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"Xbox sucks ... it's official... 2 !"

Today i played an xbox , in toys r us , i had to wait a while to play it , and i say now that it was
NOT worth it !

first of all the controller...

as many have said it isn't very good , and im sticking with that exact statement. It is just too big for the human hand , even my dad thought it was too big (and he has big hands) , the hand grips have no shape to them , they are basically just 2 rounded prongs , with a couple of triggers on the back.

The joysticks are in the wrong place and so are the buttons , your fingers dont go out that far i tell ya' they just dont ! but the sticks do feel quite nice when you do move them, but the controller itself is nothing to compared to the Gamecube one (before someone says "how do you know" i have one ;-))

Next , the console itself...

To be honest it dosent look too bad , it may be a bit on the bulky side , and that bix X jewel does look a bit gobby , but it's ok. It's not the best looking console by any means , but it doesn't look as bad as many claim it too.

The games...

The main part of any console is the games.
Im being totally honest here when i say they are Krap.
First i had a go at project gotham , the cars look ok , but not much difference from GT3. The accelaration on them is so slow , and the cars are slow aswell , i was going down a straight , holding down the accelaration button completely ... ive seen faster vehicles on f-zero on the Gameboy advance for peets sake !

I had a quick go at amped , which i wasn't to impressed with...
The graphics are pretty good , but not ground braking , and also , when i crashed, when the guy went to get up , the game paused slightly while he was half way getting up , only suddenly , but enough to notice , then continued , which i wasn't impressed with. This happens on alot of games on the playstation , but i didn't expect it from the quote " MOST POWERFULL" unquote games console.

Then i had a go at Halo , if this is xbox's AAA title , then Goldeneye (on the n64) is a AAAA. It is no different to goldeneye or perfect dark ! The graphics are ment to be out of this world , which in the cut scenes they are , but during gameplay , they are just over rated, bog standard First person shooter graphics.

basically what i am trying to get accross here , is that xbox sucks ! simple , the control does nothing for the machine or the games , the games aren't exactly the best ever made , and that juddery thing on amped really showed that it is just a horizontal PC !
Maybe it will get better , but at the moment it is no different from any other console , i have yet to see what the gamecube can do (in front of me) which i should be able to do in a week or 2 , (i have the games , the memory card , an extra control and all the other bits and bobs , but no gamecube ;-( )

thanks.

(please dont say that what i said is a load of dogs dollop , coz i HAVE seen it , and it wasn't amazing to say the least.)

true .... why did i start it .... doh ;-(

Do you want to know the real reason the non Nintendo owning gamers take the mickey out of Nintendo owners? Well let me give you a clue...topics like this dont help.

If you don't like the XBox, fine, bu simply arguing the design of the actual cover for the box not being good isn't a great argument. Don't know about you, but when I play games I tend to look at the screen more.

X-box sucks, its so big that if you bought one u would have 2 buy another house 2 put it in. nah its not that big but its still very big 4 a console.

I agree. The controller is big and chunky aswell as the console and it's twice the price of the gamecube, it won't sell and i can only find one reason to buy a xbox............halo,that is the only thing. They just haven't got the design right, what does it offer that the ps2 doesn't. if you had a n64 then you may buy a ngc to follow ps1 - ps2 etc. But xbox come from nowhere, want to compete with nintendo and charge twice the price, this is pathetic.

or he might mean slightly deformed in the left equilibrium ;-)

Strange hands eh?...... I think you mean BIG hands ;-)

@Ferrero Rocher

Have you held the GC pad? If you haven't, you'll change your mind when you do. If you have, yo have strange hands.

we do it so that other people dont make the mistake in buying one , or anything console that sucks , so then they save money and everyones happy ;-)

Some peopel are so sad. Instead of spending your time slagging off the XBox how about getting on with enjoying what YOU own?