X05 is good n’ done and the most exciting XBox 360 titles are… still XBox games from the current generation. HD era, indeed. While we eagerly await that backwards compatibility list, it’s nice to know that at least a few of the 360’s torrent of racing games, 3rd person action games, and first person shooters look mildly amusing. Too Human (3rd person action game), for example, seems to have transformed from a Bladerunner-like adventure to God of War in space, which is all well and good, but I don’t know who Silicon Knights is trying to convince when they claim it will be an “epic trilogy” for the XBox 360. Silicon Knights has only produced three games total since 1996, receiving help from Nintendo on one and help from Nintendo and Konami on another. Of course, they have been supposedly working on Too Human since 3D Realms started work on Duke Nukem Forever, so for all we know the “trilogy” could potentially be pretty far along. Here’s betting it’s not.

Ridge Racer 6 (racing game) also looks lovely. I like to consider myself a closet fan of driving games, but most entries in the genre see sequels so quickly that I end up ignoring them entirely and just buying the latest Mario Karts and F-Zeros. Ridge Racer 6 looks impossibly smooth though. Clean, shiny, slick like a man, use whatever adjectives you find the least sexually uncomfortable. Like a cool, steel rod to your orifice of choice, Ridge Racer 6 looks to be a pleasant, filling experience.

Sorry.

Now we just need a decent first person shooter (Halo 3), Perfect Dark Zero be damned, and all of the 360’s primary HD genres will be covered.

Of course, Nintendo’s totally coincidental bevy of recent DS announcements (free Wi-Fi play, USB add-ons that turn PCs into wireless access points, Mario Kart DS, Wario Land DS, a Metroid Prime Hunters that looks marginally playable) are far more interesting/for a console I actually own. Nintendo iz 4 fagz, DS = dum stoopid, etc.