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All right, you all know I hate these posts but they seem popular so here goes.
Many months ago (well, 7 yesterday) I purchased a Sony PlayStation 2 from the Special Reserve Discount Network. After saving for many, many months and doing a whole host of odd jobs, my brand spanking new console arrived on my doorstep on Friday 24th November in all its vertical glory. With shaking hands I carefully opened the box and gingerly eased out the black beast. I plugged her into the mains, hooked up the SCART cable. I tuned on the power switch and pressed the brilliant blue button labelled “eject”. The CD tray slid out and stopped waiting to receive its first meal. I opened the SSX case for the first time and placed the cool blue disk into the beckoning tray. Just as smoothly as it had appeared, it retracted back into the box taking with it the greatest game on the PS2.
From the very moment that I pressed the “Reset” button for the first time until I write this now I have never, ever regretted the purchase of my console, even through concerns of DVD playback, mains supplies, future support and the announcement of the GameCube. Never once did I think “Maybe I should have waited” or “I wonder how much I’ll get for it”. Never once did I think “The graphics are fantastic but it’s not as good as the PSone”. Never once did think “I wish I’d got a GameCube instead”. Never once did my confidence fail in this little black box and I have enjoyed every single second of our relationship. The PS2 is here, it’s now and it’s great. I’m sure Khazar, sxxpro, Bonus and everyone else blessed by this stallion feels the same.
Now, as you all know, I have been pretty annoyed by people slagging off the PlayStation 2 and as I’m sure most of you will agree it’s pretty pointless. The main points for their arguments are “The PS2 has no good games” and “The GameCube’s graphics are better”. Well, all I can say is wrong on both accounts.
Let’s deal with the first falsity. Here is a list of great games on the PS2 OUT NOW!
Crazy Taxi
Escape from Monkey Island
Formula One 2001
Gran Turismo 3
Le Mans 24 Hours
MTV Music Generator 2
Onimusha: Warlords
Quake 3
Rumble Racing
Shadow of Memories
Sky Odyssey
SSX
Star Wars: Starfighter
Tekken Tag Tournament
TimeSplitters
Unreal Tournament
Zone of the Enders
Plus a wealth of great PSone titles
Here’s a list of great titles coming out imminently:
Age of Empires 2
Dark Cloud
Deus Ex
Extreme G-3
G-Surfers
Half-Life
Soul Reaver 2
Twisted Metal: Black
WipEout Fusion
And here’s a list of great titles in the pipeline:
Black and White
Dave Mirra Freestyle BMX 2
Final Fantasy x
The Getaway
Grand Theft Auto 3
Herdy Gerdy
Ico
ISS Pro Evolution 2
Legacy of Kain: Blood Omen 2
Metal Gear Solid 2
Motor Mayhem
Shadow Man: 2econd Coming
Silent Hill 2
Star Wars Racer Revenge 2
Smuggler’s Run 2
Space Channel 5
Spyro the Dragon 4
Tomb Raider: Next Gen
Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3
And the best thing is I’ll be playing all these and more before the GameCube has even hit the shelves. The fact is the PS2 has a wealth of fantastic games and although they may not suit the tastes of Nintendo gamers they definitely suit mine. Sony: I love ‘em. They challenged convention and brought gaming to whole new levels.
Now to address the issue that the GameCube allegedly has better graphics. Now, I’ll tell you this for nothing: It doesn’t, as any tech-head will agree. The average Joe has been fooled with unclear terminology and buzzwords such as “Gecko” and “copper wires”. The fact is that the PS2 and GameCube have virtually identical abilities. They both go about it in different ways but in the end they’re final destinations are metaphorically within walking distance of each other. Now, I could go into a lengthy explanation as to why this is but it would just bore you all to death and you wouldn’t understand. The fact is that behind all these “clock speeds” and “gigaflops” they both produce about the same amount.
So, PS2 or GameCube. How did I choose? Simple. I like PlayStation games best. In my opinion they are better games and more suited to my tastes. You disagree? Fine. We’re all entitled to an opinion. If not, why did we bother with World War 2?
