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Xbox 360 in 2008: The Hot Five Games

CinemaBlend Games, by Steve West, 2007-12-26:

The year is at a close, which means the Blend Games staff will gather this weekend to drink cheap whiskey and discuss gaming in 2007. At some point a list of Blend's favorite games for the year will come out of the ordeal, but before they get to that it's time to look forward. After all, it was nice playing Crackdown but it's now time to get complacent with our gaming. There's a brand new stack of titles just itching to be played. Hopefully none of them have any debilitating diseases that will require daily cream application.

First up is the Xbox 360, a system that has been all too quiet on its future. Peter Moore set the stage for Fall 2007 at E3 when he emphasized Microsoft's focus on the immediate future. But now gamers are glancing around and wondering what the hell could follow such a stellar year for the system. Below you'll find the games Blend Games is most looking forward to on the big white console. If you were wondering, the list doesn't assuage Blend Games' worry that Microsoft's first party lineup is crumbling.

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Damphear5970d ago

only 5 games for 08 sad sad sad

lets see what the xbots say

Honeal2g5970d ago

wow how could they leave out gta4?... that game is gonna move units on both platforms...

aba5970d ago

Go watch spiderman on your blu-ray player. I'm gonna play some games.

phoenixtilt5970d ago

I hope you dont think that is all the 360 games for 08 what does the ps triple have? Kill Zone 2 ..uh no... Resistance 2 ..oh no... Little Big planet.. oh fun... PS HOME.. oh yaa...

DARKKNIGHT5970d ago

all systems will have a great 2k8. it wont be until 2k9 that we can confirm who had the most aaa titles. As of right now, all your opinions are mere speculation. Games can be pushed back or cancelled, AND the wii's demand is still pretty high.

Kleptic5969d ago

NG 2 will be great...NG, Black, and Sigma were all a lot of fun (Sigma not really adding enough to make it stand as strong anymore though...and it kept the totally lame cutscenes)...but NG2 looks as good as Sigma with 4X the gore...should be the 360's biggest exclusive game of 2008 (assuming Gears 2 doesn't make the year)...

however...if this is an accurate list of what people should be excited for, 360 wise, then there will be loads of trouble...two of those 5 games are also on the PS3...and pretty much neither of which are even in the top 10 most anticipated for that console...Splinter Cell Conviction?...I keep hearing about it because its an exclusive, but I haven't seen a single thing about it that looks appealing...and its quite obvious that the king of stealth action will more or less pummel the utter shat out of SC...again...

and Too Human?...I will wait and see what happens between SK and Epic...its very unlikely that SK is going to make out well with that deal...and if Epic wins the counter-suit, then SK will also be forced to remove any of the "learned" code they claim to have created themselves (they basically built their own tools to do what the UE3 toolset allowed...then claimed it was their own design...in order to keep working on the game while this mess got worked out)...could be a 2008 release...but all this code crap makes the overall game's quality anyone's guess...

I do agree though that there are much better games coming to the 360 in 2008 than what are on this list...GTAIV diserved a spot...and is no doubt the 360's biggest game of this coming year (possibly the PS3's sales wise also...will basically come down between this and MGS4)...and what about Fable 2 (wasn't that one of the 3-4 franchises to sell over a million on the Xbox 1)...never played it, but a lot of people are quick to chime in with that game...

will be a great year for both systems...Sony has somewhat dropped the ball with two of the biggest 1st party games being pushed to fall 2008 (KZ2 and LBP)...so I don't really think the overall year is going consist of the PS3 slapping everyone around...but the PS3 is going to finish the year extremely strong (I am predicting that pretty much every big exclusive game for the year won't drop until at least August 2008...that includes MGS4)...If the 360 does end up getting Gears 2 for November 2008...they will both be similar sales wise I would imagine...

reminds me of the SNES and Genesis war's early years...

