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if they offer splinter cell free with the xbox I may cave in and get one.  I was planning on getting one when Halo 3 comes out but splinter cell may have me buying a 360 sooner then I had planned.

You still have two kidneys, right?

Be sure to save some for GoW, H3 and that 100GB HDD.


(And the wireless thingumajig... HD-DVD drive... headset, steering wheel...

...heck, you've still got two lungs too, right? Remember, console gaming is great becuz it's cheep! )

oh man, you have got to get into splinter cell.

Booksley wrote:

I'm not sure if you're Canadian or not, but Futureshop is going to add Splinter Cell: Double Agent to the already awesome GRAW bundle free of charge.

I need to sell something so I can buy this bundle

That's awesome, and would probably push me over the edge towards owning my first console.

It's Saturday, and so far I haven't seen the GRAW bundle updated yet.

Booksley wrote:

I'm not sure if you're Canadian or not, but Futureshop is going to add Splinter Cell: Double Agent to the already awesome GRAW bundle free of charge.

I need to sell something so I can buy this bundle

Booksley wrote:

Donkey Butter wrote:

oh man, you have got to get into splinter cell.

QFT

And the 4th game in the series looks like it'll be even better (something odd for sequels; every single game has improved on the last one. Very few games can pull that off...)

Combine these two and I have something for you, Booksley...

» Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2 Announced

In UbiSoft's latest financial press release the publisher announced that they will release Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2, the sequel to their best selling military tactical shooter. The game will be released in the first quarter of 2007 but no other details were announced.

http://www.firingsquad.com/news/newsart … chid=12876

After GoW we'll have CoD3 in Nov. too.

I just posted my xbox on craigslist so I should have half the cost of a 360 covered.  now I just have to go donate some blood, and other bodily fluids to make up the rest.  with any luck by this time next week I will be playing double agent.

powercat wrote:

Everyone definately needs to get the new splinter cell.

I've played the first one on my mac, and I have the third one for PC (but can't run it). Would you recommend playing 2 & 3 before #4?

DoctorB wrote:

Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory is the game I have enjoyed the most on the original XBox and the 360. I guess it is all that sneaking around. Would definitely recommend doing Chaos Theory before Double Agent.

And it should work fine on the Xbox 360 if it's on the compatibility list?

And in other 360 newsbits, Halo 3 passed its first online play trials with flying colors...

We tested Halo 3 matchmaking last night. A bunch of folks here, and a bunch of folks in real-world, top-secret locations, with regular intarwebs connections, played the first ever online Hao 3 matchmaking stuff and it was a great success. In early tests like this, you sort of expect it to be a crash-festival, and the test guys will just assemble all the failure data in the morning. But not this time.

...

All fine and dandy when you have 250k players, but last night we had about 20, so we all had a fair idea who we’d be matched against. Still, it was fun to see the user interface working correctly, even if we knew that some of the new features wouldn’t exactly be utilized by a grand total of 20 Halo 3 players. Also, for whatever combination of luck, bandwidth and new netcode, we all experienced LAN-like conditions – one of the exclamations in this morning’s post game water cooler chat. It will be interesting to see how the new, smarter code translates to real world conditions in 2007.

'LAN-like' is good by me. http://www.bungie.net/News/TopStory.aspx?cid=9092

Also, H3 info is making its way into magazines this month here and overseas, with the Dec. EGM having a 17-page cover article on it.

In the just-redesigned December issue of Electronic Gaming Monthly (subscribers should have it any day now) a handful of editors took Halo 3's multiplayer game hands-on.

The result? A 17-page cover story and a three-week series of stories on 1UP called "3 Weeks of Halo 3."

Before all of that information ends up in your hands, though -- here's a small taste of what to expect from both EGM and 1UP over the next few weeks:

• What are these new Brutish weapons? What's a Spike Rifle...or a Spike Grenade?
• The Mongoose (the once-scrapped ATV from Halo/Halo 2) is back: Who wants to ride Brokeback?
• Halo 3 will have three retail SKUs: standard, collector's edition, and Legendary. Guess which one comes with a helmet and four discs of content?
• Adding bumpers to the 360 controller means there's some extra real estate for Bungie to play with. Now the left bumper reloads your dual-wielded weapon and the right bumper is the normal reload. What does X do, though? Mum.
• Starting weapon: Bungie thinks they have the "perfect" starting weapon in Halo 3. It's not the pistol, the battle rifle, or the SMG...and it's pretty familiar. How does the new Assault Rifle play?
• One of the new maps, Valhalla, is being called "the new Blood Gulch" -- but this isn't another coat of new paint on the Combat Evolved classic. This is, from-the-ground-up, a brand-new map. How is it?
• What if you could save your own movies from Halo 3's single- and multiplayer gameplay and then rewatch them? In Halo 3, you can.

http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3154702

I like all that, esp. recording your own gameplay movies. One of the weapons on the cover looks like the anti-vehicle Spartan Laser. So kewlness is apparently on the way.

There are other rumors, like a (paid?) demo in early '07... but that's enough shavings from the H3 mill for now, I think.


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Last edited by Bat (2006-10-29 4:42 pm)

DoctorB wrote:

bcdynamic wrote:

And it should work fine on the Xbox 360 if it's on the compatibility list?

Works just fine on the 360.

Speaking of, how often do they update that list? I am starting to consider getting me a 360, partly because I accidentally paralyzed my original xbox, and I don't really want to get rid of my games.

Bat wrote:

There were June and August '06 updates I recall. I'm sure there've been more that I forget. Probably a few more games will be added with the Fall update that adds 1080p capability... I'm guessing that'll come around the GoW/PS3 launch window.

Live was down last week for a day. That was in prep for GoW and other Holiday titles. No news on additional games, maybe next month. I want my two Mechwarriors dammit!