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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.

That's just the thing; it is.

Everytime I pick it up, they seem to relate to how crap the GameCube is and how wonderfully perfect the Xbox is. Strangely enough, they leave the PS2 alone..

It's an Xbox magazine.

Devoted to Xbox.

For Xbox.

It's not exactly going to be "other console" related is it.

I avoid OXM more for the fanboyish drivel that litters the magazine each month.

Otogi reminded me of when I played Nights for the first time, love the way the guy moves and how you can keep in the air, and how you send the demons flying, and how the buildings get trashed as you fight and (continues endlessly)

A few camera issues but otherwise great.

gamezfreak wrote:
> Ya can play the demo now ;).

I don't need to. From the footage I've seen I can tell I'm gonna love it. Although I have heard the enemies are bit dumb. But that doesn't bother me. It's all about the vampire rush of brutal style.

*stops before he gets carried away*

Is there a release date in OXM for OTOGI?

Black Glove wrote:
> Stylish destruction at its purest. Can't wait for its release.

Ya can play the demo now ;).

Good? Its excellent mate ;).

Let it be known that I posted a thread on OTOGI's impending brilliance ages ago and no one replied.

Stylish destruction at its purest. Can't wait for its release.

I always get OXM, I'd much rather play a demo and make my own mind up about a game than read any review.

Most of their reviews aren't too bad. A couple have been off, but then you get that with any magazine. I intend to get my copy tomorrow, and I'm well looking forward to the Otogi demo after you lot have chatted about it. It better be good now...

:-)

Its crap full stop.

And the "new mini" is'nt mini either.

Gladius sucks balls.