Reasons to be cheerful

The line-up of xbox 360 titles has hardly been stellar, and it's quite frankly difficult to think of anything I'd want to pick up on the second-hand market now that Oblivion, Battlefield 2, GRAW and Rockstar Table Tennis are in my collection. That said there are a few promising titles coming up in the near future.

Top of the list is Just Cause a close an attempt at Flames of Freedom as I'm likely to ever see. Not sure how hot it'll be on the strategy, but in terms of free-roaming madness it looks pretty promising.

Next up, somewhat unsurprisingly, is Gears of War. What can I say? It has lots of guns. Not too sure about Lost Planet after the xbox live demo, but it's definitely worth a look. Finally there's *drool, drool* Dead Rising. A total departure for Capcom dealing as it does with hardcore zombie action. Read an interesting preview on this the other day, and it seems that gameplay will revolve as much around photojournalism as bloody carnage. A bit of a twist there at least.

All these summarised in a handy guide to ten titles to look out for between now and early 2007 in the British Gaming Blog.