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"Got my X-box"

With Halo, Project Gotham Racing and Grabbed by the Gholies.

It's a bloody chunky thing isn't it.

I haven't got LIVE yet but I might not, I'm not entirely sure this is a good purchase. I've played all 3 games a bit but I keep going back to Second Sight on the Gamecube.

As a Gamecube owner I do miss a really good First Person shooter, and as great as Timesplitters is the idea of owning Halo was something I couldn't resist. I also miss out on realistic racing games as a Gamecube owner.

The sad thing is, now I've played 2 games that are the top of their genre I now feel slightly empty.

For starters Project Gotham is a good racing title but I've never really been able to enjoy these sort of games.

Grabbed by the Gholies is as crap as I remember.

I played Halo for a bit but I've come to realise that this is just another FPS. And one that doesn't have the depth of Perfect Dark either. It is the finest all round FPS of this generation but it doesn't do anything special at all. In fact at times I felt the urge to play Metroid Prime, something I haven't done in an age.

Anyway enough about the criticism, I'm sure I'll get into all of the above games and I'm sure I'll enjoy Blinx, The Suffering, Jet Set Radio: Future and whatever else my mate plans to lend me.

The console has 3 weeks to impress or it goes back. Mainly because of my 30 day no quibble return policy.

Get yourself Ninja Gaiden, Chronicles of Riddick and Burnout 3.

Burnout 3
Riddick
Splinter cell: Pandora tomorrow
Maybe the GTA: double pack.

I brought my xbox 7 days ago and already have spent 5k on it so as i speak for all of us here it is gonna take a lot of money to mod your xbox like mine.

You spent 5k modding your Xbox?

Gee, I bet you're really popular with the ladies.

Who would want to mod their box here?

And 5k is £5000, you understand?

Well, I don't know how you can say Halo isn't that special.

Granted the first level is a bit boring, but it easily opens out to be a great gaming experience, better than Perfect Dark, but a different approach is needed to the game.

If you find you prefer the Perfect Dark style, get Timesplitters 2, same animation and control systems as Perfect Dark, just better graphics etc. No story line, but the game is a much more objective based idea and a more thought provoking game.

Halo 2 is about getting from A to B, trying to kill every single enemy is just silly, make a path and take it. Timesplitters has much more artistic freedom, window smashing challenges and area of taking out cameras etc. It really is just an update of Perfect Dark and Goldeneye.

lcarus wrote:

> And 5k is £5000, you understand?

Really? I thought he was talking about cereal.

Bonus wrote:
> It really is just an update of Perfect Dark and
> Goldeneye.

Which is why I love it, though I'd say it's more of an update of Goldeneye as it felt like a bit of a step back from Perfect Darkat times.

Tiltawhirl wrote:
> lcarus wrote:
>
> And 5k is £5000, you understand?
>
> Really? I thought he was talking about cereal.

Uh huh. lol etc

Hmmm, I suppose it depends on your memories of those games, as I remember Perfect Dark was not as good as Goldeneye, maybe I was just biased, but I felt they tried to push the N64 too far, and it just didn't play very well.

I prefer Timesplitters 2 to Perfect Dark, much more accessible, the screen isn't so blurry it's difficult to make out the shape of people in the distance and the controls are much more responsive.

The structue is much more like Goldeneye in the way levels are split though.

Yeah, definately think it's just like Goldeneye, couldn't honestly say it felt like a step back from PD though.