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"I've Just Played An X-Box"

I walked into my local Chelmsford SR store this afternoon and what hit me straight away was the green/black X-Box in a display stool, and better yet, it was playable!

I played Burnout on the display PS2 until they went and then took a gander. The controller was surprisingly easy to get used to, albeit a little chunky. It was basically a hybrid of the Dreamcast/N64/PS1/PS2 controller, and it felt great. A demo-disc was in the Box and I had a look at a few of the games.

Firstly, I looked at Project Gotham Racing, a playable demo. The tracks are exactly the same as the ones on Metropolis Street Racer and it even has the old "Kudos" system, which is used to advance in the game. Hell - the game is made by Bizzare Creations, the creators of MSR! The game is good, but the steering is so hard, in that you have to power slide around every corner and let go of the acceleration about 5 seconds before getting anywhere near the corner!

Then I looked at Dark Summit, a snowboarding game. This game has the best graphics I have ever seen for any snowboarding game ever! Screw SSX, screw Tricky - this is better! However, I have a complaint about the controls - they are horrible to begin with, and take about 10 minutes to really get used to.

"Shaun, we have to go now"

That was the next thing I heard. There were 3 or 4 other games I wanted to try and some videos I wanted to watch (Munch's Oddysey), but I had to go :(

I need to make those trips to SR more frequent.

And my 10-year-old sister and my old man had a good old chuckle at F.A.R.T The Movie.

Andy Hall wrote:
> Not really a great topic is it Prodigy, but it's one that many will write
> because of the pod arrival of X Box in Europe.

I've played, I've been
> impressed, I've pre-ordered!!!

PGR looks really impressive compared to MSR,
> and the handling is excellent once you've had time to adjust. And of course it's
> made by BC!!

Glad you liked it, Unkie Bill will be pleased!

Andy Hall

What you moaning about? Iam glad to see a topic not saying ps2 is better than xbox, or vice versa. Plus its good to hear from someone who ACTUALLY PLAYED ONE, as apose to most of the xbox posts which are pointless as they havn't even held the controller let alone played anything

RastaBillySkank wrote:
> Good god! It's Andy Hall!

I haven't seen you for a looooooong long time!

If only you knew who he is, which other 7 alias, and he's not me :D

school a unless????

na you wouldn't bunk would you lol

Good god! It's Andy Hall!

I haven't seen you for a looooooong long time!

~Resurection~ wrote:
> hmmmmmm x box a. i'm in chelmsford tomorrow. i might pop in and have a
> look.


thanx for the info shaneo keep it between us a don't want everyone
> down SR chelmsford do we :)

No, of course not, considering I'm the most hated member of Special Reserve Forums! If I didn't have school, I'd meet ya down there! :p

hmmmmmm x box a. i'm in chelmsford tomorrow. i might pop in and have a look.


thanx for the info shaneo keep it between us a don't want everyone down SR chelmsford do we :)

Stryke wrote:
> It's called being witty. Try it sometime.

lol, true true

Stryke wrote:
> It's called being witty. Try it sometime.

But it's not even funny.

I played an XBOX in EB and i thought tht Dark Summit was really good what score did you get on i got 42,000 and considering i only had 1 go i thought that was pretty good.

I thought it was called being logical. Shame we don't have guns, otherwise he wouldn't even have to say.