I bought Obi-Wan... and the game is that good. Yes, folks, I hate Star Wars and I bought a Star Wars game! I saw it at
Hollywood Video and I had To have it after only five seconds of game play! The controls are dead on and Its ssssssoooooooo beautiful! I chose it over Max Payne... Do yourself a favor: buy this game!!!!

I have one rule in game reviews that must be met or broken: if it needs a manual, it's poo. Tomb raider one did not require
a manual and this game does not need a manual; this game needs a motion capture station so that you can email your
buddies all the screen shots and streaming video of your Jedi carnage.

It plays like the first time you made love or played Tomb Raider one - only unlike the rest of the Tomb Rader fiasco
the puzzles make more sense, like in Legacy of Kain... I swear to god some of the old guys that were canned off of the
old Crystal team have laid there hands upon this work of Galactic opera drama art.

My only question is "Where is OXM on this one?!?" I know they've said its better then chocolate but God, this makes chocolate taste bad!

Where are you right now?!? Well, get going, get to the store now!!! Have the clerk fired if you have to and take his copy (don't ask, no really don't ask). I will admit I have only played half the missions and can't wait for the end. I’ve been told there is a Jedi battle royale at the end, that must be seen. Be back with that later.

So that a you're not disappointed when you purchase this game I will make note of the fact that it could have used another
three months of production... Oh and that the B button is the force-push objects, not the Y button, which is force-push enemies (please don’t ask on that one either.). What I read that helped motivated me choose something other then Max Payne.

Max Payne review by Thradar:
Max Payne is offers nothing new except for the bullet time effect. Beyond that it is a short, VERY LINEAR shooter. The
level design is uninspired, the models where created using the Lego3D modeling tool, and the textures were created by a
color blind art major drop out. I see nothing about this game that is compelling. It has gotten far too much positive press
than it deserves. Max Payne is the definition of mediocrity.

Discuss....

First of all, let's get something out of the way: for an XBox game, the graphics suck. Which is to say it's still as good as anything you'll find on the PS2. Maybe my expectations are too high by now, but this ain't no Halo. Speaking of Halo, how much trouble would it have been for the makers of Obi-Wan to throw in a cooperative mode? I estimate it would have taken them about fifteen minutes of programming time, especially since you get to do some levels cooperating with a Qui-Gon bot.

That said, this game has great play. The control scheme is hella deep - they use every control on the XBox pad, plus combo moves. The AIs are incredible - they're probably smarter than you are. The soundtrack is pretty cool too - it's basically incidental movie music, which kinda makes it seem like you're in a movie of some sort.

If you're a big Star Wars fan, there are plenty of goodies for you too, including what Obi-Wan's going to look like in Episode II, and some unlockable Jedi you haven't even seen in the movies yet. Apparently with the actual actors' voices. In battle mode, Mace Windu says some very badass Samuel Jackson-like stuff, like "Prepare to become one with the Force!" Hell, yeah.

Oh, and speaking of Max Payne, Obi-Wan's got bullet-time too: force trigger + white button.

Discuss....

Hmm... I think the strongest selling point of the Gube is Super Smash Bros. I just wanna take Princess Peach and kick Donkey Kong's hairy monkey ass just one time, right up and personal-like, without crying for her midget Italian plumber boyfriend to save her wimpy shit. Call it revenge of the old school.

But yeah, other than that the Gube is good for... hell, I dunno. Good controllers don't mean a lot to me - I still have a permanent dent in my right palm from the corner of the Atari 2600 joystick.

<geezer mode>
That was all the controller we needed back then, dammit! One non-analog stick, one button, and we LIKED IT! You kids these days, whining with your fancy six button, two-trigger, dual analog sticks complaining about the "feel" of the thing.
And get the hell off my lawn!
</geezer mode>

Before the Gube spex came out, we thought we had it all figured out. It was gonna be designed and marketed as a GameBoy Advance central hub - downloads, extended options and full-screen modes for all your GBA games - imagine taking your GBA games online! This would have been like the altar for handhelds. And by jacking into their existing monopoly they would have been untouchable by the competition; they'd get rock-solid sales in their target market no matter what. But no, Nintendo gets a new shipment of crack and decides to support it like a movie studio backing the latest Ernest sequel.

Man, can we play shoulda-woulda-coulda, or what? :P

Discuss...

It’s simple, really. Once a third party decides to make a knock-off version of the GameCube controller for the PS2 and Xbox, I can think of very little reason a hardcore gamer would ever choose to purchase the Cube. Lets face fact folks. Is Zelda really that good? I know I haven’t wished to play it since it was released on the NES... Are you waiting for Metroid Prime? Nintendo is well known for never risking their large properties with innovation,

They have made this exception once with Mario, in games 2 & 3 and the verdict’s still out on that one as to whether or not that was a good idea. I put it right up there with Ecco for the DC... Sure it’s a great idea to keep to the old story, but who cares? The game turned out to be a pointless exhibition of how much a game can cost with little-to-no return.

I know and you know that sooner or later it’s going to be done. Let’s not lie to ourselves; we want that über controller, soon. If I have one reason (and yes, I can only think of one reason) to buy the GameCube, it’s the controller. This may change in the future.

Yet I must confess it will be a hard sale for me. Ω

Discuss....

So whaddaya expect with just some styles and the like? Hey, at least it allows us to attach ourselves to the free llama services like the filthy parasites we are. I mean, check it: we got this mostly on Tripod, rantz powered by Blogger, forum on EZBoard, and newz powered by Moreover. We're like tha motherfuckin' welfare queens of the Internet!

5tuff & linkz still under construction - still browsin' for more free shit. :P

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