What games have you played recently?

It won't "boom" here, I'm iPhone-less. Don't need one, and never will !!!!

I just bought Aliens vs Predator for the PC.

I've been waiting for over two decades, until technology catched up and graphics resemble the films' look, to fight nasty looking aliens as a big scary predator or heavily armed marine. Will this game be an Aliens' fan wet dream? If it isn't there always this to look forward to.

I'm going to buy it, if only to hear the fantastic music blended with the spectacular visuals. No seriously, I want to experience it, not merely play it. I'm more of a Mass Effect, Fallout 3 RPG gamer but I've always had a soft spot for FF.

Me too...though I'm utterly terrible at it, and it generally ends up with me bringing in air support from my TIE-Fighter scale models and unexpected cavalry moves with my Kenner Toys AT-AT walkers...

Lets just hope that when real war comes you won't be loving it.

That's why videogames were invented.

Wait until you play the Washington level. The single player campaign is way too short though. A pity.

But better to have a long great one than either of the above.

I think this has got to be one of the most cinematic game trailers I've ever seen. It arguably tops my previous favourite for Splinter Cell Chaos Theory.

Two weeks to go.

About Conviction, well yeah, the trailer looks absolutely exciting, and the game will be just another trial-and-error type of affair, which I've grown to hate with a passion over my many years as a gamer... The last Splinter Cell was a bug-ridden POS that infuriated me beyond words, so I'm not at all excited by this one, though it looks grittier than it's ever been.

But I am totally in love with the looks of this: Red Dead Redemtion looks to break new ground in terms of open-ended gameplay. Just looks at those animations, they're gobsmacking. And the world is brilliantly realised. I'm awaiting it with baited breath.

In the meantime I'm enjoying Aliens vs Predator, during the Predator and Alien missions, after you've gotten used to the strange controls, you get to be a big badass hunter with cool weaponry and it's enjoyable enough, but the real meat of this game comes in the form of being the Marine... it's like a 20 year old dream come true, I get to experience my beloved Aliens movie first hand. There's nothing like walking through a dark corridor, with only the blip-blip-blip from your motion detector keeping you company, to come into a damp room where you hear the sounds of pulse rifles firing and xenomorphs getting wasted, their death screams included, and the motion detector going crazy. That really sets your heart racing. This is a very faithful re-enactment of some of the most memorable parts of that film. Fantastic stuff. I don't think a game has ever done such a splendid tribute of a film before.

D, that's brilliant. Count the classic videogame references. I count more than I'm familiar with.

Thanks a lot.

I knew YOU would appreciate that.

Looks insane... those characters are almost lifelike. And the environments !! What kind of pixel-shader bump-mapping terrain rendering engine is that they used? Crysis II can put its 'best graphics ever' statement where the sun doesn't shine.

I need to play that game now !!!!!

It was for me, but not for lovers of Call of duty series, i suppose? My little bro (one of those) told me it's a reenactment of an entire scene in call of duty 6.

But yeah, the pixel video is far superior. Their work in there is pretty impressive, i wonder what software and techniques they used to make it.

Same here. Have you ever seen such realistic bits and bytes horses ? You even see the muscles move !