Essential 360 Games?

furnace · 27 Jul 2007 at 23:43

Hey,

I'm off to the shop in the morning to get a couple of 360 games. I have a hard drive in the post now too, lol, so I'm on my merry way to having a proper 360 setup.

Currently I have:

Call of Duty 3
Need for Speed: Carbon

Gears of War (in the post)

I'm looking at getting these as they're 2 for £40 pre-owned - depending on which are in stock:

Saints Row
- or-
Crackdown
- and -
Flatout Ultimate Carnage
- or -
Dirt

... are there any 'essential' games should I be keeping my eyes out for?

Shamikebab · 27 Jul 2007 at 23:47

Id class Guitar Hero 2 as essential

also for me Viva Pinata is essential, one of the best games on the 360.

Test drive Unlimited if you like racing games

The Darkness if you like shooters.

weringo · 27 Jul 2007 at 23:54

Saints row is a must imo, if you like GTA you will like this.

marv · 28 Jul 2007 at 01:03

Guitar hero 2
Gears of War
Forza 2
Dirt

RobertN · 28 Jul 2007 at 01:29

best idea woud be wait for your harddrive and download lots of demos see what you like

-|ScottFree|- · 28 Jul 2007 at 02:33

Pro Evo

Fight night

GOW

Upcoming Assassins creed!!!

Manlove is my forte · 28 Jul 2007 at 03:02

Dead rising

NokkonWud · 28 Jul 2007 at 03:07

Dead Rising
Burnout Revenge
The Darkness
Saints Row
Crackdown
Guitar Hero 2

Those are just some of the great games.

denon · 28 Jul 2007 at 03:12

geometry wars

pinkacidbootson · 28 Jul 2007 at 03:47

Guitar Hero 2, Crackdown, PGR3, Viva Pinata, Oblivion.

AngeluiMorte · 28 Jul 2007 at 04:56

Burnout, Burnout, Burnout

Need I say more?

Psymonkee · 28 Jul 2007 at 07:07

Burnout, Flatout, Guitar Hero 2, Crackdown - all worth your money

Mlingard · 28 Jul 2007 at 07:15

Flatout is a blast on live and crackdown would be worth getting , forza 2 is a great racer + if you like shooters GRAW2 is good multiplayer .

Kainz · 28 Jul 2007 at 10:05

Condemned & Kameo - both launch titles, both very much underrated.

IceBus · 28 Jul 2007 at 12:14

PGR3
Saints Row
GRAW 1&2

furnace · 28 Jul 2007 at 12:34

I bought DiRT, but my tv doesn't do 60hz!! :eek:

So I had to take that back.

I got Saints Row too - it seems good so far, but no point playing much until the hard drive arrives 'cos I can't save until then...

I've got Burnout (takedown and revenge) on the original xbox which I'll be able to play on the 360 when I get the hard drive (I think?). I did have revenge on the 360 too but swapped it for NFS:C - I didn't think £20 just for better graphics was worth it

Nobody seems to rate FlatOut Ultimate Carnage? The videos of it look pretty good - very burnout style but looks prettier? That was the game I was thinking of getting in place of dirt?

Mephisto · 28 Jul 2007 at 12:54

I got my Xbox 360 yesterday and the game I have played the most so far is Fight Night Round 3. The control system is great, it really takes skill and co-orindation to succeed. I imagine it must be really great online.

But best of all is the graphics. I'm absolutely amazed, easily the best graphics I have EVER seen....EVER. They're unbelieveable! The slow-mo replays of knockouts which show your opponents face shaking/crushing and blood/spit flying out of their mouth, INCREDIBLE!

NokkonWud · 28 Jul 2007 at 12:58

furnace said:
I bought DiRT, but my tv doesn't do 60hz!!

Lots of games are 60hz.

I recommend playing on a PC monitor, you get HD graphics that way. Too much is lost on a SD TV.

furnace · 28 Jul 2007 at 13:17

NokkonWud said:
Lots of games are 60hz.

I recommend playing on a PC monitor, you get HD graphics that way. Too much is lost on a SD TV.

It's actually a HD TV... but for some reason, when it's at 60hz, it picks it up as NTSC rather than PAL, so gives it horizontal lines (as it has to vertically stretch the resolution) and very dull colours. Unless it's something wrong with my console rather than the TV?

NokkonWud · 28 Jul 2007 at 13:22

Certainly sounds like a TV problem, what screen is it?