Your favorite XBOX games

I started Dead Rising last night - thanks for the encouragement. Seems like it's going to be great! Right now it's a bit overwhelming - which makes sense. Can't wait to get back home and jump in for some more.

About how long does it take to play through the 72 hour run? I feel like I'm going to fail on the first time thru - but that doesn't really bug me, which is a little odd. Also, does your guy have to go to sleep during some of that time?

Breakdown was just added to the backwards compatibility list for the Xbox. Great comic book, hero prevents apocalypse sort of adventure.

Haha, Dead Rising's still overwhelming for me, even after all this time. Good luck with it!

The 72 hour mode's 6 hours or so, but don't worry if you fail it. It took me months to get through the whole
thing to the end, and even longer to get the right ending (bearing in mind I am an idiot). The problem with Dead Rising is you don't realise quite how good it is until you've failed so many times, so a lot of people get turned off it quickly. Stick with it, and try not to take it too seriously.

Oh, and you don't have to sleep. When you do, it just saves game and you continue from exactly the same point in time, without missing anything. Just don't save when you've not got much time left in a case, or you'll mess the whole thing up! I did this on a mission right near the end of the game when I first got that far, and had to start the whole game again. At least you get to level your character up more when that happens though, making it easier the next time around.

Pacman CE is actually a lot of fun, even though the controls are a bit wonky / killing my fingers.

so what's good these days guys? i've not played my xbox in months but feel like picking up a few new things to play. amazon has assassins creed 2 game of the year edition for a tenner, is that the bargain it seems? mass effect 2 is also very cheap and people are raving about it.

it seems to me there are just tons and tons of really good games though, what things would i be a fool to miss? red or dead redemption looks good too, is it?

basically i've fallen out of touch with gaming and could do with some suggestions, anything and everything considered, any genre.

ac2 is fucking awesome, RDR gets dull and repetitive quickly but if you like the whole rockstar/gta gameplay then it's worth a go. braid is the best puzzle game out there and the two fallout games are great if you can afford to lob hundreds of hours of life away. if you liked the splinter cell games and max payne then the latest splinter cell is brilliant and real underrated.

LG - Personally I thought Assassin's Creed 2 was as boring as the first one & I again quit after a few hours & traded the game back in. I was also never interested in the Mass Effect series... some people do seem to like it though. I do want to pick up Red Dead at some point, maybe after the holidays... I do have slight Rockstar burnout that kept me off it so far this year (also was hoping for a PC version, but I guess that's not happening). Though I've yet to play any of them, on the XBLA front people seem most into Super Meat Boy, the new Pac Man game and Limbo.

So recommendations by genre...

if you're looking for a fighting game, new, improved version of Street Fighter IV and BlazBlue both came out.

if you want to play a football game against a computer get PES. If you want to play a football game online 11v11 get FIFA.

if you want to play a hectic arcade multiplayer shooter get Call of Duty Black OPs. If you want to play a slightly more team based, slightly more strategic/slower, heavier shooter, get Battlefield Bad Company 2. Only get either of these games if you want to play them online - single player isn't worth it.

if you want to play a racing game, get F1 2010, I guess.

anyone got any recommendations for arpg/jrpgs, preferably console exclusives? ta.

the new pac man is amazing, and cheap at 800 points; you can obviously try before you buy which is nice (you should try limbo and super meat boy too, I reckon.)

ME2 > ME1, and can be had for pennies these days. did you play batman arkham asylum or dead space? those are the two stand out single player games of the last few years, arguably. not tried alan wake yet but it has its fans.

might be worth plugging those names into gametrailers and watching the reviews to get a flavour

played deadspace and enjoyed it although the walk-in-room-shoot-everythings-limbs-off got a bit repetitive - floating around in zero G was great fun tho. will look into Batman, assumed it was a roaming beat-em-up. ordered ME 1 & 2 for ridiculously cheap prices - just finished Fallout 3 and enjoyed it, it seems to be quite similiar in some ways? ie it has a VATS type system where you target different areas etc. JRPGS are kind of dead on consoles aren't they :/

I ws talking to LG :)

is fo3/nv similar to me2? might be tempted if so

RDR is amazing, f the haters.