[sinister grinner]

i have XIII for gamecube. im too busy playing need for speed underground. but what i have played of it, it's really good.

[Heccubus]

I got Red Faction the other day. So far so good. The controls are actually very well laid out, and it moves nice and smoothly as a result. Definitely a great early PS2 title.

[sinister grinner]

got addicted to Xlll for three days. i beat it. and..........it is really cool. i was expecting the conspiracy to be more mysterious and complex, but for a first person shooter it was more than good enough. it was one of the best shooters i have ever played.
favorite moment in the ENTIRE game: shooting the divers with harpoon guns. theres something strangely satisfying about shooting people with harpoons. especially since it sounds like a mosquito or a small toot.

[Chefelf]

Yeah. That part freaked me out because I totally wasn't expecting it. They just came out of nowhere.

[mrtimp]

man i still hafta rent that game, everytime i goto blockbuster its out :angry:

[Chefelf]

man i still hafta rent that game, everytime i goto blockbuster its out :angry:

Blockbuster sucks. Get Gamefly or buy the game. I'm surprised that Blockbuster even has it. You could check Hollywood. They have a better selection and availability.

[mrtimp]

yeh blockbuster does suck, i will end up buying it eventually, heck with the gas money i ambruning with trips to the vid store i could afford it

[Slade]

What is interesting is that EGM rateings.. (They rate out of 100% right?  or is that another one?)  are directly related to the revenue generated by a game. (At one point Jacques and I were investigating game revenue streams, etc...)

You must be thinking of another magazine. EGM is most often fair, and rates from 0-10 (although no game has gotten a perfect 0 yet. The reason high grossing games get good reviews is mostly because they are good. People buy them more if they are good games. My point proved: The average score for Enter the Matrix (Which sadly made an absurd amount of money based off of fanbois and hype) was 5. Although, that is generous for that piece of crap. A high grossing game getting a bad review because it sucked so much wanker my eyes hurt. Although I did have a dream about playing it a year before I played it. (I was seeing a scene from the game in my dream, but it wasn't explained what was happening, so the image made no sense at the time. Useless, wierd, and true? Yep.)

The way I saw it, XIII got lower scores because the AI became nigh impossible at the end (like Golden Eye's classic guys hitting you through ceilings in the silo level.) But since you guys seem to like it, I'll check it out.

Timesplitters 2 - OVER RATED. The overall story made roughly no sense (there wasn't even mention of it in the manual), the graphics were blah, and the ending was a real downer. Oh, and there were only 3 voice actors for the whole thing, and the level creator was very limited. It had the potential to kick ass though. You get to go from a 1930's detective fighting the mob to an african american cowboy who has to clean up a whole town of thugs. I just don't know how or why you go there...

Halo - Over rated. Sure, it was a spiffy game, lots of fun, but an FPS needs more than 7 guns. Although most of the time, one only finds 4. (Machine gun, pistol, alien pistol, alien rifle.) Everybody gave it a 10, I say 9.

That is all.

[mrtimp]

I just have to report that I got my first taste of XIII tonight, only played like a level but I am impressed with the graphical style and gameplay if the rest of the game is like this I will be happy happy to have rented it =)

[Chefelf]

It's really great. Amazing soundtrack as well.

[mrtimp]

yeh surprisingly good soundtrack, i wish more games were like this one, we need more games with style.

[Satanis]

X-III has got to be one of the greatest shooters i have ever played.it was betteer than Galaga.I still have yet to beat it (i was on the U.S.S. Patroit level) and the plot was already to complicated for my tiny memory.(and dont the 'clan' members look like the KKK?) i would give it 11/10

[SimeSublime]

Time Splitters 2 was not overrated. Sure, the single player was pretty rubbish, but it had an awesom multiplayer. I hardly ever play multiplayer games, but for this I make an exception.

[Chefelf]

Oh yeah. THIS thread!

I'm glad I'm not the only one that thought XIII was better than it gets credit for. I just thought it played well and had a great story. Worthy of an 8/10 at least. Not 6/10.