TANOD5969d ago

RE5 is on PS3 (main platform ) and would take up just a single BD disc on PS3

Savior X5969d ago

THAT'S ON;Y FIVE OF MANY MORON

Lord_Mike5969d ago

I actually buy around 5 games a year average so I guess thats fine. I don't own an XBOX 360 though...

gaffyh5969d ago

The "hot five" 360 games in 2008 include 2 Multi-platform games??? Splinter Cell used to be good for the first couple of games, then it became crap, don't know how conviction will be.

MADGameR5969d ago

Take away DMC4 because ofcourse its going to be better on the PS3 and Resident Evil 5 because its also ON the PS3.

BLUR1115969d ago

cause 2g.. everyone knows of gta4 coming and every one will play it. anyway the list is great and right ninja gaiden will be amazing so is dmc 4. next gen bu baba!!

WAR5969d ago

List was made by stunt a forum member from PS3Forums

PlayStation 3 Exclusives Confirmed - Includes already released games

Released [24 Titles]

Eye of Judgement, The [PlayStation Eye]
Folklore
Formula One Championship Edition
Full Auto 2: Battlelines
Genji: Days of the Blade
Godfather: The Don's Edition, The
Heavenly Sword
Lair
MLB '07: The Show
Mobile Suit Gundam: Crossfire
MotorStorm
Ninja Gaiden Sigma
NBA '07
NBA '08
Ratchet and Clank Future: Tools of Destruction
Resistance: Fall of Man
Ridge Racer 7
Spider-Man 3: Collector's Edition
Time Crisis 4 [Including Guncon 3]
Uncharted: Drake's Fortune
Untold Legends: Dark Kingdom
Unreal Tournament III [+PC] [Timed Exclusive]

Virtua Fighter 5 [Timed Exclusive]
Warhawk

Upcoming [92 Titles]

ActiveDogs Project

Afrika [2008 Title]
Agency, The [+PC] [2008 Title]

Airtight Project
Amphibian Man [+PC]
Angel Rings
Aqua
BB [Working Title]
Big Time Revenge [2008 Title]
Black Blade
Bomberman
Brave Arms [JoyStiq]
Buzz!: Quiz TV [2008 Title]
Castlevania
Coded Arms: Assault
Cops
Chain Limit [JoyStiq]
Croteam Untitled Project
Crucible, The
Crytek Project
Dark RPG
DC Universe
Disgaea 3
Driver 5
Eight Days
Empire
Eyedentify
Factor 5 Project #2
Fatal Frame PS3
FIA World Touring Car Championship
Fifth Phantom Saga
Final Fantasy XIII
Final Fantasy Versus XIII
Future GPX Cyber Formula PS3
Getaway 3
God of War III

Gradius
Gran Turismo 5
Gran Turismo 5: Prologue [2008 Title]
Gretzky NHL [Working Title]
Haze [2008 Title]
Heavy Rain
Home, PlayStation [2008 Title]
Hot Shots Golf 5 [2008 Title]
inFAMOUS [2008 Title]
Jaffe Exclusive 1 [N4G]
Jaffe Exclusive 2 [N4G]
Jaffe Exclusive 3 [N4G]
Jak and Daxter: The Lost Frontier
Katamari Game [onAXIS]
Killzone 2 [2008 Title]
Kurayami (Darkness)
L.A. Noire [Confirmed]
LittleBigPlanet [2008 Title]
Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots [2008 Title]
Metal Gear Solid Online [Announcement] [2008 Title]
Metro 2033: The Last Refuge
Monster Madness EX
Motorstorm 2 [2008 Title]
Namco Bandai RPG Project
Namco Bandai Sports Project
Namco Bandai Shooter Project
Naruto: PS3 Project [Scans] [2008 Title]
Ni-Oh
Planet One

