gamingeek said:

The 3 big UK sites have given it an 8.0 and two 8/10s. They all agree it's good/great but I believe they are more cynical. I'm sure the platform specific sites/mags will give it more.

Now EDGE mag has given it 8/10 too, that's the 4 recognised UK sites giving it 8/10.

EDGE says similar things to CVG on this aspect:

"The trump card is the same as always: a sense of solidarity in movement and aiming that makes weighty sense of fighting through the bio-enhanced body of a supersoldier. And Halo 4’s focus is tightly pulled onto close-quarters encounters, highlighting this kinetic accomplishment. The grand staged battles favoured by the preceding sequels are gone, replaced by tightly mapped fights with small clusters of Prometheans and Covenant; the lessons of Assault On The Control Room have been learnt and are repeatedly put into practice."

Do you like small combat bits or grand scale combat in Halo? I think the past games delivered on both. I think overall I prefer a tight but non-linear designed map rather than sprawling stuff where you have to trek about. I do likes my warthog action though.

Dvader said:

Reach has fallen. Great game, I would say its pretty consistantly great but it does not have the highs Halo 3 has. So its third place in Halo games, 1>3>Reach>>>>2

Holy shit, I agree.

Dvader said:

This is awesome! The greatest of all time.

That is awesome. It will be so sad when he pops his clogs, a lot of us have grown up playing his games it's like a soundtrack to our lives, a one constant.

BTW the Project CARS screens in the updates is like car porn

Finally, a good use for the Wii U gamepad:

Wo ist everybody?

I'm here, downloading my Origin loot. Popped my cherry with the service last night.

Yeah, first episode! I love how Tony Stark behaves the same as in the movies.

SteelAttack said:

Yeah, first episode! I love how Tony Stark behaves the same as in the movies.

Stark in the cartoon is great. Even though it owes everything to Downey's portrayel, he really makes the series sing more than any other character. The voice actor is great too, but that Iron Man is born episode wasn't so great. The team isn't formed for a while after, you will have to put up with a solo Thor episode and a few Hulk ones.

SteelAttack said:

Is Hulk an idiot in the series?

Thankfully no, he's not all Hulk smash this and that. He even plays poker with them in one episode.

So far season 2 is not as good though its based on the Skrull invasion and is less action based. It's less coherent to me to watch because the network is airing it out of order. It's like "Previously on the Avengers" and it shows all this stuff that hasn't been aired yet.

edgecrusher said:

Ummm...I just got an email from Best Buy saying Assassin's Creed 3 for Wii U has a new release date of December 31st......what the fuck!?

Hi Jay:




There's been a change to the release date for your pre-ordered item.




The new release date is 12/31/2012. Your order details are listed below

It was supposed to release November 13th. This pisses me off. May get the PC version now.

It's been confirmed as a launch game in europe, nov 30th so that can't be right.

edgecrusher said:

But I just got the email....so maybe Ubisoft just let people know that they won't be making it before the holidays.

That's sucky. Can't you wait? Your backlog is quite large.