Many months ago (well, 7 yesterday) I purchased a Sony PlayStation 2 from the Special Reserve Discount Network. After saving for many, many months and doing a whole host of odd jobs, my brand spanking new console arrived on my doorstep on Friday 24th November in all its vertical glory. With shaking hands I carefully opened the box and gingerly eased out the black beast. I plugged her into the mains, hooked up the SCART cable. I tuned on the power switch and pressed the brilliant blue button labelled “eject”. The CD tray slid out and stopped waiting to receive its first meal. I opened the SSX case for the first time and placed the cool blue disk into the beckoning tray. Just as smoothly as it had appeared, it retracted back into the box taking with it the greatest game on the PS2.
From the very moment that I pressed the “Reset” button for the first time until I write this now I have never, ever regretted the purchase of my console, even through concerns of DVD playback, mains supplies, future support and the announcement of the GameCube. Never once did I think “Maybe I should have waited” or “I wonder how much I’ll get for it”. Never once did I think “The graphics are fantastic but it’s not as good as the PSone”. Never once did think “I wish I’d got a GameCube instead”. Never once did my confidence fail in this little black box and I have enjoyed every single second of our relationship. The PS2 is here, it’s now and it’s great. I’m sure Khazar, sxxpro, Bonus and everyone else blessed by this stallion feels the same.
Now, as you all know, I have been pretty annoyed by people slagging off the PlayStation 2 and as I’m sure most of you will agree it’s pretty pointless. The main points for their arguments are “The PS2 has no good games” and “The GameCube’s graphics are better”. Well, all I can say is wrong on both accounts.
Let’s deal with the first falsity. Here is a list of great games on the PS2 OUT NOW!
Crazy Taxi
Escape from Monkey Island
Formula One 2001
Gran Turismo 3
Le Mans 24 Hours
MTV Music Generator 2
Onimusha: Warlords
Quake 3
Rumble Racing
Shadow of Memories
Sky Odyssey
SSX
Star Wars: Starfighter
Tekken Tag Tournament
TimeSplitters
Unreal Tournament
Zone of the Enders
Plus a wealth of great PSone titles
Here’s a list of great titles coming out imminently:
Age of Empires 2
Dark Cloud
Deus Ex
Extreme G-3
G-Surfers
Half-Life
Soul Reaver 2
Twisted Metal: Black
WipEout Fusion
And here’s a list of great titles in the pipeline:
Black and White
Dave Mirra Freestyle BMX 2
Final Fantasy x
The Getaway
Grand Theft Auto 3
Herdy Gerdy
Ico
ISS Pro Evolution 2
Legacy of Kain: Blood Omen 2
Metal Gear Solid 2
Motor Mayhem
Shadow Man: 2econd Coming
Silent Hill 2
Star Wars Racer Revenge 2
Smuggler’s Run 2
Space Channel 5
Spyro the Dragon 4
Tomb Raider: Next Gen
Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3
And the best thing is I’ll be playing all these and more before the GameCube has even hit the shelves. The fact is the PS2 has a wealth of fantastic games and although they may not suit the tastes of Nintendo gamers they definitely suit mine. Sony: I love ‘em. They challenged convention and brought gaming to whole new levels.
Now to address the issue that the GameCube allegedly has better graphics. Now, I’ll tell you this for nothing: It doesn’t, as any tech-head will agree. The average Joe has been fooled with unclear terminology and buzzwords such as “Gecko” and “copper wires”. The fact is that the PS2 and GameCube have virtually identical abilities. They both go about it in different ways but in the end they’re final destinations are metaphorically within walking distance of each other. Now, I could go into a lengthy explanation as to why this is but it would just bore you all to death and you wouldn’t understand. The fact is that behind all these “clock speeds” and “gigaflops” they both produce about the same amount.
So, PS2 or GameCube. How did I choose? Simple. I like PlayStation games best. In my opinion they are better games and more suited to my tastes. You disagree? Fine. We’re all entitled to an opinion. If not, why did we bother with World War 2?
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how can you forget Devil may cry and Resident evil CVX.
turbonutter wrote:
Let’s deal with the first falsity. Here is a list of
> great games on the PS2 OUT NOW!
Crazy Taxi
Escape from Monkey
> Island
Formula One 2001
Gran Turismo 3
Le Mans 24 Hours
MTV
> Music Generator 2
Onimusha: Warlords
Quake 3
Rumble
> Racing
Shadow of Memories
Sky Odyssey
SSX
Star Wars:
> Starfighter
Tekken Tag Tournament
TimeSplitters
Unreal
> Tournament
Zone of the Enders
Plus a wealth of great PSone
> titles
You forgot to mention Red Faction!
