Xbox Live’s Summer of arcade hit big this year with games like Splosion Man and Shadow Complex  The game in question is Trials HD in my own opinion one of the most entertaining Xbox Live games ever released. I can some up the game with three words.

Fun, Frustrating and Challenging.

Your objective in this game is to ride your trial bike through a track and contains several obstacles that you have to complete with as few faults as possible. You will fly through the first track no problem, but after a while you wish had never bought the game in the first place (in a good way of course). Some of the tracks are so frustating that I had to turn off my Xbox and and leave it for a few minutes just to cool down. As of now I’ve completed all but 3 of 4 tracks in the expert difficulty but the completion far out into the future.

In the graphics department the game fares very welll for an arcade title and the controlsdo as well. It’s well worth the 1200 Microsoft points that it costs.

Jumper: Griffin’s Story based on the 2008 movie by the name Jumper. Let me be clear, this is an aweful game. After about 20 minutes you will have around 350-450 achievement points and then it suddenly takes a hard turn and gets quite hard. The game is aweful in every aspect except the cartoon cut scenes those are very good. The controls are confusing and stiff, the grapfics are bad, the camera is all over the place and the sounds is terrible. The bottom line is, the only reason to play this game is to get the achivements nothing more.

DICE has done it yet again, last time it was Battlefield: Bad Company and now they have brought WWII back in the game with the Frostbite Engine and all I can say is that it’s exellent. The cost of this game is 1200MS Points and that’s well worth it, there are hours upon hours of gameplay in this download.

See you on the battlefield.

Hi everyone.

Just ordered a few new games for the Xbox 360 today. I’m in the mood for some rythm games at the moment so I found some used games for only 99DKR per item.

• Guitar Hero 2
• Guitar Hero Aerosmith

I’m looking forward to these games, the only problem is that my surround receiver blew a couple of weeks ago so there’s not even great sound for these games.

Gameplay: 5/5
This is going to be a very short paragraph, the gameplay just works, you get sucked in very quickly and lose track of time. The controls also just works like a charm and as they should. One thing I have noticed is that sometimes the enemies just stand there and aim at you but doesn’t shoot but if you get close enough, they charge at you.

Graphics: 4/5
The graphics in this game is very nicely done. The characters are very detailed and very well made. The landscapes the the open fields are “just” okay graphics wise but on the other hand the builds are outstanding and make the scenarios very claustrophobic that is just ace and makes your heart race a bit faster.

Audio: 5/5
Let me just start off with this, I don’t have a great sounds setup but it is a HIFI setup and the sound in this game is amazing. The soundtrack is brilliant and makes you feel like you’re in an action movie of some sort. The voice action is brilliant as well altough I can tell that some of the German soldiers and recycled material, this is not necesarily a bad thing but it’s just a thing I noticed.

The time came to start on the Call of Duty series again, I have 2 games lined up so far Call of Duty 2 and Call of Duty: World at War. We are going to start with Call of Duty 2 as I haven’t even unwrapped Call of Duty: World at War yet.

To sum up the games content there are 10 missions that take you through 3 different campains. You start off as the Soviets then the British and then the Americans. To be fair I’m having a hard time getting through this game because I’m trying to complete it on Veteran difficulty (the hardest difficulty). But it’s really fun and challenging, the A.I. does a good enough job finding you and aims fairly well. Often you have to wait them out and then shoot them in the face before you have storm through to the next session. The graphics doesn’t look like a 2005 game compared to a game like King Kong also er ’05 game this looks miles better and controls alot better too.

I can definately recommend this game if you are into WWII games and and haven’t already tried it.

The game I’m speding the most time on at the moment is Forza Motorsport 2, I’ve had it since it launched back in May 2007  but never completed it. So now I’m trying to burn through all these races. I’ve completed 79% of the game up until now and I’ve spent 41 hours on it so theres still a good 10-15 hours in at maybe even more.

An top of that there’s alot of achievements to be had, right now I’m going for the last endurance race in the Endurance Race series, 40 laps of just going round and round. A bit boring really, but I’m willing to spend that time on it. After this achievement I have collected 468G/1000 so still alot of points left.

The best thing about this game is that you keep playing it, but I don’t think it has any replay value what so ever when you complete the offline/single player segment. The graphics are great and still good compared with newer racing games.

Roll on Forza motorsport 3!

Hi everyone.

The first DXG (Danish Xbox Gamers) Event was held yesterday only with 2 participants. Me and my brother. We had a blast playing FIFA 09 and Guitar Hero, the next event will hopefully have more than 2 participants and a couple of real tournament based contests with prizes included.

I don’t have a date for this yet but it will most likely be in April or May. More information will follow.

The games we are aiming to play at the events are at the moment:

• Forza Motorsport 2
• Halo 3
• FIFA 09

If the DXG event keeps getting bigger, we will most likely expand it to an Online event so the people from around the country or the world can paricipate.

Regards,

UNP – DXG founder

The last month or so I’ve been hitting the 360 quite hard, buying cheap games and trying to play as much as I can. That resultet in my first 1000/1000GS in a game in the 360. The game that I succeeded in playing to the end was FIFA 06: Road To The World Cup. To be honest it was almost too easy. I got the 6 achievements for the game in a total of about 5 hours.

The controls work great and the gameplay works as a whole. The game isn’t without errors as I’ve seen more than once that when changing from a gameplay video and the in-game graphics the players disappear so you can’t see any players on the pitch.

Overall I quite liked the game and it was a good buy and easy gamerpoints.

The day came that I picked up my new Xbox 360 Arcade, I was a bit disappointed with it not being a Jasper but a Falcon. But on the upside, I got one with a Phillips/LiteON drive, and it’s very quiet compared to the old model I had. Right now I’m playing Forza Motorsport 2 (not an installed game) and compared to the old one, this is pure bliss.

You can actually play games that are not installed, I’m in heaven.

Hopefully it’s only game experiences I will post from now on regarding the 360 but you can never be too sure.