Original Desmond

i figure it's time to get an Xbox

After a list of the best games available

cheers

jeffdsmith

gamerankings.com

1. Halo: Combat Evolved XBOX Microsoft 94 8.8 95.2% 95.6%
2. Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic XBOX LucasArts 119 9.0 94.0% 94.2%
3. Grand Theft Auto Double Pack XBOX Rockstar Games 57 8.8 93.6% 93.6%
4. Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Pandora Tomorrow XBOX Ubisoft 74 8.8 93.0% 93.2%
5. Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time XBOX Ubisoft 68 8.7 92.7% 93.2%
6. Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell XBOX Ubisoft 103 8.7 92.7% 93.0%
7. Project Gotham Racing 2 XBOX Microsoft 96 8.7 92.3% 92.6%
8. Ninja Gaiden XBOX Tecmo 95 8.9 91.4% 91.7%
9. Soul Calibur II XBOX Namco 77 8.7 91.3% 91.6%
10. SSX 3 XBOX EA Big 44 8.4 90.3% 90.7%
11. Panzer Dragoon Orta XBOX Sega 94 8.4 89.9% 90.7%
12. The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape From Butcher Bay XBOX VU Games 49 8.3 90.4% 90.5%
13. NFL 2K3 XBOX Sega 53 8.3 89.6% 90.0%
14. World Series Baseball 2K3 XBOX Sega 34 8.0 88.9% 89.8%
15. Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 XBOX Activision 50 8.0 89.7% 89.4%
16. ESPN NFL Football XBOX Sega 34 8.1 88.8% 89.3%
17. Crimson Skies: High Road to Revenge XBOX Microsoft 94 8.5 89.6% 89.2%
18. Madden NFL 2004 XBOX EA Sports 44 8.0 88.6% 89.1%
19. The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind Game of the Year Edition XBOX Bethesda Softworks 26 8.5 88.9% 89.1%
20. Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4 XBOX Activision 60 8.2 89.4% 89.1%
21. NCAA Football 2004 XBOX EA Sports 25 8.5 89.5% 89.1%
22. Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3 XBOX Ubisoft 77 8.3 88.3% 88.8%
23. NCAA Football 2003 XBOX EA Sports 26 8.1 89.4% 88.8%
24. NHL 2K3 XBOX Sega 29 8.2 86.7% 88.8%
25. Rallisport Challenge 2 XBOX Microsoft 70 8.3 88.8% 88.7%
26. Burnout 2: Point of Impact XBOX Acclaim 51 8.4 88.5% 88.3%
27. Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2003 XBOX Electronic Arts 31 8.0 87.9% 88.3%
28. Spider-Man 2 XBOX Activision 18 7.8 86.8% 88.2%
29. MVP Baseball 2004 XBOX EA Sports 30 7.3 87.3% 88.1%
30. Madden NFL 2002 XBOX EA Sports 33 7.6 88.1% 87.9%

Decker

Everyone here (and everywhere else) will say Halo, so let's leave that out of the discussion
My recommendations:
KOTOR
Crimson Skies
Rallisport Challenge 2
Splinter Cell : Pandora Tomorrow (for multiplayer)
Prince of Persia
Rainbow Six 3

and for the greatest rental ever:
Chronicles of Riddick : Escape From Butcher Bay

Original Desmond

are there any good tennis games ?

Pool or snooker games ?

and i also love fighting games

Original Desmond

thanks for the replies guys, appreciated

Decker

Top Spin. It may be the only Tennis game, I don't know. But it's really good, it looks amazing, and can be fun on Live (if you beef up your player's stats in the single player mode first).

As far as fighting, you really have two choices now. DOA3 and Soul Calibur 2. DOA3 looks better, but I think SC2 is a deeper, more balanced fighter. They're both awesome and only $20. If you have limited bucks and get Live, wait til Sept. DOA Ultimate will be fully playable on Live and should be unbelievable. I can't wait for that one.

jediwicz

Armed & Dangerous, Panzer Dragoon Orta and Otogi all deserve nods.

