This game looks sweet: Project Offset (official site). It’s a first/third person “shooter” in a fantasy setting. There will be a single player/co-op campaign and persistent experience points of some kind. It looks like it’s a test bed for the Offset Engine. I think this would do very well on the 360. It sounds like it’s trying to do what Shadowrun is trying to do…twitch-based, multiplayer combat in a fantasy setting. While nothing looks exactly revolutionary, the engine looks great and it looks like mindless fun.
I enjoy R6:Vegas for the mindless fun: running around, laying waste with a hint of strategy. It gets your heart beating, but you don’t come out any smarter than when you went in. It’s not as frustrating as Battlefield Vietnam or Counter-Strike where 12 year olds are constantly camping your spawn (although that happens sometimes).
