I want to buy FIFA 13 and Top Spin 4 for the Xbox 360 second-hand. I'm wondering if I can play online with these games. The seller doesn't know if an unused online code is necessary or if you can just play online with them on any console.

Would be glad to hear an answer!

• Spore: zero depth, dumbed down casual gameplay.
• Super Smash Bros. Brawl: GameCube graphics, GameCube controls, online play is limited to random join and friend codes, Subspace Emissary is boring and repetitive
• Far Cry 2: great graphics/combat mechanics, but extremely repetitive objectives.
• Prince of Persia: charming game, but ridiculously easy, and it basically plays itself. All you have to do is press A every 3 seconds.
• Red Alert 3: Worse than Tiberium Wars in all respects, especially the dated graphics and glitches.
• STALKER: Clear Sky: The first STALKER was a promising game, so I thought the sequel would fix most problems, but I was wrong.
• The absence of good (hardcore) Wii games
• No PS3 price drop
• StarCraft 2 AND Empire Total War delayed

Neither. Mario Kart and GTA are the most overrated series ever. Mario Kart can't legitimately be called a racing game; you don't even see how fast you drive, there is zero skill involved, it all just depends on which items you get and knowing the surprises of each stage. It can be fun to occasionally play with friends, but I don't see it as a serious game that I'm going to pay 50 euros for.

As for GTA, I played San Andreas, and I can enjoy driving through the city and trumping some random pedestrians, but that gets boring after 15 minutes. The missions suck, they're nothing more than cutscenes of some idiotic "gangsta" stereotypes and extremely shallow gameplay. I'm not even thinking about buying GTA4.

Valve has improved so much since Half Life 2. They've been doing a lot more with their Source engine like remaking their old games like Counter Strike and Day of Defeat and making new IPs like Portal. Valve's Steam service has been doing great over the past year or so. Valve's new and improved.

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Valve's done nothing new since Half-Life 2 except Portal, which has two hours of gameplay. HL2 episodes are merely "more of the same", and I dare say that episode one was worse than the original.