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Yep. It looked like a confusing mess of blue and grey.

Sold mine for £30. Not a total loss at least. I think Split/Second was the last game that I bought purely on how it looked and sounded before reviews/impressions came out. Definitely learnt my lesson. I played this twice and it didn't do anything for me. It was trying to be so many things at once and failing at every one. The class system was bizarre. There seemed to be no clear distinction between say an Engineer and an Operative. Very, very, unforgiveably shoddy graphics. Seemed like I had my HD cable was set to SD. It was because of this there was little point in character customisation. I couldn't see other people's outfits half the time. Let alone what mask they were using. Poor, poor AI. It was so irratic in its movement I couldn't get a straight shot on anyone. Then when you do kill someone they just go 'down' so you have to kill them again. There was no clear tutorial telling you how to play the damn thing. The HUD is a confusing mess. There's like objectives and secondary objectives and bloody optional objectives with no clear idea what benefit they have for going for them. Then there are special moves, which have cooldown periods or something? Man...messy, messy game. Glad I got the majority of my money back. Avoid!

Mines already on Ebay.

Yeh turned it all up. Didn't make much difference. It's the music i'd like louder more than anything. Also the dialogue during the story scenes is stupidly quiet.

Well i've just cleaned the lens and around with a cotton bud. It managed to finish the CD...Such a weird and specific problem. You'd think it'd just effect the whole CD if it was dirty. How effective are CD lens cleaners? I've heard some people use pure alcohol?

Right so my problem is that i've been making music compilations to work in my old Goodmans CD player to take away with me. I've been using Media Player (latest one) with TDK CD-Rs on the slowest burn speed. Now they work no problem in my laptop and my car but for some reason not so well in the player. What I don't understand is that at least the first 2/3 run fine. Though when it starts getting to the end of the CD it starts to skip and can't read the final songs. It can run through an entire retail CD fine although once it has had a problem where it can't start a CD near the end. So is this a problem with the burning process? I've been told a lens cleaner may help? I just don't understand why it has the problem towards the end of the CD. Any help would be appreciated EDIT: Hmm so i've just started my compilation from where it started skipping yesterday. So far it's running it with an odd skip here and there but running all the same. What the shit...

Got this for £25. Loving it though my only criticism is that it's very quiet. For some reason I have to turn the volume up WAY more than any of my other games. I'm hoping that I don't have a dodgy copy of the game?

Shitballs.

Totally agree. The less of the CoD crowd gets this the better. Not currently. Can't say for sure there won't be one at all.

Never really thought about that. Quite an oversight...

Well this is out next week. Already pre-ordered myself as i'm a massive Team Fortress/Battlefield fan. Also doesn't seem to be a sniper rifle in sight, good times. IGN have a preview (http://uk.xbox360.ign.com/articles/116/1162333p1.html) but there's plenty of vids if you know where to look. SMART system looks pretty damn cool. Would be nice to get out of situations without getting stuck on an annoyingly placed rock or box. I also like the fact that single player and multiplayer are essentially the same thing. Bots offline aswell as filling in for disconnected peeps online. Count me in.

Is there an online tag mode?

I hope so. I think i'll just put up with it because I don't really want to miss Glados stuff.

Can you turn off Stephen Merchants voice?

"Hell no let's start shooting" Damn right!

All I can take from that is they've seen the amount of interest and have thought "Shit, it's actually good? Time to shut them down and get on with that Streets of Rage 4 we canned a decade ago".

I'd like to know their reason for this. Lucky i've already got it. Aaaaanyway, what's with the SoR Maker? I bought it and whenever I go into it I just get a blank blue screen with 0/0 on it

At first I thought Adam grossely outmatched Axel, especially when you look at their stats. Adam beats Axel in every catagory. However when I play as Axel I find him stupidly quick and much better for bosses. Strange thing is this isn't represented in the stats so you just assume Adam is quicker, when he isn't. Only boss i've found difficult is Shiva. Such a pain in the arse. Much like original.

I've been following this since just after v4. So glad I didn't miss out on getting v5 (thank god for newsnow!) otherwise i'd be PISSED after waiting so long. I'm not surprised Sega have done a turnaround. They're probably jealous a bunch of fans have made a better game than they have in the past 10 years.

Not sure how reliable the source is (http://www.videogamer.com/news/mass_effect_3_details_revealed.html) but some supposed new details have come out...

Well that's fair enough I just don't understand a few peoples attitudes (not just here by the way). It's not going to be groundbraking. It's not going to set standards lol. It is essentially a decade old, Gearboxs' only job was to finish and polish. They weren't asked to change it. If they were that'd defeat the purpose?

The Crash sections were fun though as I recall the competitive element was a score leaderboard. Would like maybe a 2-4 player mashup

I don't get it. This is Duke Nukem. True to how it's always been. If you don't like the humour or style then, why be here.

One thing I noticed was...

How did you do that the countdown is for 2 days? Incidently I did wonder myself as I left it running while I got something to eat and realised the clock was actually counting down to something.