pixelbend

I bought an XBox at the end of last year. It always puzzles me when people say that the XBox doesn't have enough games. If they are good games, how many do you need?

I have been looking for a lot of the good titles used or repriced lately. I have about 30 games that I am constantly looking for deals on. That should keep me busy for a while.

I have GTA Double Pack, Soul Calibur II, Morrowind, DOA 3, Halo, and the Tetris/Star Wars double game that came with the XBox. I plan on buying ESPN NFL 2K5 and KOTOR pretty soon.

What other games do you guys recommend?

bltzkriegmcanon

Ninja Gaiden, Ninja Gaiden, Ninja Gaiden, Ninja Gaiden, Ninja Gaiden, Ninja Gaiden, Ninja Gaiden, Ninja Gaiden, Ninja Gaiden, Ninja Gaiden, Ninja Gaiden, Ninja Gaiden, Ninja Gaiden, Ninja Gaiden, Ninja Gaiden, Ninja Gaiden, Ninja Gaiden, Ninja Gaiden, Ninja Gaiden, Ninja Gaiden, Ninja Gaiden, Ninja Gaiden, Ninja Gaiden, Ninja Gaiden, Ninja Gaiden, Ninja Gaiden, Ninja Gaiden, Ninja Gaiden, Ninja Gaiden, Ninja Gaiden, Ninja Gaiden, Ninja Gaiden, Ninja Gaiden, Ninja Gaiden, Ninja Gaiden. It's a fucking awesome game. Silent Hill 4 looks to be a fuckin' top notch scare-the-shit-out-of-somebody-game.

A list, if you please of good (according to IGN (scores of 8.5 and above)) games for Xbox:

Aggressive Inline
All-Star Baseball 2003
Amped 2
Amped: Freestyle Snowboarding
Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance
Beyond Good & Evil
Blinx
Burnout 2: Point of Impact
Capcom vs. SNK 2 EO
Colin McRae Rally 04
Colin McRae Rally 3
Crimson Skies: High Road to Revenge
Dance Dance Revolution Ultramix
Dead or Alive 3
Dead or Alive Xtreme Beach Volleyball
Dead to Rights
Deathrow
Deus Ex: Invisible War
Dr. Muto
Dynasty Warriors 4
ESPN College Hoops
ESPN NBA Basketball
ESPN NFL Football
ESPN NHL Hockey
F1 2001
Full Spectrum Warrior
Godzilla: Destroy All Monsters Melee
Grand Theft Auto Double Pack
GUNVALKYRIE
Halo: Combat Evolved
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Hunter: The Reckoning
James Bond 007: Everything or Nothing
Jet Set Radio Future
Kelly Slater's Pro Surfer
Knockout Kings 2002
Madden NFL 2002
Madden NFL 2003
Madden NFL 2004
Max Payne
Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne
MechAssault
Metal Gear Solid 2: Substance
Midnight Club II
Midtown Madness 3
Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance
Moto GP 2
Moto GP: Ultimate Racing
MTX: Mototrax
MVP Baseball 2003
MVP Baseball 2004
MX Unleashed
NASCAR Thunder 2002
NASCAR Thunder 2003
NASCAR Thunder 2004
NBA 2K2
NBA 2K3
NBA Ballers
NBA Inside Drive 2002
NBA Live 2003
NBA Live 2004
NBA Street Vol. 2
NCAA College Basketball 2K3
NCAA Football 2003
NCAA Football 2004
Need for Speed Underground
NFL 2K3
NFL Street
NHL 2002
NHL 2003
NHL 2004
NHL 2K3
NHL Hitz: Pro
Ninja Gaiden
Panzer Dragoon Orta
Phantasy Star Online Episode I & II
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
Pro Race Driver
Project Gotham Racing
Project Gotham Racing 2
Psi-Ops: The Mindgate Conspiracy
RalliSport Challenge
RalliSport Challenge 2
Return to Castle Wolfenstein: Tides of War
Rocky
Sega GT 2002
Soulcalibur II
Sphinx and the Cursed Mummy
SSX 3
SSX Tricky
Star Wars Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
Tao Feng: Fist of the Lotus
The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay
The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
The Sims
The Suffering
Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2003
Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2004
TimeSplitters 2
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Pandora Tomorrow
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4
Tony Hawk's Underground
Top Spin
TransWorld Surf
True Crime: Streets of L.A.
Unreal Championship
World Series Baseball
World Series Baseball 2K3
Wreckless: The Yakuza Missions
WWE Raw 2
WWF Raw

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Carno

Jesus Christ, Ninja Gaiden is hard as fuck! I just bought it today, and I've been stuck on the first boss for like 2 hours. That Murai guy or something.

