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Burnout Paradise - a lil repetitive. Can drive city in it's entirety at once... great modeling and diverse routes, shortcuts and landmarks. Like other burnout games, it recaptures the pure fun of playing that is sometimes lost in uber-competitive games today (FPS, sports, etc). Sheer speed, destruction and wild action is a ton of fun... even if not overly original if you've played the others.
Battlefield 2 - Single player is a very poor man's COD4, both in graphics and gameplay. Xbox live registration down, so online was not tested.
Army of Two... great concept and ideas, poor execution. 3rd person off-center aiming is very cumbersome, as well as close-range aiming. Hope someone builds on some of the teamwork based ideas who knows how to make a FPS. Aggro (cover fire attracting attention), teamwork based moves/objectives, etc.
btw, on Madden 08... came to appreciate this more upon further gameplay. Greatly superior football action, and much more polished interface without the annoying bugs of NCAA.
p.s. Trying these out every day or two on a $20 blockbuster game pass for a month, unlimited exchanges.
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