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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). |
| ===== Recommended ===== | ===== Recommended ===== | ||
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| * Rudie: Oh man is this game awesome. I love it. It is Half-Life 1 done by the Japanese. It is pretty brutally unfair at points, but I can't help but love everything it does for first person perspective, and that Xen in this game is //Halo//. | * Rudie: Oh man is this game awesome. I love it. It is Half-Life 1 done by the Japanese. It is pretty brutally unfair at points, but I can't help but love everything it does for first person perspective, and that Xen in this game is //Halo//. | ||
| * tacotaskforce: //Breakdown// is a japanese //[[game:Half-Life]]//. It has a lot of flaws, some set-pieces that don't quite work out, and other set-pieces that are fucking fantastic. | * tacotaskforce: //Breakdown// is a japanese //[[game:Half-Life]]//. It has a lot of flaws, some set-pieces that don't quite work out, and other set-pieces that are fucking fantastic. | ||
| - | * Swarm: This game owns. It's a bit of an Xbox sacred cow for those SB folks in da know. I mean, it's basically a Japanese Half-Life and Halo clone, but with an absolutely insane Japanese sci-fi story and totally ludicrous first-person fighting system. Interestingly enough, it actually does a few things that Half-Life 2 would also do, but a year earlier. Things such as driving in large outdoor areas, an AI companion named Alex who accompanies you through most of the game and a bunch of cutscenes that play out within the environment. I recommend playing on Easy if you're just checking out this game and see its insanity. The combat in the game is enjoyable when frustration is at a minimum. There's this move in the game that they never tell you about when you press both triggers to slide into an enemy which stuns them, then immediately pressing the right trigger again sending them flying half way across the room with an uppercut. On Easy this is enough to one-shot kill most enemies and it feels awesome every time you do it. | + | * Swarm: This game owns. It's a bit of an Xbox sacred cow for those SB folks in da know. I mean, it's basically a Japanese Half-Life and Halo clone, but with an absolutely insane Japanese sci-fi story and totally ludicrous first-person fighting system. Interestingly enough, it actually does a few things that Half-Life 2 would also do, but a year earlier. Things such as driving in large outdoor areas, an AI companion named Alex who accompanies you through most of the game and a bunch of cutscenes that play out within the environment. I recommend playing on Easy if you're just checking out this game to see its insanity. The combat in the game is enjoyable when frustration is at a minimum. There's this move in the game that they never tell you about when you press both triggers to slide into an enemy which stuns them, then immediately pressing the right trigger again sending them flying half way across the room with an uppercut. On Easy this is enough to one-shot kill most enemies and it feels awesome every time you do it. |
| ***//Burnout 3: Takedown//** (also on: PS2) | ***//Burnout 3: Takedown//** (also on: PS2) | ||
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| ***//Crimson Skies: High Road to Revenge//** | ***//Crimson Skies: High Road to Revenge//** | ||
| * Tulpa: A nice arcade flight shooter. | * Tulpa: A nice arcade flight shooter. | ||
| + | * Swarm: It's like Disney's Talespin if instead of a bear it starred Nathan Drake from Uncharted. The game gives you a bunch of big maps and lets you do a bunch of missions in them until you move on. Has some nice early levels that have you flying through island caves that it drops way too early. Simplistic but solid gameplay, if you know how to lead targets you'll win every time. | ||
| ***//Deathrow//** (BC) | ***//Deathrow//** (BC) | ||
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| * 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. | * 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. | ||