What games have you played today?

[Toe]

I give Rome:Total War 10/10 purely for seeing the infantry fly as my heavy cavalry smack them with a flank charge! It's a nation building game and a real-time strategy. It is the shit.

[ROC]

Super Smash Bros. Melee - 9/10

Swordfights with Link/Marth versus Dark Link/other foes > *

[Miami Vice]

Gran Turismo 4

8.5/10

[therockbox]

Brothers in Arms: 8.5/10

Fifa 2005: 6/10

ESPN Football 2k5: 7/10

[Dr. Rated-R]

WWE Day of Reckoning

8.0/10

I haven't put this game down since I bought it a week before Christmas. I prefer it to Smackdown vs Raw in most ways, though SDR obviously got better treatment from WWE -- more match types, voice overs, etc. But still, I enjoy matches on DOR a lot more, they're just more fun. The negatives are the lack of the Velocity arena, and no Dudleys, Funaki, or JBL, especially the last two, as I believe they were both champs then.

Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon

7.0/10

I've only owned this game for like two days. My brother traded some pot (he said it was only worth $5) for it. It's a farily old game, released in 2002 IIRC. I liked the storyline, and the graphics were okay, but the gameplay lacked a lot. No climbing or jumping to my knowledge, and I wish more shooting games would allow 3rd person viewpoints. I also disliked the memory requirements, 17 blocks is a bit rough when your spare memory card is loaned out, and both it and your old one only hold 58ish.

[lazy_arse]

Gran Turismo 4: 9/10

Been playing it loads for the last couple of weeks. It really is the real driving simulator.

[Guest Grapehead]

I love having an HD on my PS2, buying games for the rental price is awesome haha. Today I got:

SmackDown vs RAW - 7/10(a lot of things could be better)

DBZ: Budokai 3 - 7/10(it's leaps and bounds ahead of the others, especially in the story, but still... something feels... ew)

[Magus978]

Major League Baseball 2k5: 9/10

Baseball at its best. I hope I can rent MVP Baseball 2005 and MLB 2006 soon so that I can compare the 3 games.

[zero]

Smackdown vs. RAW - 6.0/10

Could be worse, could be Smackdown 3, but it's the worst in the series since that pile of trash. The voiceovers limit the game more than expand on it, I would have gladly dropped those for an option to have a six man elimination match where you can actually go outside the fucking ring. Online is terrible, though I can let that slide since it was pretty much a last minute option. The removal of previous features is inexcusable, though it is standard procedure from THQ/Yukes; where's two player season? We had that in the very first fucking game, no reason it shouldn't be in there. Where's the option to rearrange the rosters how you see fit? Again, that's something the voiceovers fucked up. Where's the alternate outfits? etc etc etc...

Now, that said, there are some shining spots. The gameplay has come a very long way. The new submission system is nice, though get rid of that ridiculous visual effect that makes me feel like I'm on LSD while locking in the Sharpshooter. Aside from the errors mentioned above, Season Mode isn't bad, just needs more variety. Lots of match types, great CAW, and very stylish. Unfortunately, that's alway been THQ's biggest setback, all sizzle, no steak.

[LL!]

Splinter Cell (3): Chaos Theory

10/10

Oh... oh God... I'm just orgasming all over here...

[BlackFlagg]

some old school gaming today with Punch Out, Super Mario Brothers 3 and Castelvania 2

[The Dork Knight]

Let's see...

Frequency 8/10

Activision Anthology 8/10

Super Bust-A-Move 2 6/10

TDK

[ChrisSteeleAteMyHamster]

Metal Gear Solid 3 10/10

Beautiful to look at, beautiful to play. Really pushing the series forward in every way.

Civilisation 2 9/10

What a beautiful flashback. I'm hooked all over again but HATE the dastardly Spanish.

[whiskers]

Metal Gear Solid 3 10/10

Beautiful to look at, beautiful to play. Really pushing the series forward in every way.

Civilisation 2 9/10

What a beautiful flashback. I'm hooked all over again but HATE the dastardly Spanish.

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[ChrisSteeleAteMyHamster]

Meh never had too much contact with the French...The Americans got killed early on.

I made good early friends with the Germand, traded loads then built the UN so that whenever my spies got caught nicking research from them they always allied to me again! Hoorah for politics!

[BlackFlagg]

still on my NES kick and just played some Dragon Warrior 2

[PkmnTrainerJ]

Pokémon Red - 9/10 Battling against Benji. Even though I lost it was still awesome

Warioware: Touched! - 10/10 This DS game makes the best use of the touch screen and microphone so far.

[stokeriño]

Hearts of Iron ate up 5 hours of my life last night without my even noticing.

Moscow, check. Leningrad, check. Just Stalingrad to go.

Also I randomly played through Sonic & Knuckles from start to finish, but I do that quite often anyway.

I was forced to uninstall Civilization III in order to free up its 1.7GB space for downloads...*sniff*.

[Godfatha]

Right now it's Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory. I have yet to try out the multiplayer, but the fact you can do missions with a partner seems golden.

The graphics have been improved over last year's edition and there were some slightly new features. The story, so far, is engaging and I can't wait to keep playing. The newest and best feature by far is the sound meter. We all know that we have to keep quiet in order to avoid being detected, now we have something to quantify our noise and there's a level which has the ambient noise. We have to stay below that in order to remain undetected.

9/10

[Laice07]

Star Wars: Republic Commando (X-BOX): 8/10

A great addtion to the great star wars universe of games.

TimeSplitters 3: Future Perfect: 8.5/10, Multiplayer just owns.