Actually I think it's all of them.. I realised good rating games doesn't mean fun games. Dead Rising 2 is one of the game I played the most amongst the rest & it's been a question of WHY it doesn't get at least a 9. Never fully trust a rating, and this is my final comment.

teck157713

Well obviously all ratings that you find online are based on purely subjective opinions. Of course, when you see the same game getting really high ratings from numerous different, highly credible sources, then it would be safe to say that the game is pretty sweet.

Resident Evil 5.

First time I've ever gotten bored of an RE game less than half way through it.

I'm a new PS3 owner and I'm currently searching the market for a quality first person shooter (other than a COD game!). Right now I'm looking at either Killzone 2, Bioshock 2, or Resistance 2. I know all 3 offer ratherdifferent experiences, but which do you guys feel have the most to offer in terms of uniqueness and replay value?

Thanks!

All PS3's are backwards compatible, that's right, all of them. They all play PS1 games. JKnaperek

Yet not PS2 games? I really don't understand what their reasoning would be to remove backwards compatability with PS2 games. I'm assume it saved them $$$ on manufacturing costs?

Picked up a copy of RE5 just the other day. I think it's a great game, but I still much prefer RE4, which is easily one of the greatest games I have ever played. I really don't care that the newer games are so different from the older ones to be quite honest with you. In fact, I thought the old-school RE style of gameplay was becoming very generic and repetitive. I do however think that RE5 could've been a tad creepier though. RE4 was very action oriented, but at least it still retained some creepiness and fright factor...

Sounds like your typical generic response from a corporate puppet to me.

there might be some upcoming price drops so I'd like to wait.

dovberg

This. I have a feeling that Nintendo will try to battle the release of the Kinect and the Move with a good ol' fashion price drop for the Wii. I can honestly see it either being bundled up with a popular 1st part game (that isn't gimmicky like Wii Sports or sports Resort) at the current 199$ price tag, or dropping by at least another 30 or so dollars by the Fall.

I've had a PS3 for a long time, so wheni decided to get an XBOX in February i was wondering about the same thing. I got an Elite, and i can tell you the way it runs a game offthe DVDwill shock you if you then run it offthe hard drive. The disc itself will be like youretrieved it from an oven, itwas noisy, and it mademe think i would be getting an RROD, seriously. I only tried it once with my first game as soon as i got it.

dimis_

Wow, I didn't realize that it was THAT prone to overheating...

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To be quite honest with you guys, I'm not much of the online gaming type.I guess you can say I'm a bit of a casual gamer, but I'm looking for the same type of gaming experience that I got with my PS2, hence why i'm interested in the 360 (due to its library). If a lack of online play is the main gripe with the Arcade console, then I'm not too concerned about it. Is the built in 256MB enough to do basic save functions, like saving game progress, because that's the main thing I'm looking for. I may eventually look to start downloading games eventually, but at the moment I only really care to play games from the 360 library like the Halo series, RE5, Gears of War, etc., and being able to save my progress.

darth-pyschosis

Then you know what you need to do, and get a USB flash drive of your size preference later for occasionally demo downloading, etc.

The $149 Arcade is a terrific value, and unless you go nuts with Arcade game downloads and installing games, the USB drive will be enough also you can move videos, music, pics from the drive to your 360.

The Arcades actually have 512MB now, but 128MB is taken up by NXE, so its like 340MB.

If you really want to get a HDD down the line do not go to a retailer go to one of the many eBay or Amazon online shops, you can get 20GB HDDs for as low as $20 and 250GB HDDs for $60-$100

Just a tip, but you should easily be able to enjoy the 360 without XBL and without a HDD, you can't play original Xbox games without a HDD however, so if you're looking to catch up on old titles (since you said you used to have a PS2) you'd need one, i'm not sure if the Xbox BC update will run off a flash drive if it does then you don't need the HDD for that

But enjoy, and feel free to add me on XBL when you get it set up

Thanks very much for that. I definitely have a lot more clarity on everything now as far as Xbox 360 hardware is concerned. The only reason I'm not much of an online gamer is mainly because I never was with the last generation consoles either, in which case I've never really experiences enough to end up caring for it. I'm pretty sure that I would eventually wanna give it a whirl though. A lot of my friends are hardcore fanatics of playing COD games online, so I gotta say it definitely poses some appeal.

Thanks again to all for the info! :)

Yeah I know its not the developers decision, because restrictions have nothing to do it. Publishers don't care about restrictions, if they could make money with RE5 on the original Game Boy, it would be on there lol. The simply want to throw a stick in the dirt and hope to strike oil, a stick comes pretty cheap. But of course Visceral would not say the genre is restrictive, their trying to sell the game. But even if they believed that, they turned Dead Space into a much more restrictive experience for the player.

Its always comes back to the fact that, yeah they couldn't just take DS1 from the PS3 and put it on the Wii, we all know that. But its not like they couldn't get around the hardware. You got things like GoW on the PSP, which is only hampered by the problematic interface. This game would have gone over much better for EA if it was a FPS, but that would have cost more than the stick and that's really all there was to the decision. And personally Extraction isn't better than nothing, even if I only owned a Wii I would say the same thing. The insult of "You'll buy it because its teh hardcorez, we're tossing you a bone" is worst than nothing.

Sepewrath

Pretty much how I feel. It's like some of these 3rd party developers think they're somehow doing us a "favor" by providing us with half-assed gaming experiences. DS:Extraction did poorly because people just weren't willing to shell out over 50$ for a rail shooter, no matter how awesome and unique that rail shooter might have been. In the end, I personally just don't think there's a strong enough market out there for consolerail shooters. At least not strong enough to merit shelling out good money to buy them. The RE name in my opinion played a major role in why UC did as well as it did. Unfortunately, I don't think Capcom was able to fool the average Wii owner quite so easily with Darkside Chronicels though...