Project D
Project Psychic [Working Title]
Pterodon FPS Project [untitled]
Quantic Dream Project [Thread]
Resistance: Fall of Man 2 [2008 Title]
Rockstar Games Exclusive Franchise [PS.BlOG]
Rockstar Old West PS3 Project [untitled]
Romance of the Three Kingdoms
Redwood Falls
Rengoku: The End of the Century
Returning Alive [Working Title]
Second Season 01 [JoyStiq]
Secret Service
Shin Megami Tensei Project [untitled]
SingStar [2008 Title]
SOCOM 4
Starbreeze Nex-Gen Project
Star Ocean 4 [2008 Title]
Steambot Chronicles 2
Syphon Filter PS3 [onAXIS]
Tekken 6 [2008 Title]
thatgamecompany Project #3 [untitled]
Wardevil [2008 Title]
Way of the Samurai 3
White Knight Story [2008 Title]
Yakuza: Kenzan!
Zipper Interactive Project

PlayStation Network Exclusives

Released [29 Titles]

Aquatopia [PlayStation Eye]
Blast Factor
Calling All Cars!
Cash Guns Chaos DLX
Everyday Shooter
EyeCreate [PlayStation Eye]
flOw
Go! Puzzle
Go! Sports Ski
Go! Sudoku
Gran Turismo HD Concept
Gripshift
High Stakes on the Vegas Strip: Poker Edition
High Velocity Bowling
Lemmings
Loco Roco Cocoreecho!
Mesmerize [PlayStation Eye]
Mortal Kombat II
Nucleus
Operation Creature Feature [PlayStation Eye]
PAIN
PixelJunk Racers
Piyotama
Snakeball
Super Rub-a-Dub
Super Stardust HD
Tekken 5: Dark Resurrection
Toy Home
Trials of Topoq [PlayStation Eye]

Upcoming [20 Titles]

Angel Love Online [+PC] [FREE]
Big Time Revenge
EchoChrome
Elefunk
Ember [PlayThree] [ThreeSpeech] [PlayStation Eye]
Fl0wer
Free Realms [+PC]

N-Cube
NCSoft Title #1 [Link]
NCSoft Title #2 [Link]
NCSoft Title #3 [PS3Fanboy]
NCSoft Title #4 [PS3Fanboy]
Nobi Nobi Boy
PixelJunk Monsters
Rat Race
Skyblue [ThreeSpeech] [PlayStation Eye]
SOCOM: Confrontation
Soldner-X: Himmelssturmer [onAXIS] [+PC]
Tori-Emaki [PlayStation Eye]
Warbit
Wipeout HD

MultiPlatform Unknown Exclusives [2 Titles]

Silent Hill 5 [Possibility]
TimeSplitters 4

Unknown Exclusive/Rumored Titles [10 Titles]

Dark Cloud 3
Digimon World Online [Wikipedia]
Dragon Ball Z [onAXIS]
Epic Project [Announcement]
Final Fantasy VII [Possibility] [Petition] [Crisis Core Secret]
Gundam [onAXIS]
Kingdom Hearts III
Sly 4 [Wikipedia]
Twisted Metal [Clown Cloud]
Zone of the Enders 3 [Magazine Scan]

Asian PlayStation 3 Exclusives [16 Titles]

Agaresu Senki [Record of Agarest War]
Battle Field Valkyrie: Gallian Chronicles
Imabiksou
Little House in the Plateau [Working Title]
Mahjong Taikai IV
Megazone 23: Blue Garland
Mist of Chaos
My Summer Holiday
Pro Yakyuu Spirits 4
Railfan
Railfan Taiwan Koutetsu
SEGA Golf Club
Tears to Tiara: Kakan no Daichi
Wangan Midnight
Winning Post 7 Maximum 2007
Yamasa DigiWorld DX [Working Title]

Yeah i guess That i have no games to play i guess ill go back to watching spider man 3 on my bluray player

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CNIVEK5970d ago

Of the 5 games, they list TWO multiplatform games, while completely ignoring Fable 2, Alan Wake, Fallout 3 (which will be FAR bigger for 360/PC than for PS3), and possibly Halo Wars, Gears 2, and Project Offset (which I believe will be a huge announcement for MS next year, as a first-party exclusive as publisher) .

ravinash5970d ago

Fallout 3 is a long way from being finished, so what make you think its going to be better on 360 than PS3?

