No idea why I thought 2 years, must be another game! Managed to finish it last night and it did get a bit too easy towards the end, mainly because the stealth on the suit had become overpowered and you could just choose to avoid all enemies or wait until they're on their own and sneak attack them. Some great set pieces though. Loved the massive alien things you had to fight. I'll definitely get a third one if they make it.

As mentioned above, if they made full retail games available for reasonable prices online, they could all but kill off the high street retail sector because of the extra costs they have in logisitics and overheads etc. Having games on sale in shops is probably the easiest advertising there is for the console manufacturers and without it, they could drift out of the minds of shoppers, particularly around Christmas.

I can see this franchise going on for a while, the ending suggests they plan to make quite a few. If you fancy a challenge play it super soilder difficulty. Basically if they see you you get paggered.

Yeah, the story was a bit confusing with me not having played the first one, but it did seem to indicate that there could be sequels set within a number of cities.



Super soldier was the difficulty I played on! I don't bother playing on anything less than the hardest difficulty on games, mainly because games tend to be too easy these days and it unlocks more achievements without me having to play through the game again because I have that many unplayed ones in my collection.

Nothus i'll add you at some point tonight for a bit of SSX action. If anyone else is on the ps3 and wants a bit of SSX action too add me, my tag is Jimmy_Saki.

Anyone played Syndicate yet? If so, what do you reckon? I was a big fan of the game on the Amiga, so hoping it's transfer into the next gen consoles has gone without a hitch.

I'm playing it at the moment. My initial thoughts are that they should've shelevd this game for a while after Deus Ex: HR came out. Its not bad don't get me wrong I'm quite enjoying it. Its far more violent than DE:HR and its got a very 90s PC shooter feel to it. The story has a lot of potential but so far there's been no charachter development or back story explanation so its quite hard to care about the charachters - Dead space 1/2 apart its a theme with EA games (one of many flaws). One edge this game may have over DE is the boss fights, they're a bit more challenging (although the combat in the rest of the game is pretty easy) and varied. It seems short though I'm 3/4s through it and I've only been plaving about 5 hours.



However one thing this game does VERY well is the co-op mode. Its fun, intense and far longer than the single player. Its one of the best co-op games in a long time.



Overall I'd wait until it comes down in price, but its not bad at all just could be a lot better. 7/10 single player - 9-9.5/10 for co-op.

If you're playing as FemShep, surely an avatar change is in order?





Jumped straight into ME2 myself, the first is on XBL for £15, worth it? Wouldn't mind seeing the story kick off as the second is superb IMO...



And FIFA 12 for £50? Really? Surely can't be too long before the next one....

Ha ha, quite possibly!



Mass Effect for £15? Definitely worth it. It's quite long winded, what with having to use the Mako to traverse all the side quest planets, but once you get past all of them and focus on the priority missions, it gets good.

Thanks for that! :^)

ME 1 is £10 on shopto.net. Looking at getting it myself and playing all 3 again. Although I'm getting the Witcher 2 next week so doubt I'll have time.

My XBOX 360 has overheated and whenever I go onto live it just lags out and turns off.

Can anyone recommend anybody to fix it and any idea on a price?

Thanks.

Im playing sky rim on the ps3 at the moment and also fifa12

That's quite impressive.

Just finished ME3. The ending is rubbish, but apart from that the game has other limitations. Unlike ME1 and to some extent ME2 there is no real linearity to the game, the story doesn't "unfold", you know that it's simply completing a set of tasks in pretty much any order before committing to the final battles.



Spoiler alert...



Ashley coming back doesn't work, there were obvious issues because of the choices in ME1, and the dialogue in 3 is very limited. Not great.

It had good points and was enjoyable in most places, but the irritation when you realise that no matter what you do Cerberus will beat you to it is very frustrating.



As for the ending... Total nonsense and completely rushed. I see there will be an extended DLC free to add to the end but they are refusing to change what happens up to the final moment. Bio ware have f******d up majorly, it's absolute crap. But hey ho it's only a game. It was well worth the money and I enjoyed it.

I played the demo of ME3 but all the talk about species of aliens, planets, spaceships, this and that gave me a headache so deleted it, sounded too much hard work to catch up on the series. the graphics were quality though but played better games!

I'd try Microsoft themselves first, I've nothing but praise for their customer services.



I got a free repair on my console after my two year old yanked and twisted the disk tray; I was in warranty, but I didn't think for a minute that accidental damage would be covered.



If they consider the overheating a known fault, you may just get a free fix too. Worth a quick log on to the xbox website, they'll tell you via live chat whether you're covered.

Even if you are not covered, they are often very cheap to repair through MS anyway. Always worth ringing them.

The little lads getting an increasing interest in playing on the xbox. Just wondering if people can recommend easy to play kids xbox/xbox 360 games, at a reasonable price (eg I'm not paying £15-20 for Cars for him not to play it).



I understand a Wii would be better, but wondered if anyone had suggestions.

How old is he and what is he into?

Just playing fifa street, Quite enjoyable so far, and a few different game types to keep in a bit more interesting. Still unsure as to whether its worth 40 quid though.

Any 360 owners played Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet? I really liked the look of it last year when it came out, it's won a few awards I think and was released on PC yesterday so will probably pick it up.

I rented it and realised I pretty much have what I'd want just in the demo.

Pretty much sums it up. This could easily have been a downloadable extra to fifa 12.

4, pretty much any animated film he says atm, although would say Cars is probably his favourite (this month).