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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.
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.
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Italian Job is rubbish, never liked the film so I wouldn't like the game even if it was a good game, which it isn't. It's not like we need more racing games on Xbox is it, really ?
ganefreakz, your enthusiasm is startling! But I like it.
Bloody ell.
I don't want 2 magazines - Just one!
What did you think of that Italian job demo PM?
I don't want 2 magazines - Just one!
What did you think of that Italian job demo PM?
Otogi shocked me, it's bl00dy brilliant, a masterpiece, and no magazine has mentioned it up until now ??? Stunning stuff from Sega and definitely on my buy list now.
Island Thunder dissapointed me, the graphics engine needs work because of slowdown and general crappiness in places, hopefully solved for the release. Should be great on Live though.
You know why there are no videos ? XGamer - same publisher, but disc full of videos. They want you to buy OXM for the playables, Xgamer for the watchables.
Island Thunder dissapointed me, the graphics engine needs work because of slowdown and general crappiness in places, hopefully solved for the release. Should be great on Live though.
You know why there are no videos ? XGamer - same publisher, but disc full of videos. They want you to buy OXM for the playables, Xgamer for the watchables.
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.
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.
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