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And hot DAMN does this look relevant to my interests. Anyone here even heard of this? It looks like genuine class to me.

Yeah, it looks fantastic. It's a candidate to be the scariest game since System Shock 2.

i want i want i want

I have been watching this game for a very long time. It looks to be the perfect mix of Fear, Bioshock, System Shock 2, and other games of the like all into one epic sci fi game. EVERYTHING I've read and heard about this game is positive.

Out of every game I've ever played, the only one that got me legitimately scared was Fear, I'm hoping this is just the same. I loved that game's atmosphere.

I saw a preview on TV for it and for a second I saw a image of a ship.. looked slightly similar to a Resurrection Hub and I was like "BSG GAME!?!?" But then it turned out to not be.

Well I'm glad people have heard of this - it has jumped straight to the top of my wish list, knocking off even Gears 2.

Hopefully it will come out far enough apart from Gears 2 that I can justify buying them both as soon as they come out

It came out today for PS3 and Xbox360. I believe it's another month or so until the PC version comes out.

Next week over here. Giggidy giggidy.

Is your roof sedimentary or igneous?

Metamorphic, clearly.

If only Fable 2 had not claimed my extra money for the month.

Ah well, someday.

I'm planning on getting this. I've got too many games to get the next few months. Dead Space, Smackdown Vs Raw 2009, Left 4 Dead....Oi, I am going to be poor.

I've had it reserved for a month now. It definitely looks like the next System Shock 2.

I hear you, my game grows weekly too.

Fable 2, Fallout 3, Force Unleashed, Pure, Far Cry 2, Gears of War 2, Wrath of the Lich King, Dead Space, -pops an aorta-

I hope the new CoD will come out on steam.

Fallout 3, this and Gears 2. Luckily in a few weeks I'm getting a week off work which I can't get off at the same time as Izzy, so I'm going to be sitting in my pants playing on my Xbox! Huzzah!

Blasphemy.

Well, hoping that you realise that I mean pants in the English sense, not the American/Canalian sense it's not THAT bad.

I suppose I could de-pant just for you Jeppybuns xx

I need to start playing live again. I just wish my router wasn't broken and allowing only internet on my pc or xbox at once.

Well I'll give you the heads up when I get my week off - my current games collection comprises of:

gta3
stranglehold
prey
condemned 2
mass effect
assassin's creed
the simpson's game
tony hawk's proving ground
psychonauts (xbox original)
crimson skies (xbox original)
Gears.

I think only a handful are multipass, but we can figure something out xx

It's RIDICULOUS. If you actually look back, you'll see this is a pattern that started at the beginning of last summer. Every weekend, there was a new blockbuster movie opening up. Literally. I remember counting them, and I think in the end I ended up with only 2 or 3 weeks out of the summer months missed where there was not a major film release. Then as the summer dwindled, you'll notice that video game releases started to pick up. There were major video game titles released every 3 weeks to a month roughly, and that trend continues still to this day. There's a major release coming out each month or every few weeks it seems. The rush with the Hollywood movies it seems has died off with the end of this summer (I am not sure if the writers strike had a major play in it or not) and maybe a couple major releases here and there continuing up until Christmas. But it's definitely nothing like it was last year. You know what I mean?

I think that the video game industry seen what Hollywood was doing and decided to do the same, and look what it's done. Game sales have skyrocketed like crazy. What is it, a study recently said that 90% of American teenagers play video games. I actually can recall a while back reading or being told by a professor @ school about the Hollywood thing.. And apparently it was some internal decision by a bunch of studios to generate a ton of revenue because of the recent rash of bad films and people not going to see them.. Or something to that degree.

It is rather intriguing to say the least, but I'm all for it, to be honest, if the games are of a shining quality. Personally, I'd been regretting the purchase of my xbox 360 when no game, between december 2006 and now had caught my interest and been a success. Most games that interested me turned out to be terrible flops, leaving me with very few games to play. Honestly, I've not played on live since the first few months of Halo 3.

Now, while I may not get all the games I want on their release date, I know that I have a quite a list to pick from in the upcoming months. That makes me very, very happy.

The game industry wants to drive their revenue up? By all means, do it, guys, if it means you unleash a flurry of wonderful games onto us.

(Note : 'a flurry of wonderful games' is used here with the assumption that anticipated titles mentioned in this thread will all be of amazing, and exquisite quality, which is yet to be proven true.)

I hadn't heard about this game, so this thread caught my interest. I googled a bit, was getting fairly enthusiastic...

...and then found out the PC version of the game will have DRM. In the words of Unlucky Alf, "Oh bugger". I'm one of those fascists that boycotts DRM-laden games.

Saints Row 2 has good reviews as well.

Yeah pretty much the way I feel as well. I was really disappointed by a lot of what were supposed to be "major" releases this year. They weren't terrible but rather suffered from TPM syndrome.

So.. yeah.

I'm about halfway through the 4th chapter (There's 14 or so chapters, I think). And I can say that this game completely owns. Absolutely the best game I've played this year. It's scary without being cheap (Only one or two instances of stuff jumping out of nowhere to scare you), it's difficult without being too difficult. You're always juggling your resources (ammo, abilities, etc) because of the scarceness of them, just when you think you've got a nice deposit of all kinds of ammo/health/etc, the game throws a biggun' at you, and it's all gone.

The atmosphere is amazing, and there's this awesome sense of constantly rising tension, and there's never a safe moment.

This is a MASTERFUL game, every one of you owe it to yourself to get it.

I loved System Shock 2, but even the trailer to this one scared the hell out of me. So not something I could play without dying..

I think my only complaint is that everything is too segmented. Each chapter takes place in a different part of the ship, and while each part of the ship is pretty massive, I would have liked a massive, singular ship.

I read somewhere that once you beat the game on a particular difficulty, you have the option to replay the game over again however you cannot adjust the difficulty to harder or easier. Dunno how true that is, was in the ign.com review. So I suggest when you start it you start on a hard/challenging one if it's true.

You can replay the game on a higher difficulty level, but you can't do it on the new game+ option, where your weapon/suit upgrades carry over to the next playthrough (I think it's because the upgrades aren't equivalent, it may take 4 power thingies to get an upgrade on hard, where on medium it would only take 3).