Time to buy an XBOX360?

[NokkonWud]

Steven, stay away from Army of Two and Condemned 2 as purchases, they are definitely rental titles. The first is too short to warrant buying, the latter, for me, wasn't as good as the first.

Bad Company is the cream of the crop of the new games that I've played, it's excellent. Frontlines too is a bit of a sleeper hit, I mentioned this to Jen a couple of weeks ago and she seemed surprised too (as was I). The game starts off a little slow in the first 3 chapters (of 8), but by chapter 5 you get the impression that the game finally found its identity, and from that point it's an absolute rip-roaring blaster, tense situations, fantastic level design and a score that is up there with my favourite scores of all time, primarily because in the tense sections you can clearly here music that can only be described as Bourne-esque, which as those of who you read my blog know, is my favourite movie trilogy of all time. The end song for the credits is great too and actually compliments the game, where so many others don't. On top of that, it's achievement list is pretty strong too.

For only £10-£15 second hand I can't recommend Frontlines enough. It's not a classic, nor will it be remembered in a couple of years, but for enjoyable shooters I have played many worse. If I had to put it down it would be that graphically, it should be better - the models are great, but the textures are shabby - and in terms of multiplayer, there aren't as many ranked servers as there should be, but loads of player servers, so that's confusing and something you never normally see in the world of Achievement whores.