I will be first to admit that even though I am not much of a Halo ‘fan’ that I at least still buy and play their games. I may not be close to enjoying its Multiplayer part of the game but I have always somewhat enjoyed playing Single Player/Co-op since not every game released today is Co-op. Almost any co-op game released today, I’ll own if it is really worth it and for Xbox 360 mainly. Halo 3 is a great game, especially since they added not only 2 player co-op but up to 4 player co-op. I was given the chance to local play it, outstanding and smooth. Absolutely had no problems but thankfully for skulls, it made the game a little more challenging or else we would of finished the game in even more less of time (we finished around 6 hours 4 co-op, probably would of took us 4 if no skulls).

Multiplayer, I played and tried to get used to for awhile. It just was not working out. Mainly played because either friends were playing or friends wanted to play. Call of Duty 4 Multiplayer Beta already beats Halo 3 online in my opinion and I am sure once released, it will still beat it. I rate the game at most probably a 9/10. Only because the game feels like Halo 1/2 with a few added things, better graphics (obviously expected if you ever went back to Halo 2) but it’s not about graphics. I enjoyed the voices and each funny line characters had to little wow moments when your playing with your friends or taking down the scarabs together.

This must be the greatest skating game I have yet to play (Xbox 360). It’s 10x better than any Tony Hawk game I have ever played plus it’s more realistic when it comes down to doing tricks. I will agree it takes a little time to learn a few things and not easy at first such as doing manual tricks or getting down the trick you want to try every time but it’s what makes the game great and different. Especially combining tricks with manuals will be frustrating at first.

Saving replays and photos is easy and you can upload them both to the Skate.reel Community (though I’ve read elsewhere and agree you should be able to save more videos and photos seeing how most of us have a lot of hard drive space on the X360 and to be able to upload more to Skate.reel).

You can view my EA Skate Community Profile here: http://skate.share.ea.com/profiles/24520.aspx – find my videos/photos there as well.

I have since completed the game and I do recommend it, especially if have enjoyed the Tony Hawk series, since this game is better than them in mainly ways. There are some improvements needed to skate. though and features such as being able to get off your board and walk/run because it will get annoying having to ollie onto other platforms such as getting off the street onto a curb or finding another way to get up the stairway and so on.

Great game I must say, probably the best and fastest Madden game I have yet to play. Not to venture off subject but I can’t understand how EA Games messed up so much on NCAA Football 08. It’s so terrible, especially load times, it makes you just want to play 07; which basically all sports games are the same with sometimes some useful cool added features.

In NCAA Football 08 you can save and upload your best plays from a game, I don’t understand why Madden 08 doesn’t have that feature. There are so many plays in Madden 08 already that I would love to upload and can’t, you can’t even save them to show friends later, how lame is that? In NCAA Football 08, you can. Though I like NCAA Football, I don’t care much to play it as much and save cool plays in it as I would like to with Madden.

Franchise and Super Star Mode’s are great, was playing as my Super Star from NCAA Football 08 till after so many games I just got bored of it (will go back though) and started a Franchise with the Chicago Bears.

Overall, I would give this game a 9/10. I highly recommend it if you are into sports games/football/Madden Franchise.