Cale

HD VGA cable, another controller and maybe the wireless adapter.

LOLROFL!!

Seriously, the story was posted April 3rd. When will you guys @ Joystiq get over April Fools?

Man I hate the internet at the beginning of April.

How about some original tunes, depicting the story of Mega Man?

http://www.theprotomen.com

Personally I found Black to be rather underwhelming, I got bored with it during the 4th mission. The environments weren't as destructive as they claim. It was repetetive as hell (aim, shoot half a clip into enemy before he dies, walk a bit further on, repeat). The enemies just arent in your face like in Serious Sam (almost every encounter before I had enough and turned the xbox off was a mid to long range battle). Maybe I was doing it wrong. The lack of multiplayer makes this even more unworthy of my attention.

Criterion tried too hard to make a full on action game "realistic". An example is the way the screen blurs when you reload. Sure it sounds realistic, but in the end it just frustrated me. Also, the press releases and reviews make it seem that you just rush in guns ablazing but in reality you have to plod around large maps doing mundane objectives which involve hunting around for secret documents and such.

What Black does do right is excellent presentation, the graphics are downright awesome and the sound effects are pretty good too. It's a shame gameplay was obviously not as important during development.

If I were in the business of rating games I'd give it 6/10 (yet another average FPS). It's not bad, just boring.

imho ;)