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Dead or Alive Ultimate (Xbox)

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from: Microsoft

February 18, 2005
The first thing that you will be struck with when you begin this game are the stunning graphics - they really shine and show the power of this current generation of consoles. The game modes are varied and fun with a variety of characters and fighting styles. Online this is superb. Despite occassional lag the experience is great. There are different game modes such as winner stays on, tournaments, and even loser stays on...You can enter a quick match and watch the others fight before your turn, again an original experience. The rankings system works well - you can proceed up the table by acruing points for victories and the online statistics are interesting. Well worth a look.

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Fight Night 2004 (Xbox)

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from: Electronic Arts

April 30, 2004
Hmmm... Lennox Lewis, Muhammed Ali.. No! ITS THE JUDGE! Hahaha, forget the orginal true boxers, get playing this game and create your own boxer! This game is packed with so much authenticity that it really gets you thinking you are a real boxer. You can make your own boxer how you like, you decide his looks and build. Or for the hardcore gamers, take on a real legend such as Muhammed Ali or Chris Eubank to the ring and scrap like a hero. The intro music as the boxer enters the ring watching your personally created boxer is just fab to watch. The graphics are second to none, they are superb, from the splatter of coming from your opponents mouth as you swipe an upper cut to the drops of sweat off your forehead, it really does look like the bees knees. ... Read More:

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Sonic Heroes (Xbox)

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from: Sega

October 08, 2004
Since Sonic stepped into the 3d platform adventure genre , most of his recent games have left a somewhat bitter lacklustre taste in my mouth

Sonic has really lost his edge since when he was last popular in the era of 2d 90s platformer ( at the time his games exceled very well on the megadrive / genesis )

I found sonic heroes to be the only decent 3d sonic adventure game

the team style format makes a nice change and gameplay requires abit more brainwork than previous installemnts of this series .. but fear not : it makes it that much more fun !

and i guess the kids will enjoy the voice work as they guide them through the game ( although serious gamers won't like being TOLD what to do every 30 seconds )
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Jade Empire Limited Edition (Xbox)

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from: Microsoft

April 22, 2005
Jade empire is fantastic it's got great gameplay and a great storyline and it has a bonus disc with an exclusive character and demos for froza motorsport and two more i won't say 10/10 must buy!

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Obscure (Xbox)

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from: Ubisoft

October 01, 2004
This cheesy game is simply based on this simple 'equation':

Silent Hill gameplay+Immature ridiculous looking monsters=THIS GAME.

The gameplay & controls feel like they were simply copied and pasted from Silent Hill to this game.

The game offers little or no storyline whatsoever (blast,blast,blast...dead. Next character etc.)

Whereas other games succeeded with an atmosphere, this has no atmosphere besides the fact that you feel like you're in a school (duh)

If the monster is right at your feet/in front of you, you have to use an extra light in order to aim 'better'.

The gameplay is ridiculous. The amount of times a small monster circles your feet you can hardly hit it.

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Xbox Sharp Shooter Gun

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from: Joytech


My gun broke in the first hour of use, the trigger started to stick. I found the gun uncomfortable to use, the bottom of the trigger digs into the finger. The red dot is just a gimmick and is not very useful at all. Overall a very poorly made uncomforable gun

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Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring (Xbox Classics)

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from: Sierra

October 24, 2003
When i played this game i was surprised to find that i enjoyed it a lot more than the other installments. I liked the graphics and animations and the characters are wonderfully portrayed. Certainly a lot more story orientated than the other LOTR games, which are basically all fighting with film clips to help carry them along. There's plenty of dialogue in this game, some of it quite amusing! I just think this game has a lot more variety. Some of the puzzles can be frustrating if you're not an experienced gamer like myself, but it draws you in. Dodging the ring wraiths near the beginning is surprisingly quite edgy stuff.

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Scooby-Doo! Mystery Mayhem (Xbox)

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from: THQ

March 26, 2004
Like watching one real long Scooby cartoon - that you have some involvement in. Good for a laugh. Easy, Fun and very entertaining.

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Predator: Concrete Jungle (Xbox)

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from: Sierra

April 15, 2005
Let's get this out of the way: if you loved the films Predator, Predator II, and Alien verses Predator, and revelled in the carnage you caused in the computer games Aliens Versus Predator and Aliens Versus Predator II when you played as a predator, then just go buy this game because I doubt you'll be dissapointed with it.

The plot is highly contrived, but then I've read many of the predator and aliens versus predator books, and they're not exactly very plausable either, so in that respect, the fairly silly plotline can be dismissed. In fact, the game has managed to capture the flavour and style of the books.

The plot is essentially thus: in 1930, the predator you play (Scarface from here on) somehow managed to botch a hunt spectacularly, and not only fails to kill himself ... Read More:

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Colin McRae Rally 2005 (Xbox)

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from: Codemasters

September 24, 2004
As a big fan of CM04 i couldn't wait to get my hands on this but, and initailly i was very impressed with attention to detail, great graphics, loads of cars, more tracks and Career mode. But as time went buy i have found really niggly faults:

1: Biggest tell tale sign it doesn't take much skill to drive is that i was still just as quick after several pints of beer!!

2: I don't know if this is because the control of the cars is better or they have made it easier but either way it is easier than CM04 ( try the long straight australian track in a group b at 120mph on 04 then compare to 05)

3: Very annoying if you cut some corners( i dont mean big cuts, i'm talking putting a bumper over the verge) then it says your going the wrong way and after 30 secs when you've gone further on down ... Read More: