11/11/2005 1:03:48 PM

I'd personally hate to drop any more that 5$ on any sports game . . . but that is just me.

11/11/2005 1:08:14 PM

well i am not a big fan of RPGs, but I played the demo of King Kong at best buy, shit was shaweet.

11/11/2005 1:09:24 PM

i buy 1 sports game per generation of consoles, thats the rule.

i think condemned looks pretty cool and dead or alive is likely to rock.

11/11/2005 2:48:52 PM

You guys do know that the price of all sports games falls off a cliff when the next year's version comes out. More often than not the sports games will not improve by leaps and bounds from year to year either. Wait for Tiger Woods 2007 to come out then 2006 will go for $8 used.

[Edited on November 11, 2005 at 3:32 PM. Reason : -]

11/11/2005 3:32:00 PM

thats why the sega ones were so good before. 20 new wasnt that bad.

11/11/2005 3:35:53 PM

Quote :

"You guys do know that the price of all sports games falls off a cliff when the next year's version comes out. More often than not the sports games will not improve by leaps and bounds from year to year either. Wait for Tiger Woods 2007 to come out then 2006 will go for $8 used. "

That'd be a good plan.......if I wanted to wait a year to play Tiger Woods 2006

11/11/2005 3:39:47 PM

^Patience is a virtue. You can save lots of money by just waiting a bit. I find it funny how people get in the mindset of 'gotta have it now' just as soon as the news of the release comes out. I figure I've gone 30 years without having to buy a game, the release date doesn't change that, might as well wait another year and save $texas.

You can be playing TW '05 while you wait

[Edited on November 11, 2005 at 3:44 PM. Reason : -]

11/11/2005 3:43:16 PM

I heard that the first batch of games coming out for the 360 arn't going to be that great visually because they are not programmed to take advantage of all it hardware, because microsoft rushed them to finish for launch. The next group of games is suppose to be much better

11/11/2005 3:43:20 PM

a few look phenominal, but most are meh. im sure they'll be much better in a year or two though.

11/11/2005 4:01:57 PM

I cant wait til there is a baseball game released for the 360...unfortunately, 2K sports owns all rights to the MLB now, and their baseball games blow ass...


mvp baseball 2006: ncaa baseball could be decent though.

11/11/2005 4:03:03 PM

ive hated all of dems mlb games since 16-bit days.

11/11/2005 4:14:48 PM

^world series baseball 95 was some awesome shit.

11/11/2005 4:19:33 PM

Ken Griffey Jr's baseball game on the SNES was the shit.

11/11/2005 4:49:08 PM

^^hell yeah, 1 and 2. Braves had ol' Crime Dog

11/11/2005 4:54:38 PM

JOE MONTANA FOOTBALL FOR GENESIS

11/11/2005 7:35:19 PM

that call of duty game looked awesome

11/11/2005 8:26:07 PM

Quote :

"Ken Griffey Jr's baseball game on the SNES was the shit. "

winner

11/11/2005 9:16:11 PM

you got a link to all that madden info you posted? about whats not in the game...

11/11/2005 11:48:29 PM

i dont much care for sports games, k?

11/11/2005 11:50:46 PM

i pre-ordered Need for speed most wanted and call of duty 2.

I like war games, hence the call of duty. and my car is actualy in a video game now (Cobalt SS) so it felt right to buy it

I am looking foreward to all the games, but $60 is a big hit to the wallet

11/11/2005 11:50:59 PM

11/11/2005 11:52:53 PM

I got to play Call of Duty today at Wal-mart, not bad but I wouldn't pay $60 for it.

11/12/2005 7:07:10 PM

everyone list their top 5 games...copy this format from edit post to make it easy for everyone to see (including me)

1. Game 1
2. Game 2
3. Game 3
4. Game 4
5. Game 5

11/13/2005 11:16:15 PM

1. madden 06
2. condemned
3. perfect dark zero
4. project gotham racing 3
5. nba 06 or tiger woods 06

no call of duty 2 for me because have it on pc and no need for speed because i read a review that its the same old game, pgr3 is atleast more realistic, etc...

11/14/2005 8:23:38 AM

LAUNCH LIST

• Amped 3 (2K Sports)
• Call of Duty 2 (Activision)
• Condemned: Criminal Origins (SEGA)
• FIFA 06: Road to FIFA World Cup (Electronic Arts)
• GUN (Activision)
• Kameo: Elements of Power (Microsoft Game Studios)
• Madden NFL 06 (Electronic Arts)
• NBA 2K6 (2K Sports)
• NBA Live 06 (Electronic Arts)
• NHL 2K6 (2K Sports)
• Need for Speed: Most Wanted (Electronic Arts)
• Perfect Dark Zero (Microsoft Game Studios)
• Peter Jackson's King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie(Ubisoft)
• Project Gotham Racing 3 (Microsoft Game Studios)
• Ridge Racer 6 (Namco Ltd.)
• Quake 4 (Activision, id software and Raven Software Corp.)
• Tiger Woods PGA TOUR 06(Electronic Arts)
• Tony Hawk's American Wasteland (Activision)

11/14/2005 2:15:40 PM

out of that list here are my pics:

interested in:
• Condemned: Criminal Origins (SEGA)
• Madden NFL 06 (Electronic Arts)
• Perfect Dark Zero (Microsoft Game Studios)
• Project Gotham Racing 3 (Microsoft Game Studios)
• Quake 4 (Activision, id software and Raven Software Corp.)

maybe:
• Amped 3 (2K Sports)
• GUN (Activision)
• Kameo: Elements of Power (Microsoft Game Studios)
• Peter Jackson's King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie(Ubisoft)


at this point, probably not enough to make me buy one (assuming i could get one). with dead or alive, ghost recon, and a few others...ill reconsider.

11/14/2005 4:16:21 PM

amped isnt good, already a review for it

gun, meh, heard graphics arent that great and im not sure about that game

kameo, looks like a kids game, i dont know

king kong, the demo wasnt fun at all

i got madden cause i gotta have football and seems like perfect dark is gonna be like halo was when xbox was released (the "gotta" have fps with multiplayer). also am picking up condemned cause everything ive read and videos ive seen of it = looks like an awesome game (sorta like RE).

11/14/2005 4:24:57 PM

wtf

[Edited on November 14, 2005 at 6:39 PM. Reason : nm]

11/14/2005 6:26:55 PM

^^ the kameo demo was alright. just cuz its cartoony doesnt make it a "kids game." gun's just a port so i dont know what you expected.

11/14/2005 9:31:43 PM

Saw some footage of Kameo and it looks like a blast. So many different enemies at once in large scale battles... i mean hundreds of mobs rushing at you. It has a Nintendo feel to the game (I think it was being developed for Nintendo originally)

11/15/2005 1:41:57 AM

the demo was kinda bleh cuz it was a tutorial, we all know how that goes. i like the idea behind it, probably a renter first.

11/15/2005 10:45:10 AM

so yous of you people who want an xbox 360 from best buy (store 147) in cary at crossroads...theyll have 42 of the $400 bundle and 12 of the $300 core system. just an fyi if you didnt preorder one.

http://72.36.228.94/media/7/

11/15/2005 1:36:09 PM

the godfather

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11/15/2005 7:01:49 PM

check it out - http://www.russellbeattie.com/notebook/1008688.html

some games like Soccer and racing will allow "virtual spectators" to watch other matches/races without actually participating. Russell Beattie imagines a whole new sports industry where virtual teams will form and people will go on xbox live to watch the games at particular times, or games could be downloaded and watched later, like you would do with a normal sports match. sounds reasonable and cool

11/16/2005 7:11:53 AM

^They had that technology many years ago. If you waited a few minutes before you pressed the start button on the controller you would watch the computer play for a few minutes. They later progressed and made it so that you could watch the computer play a full game.

Seriously though, why would people want to watch a game? The imagined 30,000 spectators of an online game was a bit laughable. Most people I know would rather play a game than watch one.

