video games other than Madden?

is it worth the 50-60 $s for the game itself and then the online fees?

cuz the game looks so kewl and I like how there r thousands of different customizations to make your character more unique.

I myself like first person shooters, love hitman 2, the burnout series, an old sega series called shining force, FF, and pc games like warcraft, age of mythology, and medal of honor. oh and of course madden or anything football(nfl blitz in the arcade is awesome on the huge screen) and fighting games like soul calibur 2.

So far, yes - but I got it as a birthday present, so that's a easy thing to say. I also found the game online for $40, and that will go down with time.

city of heroes is generally cool, i like guild wars, its kinda the same kind of gameplay, but more in depth (i screwed with the alpha tech demo, its not out yet... its made by some ex-blizzard employees... those warcraft/starcraft/diablo guys), so when it comes out, i'll be into that. Meanwhile i've been playing with UT2004 (great game, if you have xbox, unreal championship 2, and mech assault2/halo2 when they come out), also played around with silent storm 2, KOTOR etc and liked those...

PS, haven't played much madden, 2k4's redskins team sucked, I will be buyying 2005 for sure though ;) Lavar may even have his name on his jersey...

city of heroes is generally cool, i like guild wars, its kinda the same kind of gameplay, but more in depth (i screwed with the alpha tech demo, its not out yet... its made by some ex-blizzard employees... those warcraft/starcraft/diablo guys), so when it comes out, i'll be into that. Meanwhile i've been playing with UT2004 (great game, if you have xbox, unreal championship 2, and mech assault2/halo2 when they come out), also played around with silent storm 2, KOTOR etc and liked those...

PS, haven't played much madden, 2k4's redskins team sucked, I will be buyying 2005 for sure though ;) Lavar may even have his name on his jersey...

as a comic book geek and still have that inner child in me pretending to be superman, I'm just pysched by the idea of creating my own superhero and "fighting evil." I saw a trailer and guild wars does look pretty kewl. plus I've never played a MMPOG and I figured I should do so with a premise that I'd really get into.

yeah, city and guild wars may have the same people working on game design, cause the way they work and play is very much the same. They're more like diablo in that the main world is like a big chat room, you find some friend and then go do a mission with just those friends (not 3000 other people)... you won't have 300 person seige warfare, but it solves a lot of the mmorpg problems... the games are also both based more on skill than how many hours you spend killing rabbits or whatever. City is a bit simpler though in that you don't have to worry about armor, inventory management, crafting etc... and if you like fighting other players, the villians expansion will be out soon, and it'll probably be very close to the type of player vs player in guild wars ;)