Let’s deal with the first falsity. Here is a list of
> great games on the PS2 OUT NOW!
Crazy Taxi
Escape from Monkey
> Island
Formula One 2001
Gran Turismo 3
Le Mans 24 Hours
MTV
> Music Generator 2
Onimusha: Warlords
Quake 3
Rumble
> Racing
Shadow of Memories
Sky Odyssey
SSX
Star Wars:
> Starfighter
Tekken Tag Tournament
TimeSplitters
Unreal
> Tournament
Zone of the Enders
Plus a wealth of great PSone
> titles
You forgot to mention Red Faction!
Yep, but leave out the dissing of the other consoles bits, as reviews don't need them. Just concentrate on the console and it'll make a good review methinks.
Who thinks I should post this as a review?
All right, you all know I hate these posts but they seem popular so here goes.
Many months ago (well, 7 yesterday) I purchased a Sony PlayStation 2 from the Special Reserve Discount Network. After saving for many, many months and doing a whole host of odd jobs, my brand spanking new console arrived on my doorstep on Friday 24th November in all its vertical glory. With shaking hands I carefully opened the box and gingerly eased out the black beast. I plugged her into the mains, hooked up the SCART cable. I tuned on the power switch and pressed the brilliant blue button labelled “eject”. The CD tray slid out and stopped waiting to receive its first meal. I opened the SSX case for the first time and placed the cool blue disk into the beckoning tray. Just as smoothly as it had appeared, it retracted back into the box taking with it the greatest game on the PS2.
From the very moment that I pressed the “Reset” button for the first time until I write this now I have never, ever regretted the purchase of my console, even through concerns of DVD playback, mains supplies, future support and the announcement of the GameCube. Never once did I think “Maybe I should have waited” or “I wonder how much I’ll get for it”. Never once did I think “The graphics are fantastic but it’s not as good as the PSone”. Never once did think “I wish I’d got a GameCube instead”. Never once did my confidence fail in this little black box and I have enjoyed every single second of our relationship. The PS2 is here, it’s now and it’s great. I’m sure Khazar, sxxpro, Bonus and everyone else blessed by this stallion feels the same.
Now, as you all know, I have been pretty annoyed by people slagging off the PlayStation 2 and as I’m sure most of you will agree it’s pretty pointless. The main points for their arguments are “The PS2 has no good games” and “The GameCube’s graphics are better”. Well, all I can say is wrong on both accounts.
Let’s deal with the first falsity. Here is a list of great games on the PS2 OUT NOW!
Crazy Taxi
Escape from Monkey Island
Formula One 2001
Gran Turismo 3
Le Mans 24 Hours
MTV Music Generator 2
Onimusha: Warlords
Quake 3
Rumble Racing
Shadow of Memories
Sky Odyssey
SSX
Star Wars: Starfighter
Tekken Tag Tournament
TimeSplitters
Unreal Tournament
Zone of the Enders
Plus a wealth of great PSone titles
Here’s a list of great titles coming out imminently:
Age of Empires 2
Dark Cloud
Deus Ex
Extreme G-3
G-Surfers
Half-Life
Soul Reaver 2
Twisted Metal: Black
WipEout Fusion
And here’s a list of great titles in the pipeline:
Black and White
Dave Mirra Freestyle BMX 2
Final Fantasy x
The Getaway
Grand Theft Auto 3
Herdy Gerdy
Ico
ISS Pro Evolution 2
Legacy of Kain: Blood Omen 2
Metal Gear Solid 2
Motor Mayhem
Shadow Man: 2econd Coming
Silent Hill 2
Star Wars Racer Revenge 2
Smuggler’s Run 2
Space Channel 5
Spyro the Dragon 4
Tomb Raider: Next Gen
Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3
And the best thing is I’ll be playing all these and more before the GameCube has even hit the shelves. The fact is the PS2 has a wealth of fantastic games and although they may not suit the tastes of Nintendo gamers they definitely suit mine. Sony: I love ‘em. They challenged convention and brought gaming to whole new levels.
Now to address the issue that the GameCube allegedly has better graphics. Now, I’ll tell you this for nothing: It doesn’t, as any tech-head will agree. The average Joe has been fooled with unclear terminology and buzzwords such as “Gecko” and “copper wires”. The fact is that the PS2 and GameCube have virtually identical abilities. They both go about it in different ways but in the end they’re final destinations are metaphorically within walking distance of each other. Now, I could go into a lengthy explanation as to why this is but it would just bore you all to death and you wouldn’t understand. The fact is that behind all these “clock speeds” and “gigaflops” they both produce about the same amount.
