Stainless wrote:Blargh is pretty much spot on with all those titles.
Only game that interests me at all on xbox is Shadow Complex.
Shadow Complex is fun, but hardly any replay value.
As for the rest? I don;t really play any titles on my xbox cept GTA, and now I'm hooked on Fable 2 *awaits insults*
Bioshock was fun, no replay value though, and the sequal looks underserving of its hype.
Assasins Creed is a one of the most blatent symtoms of whats wrong with console games at the moment; it has barely anything to offer, it's dressed in crap graphics the developers claim are cutting edge, it's over-hyped, and not fun. Avoid at all costs.
Bayonetta: Never plaid it, top marks from console games journos; probably worth buying on the cheap in a couple of years.
Hm, Mass Effect, trying to get back into it. Storylines pretty solid, combat is not, and despite its attempts at the opposite, it's pretty much a combat RPG with some odd dialogue choices (odd as in, your character never says what you click, just his/her own version which can ake it difficult to determine what your characters actually gonna say). It promises a lot, and can be a lot of fun, but hardly the RPG messiah OXM claims.
MW2 looks terribly overhyped. I enjoyed COD:WAW for the online play, but even that has a short lifespan. MW2 just looks likes its previous titles but with a louder marketing departent.
The best FPS xBox has to offer is Unreal Tourney 3. Only problem with that, is that nobody plays it anymore, so online is dead, still, lots of fun and pretty cheap now.
Apart from Grand Theft Auto 4 (which doesn't sound like most people's drug of choice on this forum), one xBox game I would recommend, is Crackdown. Simplistic storyline (gangs have taken over futuristic city, you're a gen modified super cop that can respawn, rid the city of crime, expect plot twist at the end), tonnes of fun. One of xBox's first releases, and as far as I'm concerned, there arn't many that come close to it. It did the whole super powered jump-around-the-city gimmick way before Prototype ot InFamous, tonnes of enemies on screen at all times, tough missions, sand-box. It basically does what console gaming was meant to do, and what most console developers seem to forget; lots of action, storyline limited to cut scenes, has rpg elements (ie, you're character gets better with guns the more you use them) without trying to be 500 different genres at once. Not everybody's cup of tea, but if you're looking to buy an xBox purely for console games, and not "PC-like-games-that-dont-understand-their-place" then I highley recommend it.
That, or WET. Fuck you guys, I enjoyed it
PS: Batman Arkham Asylum is great too!
