Time to buy an XBOX360?

[leowyatt]

Having not played ME I'd vote for COD4

[Haly]

I'd say it depends how much you like the two genres. I'd take Mass Effect over CoD4 but that's because I'm a huge RPG fan.
As long as you have both at some point soon, you can't really go wrong

[Belmit]

Originally Posted by Daz

Finally finished Half Life 2. I'll agree with Leo when he says that there's a kind of... lack of purpose, when compared to the first one.

I know what you mean. The first was far superior in that it feels like it's you against the world, and even though it's completely linear it never felt like you were being ushered through, but actually finding your own way. HL2 feels more contrived.

Finished Episode 1 last night and got all the achievements. w00t!

[leowyatt]

It is just me or would I like to know what I was on the train at the beginning and what I've been doing to be come Gordon the ultimate commando?

[Daz]

I could have forgiven that if I self a sense of mission or purpose on the way through, that bugged me more. Shouldn't moan too much though, I did enjoy the game.

Originally Posted by Belmit

Finished Episode 1 last night and got all the achievements. w00t!

I'm aiming for the same thing myself! How did you find it without bullets?

[Belmit]

It was OK apart from a couple of frustrating bits where the crossbow would have been handy - snipers on the roof and stuff (although technically they shouldn't count as they're bolts!). Grenades, rockets and crossbow serve well though, and it would be almost impossible without the grav gun. Mainly Alex takes stuff out with her machine pistol so as long as you can find a corner to sit in you're generally OK. It can be hard finding stuff to throw so I did find myself carrying a radiator or a breeze block around a fair bit! It gets much easier towards the end as there's rocket boxes lying around.

The trickiest achievement by far was the lighting up the zombies with flares one.
The main area where you can do it is practically pitch black so you need your flashlight on all the time, and all the flares are behind mesh fences so you have to get them with the gravity gun. By the time you've notched up a score of about ten, your flashlight is running out, the zombies are starting to build up and the flares become more scarce. Not being able to use your guns is a real handicap at that point. Took me bloody ages!

[Matblack]

Originally Posted by Creature

Which would people recommend, COD4 of Mass Effect. Stuck on which to get now, and which to get for Christmas.

COD4 has more longevity but ME is excellent

MB

[Daz]

Originally Posted by Belmit

By the time you've notched up a score of about ten, your flashlight is running out, the zombies are starting to build up and the flares become more scarce.

Sounds fun! So overall you found it harder to get through than Ravenholm with the grav gun? Would make sense though if there's a lack of equipment.

How long did it take you to complete?

[Belmit]

Originally Posted by Daz

So overall you found it harder to get through than Ravenholm with the grav gun?

I wouldn't say so, Ravenholm has lots of those screamer zombies which are a real pain without any kind of weapon, especially at the end when you're waiting for the cradle to come across and they come up the drainpipes. At that point I had to leap off the roof and find some stuff to chuck at them. For the first half an hour of Episode 1 you don't even get a weapon other than the gravity gun so it's not that difficult to adapt.

Originally Posted by Daz

How long did it take you to complete?

When I started playing last night it said I had been playing for about two hours, so no more than three I would say. Although in reality it was about double that thanks to the achievements!

[Daz]

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