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IGN really seem to like Yoshi's Fruit Cart... Yoshi's Fruit Cart impressed us a great deal during our time with it. Your goal is simple - get Yoshi to a door that will only unlock once you've collected all of the fruit that's set out on a map. But doing that is more complicated than you might think. You control your 'Yoshi Cart' by drawing a path on the GamePad's screen. When your path reaches the door, the game prompts you to let Yoshi begin your dictated journey. But on the Pad doesn't display the fruit, just the basic map, and your television won't show the path you've sketched out. Achieving your goal is a matter of coordinating and reconciling each screen's missing information, using textures and shapes that exist on the map's background to guide your path. If you reach the door without all of your fruit, it won't open, and you'll lose a life. And just in case you think this might be completed rather easily once you get past the first few areas - there are about 50 stages to complete, and things get complicated quickly, with moving fruit, holes and numerous other obstacles quickly appearing. The game does feature a system to 'fast travel' to later levels once you've reached them, but saying Fruit Cart will be a formidable challenge is an understatement.

Gametrailers have given it 9.2

Black Ops 1 gameplay but in the video he's talking about BO2 maps, lists all of them (7 not yet seen before) and gives brief descriptions of each...

I've used it on Tekken Tag 2, it's the best "classic" style pad there is, even though it's without triggers. Still, I'd not see the point using it over the Gamepad for CoD given that the touchscreen on the Gamepad will definitely add benefits.

I much prefer Treyarch CoD's to IW ones with the exception of MW. One thing I'm very happy with Treyarch with this time around especially is that they've kept Wiimote controls in the game as opposed to straight porting the 360 version and leaving them out. For the Wiimote controls alone this will be the definitive version of this game!

No more region based matchmaking. It's entirely based on latency and ping now... http://m.ign.com/articles/2012/10/26/black-ops-2-multiplayer-matchmaking-explained

I like Nuketown, but I do think it's overplayed. On Domination and when we've a full team on, it's great!

I think I'll be picking this up at launch too, why the hell not. It is awesome after all!

After E3, I certainly lost any hype I had, but after the Nintendo Direct in Sept 13th, hype began to stir once more. Then at the Play Expo in Manchester on Oct 14th, I got my hands on with the WiiU and it all became clear... this IS a console to be hyped about! I had so much fun with my hands-on that it's a must-have for me. There are some great games at launch!

There is, the anime is the better of the two.

Hold on, in the quote it says that several features will be free but in the video it says all will... ???

Just 12 I think.

My thoughts exactly @Zechs Merquise Even down to the initially wanting online co-op, up until I got my hands on it!

Finally got my first ever Streetpasses today at Play Expo! First time I've taken my 3DS out with me to be fair though (in over a year, haha).

@ReplayEvents Awesome event guys, well put together and thoroughly enjoyable. Thank you!

It's the same for the other consoles.

No way, I'd have thought we'd have had a thread for sure! I'll be picking this up! Love Tekken but I've hardly played it for years. Hopefully with it being on a Ninty platform will rekindle my love for it!

I know, I was half asleep at time of my posting and it didn't quite register, haha.

Are you guys watching the anime of Sword Art online or reading the manga? I'm reading the manga and am up to speed on everything so far. Awaiting chapter 11.

On an SMG if you're going for Primary Gunfighter I'd change the Fore-grip for Fast Mag. Given that SMGs have such good hipfire performance as standard you'll be utilising it more often than normal (especially with Laser Sight attached), lessening the need for aiming down the sights and with Rapid Fire attached you'll be hitting your reloads much quicker than normal, plus Fast Mag gives you double ammo too which negates a need for Scavenger on your beefed up gun. Given the role of a Rush Class being in the face of the opposition as much as possible, you want to minimise the time in between your ability to fire. I'd advise something along the lines of: SMG Laser Sight Rapid Fire Fast Mag Primary Gunfighter Perk 3 Greed Ghost or Lightweight Cold Blooded Engineer & Dead Silence

Weapon balancing is much better in Black Ops, the damage mark ups are generally the same but in MW3 there are some definite inequalities in gun stats... but there are still definite stand out weapons in both... Famas & AUG in BO and ACR & MP7 in MW3 for instance. Yet in MW3 you also have the insta-death Akimbo FMGs, this is down to poor gun balancing for sure. In BO, when dual wielding SMGs, the gun stats change to balance, whereas on MW3 they don't.

Health has always been the same across all the CoDs, it's always been 100, unless you added on things like Juggernaught or the Painkiller Deathstreak. I don't mind the changes to Ghost, even when I'm playing a traditional sniping role as more often that not I'm moving to change up my firing position.

I'd recommend buying a proper gaming headset, I'm going to be doing so, the advantage they confer is huge! You'll not believe how well you can pinpoint where people's footsteps are coming from on CoD when using a proper gaming headset... definitely worth it given how much use they'll get!

ZombiU (Packed in) Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 I'll pick up a few others after going through the prestiges in Black Ops 2. Gaming with the N-E Clan comes first!

Pretty decent commentary here, he makes a few decent points and highlights a couple things in the vid.