A few quotes from the article:

Quote :

"You sign up online, try out for a team, and start playing other teams from around the world."

People would be too busy doing just that - they wouldn't want to waste time watching someone else do it. You can either spend your time getting good enough to make an online team or just watch from the sidelines? It is a pretty cool concept though. You could have leagues and have a system where people can make their way to the top. Coordinating online games such that each team member knows what time the game starts (on both sides of the ball) would be a bit of a headache but not unpossible. What do you do if only 2 team members show up for the game?

Quote :

"The cool thing about Soccer as opposed to other sports like American Football, is that every member of the team will play a significant role."

Man. That speaks for itself. He might want to remove that sentence to preserve some credibility. He might have made a better point in saying that soccer has more of a global audience than football. The way he said it makes him look like a soccer fanboy.

Maybe the market for video game spectating exists. I'm just saying that it doesn't sound all that appealing to me.

[Edited on November 16, 2005 at 8:38 AM. Reason : -b]

11/16/2005 8:33:58 AM

my friend played "professional" warcraft 3. he watched videos of games all the time and was invited to play in national conventions and at e3.

it is essentially just like watching your old games in football or any other sport. learn your own mistakes, the weakness of the opponent, or new strategies.

[Edited on November 16, 2005 at 9:29 AM. Reason : .]

11/16/2005 9:28:10 AM

IGN Ratings:

Project Gotham Racing 3 - 8.8
Kameo: Elements of Power - 8.4
Tony Hawk's American Wasteland - 8.3
Madden NFL 06 - 8.0
Gun - 7.9
NBA 2K6 - 7.8
NHL 2K6 - 7.1

11/16/2005 1:19:10 PM

the sports games are so fucking wack

no dynasty in nba live/madden

no challenges in madden

no create a player

no all star weekend

completely turned me off to the system cause those are the 2 games I was gonna buy if I got one at launch

11/16/2005 1:22:06 PM

NO CHALLENGES

ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME

11/16/2005 1:29:51 PM

no individual playmaker either

i use to love dropping my linemen into coverage and blitzing all my LB and Safties

not anymore :-\

either audible the whole team or none at all

[Edited on November 16, 2005 at 1:37 PM. Reason : oh yea no mini-camp either]

11/16/2005 1:36:06 PM

Sounds like they were in a rush to get a launch title to market.

[/obvious]

[Edited on November 16, 2005 at 1:41 PM. Reason : -]

11/16/2005 1:41:12 PM

^there is dynasty, theres just no season or owner mode. theres a dynasty mode for up to 30 years and it keeps like stats for everything, every stat you ever wanted. but thats about it, no challenges is gay but i thought i read on gamespot that there is playmaker and qb vision/precision still.

11/16/2005 1:41:59 PM

ye amy bad i get dynasty/owner confused

i liked charging $10 for hot dogs dammit, and making my stadium from the ground up

11/16/2005 1:53:38 PM

every EA game thats put out on launch has been changed like this...FIFA is only international teams in the world cup. thats it, no leagues or anything. its basically like those old fifa games they used to make just for the world cup.

also, tiger woods only has 6 courses versus the 12 on the ps2/xbox 2006 version. pretty gay...but i gotta get madden cause i have to have football...

11/16/2005 2:01:49 PM

ill just wait for package deals to come out before I get one

that and the PS3 launch

11/16/2005 2:03:02 PM

so from what i read, the new animations, cutscenes, etc.

will be the bread and butter of madden 360?

11/16/2005 2:07:01 PM

new graphics obviously (i think theyre great), dynasty mode, online, exhibition i would assume. its basically a stripped down madden. little disappointing but atleast its not a "port" with shitty graphics and stuff. but letting little things like no challenge out of the picture, that bothers me.

11/16/2005 2:17:49 PM

i picked up my madden 06 and condemned this morning along with rechargeable battery pack. im pumped now, cant wait for tuesday.

11/17/2005 1:35:49 PM

Does anyone know if there will be any stores open early on tuesday??? Wheres the best bet to snag one from if fate smiles friendly on me

11/20/2005 9:41:53 AM