Congratz.

If you like GoW, get Castlevania:LoS.

The leading character is Scottish.

You should get the PS3 version of Castlevania though, it's the better one.

Oh, so he's back to being Scottish is he, after taking a detour in your review of being "British"?

how is it similar to GoW though, i dont know enough about either of those 2 franchises to really compare?

• Ghostbusters: the Video Game - because everyone needs this game and it's cheap!
• Alan Wake - Great single player game with two good DLC chapters, one for free if you get the game new.
• Mass Effect 1/2 - These games really can't be missed.  While Mass Effect has a crapload of problems, it's still a beyond excellent game.  Mass Effect 2 fixes all those problems and in general makes the game more playable.
• Fable 1/2/3 - I haven't played Fable 3 yet but if it's anything along the lines of Fable 1 and 2, then it's great.  These may not be the longest games, but they have great replay value, great writing, and are just fun.  Also, Fable 2 has one of the greatest endings of all time.
• Dead Rising - Who doesn't like killing loads of zombies?  I've never made it past the first day, I keep restarting to save everyone and I still love this game.
• Fallout 3/New Vegas - If you like Oblivion you'll probably like these games.
• Lost Odyssey - All around good game I hear, though I got frustrated early on with it and quit...
• Saint's Row 2 - This is what GTAIV should have been.
• Vanquish - I didn't see this in your collection and if you like Bayonetta, it's made by the same people and supposed to be awesome.  I haven't had a chance to play it yet but I've heard nothing but good things about it.  It's short but nobody I've talked to has regretted paying full price.

Good choice. I'm considering waiting for PS3 version of ME2, just so I can skip all of the bad stuff. But I'm really, really picky with things like checkpoints and convoluted gameplay, so it might be better to judge by your own standards.

That was Machina's idea! At first I put English

??? You told me you loved GoW awhile back ....

Woooooo! Congrats!

Where's my promised request?

To give some more info on Mass Effect (my fav game this gen!) what Rainbird says is very true. The story, characters and depth of the world is what made me fall in love with it. Aside from that the menus are clunky and tedious, the technical issues with the game are incredibly hard to overlook and the combat is an acquired taste. Most will find it tedious and... well.. "rubbish" and the performance issues don't help. But once you get a character over lvl 50 and have played around and tweaked your armors, weapons and allies to just the right combination, combat becomes brilliantly satisfying as you're practically unstoppable.

If you like the actual role-playing part of RPGs I'd suggest the Fable games. I've also liked Ninja Gaiden 2  more than Sigma 2 (faster, more visceral combat) and you should also try and check out the Gears of Wars, Alan Wake and other high profile exclusives listed here.

Hope you have a blast with the 360 and welcome to the kool kidz klub (not affiliated with the KKK). You know you're kool with that many k's AND a 'z'.

Yeah, Mass Effect's issues are really hard to overlook, but underneath them all is a really great game.  When it first came out I tried to finish it like three or four times but kept stopping due to terrible frame rate, bugs, and controls but eventually made myself play it right before Mass Effect 2 came out and I loved it.

I would say get it for cheap, set it to easy, and just play through on easy.  When I did finally finish the game I was going to play through several times but I tried to finish every quest the first time through and did for the most part (I skipped some of the fetch quests) and it made me nearly hate the game even though it was so great.  Every non-story area is pretty much copy-pasted and using the Mako just plain sucks.  Play through all the story missions, do the character missions, and leave it at that and you'll like the game much more.

Just to clarify, when I say the action is rubbish, I mean as a whole. So that includes technical issues like with less control during framerate drops and the like.

You mean God of War!

sorry, other people in the thread have been mentioning Gears of War. thought you were talking about that one.

and aye, i LOVE God of War. love love love it.

If you had done that, I would have eviscerated you. no joke.