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Ok - I know a few people on this forum firmly believe OXM is a pile of diseased tosh. And so did I. Until I brought this months magazine because of that KOTOR review.

It's not actually *that* bad, The reviews are actually decent this month, with KOTOR getting a whopping 9.5! Most of the other games reviewed are getting low scores - Its the "mediocre" season of gaming remember...The news section is decent enough, The play:more section is excellent and theres even a section devoted to LIVE gaming.

There's a feature on MMORPG's which is rather interesting.

Yes I know some of their review scores are totally wrong (Enter the Matrix being an example) but you gotta admit - Other magazines are'nt exactly perfect. And just give them a chance for monkeys sake - They're a good mag and the cover disk is DEFINATLY worth the money. Well, Kind of.

This months demos are: -

Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Island Thunder - Amazing, I've been playing this mostly all morning and its excellent. Command your team mates through a plantation in Cuba - It's very realistic and will be awesome on Live! Not sure about the graphics though : Very tense and you feel a sense of acheivement when you complete the mission.

Otogi - Oh my God. This *is* a SEGA masterpiece, The graphics are beyond belief, Colorful and beautiful, yet the game is about good vs evil! I cannot stress how good this demo is - The combat, Jesus f**king christ, THE COMBAT, is the best i've ever seen. You can jump and float for a few seconds in mid air and totally hack and slash the hell out of your enemy, Rush away from danger, cast magical spells. Tiltawhirl - This is the game you wanted Morrowind's combat to be. It reaks of pure Sega brilliance. You can even demolish buildings! Double Kantana swords, small swords, large swords - ARG! Excellent!

This is where the demo disc goes sour.

Italian Job - What the f**k is this pile of monkey tosh. Handeling? WHAT HANDELING? The cars handle awfully, This game is for total rejects - It sucks so much balls I quit the game before I ended the race. The AI of the cops is about as clever as an ant on acid. The graphics are pretty boring and (again) the handeling is awful. This game is crap. Stay away from it.

Gladius - HAHAHAHA. You call this a game? A GAME? Its so boring it's beyond belief. Select character, select point to move to, character moves to point, select enemy to attack, push button, determine strengh of attack, character attacks enemy. Repeat. Its awful. You spend the first 5 minutes going through a load of cutscenes and text. Boring.

So 2 out of 4 demo's being good aint too bad. The demo is definatly worth it for playing Otogi.

Moving onto the "play:more" section of the disc, Its a bunch of videos readers have sent in on their gaming acheivements. Some of it is cool, Halo warthog jumps etc And there's a video called "Halo Heart Attack" which I found quite amusing.

One thing that dissapointed me about this disc is that they've taken away the "movies" section for some bizarre reason. Why is that? Oh well.

So anyway - Enough of me babbling on for hours - Get OXM. Give it a chance for once. And the KOTOR review is worth it :)

gamezfreak.

They'd have been better not using the crapy Mark Walberg movie and going for the classic original.

"I only told you to blow the bloody doors off"

*imagines Mark Wahlberg saying that line*

*shudders*

So?

Its still playable and fairly enjoyable. And the cars are easy to control dispite their arcade style handling. I'm just saying I don't think it should be cast into the bin labeling "stinking pile to toss", well not yet anyway.

The handeling of the motors in Italian job....

The car instantly moves as soon as you turn - Just slides around. No realism at all. Its like controlling a person running fast.

Great disc this month in OXM, no question, and what are you on about, The Italian Job was way better than I expected. My mates and I played the demo for about an hour this afternoon trying to beat our own lap times- I can get a 56.13 seconds around the course. Granted I've never played Burnout 2- which is far superior I presume so I might have to pick it up soon for some high octane racing.

And Otogi, yeah, it is special. One of those SEGA games like JSRF and PDO some will love and others won't, but it must be agreed is pretty special and unique. I loved the destruction, putting massive craters in the ground was cool and unexpected. Combat was nice and fluid too. Looked and sounded great as you would expect.

Ghoast reacon had a good demo too, again my friends and I played the single multiplaer level for ages.

Gladious seamed weird. A RTS gladiator game? Hmm, I played it for 5 seconds but I will try it again to see if it clicks, it seams like one of those games it takes a while to "get" before it becomes any good.

The usual OXM "mag" this month again though, which frankly is starting to bore me with its format and style.

yeah single format mags are pants! A lot of them are sponsered by their respective machines. Edge and Games TM are the mags to take note of.

Tiltawhirl wrote:
> All single format magazines are balls, except NGC. Even that has gone
> downhill over the past months.

For me, I like the writing style and morals of X-Gamer; I think NOM are on an upwards road, improving with their new look and NGC is still the best single format mag, but has always been the same.

Dark Mark™ wrote:
> Yeah we'll just forget the years of GreyStation and GreyStation Poo
> and Dreampants, shall we?
>
> P.S. OXM is still crap. But so is NOM.

Why can't we?

The magazine's under a new editorial team now, and they've undergone two makeovers since those days. I'm talking about the present here.

Shut up and get it.

For the Otogi demo

Goddess Belldandy wrote:

> But they do.

I really hope that's a joke.

Tiltawhirl wrote:
> "Once again this proves that games DO actually play better on
> Xbox"
>
> Errrrr shut-up OXM.

But they do.