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I heard he was in prison serving 6 months for stealing tea spoons from Robert Dyas? I may be wrong but I'm pretty sure this is correct.

That's a very good way of looking at it. I'm a massive fan of both the FPS genre and Star Wars but the quality of the game is really overriding my love for the SW franchise and as this could be described as an EA/DICE cash grab; I have to judge it as a game especially as it's just a reskinned watered-down Battlefield. Yep, it's running off the Frostbite 3 engine but it feels like it's using the original BF4 build that Battlefield Hardline (cash grab) used and if this is the case; then Battlefront would be a even more sickening cash grab. BF4's FB3 engine was riddled with horrific netcode woes (the same I experienced in Battlefront earlier) but that eventually got upgraded with a new clean build. If DICE have recycled the original build from the bin like Visceral did with Hardline; that would be utterly disgraceful. Even if Battlefront is using the latest Frostbite build; it's still an old engine that was 'only built for Battlefield' according to EA...

Northern Ireland qualify for Euro 2016 beating Greece 3-1! Republic of Ireland beat World Champions Germany 1-0 to still be in with a shout. Wales should also seal qualification with a draw tomorrow in Bosnia. Scotland as usual fail to qualify after conceding a last minute equaliser to Poland from Lewdowski who could only manage a measly two goals tonight

Agree Jonny! I used a couple of weapons and they were both exactly the same apart from having different skins and it was either hipfire people even from 25+ yards away which didn't feel right or use the horrible zoom which is equally horrendous to use. The guns just don't seem to have much personality between them and aren't much fun to use. If BF4 didn't exist; Hardline and Battlefront would seem more acceptable as FPS titles but compared to that; they lack in every aspect and I'm really struggling to get past that. I'm not even feeling much of a grand scale on this game either - the maps are actually smaller than they look I noticed and there's a max lobby count of 40 players which makes the matches seem rather empty. I encourage everyone to have a go though as the beta runs until Monday and hopefully some will enjoy it more or be more forgiving than me. I may brave it and reinstall it to have a few more matches but I can't see my opinion drastically changing.

Absolute crap. Firstly the game is very well presented and the audio is fantastic but the rest of it seems a lot to be desired. Firstly I played survival which was nothing short of boring as hell - finished the six waves on offer in under 10 minutes and just found the concept underwhelming. Although the finished article with house maps with 15 waves in each; it's dull. Next up I tried the multiplayer and the first match was a mode whereby you have to defend these pods to capture them and score. The map was a complete and utter mess with a dreary layout, hideous spawns and extremely bland combat. The infamous shitty DICE netcode that plagued Battlefield 4 was ever-present and even shooting someone 6 times in the head couldn't reduce their health bar below 50% as they take you down in seemingly a couple of hits. The HUD is also as ugly as hell and cluttered all over the screen. There's no strategy on offer, no real combat variety and not much enjoyment I found - just run, shoot, kill/die and do it again. The guns I was using was also pure hip-fire or overly-zoomed in ADS. Next up I tried the Walker Assault mode which is just lazers flying around on a very open barren snow map with a couple of walkers providing a slight distraction from the dull combat. This map had more scope and looked far better but still the layout was incredibly poor and lacked diversity - it's basically an empty mountain with a few players running around aimlessly. Despite seeming spectacular with the walkers; I was bored come the end of the match. Unlike BF4; there is no real room for tactics, not much weapon/combat variety or even map quality. There was no buildings to blow up, no destructive scenery or anything dynamic to impact the match - basically a firefight out in the open with nothing to do apart from shoot from the hip or easily pick them off at range if the hitboxes sync and stick to the player. The beta only represent a fraction of the game but I feel the underlying issues will affect the rest of the product as they are so significant. I'm not too disappointed as this is £50 saved right off the bat and it will give me more time on Fallout 4. Also not funding EA is a bonus. With no campaign and content in dribs and drabs scattered over many half-baked modes; I can't justify this price especially with DICE's dodgy reputation. I can see this peaking interest on release and then dying a death soon after launch just like Hardline. That game flopped as many remained or went back to BF4 and this will go the same way I think. This isn't the Battlefront I remember - it's just a half-arsed Battlefield reskin with limitations and a lack of ingenuity selling itself off the name. Unless the rest of the game represents a major shift in quality and content; I don't think I'd even pay a bargain bin price for it. Uninstalled.

Brendan Rogers sacked! Steve McClaren favourite to take over

Sergio Aguero scored 5 goals today but it took him bloody 20 minutes which is an age compared to Lewendoski

This game is looking insane now!

Ignore the Cinemabellend website - it is pure clickbait-oriented and they make up false stories along with partnered sites just to reel people in. Most of their information is speculative shite and made up not for credibility but for quick clicks.

Arsenal 2-3 Olympiakos Porto 2-1 Chelsea https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGRT3muhJas

I think there will be bumper discounts on both from Black Friday into Christmas especially with the standard 500gb drives. Should be some decent bundle deals too!

Wankstain http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-34363289

Newcastle 0-1 Sheff Wed BRING BACK JOHN CARVER

Posting boobs and bums usually improves posts significantly. Even if it's a delicate subject or game related; you can leave a lasting impression with some good old goodies

This has to be not just the biggest upset in Rugby history but one of the biggest in the history of sport

Soma releases next Tuesday and that could be ideal (from the makers of Amnesia)

I have Rebirth and it is absolutely incredible. A very simple randomly generated rogue-like RPG that is extremely challenging and never gets old. You could easily get 100+ hours out of it and never be bored. Highly recommended

Outlast and Alien Isolation are amazing and incredibly terrifying. You will poo your pants

The prologue is one of the worst things I have ever experienced in gaming but once you get past that, the game begins to open up nicely!

Man Utd and Man City both lose their CL openers. Jose sacked tomorrow if he doesn't win I'd say

New update has gone out today which introduces Freemode which houses online sessions and events without being lobby-based and having loading times. Hope to check it out in the coming days as I haven't played for some time. http://www.rockstargames.com/newswire/article/52497/the-gta-online-freemode-events-update-coming-next-week

Just going through MGS V at present and will try and squeeze in Satellite Reign before Black Ops 3 arrives; I'll play that for a few days and then it's Fallout 4 all the way

I'm in two minds about this game - on the one hand it offers fantastic gameplay that you could play for hours but the story is absolutely lackluster and almost non-existent which is shocking for an MGS game. It's very much a mission-based open world game and not a narrative-driven experience that you'd expect from the series. The missions are fun but it can get very repetitive. The story is exceptionally weak, the script is abysmal and there isn't much variation in the missions on offer. Having said that; you could easily get 100 hours + out of it especially with the base/weapons/items development but it can feel a bit tedious at times. There is 50 missions in the main 'story' which is bullshit as only about 12 are regarding the plot - the rest are just side missions practically and we already have 157 of those. Chapter 2 is an insult because most of those missions are just repeated from the first chapter but on a harder difficulty setting - this is one of the biggest design flaws I have ever seen in a videogame and it's a travesty that it's come from Kojima - he's filling in the plot holes by recycling and this just makes the absent story seem cringeworthy. Also the game feels unfinished and there's so many plot holes and filler moments; it's actually quite embarrassing to play at times and you have to wonder what brands of cigarettes they have in Japan as I don't know what the fuck Kojima and his team was smoking at the time when they were designing/writing this game. On the whole, it's a great game in its own right and you will get your money's worth but as a Metal Gear Solid title; it's one of the weaker ones and the way it was produced is mortifying.