Category: Xbox

Man, did I love this game in the Arcade. I waited and waited for it to come out from the day it was announced. Capcom vs SNK was a lot of fun. CVS2 was slightly less fun. But those were Capcom made fighters. This was going to be a SNK one! I thought about a…

If someone were to quiz me on my five favorite video game series of all time, the list would go like this: Dance Dance Revolution, Lunar, Pokemon, Sonic The Hedgehog and Tony Hawk Pro Skater. Yes, amongst the cult favorites and childhood standbys, I do hold a “mainstream” game series close to my heart. I…

Kingdoms Under Fire: The Crusaders Genre: Real Time Strategy RPG Developer: Phantagram Publisher: Microsoft Release Date: 10/13/04 Have you ever played a game that elicits no emotional response from you whatsoever? A game you know you either enjoy or dislike, but you can’t tell which. You feel neither highs nor lows playing? A game where…

Crash Twinsanity Genre: Platforming Platform: Xbox (also available on the PS2) Publisher: VU Games Developer: Traveller\s Tales Release Date: 9/28/04 Back in 1996 Naughty Dog released the first Crash Bandicoot to a skeptical audience and harsh judgement aimed at the game that was for awhile Sony’s mascot and competition to N64’s Super Mario64. It held…

NBA Live 2005 Genre: Sports Platform: XB [PS2/GC] Publisher: EA Sports Developer: EA Canada Release Date: 09/28/2004 Celebrating its tenth anniversary this season, NBA Live 2005 debuts this year on Xbox Live, adds some innovative new features, and makes some gameplay tweaks that may alienate some loyal fans to the series. Let’s Review: Story (Modes)…

Star Wars: Battlefront Platform: Xbox (Also On: GC) Rating: Teen Publisher: LucasArts Developer: Pandemic Studios Release Date: 9/20/04 If I made a list of the things I wanted to be when I grew from when I was a boy near the top would have been X-Wing Pilot. I’ve always been a huge Star Wars fan,…

Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2005 (XB) Publisher: EASports Developer: EASports Genre: Sports Release Date: 9/20/2004 EA Sports’s annual golf-fest has hit store shelves again this September in the form of Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2005. New to this season’s edition on the Xbox is finally the addition of online play via Xbox Live, mixed with…

FABLE Genre: Action RPG Developer: Big Blue Box Publisher: Microsoft Release Date: 9/14/04 Yes. It’s Fable. The game that has been massively hyped for well over a year. A game that was mentioned constantly by every gaming website that it would revolutionize not just RPG’s, but gaming as we know it. Peter Molyneux promised scads…

Game: Guilty Gear X2: The Midnight Carnival #RELOAD System: Microsoft XBox Genre: 2D Fighting Developer: Arc System Works / Sammy Publisher: Majesco Release: 9/15/04 Most people look to Capcom or SNK for their 2D-fighting goodness. After all, with Street Fighter and King of Fighters being the household names that they are, it’s really hard for…

Silent Hill 4 Genre: Survival Horror Developer: Konami Publisher: Konami Release Date: 9/8/04 I’ll admit it. I am NOT a Silent Hill fan. I disliked the first three games immensely. The controls were poor. The graphics were poor. The story was good, but overall the series got far more hype than other games in the…

ESPN NHL 2K5 (Xbox) Genre: Sports – Hockey Platform: Xbox Rating: Everyone Publisher: SEGA Developer: Kush Games Release Date: 8/30/04 I used to love to play hockey games before I ever even started to watch hockey. I remember with a specific game a friend and I used to just bash into each other over and…

Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six 3: Black Arrow (Xbox) Genre: First Person Shooter Platform: Xbox Rating: Mature Publisher: Ubisoft Release Date: 08/04/2004 Press A to Respawn– A line I saw way too many times in the original game, and it’s time already for me to see that screen over and over again with the sequel to…

Pure Pinball (Xbox) Genre: Miscellaneous – Pinball Platform: Xbox Rating: Everyone Publisher: XS Games Developer: Iridon Interactive Release Date: 08/05/04 Call me old fashioned but to me an arcade isn’t an arcade unless there’s at least a couple of pinball machines sitting around. Sure it might look like an arcade, smell faintly of BO and…

Sudeki Genre: Action RPG Platform: Xbox ESRB Rating: Mature (Violence, Blood and Gore) Developer: Climax Publisher: Microsoft Games Studios Release Date: 7/20/04 Official Home Page: Sudeki @ Xbox.com British developer Climax is a company that most probably haven’t heard of, but they’ve actually been around for a while. Lately they have been known for their…

Review: ESPN NFL 2005 (XB) Developer: Visual Concepts Publisher: Sega Release Date: 7/20/04 Genre: Sports — Football Systems: Microsoft Xbox — Sony Playstation 2 MSRP: $19.99 Never should the “MSRP” in the above line be emphasized more than it needs to be for ESPN NFL 2005. For a penny under 20 bucks, you get the…

Title: Spider-man 2 Developer: Treyarch Publisher: Actvision Platers: 1 System: Xbox (Also on PS2, Gamecube) When I heard that Treyarch had decided to take the go anywhere do anything approach of Grand Theft Auto 3 and apply it to their next Spider-man game, I instantly realized what had been missing from all his previous games.…