What are you currently playing?

[Liamh1982]

Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing (Wii) - definitely one of the better Mario Kart rip-offs out there, the AI isn't so much of a cheating b'stard. Drive well and you will win - makes a change!

[Megamixer]

Started Lollipop Chainsaw last night and what an amazing game . Brilliantly crazy, OTT, super-fun gameplay and plenty of jokes/smut from Suda 51. Completed the prologue and school levels and I can't wait to play some more. I can see myself re-doing the stages to get better grades and earn more platinum medals to unlock the artwork/music tracks/new costumes for Juliet so even though it's a simple enough game, there's likely to be some longevity to it. I think I'm going to want to replay it anyway if the rest of the game lives up to the opening.

So glad I bought this now rather than waiting for it to fall in price and missing out.

[ShadowMan]

Started Lollipop Chainsaw last night and what an amazing game . Brilliantly crazy, OTT, super-fun gameplay and plenty of jokes/smut from Suda 51. Completed the prologue and school levels and I can't wait to play some more. I can see myself re-doing the stages to get better grades and earn more platinum medals to unlock the artwork/music tracks/new costumes for Juliet so even though it's a simple enough game, there's likely to be some longevity to it. I think I'm going to want to replay it anyway if the rest of the game lives up to the opening.

So glad I bought this now rather than waiting for it to fall in price and missing out.

I really like the first few boss battles in the game, pretty crazy and really funny. Level four at the arcade has some great retro mini games and one really annoying achievement (the gondola without shooting).

[HalcyonDaze00]

Batman - Arkham City, awesome!

[Black Ridge]

Started Lollipop Chainsaw last night and what an amazing game . Brilliantly crazy, OTT, super-fun gameplay and plenty of jokes/smut from Suda 51. Completed the prologue and school levels and I can't wait to play some more. I can see myself re-doing the stages to get better grades and earn more platinum medals to unlock the artwork/music tracks/new costumes for Juliet so even though it's a simple enough game, there's likely to be some longevity to it. I think I'm going to want to replay it anyway if the rest of the game lives up to the opening.

So glad I bought this now rather than waiting for it to fall in price and missing out.

I really like the first few boss battles in the game, pretty crazy and really funny. Level four at the arcade has some great retro mini games and one really annoying achievement (the gondola without shooting).

Pretty jealous that you guys have this

Shadows of the Damned is the only game that I have completed this year so far and I badly want this! Love the fact that Jimmy Urine got involved with this too and has a boss desgined on him. May well have to grab this soon

[SexyWayne]

Bang Bang Racing on PS3... awesome top down racer, plays brilliantly

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6pAtVenBt4

[The Beans]

Bang Bang Racing on PS3... awesome top down racer, plays brilliantly

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6pAtVenBt4

It's excellent fun. I nearly bought it on 360 but somebody pointed at me at Little Racers Street on XBLIG:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnfH6Z46NDc

... which only costs 80 Microsoft points.

[SexyWayne]

Yeah I've got Little Racers Street.. pretty good it is too, I just love top down racers

[Evermore]

I put the fun Metroid Prime Pinball to one side, having enjoyed a week of messing around on it. I really want to come back to it and get good at it. I love its presentation and tables.

My next DS game is... Advance Wars: Days of Ruin. I have had this sat on my shelf for MONTHS I think my issue with it is the fact that Advance Wars 1 on the GBA is one of my all time favourite games. I played the sh1t out of it back in the day. Its a masterpiece for me, and up there with Pokemon, Tetris, Link's Awakening and Dragon Warrior Monsters as one of the best handheld games ever made. I didn't get the sequel as I didn't see the need for one. The amount of content, and the perfect balance of 1 negated the need for 2.

I picked up the first DS game near enough at its launch and it was a massive disappointment. I thought the new hardware would bring new ideas. Sadly this was not the case, outside a few new modes which I didn't take to. It looked identical to the GBA games as well, even though it was on more powerful hardware. The only real improvement you could have made to the GBA games was in the presentation. The campaign was also very poor, and I didn't even both finishing it. The missions were just average and not all that much fun. The story was pish-poor. The biggest problem was the unbalanced units and over the top powerful CO powers, which made the game into a bit of a mess in terms of balance. Its still a good game taken in isolation as it has a lot of the features of the first GBA game, though it had added stuff that was either rubbish or unnecessary.

So coming into Days of Ruin I was a little unsure what to expect. I was aware that the devs had turned the game on its head to some degree, but I wasn't expecting great things. However, on playing it last night I was pleasantly surprised. The campaign started off well and the story is actually pretty good! The graphics are much different and the game has been completely rebalanced. I am very impressed. I went into the War Room and got stuck into the first mission, which too me a good 90 minutes to complete and was fun for every second. Excellent stuff then - lets hope it continues like this....

[Megamixer]

Started Lollipop Chainsaw last night and what an amazing game . Brilliantly crazy, OTT, super-fun gameplay and plenty of jokes/smut from Suda 51. Completed the prologue and school levels and I can't wait to play some more. I can see myself re-doing the stages to get better grades and earn more platinum medals to unlock the artwork/music tracks/new costumes for Juliet so even though it's a simple enough game, there's likely to be some longevity to it. I think I'm going to want to replay it anyway if the rest of the game lives up to the opening.

So glad I bought this now rather than waiting for it to fall in price and missing out.

I really like the first few boss battles in the game, pretty crazy and really funny. Level four at the arcade has some great retro mini games and one really annoying achievement (the gondola without shooting).

Pretty jealous that you guys have this

Y'know, I was really indecisive about buying another full-price game but I don't regret it a bit. Easily one of the best things I've played this year and it's a perfect remedy to sequelitis that many moan about when it comes to current-gen consoles. If it's anything like Shadows of the Damned though, it won't sell very well and will hit bargain-bin prices soon enough . Bad for creativity/new IP but good for those who want to pick it up.

I replayed the first two levels last night to get some more platinum medals (so I could afford Juliet's third costume ), more gold coins to buy some new combo attacks (love the 'Armadillo' spinning chainsaw move ) and to get the zombie profiles that I missed first time around.

[gmintyfresh]

Finished the main game in Asura's Wrath and started the Part 4 DLC, wow quite a lot of game for your money - can feel the game winding up. It's been a throughly pleasant ride.

Played quite a bit of Minecraft, my castle is coming along nicely....

[Freestyler]

Kinda' at a loose end now. I've just completed a marathon Mass Effect playthrough (100%'ing all 3 games) and now I'm not sure what to play. Alpha Protocol? Fallout: New Vegas Ultimate Edition? Dragon Age? Lost Planet? Bioshock? ODST? Aliens Vs Predator? More?

I'm still playing Realm of the Mad God as well though. It's a nice palate cleanser after a long RPG session.

[Black Ridge]

As its my day off i decided to start something new today. sat and stared at my games for a while and decided on Kingdoms of Amalur in the end. Ended up playing it for 5hours straight! Great game so far. looking at the map it looks bloody huge! Loads of side quests have distracted me from the main quest already

I wanna grab the guide book. I'm a bit of a sucker for all those lovely looking hardbacks now. I dont even use them until after I've done bits in game. Not so much a guide then, more of a 'what did i miss book'

[ShadowNeku]

Castlevania: Curse of Darkness on PS2

So far its absolutely fantastic! Anybody that claims there arent any good 3D Castlevania games hasnt played this.

[Black Ridge]

Castlevania: Curse of Darkness on PS2

So far its absolutely fantastic! Anybody that claims there arent any good 3D Castlevania games hasnt played this.

You like your birthday present then

you know its probably downhill from there though if you go and play any of the others. The N64 ones do look pretty heinous