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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kibo" data-source="post: 462169" data-attributes="member: 5451">Well, for me, and my opinion is worthless, because (as soon as I buy a consol, esspecially one what has or even promisses to have a robotech or macross related title, if I buy it down the toilet it goes) I'll be passing on consols for a while.But my buddy does have an xbox, and that's acctually been a lot of fun.  No GTA 3 of course.  But for games you don't care about Halo does make for a damn fun first person shooter with a truly surprising degree of replay value.  I gotta say most of the stuff for the xbox does suck, but their is a pretty decent library there.  Why I wrote though.  I just got back from playing Metal Gear 2 on the xbox.  My buddy Jason, hated it (he couldn't figure out how to pop out and shoot from corners).  I thought it was pretty sweet, shooting guys with knockout darts under furniture while lying prone it pretty ammusing.  But the giant exclaimation point when you pop out right in front of them an blasting point blank while they barly manage to squeak out a surprised noise is priceless.  The cinimatics were very sweet.  And while the dialouge isn't exactly what I'd hope for (they should have taken a cue from Harrison Ford's movie contracts) there is something to be said for a game where you play Snake Pliskin.  I thought the play control was fine, walking was a little slow, aiming was a little difficult.  It makes snap shots seem pretty tricky, particularly since to really do a snap shot you'd probably have to fire from the 3rd person perspective.Since you seem disenchanted with FPSs I'll keep my review of Timer Splitters 2 short.  Not the snazziest graphics when it comes to levels or character models.  But the game is pretty fun.  It wins almost completely on play control.  A fun assortment of weapons, happy double weapon combos remnicent of John Woo mode from Rise of The Triad, nice secondary effects, a large number of classic skins ala james bond and appearently cheats to match, the girls of duke nukem, a decent arcade mode where you can throw down on a bunch of bots when you don't feel like playing through the story mode (a liberal used of the word story to be sure).  If it had larger levels, better graphics (they have a moderately cartoony bent actually a decent balance of it), the ability to heal oneself by going number 1, a grappling hook, a shrinkray, the ability to turn into or be turned into a dog, chicken or pig, and lucious gibbs it would truly have everything.  (at least that I might concievably want).The xbox does seem to have a few winners lined up with comming soon stickers.  But what do I know the xbox game I liked best was Jet Set Radio Future.  But Zelda might be worth holding out for.  They've always been classics.</blockquote>

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