MrX

I'd say Knights of the Old Republic is probably my favorite.

I have a tendency to make it halfway through a game, have something come up, and never go back to it. I played KOTOR through twice in about a month.

Ghost Recon is alsoa good game and I enjoyed it more then Rainbow 6.

Copenhagen

There is World Championship Pool 2004 which is LIVE enabled, but it didn't get very good reviews.

Outlaw

Mutts? Nuts?

Original Desmond

it's an english expression

means 'Top of the Wozza'

Copenhagen

Thanks for clearing that up

Giantrobo

Mutts Nuts(Aussey) = Dog's Bollucks(U.K.)


Dog's Bollucks = Good

Bollucks = Bad

victant

What movie was that from, again?

flashburn

Wasn't it 51st State (Formula 51)?



edit:

Felix: Oh, bollocks!
Elmo: Dog's bollocks?
Felix: No, just plain ****ing bollocks!
Elmo: No dog involved?

remjim

Ninja Gaiden is pretty amazing. Don't let the criticisms about the difficulty deter you. It is tough, but except for a couple of bang your head against the wall moments, its not as tough as some people make it out to be.

I also will second Crimson Skies. Not great, but highly enjoyable.

And then there is this little game called Halo that I heard is quite good...

Josh H

KOTOR and Halo are the only two exclusives that have made me go "wow I'm glad I bought an x-box."

Get your sports games for it if you're into them as the HD removes the hassle of needing a seperate card for every franchise/season save or two.

There's some great racing games as well, PGR2, Rallisport 2 etc., but racing games aren't my cup of tea.

Plus most third party multiplatform games looks best on the x-box, so if you missed something like Beyond Good and Evil you can pick it up for the x-box and get the superior version.

TOPDAWG

1. Halo (you get xbox you must own this game)
2. KOTOR (Fun game)
3. Soul Calibur II (Nice fighting game.)
4. Dead Or Alive (Games are fun.)
5. The Chronicles of Riddick (Just rent it.)
6. The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind Game of the Year Edition (If your a cheap gamer get this you will be playing it a very very long time.)
7. Armed & Dangerous (just a damn fun you just run around and shot shit.)
8. Otogi (damn nice looking game and you can bring down the house. It's damn fun.)
9. Shenmue II (Get this or I will kill ya)

Also like josh said any miti-platfrom games just get for xbox.

Giantrobo

It wasn't from no damn movie. Your girlfriend talks in her sleep.

Marker

Here are my personal favorites:

1) Halo (My fave FPS since Shogo)
2) Shenmue II (Awesome epic)
3) Ninja Gaiden (Great fun, and not as difficult as some say)
4) Breakdown (Groundbreaking, yet flawed)
5) Dead or Alive 3 (The game I bought my Xbox for)

Honorable mentions go to Splinter Cell, Beyond Good & Evil, Broken Sword, Prince of Persia and Soul Calibur II.

Demontooth

There are a couple of other tennis games but they are really bad

Original Desmond

wow glad to hear Shenmue 2 is on the xbox ! i loved Shemue on the DC

and Dead of Alive 3, cool

Th0r S1mpson

Get Crimson Skies with xbox live. You can get the kit that comes with the game, headset and a year's subsription for like $80.

Your life will be better because of it.

WOWZY

I like hack and slash games along with shooters.

I liked Mace Griffin and Serious Sam

Enclave is a good H&S game and it's purty to look at.

Morrowind is good but will consume your life.

NZ_DVD_Freak

I just got an xbox a couple of weeks ago and so far I've bought the Buffy games, Halo, and the Grand Theft Auto double pack.

I'm a big Buffy fan and I'm really enjoying the games.

Halo's pretty cool but I think it'll take me a little while to get used to the controls after playing similar games on the PC.

I'd never played Grand Theft Auto before so I'm only now finding out why people have liked them so much. Great fun!