Hey everyone! Man I miss coming to this site! No internet sucks,lol, anyways here's the games.
DS
Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass- Tied as my game of the year with Twilight Princess. Just a spectacular game all around, a perfect follow-up to Twilight Princess. I love how they made the entire game controlled with the stylus even the moving. The boomerang, you get to trace out an exact path of where you want it to go, along w/ the bombchus. The grappling hook, I like being able to hit 2 posts and connect a rope to them and tightwalk over gaps, or connect 2 posts and then run into the rope and use it like a slingshot to jumps gaps or get to higher ledges. The sea exploring can get a little dull from time to time, but with all the hidden treasures and the 40 million different ships parts to customize your own boat really keep those moments rare, even the salvaging of treasure is a mini-game. This is probably the best, and in depth, and all around complete game for the DS. This is what the DS was created for, it has set a new standard for DS games for me. Also the WiFi multi-players isn't too bad, not something you can play a lot, but for a quick break for something new it's not bad.
XBOX360
Stranglehold- AWESOME GAME! It's so fun! You can literally almost shoot anything, even a lightbulb in the background or a bucket up against a wall. I love the slow-mo matrix single shot where you can zoom in and aim anywhere. I love blasting one of those drug lab guys on a balcony right in the balls and see him go OHHH! and grab'em with both hands and then flip over the balcony and land in the lake then watch him bob up and down downstream, sweet!
Crackdown- Also sweet game!
Juiced 2- Not too bad actually, although racing games all seem the same to me now. It's like they're all just Fast and Furious games ever since that first movie came out. Get an import car when street races for cash, and fix it up to race on the same tracks or stages all over again. It seems they are trying to add a little bit of story each time, but it just angers me b/c it's always the same story and there's very little story in the game
I'd like to see a racing game where if it was like fast and furious it would be like it. You race and make money to fix up your ride, but you also can do like robberies on semis, and different types of robberies maybe on foot like rob an autozone or 7/11 or something like that. Get your character not just your car involved. Not a GTA type thing but get out on foot and do something like meeting and developing relationships with different cliqs or something, I just see lots of potential with racing games and they do nothing but recycle the same cars and stages well whole games at that, when there's so many possibilites.
The Bigs- Not realistic which they weren't going for, but fun! It's nice to not have an overloaded super realistic baseball game. So many are just plain boring. I'd like to see a MLB blitz the league type game, you know sneaking roids around, dealing with dealers, the dark side of it ya know! But this game is a nice break. I love the pinball mode where your in times square and you get to hit the ball into stuff and blow it up for points like pinball.
Harry Potter OotP - Sucked! Takes 4ever just to get to a class. Hated it.
Skate- Not bad, great graphics, too realistic though, I hate having to actually have to push yourself around, and you cant get off the board, and the camera angle isn't great, not bad, but not great. 6 outta 10
Thats about it for now I played a few others since I got my 360 2 weeks ago, but they're not really worth mentioning here.