Bolts5970d ago (Edited 5970d ago )

WTF are you talking about. Fallout 3 is at it's heart a PC tittle. Just like Oblivion it'll be better there than anywhere else, and why isn't Left 4 Dead up there? Co-op shooters, with zombies! You know that will rock.

mikeslemonade5969d ago

NG2 is overhyped. I rank too human over NG2.

CNIVEK5969d ago

I said BIGGER, not BETTER. Just like Oblivion didn't sell well on the PS3, Fallout 3 will sell MUCH better for the PC/360. Most PS3 fans will see it as "just another shooter", and as an RPG, would rather play another FF sequel...or FF clone.

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vloeistof5970d ago

thats it .. they should have put that alan wake game on

BLUR1115968d ago

ninja gaiden has been around too human who cares about too human just a rip off of rpg games

shamon5970d ago

resident evil only coming out in jan 09 capcom said

Tyler Durden5970d ago

does anybody know if re5 will have a new camera view or the same 1 as re4

Prismo_Fillusion5970d ago

I think they're using the same 3rd person formula.
90% sure.

Tyler Durden5970d ago (Edited 5970d ago )

not that it was bad but it took really long to get used to its a good thing the game was long enough

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Ranking the Devil May Cry Series

VGChartz's Mark Nielsen: "Upon finally finishing Devil May Cry 5 recently - after it spent several years on my “I’ll play that soon” list - I considered giving it a fittingly-named Late Look article. However, considering that this was indeed the final piece I was missing in the DMC puzzle, I decided to instead take this opportunity to take a look back at the entirety of this genre-defining series and rank the entries. What also made this a particularly tempting notion was that while most high-profile series have developed fairly evenly over time, with a few bumps on the road, the history of Devil May Cry has, at least in my eyes, been an absolute roller coaster, with everything from total disasters to action game gold."

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VersusDMC11d ago

First to last for me...3,4,5,1,2.

VersusDMC11d ago

Me leaving it out should be telling of my thoughts on it. Better than 2 as a DMC game.

Still a good game though.

Exvalos10d ago

What a weird name, it's essentially devil may cry, devil may cry lol

Cacabunga10d ago

Best to good for me: 3, reboot, 1, 5

2 and 4 are trash, didnt like any of them.
5 has very good gameplay variety but i hated the foes.. it is just insects the whole time. Reboot has the best foes for me

Friendlygamer11d ago

3,1,4,5 to me, never played 2. 5 gameplay is amazing but level design was really disappointing to me, just a bunch of plain arenas, the story felt like a worse written rehash of the 3rd and the charater models looked weird ( specially the ladies ). Another problem with 5 was that there was not enough content for 3 charaters so I could never really familiarize with any of them

monkey60211d ago (Edited 11d ago )

2.
Dmc.
4.
5.
1.
3.

God DMC2 was an awful game.
And in case this isn't obvious it goes worst to best

Yui_Suzumiya11d ago

1 and DmC. The rest are unimportant.

DarXyde11d ago

Order changes depending on your focus. I tend to focus on gameplay/fun factor, so...

5, 3, 1, 4, 2.

I really didn't like 4 but commend Dante's weapon diversity. The retreading of old ground was pretty unacceptable to me.

But even then... Still more enjoyable than 2 for me

SeTTriP11d ago

This right here is my order as I thought DMC 5 was amazing and obviously 3 comes after 4 was great and 1 for the nastilgic value it holds 2 was so terrible that my local GameStop gave full refunds to people who returned it.

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Resident Evil 5 - 15 Years of Being the Most Misunderstood Resident Evil

Resident Evil 5 launched 15 years ago today - and it continues to stand as a stepping stone from the good to the bad.

TheBrainZ55d ago

One of my favourites because of the co-op. Then Resi 6 arrived and the series nosedived further.

Knightofelemia55d ago

I enjoyed the game co-oping with a friend I know the game in solo the AI can be an idiot but RE5 is way better then RE6. I played RE6 with a friend if it wasn't cheap when I got I would have avoided RE6.

thesoftware73055d ago (Edited 55d ago )

5 was excellent, still play Mercs with my brother.
I would love a fully remastered RE:5, with some added, reworked content. The DLC for 5 was also excellent.

