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Nope, 1 and 3 did though.
2 had an unlocked framerate I think, so it might reach 60 on its own.
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No, but framerate is unlocked on 360 so its a smooth 60.
Correct, its a smooth 60.
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Gotcha! Was able to make a secondary MX account and get it on 360. Woot!
Copped that Peace Walker and Silent Hill Homecoming. Getting all that funky digitally-available Silent Hill on Xbox.
Is the Silent Hill remaster any good? Never played the games but heard mixed things about the remaster
It's the worst way to play the games. Especially the 360 version since it never received the patch.
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Cool. I never bothered because I thought it needed a payment on file.
Mixed things might be optimistic, probably the only good part of them is that they're in a console people own and can buy, not much more.
Is code veronica worth the $3.99?
Don't buy it. It's horrible.
Only for the online, which is better on Xbox but mainly active on Steam. The sp is fairly mediocre.
They're ok. I played through both games and didn't have any real issues. Maybe the original versions are better but those game aren't really worth the crazy money they go for now IMO.
How good/how single-player focused are the Tom Clancy games? It's Rainbow Six Vegas 2 and Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter/Future Soldier.
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Was Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood always 60fps? I don't remember it running well at all on 360 and I'm pretty sure it's not a FPS boost title, so it's a nice surprise to see. By contrast, Call of Juarez: Gunslinger has a 30fps cap and runs on the same engine with smaller maps iirc.
Rainbow Six Vegas 1 and 2 are, no joke, two of the best games Ubisoft has done. They're just so great I'm always extremely sad the only sequel they got was Siege. Buy them. NOW.
Advanced Warfighter 1 and 2 are really good too, quite innovative and immersive when they came out. Future Soldier skip like the plague.
Advanced Warfighter and Rainbow Six have really great campaigns. Advanced Warfighter in particular is a lot of fun.
Stay away from Future Soldier.
I can't comment on Advanced Warfighter, but both Rainbow Six Vegas games are a must-own.
F.E.A.R 2 is easy to follow, yeah. It's a weird game, as it feels more like a side story that happens to take place in the F.E.A.R universe but is eventually really important to the main overarching narrative.
The DLC for 2 and the main game of F.E.A.R 3 are more closely linked with the characters and events of the first game.
Matey don't skip the first game
FEAR easily ranks among the all time best shooters
I just added my PayPal as payment and it worked. But yeah it was not as easy as I thought it would be. Took a good 20 minutes haha
Oh why not, I'll bite on Azura's Wrath with all DLC, since my PS3 is probably buried in the basement until eternity
How's Hard Corps: Uprising? Is it, like, super difficult?
The old Contra games are a tad too masochistic for me, but I've always wanted to give this one a shake.
The old Contra games are a tad too masochistic for me, but I've always wanted to give this one a shake.
Hard as nails lol.
There's a DLC character who is a samurai woman who makes it slightly easier, but it's still stupidly difficult.
Great game though.
I'm not completely averse to hard games - I have been known enjoy GnG on occasion - so I'll probably throw caution to the wind and give it a punt.
I watched a review before also picking it up this sale and there is a mode that lets you upgrade your characters which apparently makes the game easier as you can replay levels for more points which lets you upgrade your attack/defence/lives. It's called Rising mode
I assume classic arcade mode is hard as hell
Yeah, Rising mode has permanent upgrades that you can unlock. You can farm the level 2 midboss if you just want to unlock all the items and have a bunch of free time, as it has enemies which constantly respawn as long as you don't kill the boss, so you can just grab a bunch of points.
The standard arcade mode has all the character skills unlocked by default, but it's the standard Contra scheme of limited health and lives.
That's good to know. Maybe I should get it, then.
The thing is that, while the first game is BC, it's not available digitally, and I'm not sure I want to spend too much effort hunting down a physical copy.
If you have a PC it's on sale on Steam for pretty cheap. Highly recommended it and both the expansion packs.
I know this comes from a place of ignorance, but is there an easy way to see this sale in an app? I'm not super familiar with how Xbox does things and I checked the app and can't even find the store on it.
Do you have to use the webpage? I've always had issues finding things I want and it will switch from the "Xbox" store to the Microsoft store and it always goofs me up. I realize this is probably a "me" problem, so I just thought I'd ask people more knowledgeable than me if they have a solution. Thanks
Do you have to use the webpage? I've always had issues finding things I want and it will switch from the "Xbox" store to the Microsoft store and it always goofs me up. I realize this is probably a "me" problem, so I just thought I'd ask people more knowledgeable than me if they have a solution. Thanks
For the campaign? Depends. The campaign is actually 3 short campaigns where you play as a marine, a xenomorph, and a predator. The marine one is fine, a basic FPS. The Alien one is much more stealth based with you killing humans and predators. The Predator is also stealth based but you're pretty overpowered for most of it.
There's also an Alien horde mode that wasn't that bad but I think Fireteam Elite already fills that hole.
Oh yeah I picked one up on eBay for $30 right when they announced it as BC
Honestly, even if you blow $50, the price is worthwhile if you are a big FPS fan
It still works on the Xbox 360 digitally. They can't revoke licenses.
When that happened I had bought both SH: Downpour and Pure, both still work on the 360 digitally after they revoked/refunded them.
No to the app.
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I don't think that Microsoft store thing is an issue anymore.
I can't comment on the HD version as I only played the first main mission on that, but Peace Walker always felt really small in scale. Like most areas are tiny with only a few enemies in them, and it very clearly felt like a handheld game.
I never understood why they didn't just do a more traditional top down MGS game, rather than going for a TPS.
Progression/structure wise, TPP was very obviously inspired by PW, so you should feel at home there at least. Just keep in mind the boss fights are really designed for co op, and can be a pain in the ass to fight solo. Though again, being able to aim with an analogue stick and not X, O, Triangle, Square, might make it easier lol.
Peace Walker is garbage. I say this having played it a few years after release and directly after playing MGS, MGS2, MGS3 and MGS4. The story is bad and the gameplay is horrible like even less advanced than MGS1 imo. Also the true ending is locked behind 30 hours of grinding against damage sponge enemies in co-op. I just watched it on YouTube. This is the only good thing from that game.
View: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WFbjOlJRyBw
I dunno man, I'm told this came from PW too?
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pm_CbnS7V3k
Thanks for thoughts on gameplay, more welcome.
My own ignorance but I had no idea PW had a strong co-op lean.