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I think they could get away with removing the HUD entirely (apart from small ammo indicators in bottom right). It looks fantastic without one.

I'm sorry but 1080 Snowboarding is actually horrendous comparatively, if anything it was that game that lacked charm. SSX is still highly playable and enjoyable. Don't get me wrong, 1080 was fantastic back in the day but... Pfft.

SSX 1 negro, SSX 1! There was one track where a short-cut took you across half the stage, just on oddly shaped floating ramp things. INSANE. I am tempted to buy it in fact.

I love SSX. The original was fantastic, and On Tour was pretty decent. This looks like it could be good, but I really hope they don't make it too dark. The light-heartedness of the previous entries made it so playable. Also, no crowd = zero point in doing teh trix. However, if you can actually do that flying thing in-game, it could be sick. Say there's a massive gap and you have to glide over it whilst dodging shit for a few seconds. Hmmm.

Arrrgh. Wake me up, when September starts... That's probably because this is gonna kick KZ3 in the nuts.

I finished season 3 t'other day. I thought it was great, but I might actually be inclined to say Season 2 was better. This may have been because I've forgotten what happens in the first half of season 3, as there was a massive time gap between my viewings of both parts. Omar is definitely the best character, although Jimmy always has his fair share of awesomes. By the end of S3 I felt like it was dragging ever so slightly though, needs a bit of freshening up, which is my I maintain that Season 1 is still the best. My perception of Carcetti has vastly improved, I can see him being awesome. Also, his advisor is pretty hawt in a milfish way.

Very uncharacteristic error there, I've lost faith in you. -1 integrity. @Dr4aqsdjhejf, not sure how you can make that kinda call right now. I'm personally not too excited for it, but we'll see. Hopefully they make the campaign a lot more varied, I want less room clearing and more gun turreting/sneaky shit/ amazing scripted sequences/ actual decent puzzles, ala Tomb Raider, as it's a 15 rated game and yet they spoon feed you that shit. Basically the whole thing should be a scripted sequence, I don't care too much for bulk cover-shooting gameplay, leave that for multiplayer. Let us have zero-gravity samurai sword fights in the campaign, and take down mega-zombies with rail guns whilst riding antelope.

Nothing I've seen so far has made me think it's fun to play. There's going to be more 'ooh wow' moments, and more variety, but none of the minigames or levels exhibit much meaningful quality. Still waiting for something to show me otherwise.

Where the hell are the snipers in this game? I've worked all the way to the strip, and explored a good proportion of the map, and yet no sniper. Or a rocket launcher come to think of it, not that I could justify carrying one.

Nom nom nom! I always found that strange/amusing. Made it such a destroying weapon on Hardcore, and just in general. Good decision FFS I was using this earlier and it's actually pretty decent, especially for Oasis Conquest (which, like you said, is a very good map). Should've done that ages ago.

I'll definitely be on this a lot when Vietnam comes out. Also, did not realise those changes Masher-of-E, thanks for the tippage. Anything else I should know? Rebalancing? I think they nerfed the MG36 a while back. It's now average. And the PP2000 is no longer a rape machine. Maybe it's just been because of lag recently but I was left a tad disappointed.

Yeah, the Queen exchange at the time was postponed for a while (and eventually never happened) but I think what I was worried about at the time was you trapping my knight, without him being able to do any damage. Definitely was thinking of the castle but for some reason squandered the thought of doing so. Blah, it's all too confusing.

Point and click games are possibly the closest thing to being near the mediums, however, there's always stupid jarring things that take you away from any momentary belief that games are showcasing some sort of reality. You just don't get caught up in them in the same way as books and films. Do you want them to offer this though? I mean, point and click games don't really count as proper games anyway (if ya get me), and you're going to have to get rid of that damned controller if it's gonna work. And if you take that away then... Well shit. You're left with Kinect. Which is never gonna produce anything serious. At all.

Had I castled after the Queen take I think it would've been a stale but I saw an opportunity. It failed, kind of. But yeah, good game! At the start I was just wondering why you weren't piling into my pawns, I think that would've raped me, as yours had a lot more defenders, and you had the opportunities take first. In actual fact, I think pressing forwards with Knight and Queen gave you more developing moves (like the castle) as I had no choice but to retreat the Queen, which was quite wasteful. Mutual respect we'll call it.

I thought the first couple of Tomb Raiders were fantastic, and they far more tense/adrenaline fuelled than the follow ups, even if they did have dodgy controls. You bought the new PoP.... Jayyyyyy

LOLLL I despise Harry Hill now, he used to be OK, and then he turned his show into a catch-phrase contest. It was good when the majority of the show was just awesome observational work. Desperate. Songs are the shittest part! And he makes a fucking CD out of them?! Who the fuck buys this wank?! Hayte. --- Videogames ....I wouldn't say they're captivating enough for me to be fully addicted. That said, over the years I have wasted too much time on them.

Not a fan of the new maps. Not that I've played them much but I just didn't really enjoy them. However, Vietnam is sounding right up my street http://uk.ps3.ign.com/articles/113/1138215p1.html The lack of sights and bigger 1943 feel make the thing seem pretty damn awesome. Comes out 21st December, which is kinda queer, but I'll still be getting it. If NE was awesome we'd have tons of squad matches on it, but nooooooooo! 4 player squads are fucking awesome, I don't know why this didn't take off (well).

I just got daily mailed by JayJay Aborigine Squander-bus. It was a kinda stale mate situation, and I said 'all I need to do is look out for the knight fork' and then maybe 2 moves later I blundered horrendously by giving JayJay a fork (and essentially a big spoon to lap it all up) and basically should've resigned immediatly. It wasn't worth offering a draw as I still had one 10% success chance move but never got to it. Argh. Edit: * A draw before the big forking.

@ MCJ - in almost every situation you have to be a complete n00b to be owning and still suffer a stalemate. Just keep the King in check whilst being able to check him next go, or making sure whatever you do leaves the guy some room.

I remember seeing a bit of that and thinking 'no'. It's almost as bad as School of Comedy.