XBOX 360 games...

Just been playing on Avon's Xbox360 and I have to say I liked it very much.

COD 2 is possibly the most frantic game ever. Beautifully smooth, long, long draw distance, great particles, constant frame rate, many many adversaries all at once - large detailed environments, wonderful sound effects hard hitting woundings (when you get hit you feel it), lots of lighting effects, gun flares, gritty action, nades throw bad guys right up into the air liovely. Its a WOW game!


Kameo - Now this is one beautiful game - hundreds of enemies, highly detailed, all with physics, all fighting, animated, running around trying to kill the good guys... the most exquisite colours I have ever seen in a game environment - fabulous lush greenery - flowers, sun flares, skies, characters - all moving, swaying, - much more so than in StarFox Adventures for the GameCube.

Tonight I saw in the region of 100-130 highly detailed enemies, 4 huge dragons swooping through the skies, a large, animated, with ground hugging shadows, a very large tank type vehicle, along with tens of goodies and Kaneo herfelf morphing into various creatures - all in the same - constant frame rate scene - where Avon was battling.

Fabulous.


Project Gotham Racing 3 - well it just looks real. The lighting and reflections make this game to look at. The physics seem really good too although I haven't played it too much. The garage where you choose the car just looks real too - the water doesnt funnily but the lighting, textures, cars etc fantastic. I saw the tv commercial and thought - Yeah right - but guess what - what you see is what you get. Its that real looking - really it is.


Also watech a demo of EA's Fight Night - and although I don't like boxing games this looks very realistic too, compared to the current older generation crop, sweat beads flying off injured boxers etc. Not my cuppa tea but very realistic looking.

Perfect Dark - hmm juries out on this one - the opening was okay but more of a training ground for control system, nothing much to write home about.


So these are just some of the launch titles and they are not even scratching the surface of what's to come I'm sure -

We also saw Need for Speed - in all fairness about average - Full Throttle - pretty rubbish - basketball - very pretty to look at.

Also saw a couple of downloaded games from the Arcade Live not too bad at all for a few quid.

Marble Blast for XBOX360 - nice looking Torque game - simple but worthy of a players attention.

So that's my initial intro to XBOX360 - just thought I'd share it with you guuys. Avon has left the machine with me tonight as he's back tomorrow for more, more, more, oh and maybe some coding!

IPete2.

I saw COD 2 in a shopa nd it looked good. Mind you it looks pretty good on my PC too. Thing is I don't buy FPS games for my consoles since Red Faction cos they are so hard to control compared to using a mouse, although judging by my COD: UO performance the other night ... well.

Yes I'd agree Grey - the controller helps make it frantic - as you strugglre to get a sighting on your target. True.

IPete2.

I am still considering getting a 360 for the summer.

I'm itching to have a go on 'Project Gotham Racing 3'.

If anyone finds any pictures of an Xbox 360 wearing a T-shirt and shorts then feel free to email them to me.

Fight Night is unF'ing believable ... just increadible graphics. Looks better than Toy Story ... finally! We played it for the first time on a 60 somewhat inch HD tube ... OMG! Best looking Xbox 360 game yet ... and it's fun as all get up ...

heh I liked the first fight night games a lot. The use of the right analogye stick to throw punches is so much nicer than the usual button mashing.

Never really expected it to come from EA, wonder what happened. The 360 version looks so much better than the other versions. Definately a rental when I finaly get one.

I may as well ask this here :
I was trying to play Halo 2 on my 360 today. Its on the 'supported' list, it downloaded a 360 patch from live automatically, but then I get to the menu. I hit the Xbox Live option and without even a short delay up comes "Network problems - would you like to start the network troubleshooter". So I do, and the connection is perfect. So I go back into Halo2 and hey, guess what "network problems". Back to troubleshooter - everything is 100% fine.
I knew it was going to get bad when they started releasing patches for consoles. It seems like the game isn't even checking for a connection, just instantly telling me there's a problem that doesn't exist. :/
BTW my 360 games like PGR and PDZ work just fine on live.

That's microsoft allright. Console Patching is an awful idea! Microsoft got to slack off, that means....

Well to be fair the patch's for running old xbox games on the 360 is actually updates to the emulator since the 360 hardware is way different to the xbox. I mean it's got more in common with a Mac than a PC now ;)

As for COD2 on xbox 360, well I played it in Game and imho my PC version looks alot crisper and the bump/normal mapping to me looks better on pc, the 360 looked like it was using low to medium res textures. But it's hard to tell with out both right next to each other. Certainly one of the best console shooters I ever seen :)

I agree with Joncom. The fact that it plays Xbox 1 games at all is pretty cool. D3D for the original xbox isn't the same as PC, and has proprietory Nvidia stuff built in. Considering its all emulated on different hardware, both CPU, GPU it's very cool.

Considering you can play some 230+ Xbox games. No complaints here. Do any other xbox 1 games work with XBL on 360. Perhaps none of them allow MP?

At least I can throw my old Xbox away once I get a 360 and Vista ultimate which supposedly combined let's you use other video codecs without needing a mod chip.

The PS2 played PS1 games BUT they looked all crappy for some reason.

Huh? I thought they looked better.

Anyway, I haven't tried playing Halo 2 online via the 360 yet. Seems like you should be able to though.