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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.)
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.)
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wandering blade wrote:
> lol, I look around all the forums, why is everybody so biased?! Can you only
> enjoy one machine?! I have a PS2, Dreamcast, N64 etc, I never seen them in
> competition, its sad, it just gives us more chances to play different games, why
> do they have to be `better`, why cant they be different!?
I only said what I said because that is what I think. I am not biased, I like playing good games, so I will make myself clear if one disappoints me.
> lol, I look around all the forums, why is everybody so biased?! Can you only
> enjoy one machine?! I have a PS2, Dreamcast, N64 etc, I never seen them in
> competition, its sad, it just gives us more chances to play different games, why
> do they have to be `better`, why cant they be different!?
I only said what I said because that is what I think. I am not biased, I like playing good games, so I will make myself clear if one disappoints me.
Today I played Amped and PGR on XBox. Both were sorely disappointing. Amped is SSX without the humour or fun, and with bad controls. PGR is a slow remake of GT3, with only the Kudos system being new, although it adds nothing to the game. If you don't want to be disappointed, get a GC! Do it!
Or†ega wrote:
> Are these the actual games you played or are they Demo's?
they were demo's , but they should be like the real thing , as the demo disk is the one you get with the machine, so the games have only just been made so they should if not are the same as the real games.
> Are these the actual games you played or are they Demo's?
they were demo's , but they should be like the real thing , as the demo disk is the one you get with the machine, so the games have only just been made so they should if not are the same as the real games.
DrDragon wrote:
> Great post, not just because you don't like Xbox, but you actually had
> justification in saying so. I agree with you on the points you make, the
> controller was designed for the BFG, or the idiots at engineering wrote down the
> wrong measurements, because it just ain't right. By the way, I have an import
> GC as well, it is a brilliant console. What games are you getting for it?
ive got wave race , star wars and super monkey ball , and im gonna get smash bros , just one thing i need now ..... the gamecube ;-(
> Great post, not just because you don't like Xbox, but you actually had
> justification in saying so. I agree with you on the points you make, the
> controller was designed for the BFG, or the idiots at engineering wrote down the
> wrong measurements, because it just ain't right. By the way, I have an import
> GC as well, it is a brilliant console. What games are you getting for it?
ive got wave race , star wars and super monkey ball , and im gonna get smash bros , just one thing i need now ..... the gamecube ;-(
DaveyDenton wrote:
> ive played it too but i just get gunned down when i post
(you nicked my title
> :)
thats why i put 2 at the end of it ;-) (to get it noticed i guess)
> ive played it too but i just get gunned down when i post
(you nicked my title
> :)
thats why i put 2 at the end of it ;-) (to get it noticed i guess)
X-box is alright but its like a PS2 so no it isn't.
seems like everyone whos tried it hates it, i still think it will sell, and a 3rd party company like logic3 may make a different useable pad, bottom line is that good games will flood into xbox's path as it is essentially a pc, so much can come its way, like the next unreal games, quake and maybe c&c, all these could come out on the xbox, im not going to get one, but they will sell...
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