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Now I don’t know how many of you logged on to XBox Live! last night, but I imagine those that did weren’t able to resist clicking on a teasing Capcom Announcement. If you gave in to that base urge, you were treated to an extensive Lost World 2 trailer. I had to say I was pretty impressed. The gameplay looked similar to Lost World, yet prettier but honestly not much else besides to give much indication of what other changes are going to be. There is obviously a co-op mode in this iteration, which is almost always a welcome addition. If its done right. Capcom has done pretty well so far this year and its just started.

I was happy to see that the lack of run ‘n gun has been restricted to RE5.

I’m interested to see what else is going on here. Please let me know what you thought of the trailer in a comment!

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As over almost 2 million others have done within the past week, I downloaded the free Resident Evil 5 demo from Xbox Live! the other night. Since this game is slotted to really be this year’s first multi-platform blockbuster, it deserves some love.

First impression was a good one – and its probably not what you think. It was the download size. I probably got a good hour or two of enjoyment out of the demo with solo and co-op play and it was only slightly over half a gig in size. Looking at other games that game that much content like Mirror’s Edge or LOTR: Conquest which are both over a gig and really didn’t have that much more to show for it. The download over my puny “hi-speed” connection was over before I knew it and I jumped right in.

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With the second installment of the Chronicles of Riddick games coming out sometime (spring, according to Wikipedia) this year from Starbreeze studios, it seemed prudent to play through the first game, Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay for the Original XBox. I heard good things about it, however it was met with very lukewarm reception by the public. I don’t know if its people holding some sort of grudge against Vin Diesel or if the marketing for the game was really that bad. To fully answer the question I looked at how the movies were received.

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