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Old 01-04-2004, 02:15 PM   #1
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I have all 3 of the big consoles, and can say that I play my Xbox the most at the moment, mostly due to Project Gotham Racing 2
Animal Crossing's my 2nd most played (god bless importing).
Anyways, Live is absolutely brilliant, and well worth the subscription fee.
PGR2, as an example, has online racing, and a scoreboard for every single player race, and challenge. These scoreboards are automatically accessed if you're connected to Live while playing it. They have every player's kudos score for the race, and you can download the top 10's ghost to watch, or to race against, to help you get a high score also.
Basically Live has completely changed around my gaming habits, before I never used to play my Xbox much, but the added features make it more fun.
Erm, I lost my train of thought then, got distracted, but I may post something else later...
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Old 01-05-2004, 11:15 AM   #2
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I got an XBox for christmas and enjoy it thoroughly. I got the GTA Double Pack with it as well. Two of the Greatest Games I've ever played, IMO. Although it doesn't have the vast library of games that the PS2 has. it's a got it's share of nice ones. Frequent and abundant Disc Read errors on the PS2 have made me lean away from buying one. I rented a PS2 from Hollywood Video awhile back and had all sorts of Disc Read errors. The only way I could get it to work efficiently was to not turn it off while I had it. I brought it back after a couple of days and had my money refunded. Since then, they've stopped renting them out. However, the PS2 games that I have gotten to play were very good, so to each his own. Go with whatever system suits you, all are pretty good.
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Old 01-05-2004, 01:07 PM   #3
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a few months ago i would have said no to getting an xbox. I've owned one for over a year now and was pretty disappointed. But recently they seem to be stepping up again. Your big deciding factor should be to look at the exclusive releases of each system and see which of those are more in your interest range.

Xbox has the Halo series and more often than not comes out with the games that are for all 3 systems later than the other 2. Often though the improvement in the look of the game is worth waiting for. The new Return of the King game for example is absolutley amazing looking on xbox. While the PS 2 version of the same game seems a little choppy looking and less detailed when i played it at my friends. I'll also throw in, since this is a wrestling site that Xbox wrestling games are the tiest ever. Even the new Raw 2 is a disapointment after they promised to deliver something to make up for the first one. If you don't believe me, look at how its price dropped from 49.99 to 29.99 new right away and the number of used copies in EB games for resale already.

Gamecube is just pure fun. Mario games own 90% of the time and you won't see those on any other system.

PS2 still gets the majority of the cool exclusive titles in my opinion. They have the biggest library of fighting games. And they get all the releases from Rockstar games first. They also seem to have dibs on the Final Fantasy series and Tekken which makes up quite a following.
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Old 01-11-2004, 02:17 PM   #4
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Gamecube-
Pros: Small Size, great graphics, connectivity to GBA
Cons:Underrated, now need memory cards

PS2-
Pros: DVD Player, Password Protect DVD movies, play old PSOne Games and use old cards and controllers
Cons: Large, Two Player unless you have the multi-tap.

XBOX-
Pros: Harddrive, Memory Card option, Put your own music on there to listen to
Cons: Large, No RAM what so ever, gets Bill Gates richer


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Old 01-18-2004, 09:55 AM   #5
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a few months ago i would have said no to getting an xbox. I've owned one for over a year now and was pretty disappointed. But recently they seem to be stepping up again. Your big deciding factor should be to look at the exclusive releases of each system and see which of those are more in your interest range.

Xbox has the Halo series and more often than not comes out with the games that are for all 3 systems later than the other 2. Often though the improvement in the look of the game is worth waiting for. The new Return of the King game for example is absolutley amazing looking on xbox. While the PS 2 version of the same game seems a little choppy looking and less detailed when i played it at my friends. I'll also throw in, since this is a wrestling site that Xbox wrestling games are the tiest ever. Even the new Raw 2 is a disapointment after they promised to deliver something to make up for the first one. If you don't believe me, look at how its price dropped from 49.99 to 29.99 new right away and the number of used copies in EB games for resale already.

Gamecube is just pure fun. Mario games own 90% of the time and you won't see those on any other system.

PS2 still gets the majority of the cool exclusive titles in my opinion. They have the biggest library of fighting games. And they get all the releases from Rockstar games first. They also seem to have dibs on the Final Fantasy series and Tekken which makes up quite a following.
Actually, according to Rockstar's site, XBox got Max Payne 2 first. Come to think of it, I think they got the first one first as well. However, having Vice City come out on the PS2 first, actually did the Xbox release alot of good. The graphics for the XBox version are a far sight better
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