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| {{:fig:recommended:xbox_cat.jpg }} Microsoft's first game console that was host to //[[game:Halo]]// LAN parties, [[company:Sega]] exclusives, and the world's largest first party controller. Japan ended up getting a smaller controller, which eventually replaced the grizzly bear original in the west. If you have an original Xbox, it's highly recommended you mod it, either by a softmod or a modchip. This gives you access to an excellent [[wp>media center]], and many excellent and full speed emulators. | {{:fig:recommended:xbox_cat.jpg }} Microsoft's first game console that was host to //[[game:Halo]]// LAN parties, [[company:Sega]] exclusives, and the world's largest first party controller. Japan ended up getting a smaller controller, which eventually replaced the grizzly bear original in the west. If you have an original Xbox, it's highly recommended you mod it, either by a softmod or a modchip. This gives you access to an excellent [[wp>media center]], and many excellent and full speed emulators. | ||
| - | Many Xbox games are capable of being played on an Xbox 360. When a game is compatible, it will be noted with a (BC)FIXME((backwards compatability need sto be updated - Bloob)). | + | Many Xbox games are capable of being played on an Xbox 360. When a game is compatible, it will be noted with a (BC). |
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| * Wall of Beef: They did replace the "motion control dat joystick" with a button press, but if they left it in and tried to keep the rest of it the same it would have been a train wreck. The game is a million times fast, with gigantic environments and lots to do. Its hard to stop and motion control that joystick while shooting down a drain pipe at 70 mph over a toxic ocean, while dudes are shooting guns at you. | * Wall of Beef: They did replace the "motion control dat joystick" with a button press, but if they left it in and tried to keep the rest of it the same it would have been a train wreck. The game is a million times fast, with gigantic environments and lots to do. Its hard to stop and motion control that joystick while shooting down a drain pipe at 70 mph over a toxic ocean, while dudes are shooting guns at you. | ||
| * elvis.shrugged: JSFR...I find hard to recommend. I loved the original JSR, a lot. It's one of my favorite games ever, and JSFR just reeks of "missed opportunity." They took the urgency of the original---the time limits, the arcade-styled scoring system, the cops always chasing you---and replaced it with an exploration game. Hence, there is no urgency. The cops have been boxed in, and can't chase you (!!!). You no longer hurriedly twist the analog stick to create graffiti. In addition to that, the graphics have this very washed out and blurred look compared to the crisp, clean lines of JSR. Even the soundtrack pales compared to JSR's! | * elvis.shrugged: JSFR...I find hard to recommend. I loved the original JSR, a lot. It's one of my favorite games ever, and JSFR just reeks of "missed opportunity." They took the urgency of the original---the time limits, the arcade-styled scoring system, the cops always chasing you---and replaced it with an exploration game. Hence, there is no urgency. The cops have been boxed in, and can't chase you (!!!). You no longer hurriedly twist the analog stick to create graffiti. In addition to that, the graphics have this very washed out and blurred look compared to the crisp, clean lines of JSR. Even the soundtrack pales compared to JSR's! | ||
| + | * Swarm: Way more interesting strictly as an exploration game you can chill out in. Every time I think I'm going to start up a new game and play through the game again, I just end up loading an old save and skating through my favorite levels, admiring the cel-shaded not-Tokyo environments, hanging out in record stores and under glass-roofed shopping strips. | ||
| - | ***//Kingdom Under Fire * //** | + | ***//Kingdom Under Fire //** |
| * Leau: The two //Kingdom Under Fire// games are great if you like strategy and/or //[[game:dynasty_warriors_series|Dynasty Warriors]]// and also totally cheap. It's one of those games that I'd easily reccomend if only because there isn't much else like it on the xbox. | * Leau: The two //Kingdom Under Fire// games are great if you like strategy and/or //[[game:dynasty_warriors_series|Dynasty Warriors]]// and also totally cheap. It's one of those games that I'd easily reccomend if only because there isn't much else like it on the xbox. | ||
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| * Swarm: The epitomy of mid 2000s Rockstar Games, when addition to making murder simulators they were into financing movies and making games based on 70s cult films. //The Warriors// feels like a game only they could of made. It's awesome to just dive (literally) into a group of enemies and start wailing on them. At points of the game there can be like 25 CPU's going at it, just hitting each other with whatever they can get their hands on. Nails the post apocalyptic setting of the film and brings back the cast and soundtrack, and features a pretty good secret Double Dragon clone. Play it on the OG Xbox for 720p widescreen support! | * Swarm: The epitomy of mid 2000s Rockstar Games, when addition to making murder simulators they were into financing movies and making games based on 70s cult films. //The Warriors// feels like a game only they could of made. It's awesome to just dive (literally) into a group of enemies and start wailing on them. At points of the game there can be like 25 CPU's going at it, just hitting each other with whatever they can get their hands on. Nails the post apocalyptic setting of the film and brings back the cast and soundtrack, and features a pretty good secret Double Dragon clone. Play it on the OG Xbox for 720p widescreen support! | ||
| - | ===== Related links ===== | + | ===== See Also ===== |
| - | *[[http://forums.selectbutton.net/viewtopic.php?t=3531|Any really, really good games for original X-BOX?]] [[http://forums.selectbutton.net/viewtopic.php?t=15718|Xbox (original!) recommendations]] - Selectbutton forum threads. | + | * [[https://selectbutton.net/t/a-first-xbox/5420|A first xbox]] - October 2017 forum thread. |
| + | * [[http://forums.selectbutton.net/viewtopic.php?t=3531|Any really, really good games for original X-BOX?]]- March 2007 forum thread. | ||
| + | * [[http://forums.selectbutton.net/viewtopic.php?t=15718|Xbox (original!) recommendations]] - August 2008 forum thread. | ||