What has everyone been playing this week?

[Spatial]

EDIT: Oh, oh - and what "nice little visual touches"? Seriously, I thought the graphics in the first game were largely average at best. Bland, identikit corridors or snap-together building block levels with no fine detail at all. I remember playing the cathedral level and thinking "Is this it?". The second game still suffered from that - Insomniac really need some more talented designers - but it seemed far, far more immersive.

Off the top of my head after not playing it for 12 + months

1) The way the Chimera's tubing ruptured and spewed steam everywhere
2) The low level lighting in some of the areas which gave everything an eerie glow and extremely atmospheric look.

You're going on about the level design. Even I wasn't going to go there.

[Finsbury Girl]

Resistance: FOM

Killzone 2 Demo

Resi 5 Demo

Freecell

[Eight Rooks]

Off the top of my head after not playing it for 12 + months

1) The way the Chimera's tubing ruptured and spewed steam everywhere
2) The low level lighting in some of the areas which gave everything an eerie glow and extremely atmospheric look.

You're going on about the level design. Even I wasn't going to go there.

I did miss #1, I will give you that.

[Welrain]

Rock Band 2. It was fantastic solo, but with my wife in tow on her own guitar it really is something else. Recently moved up to medium from easy.

Saints Row 2 - still going with this. I've now done a couple of proper story missions and still loving it.

Burnout Paradise - picked up the ultimate box. I never played the original release as the demo put me right off. All the fixes and options added have really helped and I adore it.

[Fuddle]

finally got up to rank 8 in motorstorm 2, but i dont think i'll be able to complete the last few events. so i'm pretty much giving up on it now, and went back to valkyria chronicles... which i had previously given up on. got stuck on the maxamillian tank level. went back and did it reasonably ok. think i was just trying to do it too perfectly before. this time i didnt care if a few people died.
so i'm going to try and get further in that over the next week or so, then i'll pick up flower of psn and then street fighter 4 wont be far off
oh, and i have the new everybody's golf course to try out too.

[Holio]

AC/DC Rock Band Live, played the whole set right through, it really was enjoyable, and has made me want to go back and listen to the album again and got 70 more points out of it, all the others are Expert or impossible things, trading it tomorrow. I dont know how any human can play Expert in these games, truly they all have uber fast fingers!

Fable 2 last weekend, and Rock Band 2, both with my GF, who wanted me to show her Fable 2, so I did, and now she has played more of it than me. And Rock Band is still the greatest fun 30mins to an hour game to waste time on.

[Skull Commander]

This week has been mainly dominated by Street Fighter HD online. Managed to get my 100 wins achievment and had some really good matches.

Also on the 360 I'v played a bit of COD war online, the enjoyable Dark Sector and a spot of Guitar Hero Aerosmith.

Also been playing wario ware, final fight and both the versions of street fighter on the gba.

[teddymeow]

Finished Naruto Broken Bond earlier in the week. Good fun even if it seems to finish halfway through with no real payoff.

Spot of Layton every night before bed. I have found it helps me relax big time meaning I sleep better.

Started Resistance 2 tonight. Wow! Epic scale is the best way to describe it. Everything cranked to 11 this one! Great stuff.

[Bort]

Started the week clearing up the last bits of Banjo Kazooie XBLA that I left, only a handful of notes and 3-4 jiggies to get and a few honey combs.

Then nothing for the rest of the week apart from firing up the odd pcb for an hour or two (ibara, bakraid, dimahoo).

This afternoon I chucked DDP on for the first time this year. After a Lot of very poor runs I almost equalled my previous best and reached 1-6 for the first time on one credit. 'appy boy I am!

DDP's only going to get another few days before more sexy time arrives next week.

[DANGEROUS-3]

This week Mister Nick (DANGEROUS-3, AKA the guy who created 'The official Nando's appreciation thread' some 2 years back in 'Off Topic') has started playing his 3rd game of 2009- REZ HD.

I'm a hardcore SEGA kid but never bought got the original version of REZ on DC, despite having a DC. Well, soon after it was released it cost a million bucks to get it on DC so I missed out. Just bought my second 360 this month after a year away from games, so here I am.

As expected REZ is frikkin awesome. WAY better than the last game I finished-No More Heros. I'm playing through at a relaxed pace right now. I'm on my second day of play and have just finished level 4. I love it.

[Skull Commander]

This week on the xbox 360:

Call of Duty WAW (online)
Left 4 Dead
Guitar Hero 3
Guitar Hero world tour

DS:

Contra 4

GBA

Warioware


Dreamcast

Capcom Vs SNK 1 & 2

[Adam Stone]

It's all been about the wii these past couple of weeks...

World of Goo, Lost Winds, Tetris Party, Guitar Hero 3, Mario Kart, Animal Crossing and since friday the bloody brilliant House of the Dead: OverKill.

The little one has been playing High School Musical Dance, bless her... which, is surprisingly pretty good!

[ezee ryder]

FEAR 2 and House of the Dead: Overkill but they have taken a backseat for now until I finish Killzone 2.

[Lebowski]

i just finished Dead Space fantastic game and it was really nice to play something that offers some nice instant action after all the time i spent on fable 2 since Christmas.

Trying to play cod5 was about half way through the campaign before i stopped playing it but it really is a poor relation to cod 4 cant get into it at all,

am gonna try getting back into Prince of Persia wish me luck.

edit: screw that just got a dirty disk error after about two hours of play and id been round mopping up all the light seeds to open up some more ability's and chucked in a few bosses too, so despite warping back to the hub and defeating a number of bosses this game hasn't auto saved in the two hours iv'e been playing wtf that's about then.

really really ****ed off now do i go back and play it again i really cant be arsed as traveling though each area multiple times is a pain to begin with i really don't want to have to do them a third and fourth time.

[Neon Ignition]

Managed to come off COD5 so I've done about 20hrs on Burnout Paradise. Just gonna muck about till SF4 arrives