The case for... Limbo

There isn't one, play the trial as that has the best part of the game. Fin.

I will second reg's love for BD, not the greatest shooter, not the best story, not the most amazing GRAFFIX or epic scale but.... It's just so much fun! The characters and dialogue are brilliant and yes... Cain is wonderful. 
And shooting the limbs off death dealing robots and watching them drag their broken and legless bodies to try and kill you is awesome, they just will not stop! It's like Terminator 2 mixed with a sense of humour.

Moto70 wrote:

The case for... Limbo There isn't one, play the trial as that has the best part of the game. Fin.

Reg said a game that isn't universally loved. Dont think any game is universally loved, but general consensus is that Limbo is great.

Ah right...

The Case for... Dead Island

It's miles better than the 3 that EDGE gave it.

I'm defo buying Dead Island after that.

Moto70 wrote:

Ah right... The Case for... Dead Island It's miles better than the 3 that EDGE gave it.

if you like constantly mashing 1 button forever.
(genuinely thik edge got this right)

The Case For ... Dead Island

Binary Domain sounds a go-er.

Did you co-op?

@paul. possibly what spoiled it more, overpowerd friend fucks up everything in site and leaves me to work out were hes gone.
i gave it away too (free to a good home) so theres no going back to it for now.

All those tits. 

ALL of them.


Davie - HMV is doing BD for £10.

I intended to buy BD today, but I didn't make it to the HMV in Truro

I did get Kinectimals for £5 for Imogen in Sainsburys though.

The case For.....Mini Ninjas





I do enjoy picking up a game on the cheap that I'd previously dismissed, and finding out it's better than many titles I paid full whack for.  I bought this on the back of a recommendation from someone on here (I forget who), and managed to nab it for £6.90ish on Ebay (360 version).  When this was released I vaguely remember pooh-poohing it, partly based on the assumption that a non-Nintendo title on the cutesy side would be a waste of my time, considering I had actual Nintendo titles sitting on the shelf unplayed, and partly because I still hadn't played my copy of Ninja Gaiden 2. 

You start the game with a single ninja, and your goal is to rescue your imprisoned buddies as you work your way through a nicely paced campaign, which is interspersed with some pretty decent bosses.  Each rescued ninja pal, who you are free to control at any time, has a slightly different set of abilities, most of which come in handy for certain situations (very few are specifically required to overcome obstacles though, so there is scope for playing the game your own way).  You find ingredients to mix items, and you're never far from a hidden shrine which contains a scroll for a new magic spell.  Again, these items and spells are rarely necessary to progress, so I can imagine many people would play the game very differently to me - I pretty much ignored the magic and non basic items completely.  Fighting consists of two main buttons - a light attack for general footsoldiers, and a heavy attack to stun the odd enemy that decides to block.  Each controllable ninja has a different power attack, and considering the game's length, the number of different enemy types is fine.  There's a lot going on control-wise, although perhaps the few occasions where I got slightly overwhelmed were due to the fact that I've mainly been playing retro and XBLA titles in the past year, and I've gone a bit spazhands. 

Reviews I read shortly after I bought it suggested the game was too brief, but I'm inclined to disagree - 7-8hrs of gameplay is absolutely fine by me.  In fact, I've not quite finished it yet, but I'm on a level called 'Final Approach', so I think I'm far enough in to include it in Reg's thread.  If it does what much of this community might refer to as 'a bit of a Darksiders' in the final stretch then I apologise.  Graphically it's a mixture of basic and 'nice', the score isn't particularly inspired, but no aspect of the game is poor, and the meat and potatoes of the gameplay is great.  Refreshingly brief story sections are refreshing.  It does actually have a bit of a Nintendo feel, and that's not something to be bandied about willy-nilly.   

I won't try to oversell the game.  It's not quite top drawer stuff, and the fighting system at its core is extremely simple, but as a light hearted mixture of action, stealth (if you fancy it), exploration and multiple character gameplay it's not got much competition this gen.  I'd give it a good old fashioned, proper Edge era [7], which is pretty much a modern [8].  Edge did actually give it a 7 btw, but I think its Metacritic average ended up a little lower. 

If anyone is interested in this recommendation perhaps we could do a swapsie, once I've finished it, for someone else's entry to this thread?

Edit/warning: Those with an aversion to QTE's may dislike the bosses.

afgavinstan wrote:

I turned Reg onto BD so in turn I CREATED THIS THREAD. Davie, weren't you saying it was shit mere days ago? Anyway, I'll do one. Probably Project 83113 or something.

indeed but as with dead space and a few others i went on the strengh of the demo,
full game of dead space were nothing like the shit demo so im hopefull its much the same case.
(and i love anything futuristic with robots/androids/cyborgs that kinda thing like g.i.t.s.)

A case needs doing for Alpha Protocol.
By someone more eloquent than myself obviously.