6 was awful.

CrimsonWing6955d ago

I never understood why the game was misunderstood. It was a fantastic game at launch and is still fun today to play. It’s as action packed as Resident Evil 4 was, yet that’s regarded a masterpiece 🤷‍♂️

chobit_A5HL3Y55d ago

it was "misunderstood" because they introduced co-op into the franchise at a time when people loved to have fake rage about co-op. like, you could play the game as a solo experience, but people chose to have their bandwagon rage because it was cool at the time lol

-Foxtrot55d ago (Edited 55d ago )

What the hell are you talking about? Fake Rage? Bandwagon? Come on.

You can play it solo but you are forced to carry around a shitty AI partner you have to micro manage. It wasn't as fun solo.

Co-op sucked all the horror, tension and suspense from the game because having a partner covering you was like a safety net. Enemy trying to sneak up on you? No sweat the AI will just automatically lock on, alert you while they shoot first telling you where they are basically.

It was the start of Capcoms fall with the Resident Evil series where it basically become an over the top generic action game which betrayed it's own survival horror roots. Least RE4 had a good blend of both but Capcom just went the wrong way with RE5, especially going off what they were going to do during the RE4.5 beta phase before co-op was added.

franwex55d ago

At least the game was a ton of fun tho. If the game was bad, the outrage would’ve been justified. They simply pivoted for a couple of games. At this point it’s bad because it’s called Resident evil 5? But if was called something else it would’ve been good? Please.

chobit_A5HL3Y54d ago

like i said: fake baby rage and bandwagon hate. res4 wasn't really that scary, either, and was already taking the series into more of an action-oriented direction at the time. 5 was a good game that people fake-hated because of co-op that you didn't even have to play lol hence the fake rage and bandwagon hate. i mean, it obviously did well enough for capcom to go ahead and make 6 the way they did, right? if 5 was so bad, they would have changed what 6 was during development. the difference is that 6 was actually just bad.

people "hate" 5 because res4 was so good, and 5 was just unfortunate enough to be its successor. like i said, 4 wasn't scary, either, and relied more on tension than horror, but it was already more of an action game. if you don't wanna like 5 because it's not scary or whatever- that's fine, but it wasn't meant to be strictly a horror game anymore at that point anyways. the gameplay was a lot faster-paced than 4, so saying that the ai helping you by potentially shooting someone that was sneaking up behind you is a moot point. there were more enemies that were more aggressive, along with newer threats.

5 isn't as good as 4, but it's not a bad game by any stretch.

Tody_ZA29d ago (Edited 29d ago )

What? I always thought RE5 had fake controversy because it was set in South Africa and you shot a bunch of black zombies. I live in South Africa and thought the game was absolutely awesome, played the whole thing co-op with my brother.

@Foxtrot I think you're confusing the garbage Dead Space 3 with Resident Evil 5. Resident Evil 4 was already a hyper action game and had zero fear factor other than the grotesque appearance of some enemies.

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Two Devil May Cry games delisted on Steam

Two Devil May Cry games have been delisted on Steam. As shared on X, formerly Twitter, by Wario64, Devil May Cry 3 Special Edition and Devil May Cry 4 are no longer available to purchase.

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Chocoburger88d ago

Bless the adorably all digital future! When it comes to PC games its not as big of an issue because there should always be another way to access single player games, but still, I hate to see anything get delisted.

Aaroncls788d ago

Well, DMC4 special edition has a lot of issues to run from Steam.
I have to get a modded executable to even be able to run the game on Windows 10.
Not sure if it is because the game runs in DirectX10 or what, but it sucks they have not even tried to fix it.

Sephiroushin87d ago (Edited 87d ago )

DMC4 Special Edition is not delisted, it was just the standard version, it has nothing to do with issues of performance or anything alike. Its just that Capcom probably do not want to sell the standard version, neither the standalone DMC3 version.