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Tue 25/12/01 at 22:30
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Merry xmas all!

This is a post for you lot who i am sure have got many games for xmas!

This post is aimed for you all to tell me what you think of your games so far!

I'll start us off..


Devil may cry

Great, addictive gameplay, shame about the slightly big boarders, graphics are stunning, truely AAA game in my view, very addictive!

Jak and Daxter

so addicted to Devil may cry that i havent played this yet!!

Pro evo

stunning football sim, the most challenging footy game i have ever played, the best graphics and gameplay on a footy game so far!!

Half life

only had the odd go but its a great game even after 3 years, i missed out on the pc version but the PS2 version looks and plays just as good if not better!, good co-op mode as well!

Post your views!, and again, happy xmas! or should i say, happy gaming!
Wed 26/12/01 at 10:25
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"Jim Jam Jim"
Posts: 5,626
DMC

Amazing game, Boarders are noticable but dont really matter. Quite hard but fun. Annoying part is when you can save mid level and then you turn it off, finding out all it does is save the red orbs e.t.c. I nearly done level 2 and saved it, turned it off and found out I had to go back and do everything on level 2 again. Got to the beginning of level 4 in about 1 hour.

J&D

Amazing game, could be shorter than I hoped as iam already on 8% in about 30 mins. First game I have to have 60Hz option, I cant believe nobody has mentioned that yet. Nice full screen action and at 60Hz.

THPS3

What can I say about this game, ADDICTIVE. This is the game I have spent most time on. Iam doing career mode with Tony Hawk. Got 20 goals and a bronze medal. Doing pretty well on it considering I hadnt owned any of the other 2.

Shenmue 2

Great game, havent spent much time on it. I want to leave it anit so I can play on the others and then play this through without touching the other games. Its got a movie of the first game showing you all the important bits. It amazing how good the storyline is to the first game. This is going to be a amazing experience to play.
Wed 26/12/01 at 00:17
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"Touched!"
Posts: 4,910
Or†ega wrote:
> sPiKe2k wrote:
Pro evo

stunning football sim, the
> most challenging
> footy game i have ever played, the best graphics and gameplay
> on a footy
> game so far!!

Have to disagree with ya there. Pro evo may have the best
> gameplay yes...but it aint got the best graphics. TIF2002 looks much better.


the animations on pro evo are much better, as are the effects such as the shadows and the stadiums, TIF has good graphics though, but pro evo is the king in my book :-), we have to agree to differ i think :)
Tue 25/12/01 at 23:56
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I agree with spike on this but I aint played jax a daxter so I cant comment on that :)
Tue 25/12/01 at 23:43
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Posts: 6,702
Santa kindly gave me DMC. I use it with a widescreen tv so the borders aren`t a problem, however, I should have asked Santa to make it a little easier!

I beat the scorpion psycho after having died (losing all yellow orbs), restarting, and losing another three orbs... only to get to the next level and face that insane wolf thing. On the demo it was easy, and took very little effort, but the full game version has pretty much a "difficulty cliff" as PSM2 would say. I`ve only had a couple of goes at the wolf lion pride watsamapsycho, (only had a couple of orbs left), and I can see its gonna take a while to beat him.

Was the length of the game rectified by making it hard? Actually that reminds me. The length of the game - 10 hours roughly? Perhaps when you add up the mission complete times, but if you include all the restarts (which if I keep going at this rate will probably treble the overall time) there is a whole lot more time gaming!

Meanwhile, SSX Tricky is still unfinished, with only four mastered characters. Jak and Daxter is stuck on 69% in Spider Cave. Tony Hawks 3 is a game I am clearly rubbish at :-). To accompany all this, there`s the still uncomplete resident evil CV.

How am I supposed to finish those at the same time as revising for exams? (When I say revising, I mean learning the whole silly course as I haven`t yet done any work thanks to PS2).

Ah well. Time to bury myself in a pile of books... Yeh right!
Tue 25/12/01 at 23:23
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Posts: 15,579
sPiKe2k wrote:
Pro evo

stunning football sim, the
> most challenging footy game i have ever played, the best graphics and gameplay
> on a footy game so far!!

Have to disagree with ya there. Pro evo may have the best gameplay yes...but it aint got the best graphics. TIF2002 looks much better.
Tue 25/12/01 at 22:30
Regular
"Touched!"
Posts: 4,910
Merry xmas all!

This is a post for you lot who i am sure have got many games for xmas!

This post is aimed for you all to tell me what you think of your games so far!

I'll start us off..


Devil may cry

Great, addictive gameplay, shame about the slightly big boarders, graphics are stunning, truely AAA game in my view, very addictive!

Jak and Daxter

so addicted to Devil may cry that i havent played this yet!!

Pro evo

stunning football sim, the most challenging footy game i have ever played, the best graphics and gameplay on a footy game so far!!

Half life

only had the odd go but its a great game even after 3 years, i missed out on the pc version but the PS2 version looks and plays just as good if not better!, good co-op mode as well!

Post your views!, and again, happy xmas! or should i say, happy gaming!

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