So, PS2 or GameCube. How did I choose? Simple. I like PlayStation games best. In my opinion they are better games and more suited to my tastes. You disagree? Fine. We’re all entitled to an opinion. If not, why did we bother with World War 2?
Many months ago (well, 7 yesterday) I purchased a Sony PlayStation 2 from the Special Reserve Discount Network. After saving for many, many months and doing a whole host of odd jobs, my brand spanking new console arrived on my doorstep on Friday 24th November in all its vertical glory. With shaking hands I carefully opened the box and gingerly eased out the black beast. I plugged her into the mains, hooked up the SCART cable. I tuned on the power switch and pressed the brilliant blue button labelled “eject”. The CD tray slid out and stopped waiting to receive its first meal. I opened the SSX case for the first time and placed the cool blue disk into the beckoning tray. Just as smoothly as it had appeared, it retracted back into the box taking with it the greatest game on the PS2.
From the very moment that I pressed the “Reset” button for the first time until I write this now I have never, ever regretted the purchase of my console, even through concerns of DVD playback, mains supplies, future support and the announcement of the GameCube. Never once did I think “Maybe I should have waited” or “I wonder how much I’ll get for it”. Never once did I think “The graphics are fantastic but it’s not as good as the PSone”. Never once did think “I wish I’d got a GameCube instead”. Never once did my confidence fail in this little black box and I have enjoyed every single second of our relationship. The PS2 is here, it’s now and it’s great. I’m sure Khazar, sxxpro, Bonus and everyone else blessed by this stallion feels the same.
Now, as you all know, I have been pretty annoyed by people slagging off the PlayStation 2 and as I’m sure most of you will agree it’s pretty pointless. The main points for their arguments are “The PS2 has no good games” and “The GameCube’s graphics are better”. Well, all I can say is wrong on both accounts.
Let’s deal with the first falsity. Here is a list of great games on the PS2 OUT NOW!
Crazy Taxi
Escape from Monkey Island
Formula One 2001
Gran Turismo 3
Le Mans 24 Hours
MTV Music Generator 2
Onimusha: Warlords
Quake 3
Rumble Racing
Shadow of Memories
Sky Odyssey
SSX
Star Wars: Starfighter
Tekken Tag Tournament
TimeSplitters
Unreal Tournament
Zone of the Enders
Plus a wealth of great PSone titles
Here’s a list of great titles coming out imminently:
Age of Empires 2
Dark Cloud
Deus Ex
Extreme G-3
G-Surfers
Half-Life
Soul Reaver 2
Twisted Metal: Black
WipEout Fusion
And here’s a list of great titles in the pipeline:
Black and White
Dave Mirra Freestyle BMX 2
Final Fantasy x
The Getaway
Grand Theft Auto 3
Herdy Gerdy
Ico
ISS Pro Evolution 2
Legacy of Kain: Blood Omen 2
Metal Gear Solid 2
Motor Mayhem
Shadow Man: 2econd Coming
Silent Hill 2
Star Wars Racer Revenge 2
Smuggler’s Run 2
Space Channel 5
Spyro the Dragon 4
Tomb Raider: Next Gen
Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3
And the best thing is I’ll be playing all these and more before the GameCube has even hit the shelves. The fact is the PS2 has a wealth of fantastic games and although they may not suit the tastes of Nintendo gamers they definitely suit mine. Sony: I love ‘em. They challenged convention and brought gaming to whole new levels.
Now to address the issue that the GameCube allegedly has better graphics. Now, I’ll tell you this for nothing: It doesn’t, as any tech-head will agree. The average Joe has been fooled with unclear terminology and buzzwords such as “Gecko” and “copper wires”. The fact is that the PS2 and GameCube have virtually identical abilities. They both go about it in different ways but in the end they’re final destinations are metaphorically within walking distance of each other. Now, I could go into a lengthy explanation as to why this is but it would just bore you all to death and you wouldn’t understand. The fact is that behind all these “clock speeds” and “gigaflops” they both produce about the same amount.
So, PS2 or GameCube. How did I choose? Simple. I like PlayStation games best. In my opinion they are better games and more suited to my tastes. You disagree? Fine. We’re all entitled to an opinion. If not, why did we bother with World War 2?
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