The game is amazing though.

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pixelbend

Yeah, Ninja Gaiden is high on my list of games to get. It is still pretty expensive though.

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Carno

Yeah I traded in Crimson Skies and got Ninja Gaiden for $28.

It's definitely a game worth buying.

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Mr.Deflok

The trick is not to attack him head on but instead jump off the walls and slash downwards from above, he'll be "dead" in seconds.

Chronicles of Riddick, Splinter Cell, Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow and Halo are my picks on what to have (keeping in mind that I've just woken up from 10 hours of sleep and my brain may not be functioning properly).

bundy

just wait until you get to the next boss!

great game though.

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omega2K4

I didn't find Ninja Gaiden that hard, or entertaining. I think its pretty damn overrated (much like Grand Theft Auto 3/Vice City, or Halo.). I'm not saying it sucked, it just got repetitive pretty fast, for me anyways. I think I beat it on Hard in about 9 or 9 1/2 hours, not that long, I traded it in shortly after that. The bonuses of Ninja Gaiden 1-3 unlockables were cool, but I already own those on the NES, SNES, and have the ROMS on my PC.

Tecmo kinda has a history of overrated games (DOA2, DOA3, DOA:XBV), they keep their games in development for ages, but it seems like they like to focus more on graphics than the actual gameplay mechanics of a game.

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Mr.Deflok

I feel the same way too, the DOA games to me are crap fighters, pretty much just button mashers. Kasumi and Hitomi's unlockable costumes are the only reason I'd play them now. Ninja Gaiden I thought was pretty average, good, but not that good. But hey, that's personal opinion for ya.

Jadedfox

I found it easier to just block one attack, counter, rollback repeat. Although the block won't work on his grab-ya-ass-and-throw-you-to-the-ground move

--jaded

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bouray

My recommendations: Ninja Gaiden, Halo, sports titles are great if you are into those things---Halo 2 is set to be released in november...get ready

superman22

Halo (for the multiplayer), Gladius (for the strategy turn-based), Magic: The Gathering: Battlegrounds (believe it or not, its a fun action game, very difficult though), 007 Nightfire (very fun to play with friends), Kung Fu Kaos (zany crazy minigame fun), Tony Hawk 4 (fun with friends if you know how to play), Soul Calibur 2 (do I need to say anything for this?), Spiderman (for the bowling, OF COURSE!) and last but not least Hunter: The Reckoning (is a great game with friends)

quest1mark

haha damn bltz...its hard to add on this thread after your post.

but definately get ninja gaiden, its definately why you buy an xbox. other good ones that others posted and i can concur with.... any madden game, soul calibur 2, chronicles of riddick, spider man 2, fight night, shenmue 2 (oldie), and metal slug 3.

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Stare At The Sun

My top ones:

HALO
Splinter Cell
Panzer Dragoon (sooo pretty)
Dead or Alive 3
Morrowind
GTA/VC
Knights of the old Republic
Crimison Skies

ironchefkorea

Not trying to stir up any shit, but I kinda find it hard to believe that you beat it on Hard in 9 1/2 hours. Anyway, I liked it a lot. I felt it was suitably challenging and beating it was a bit of an accomplishment.

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twister002

ESPN NFL 2K5 - $20 and lots of reviewers are saying it's better than Madden 2005. I picked it up yesterday and I'm having a blast. I've always thought that Segas NFL series was the best football game on the consoles though. They started on Dreamcast and they've just gotten better.

I picked up D&D Heroes used yesterday and it's looking to be pretty fun (if you liked Baldurs Gate: Dark Alliance, if you didn't don't bother getting D&D Heroes).

Doom3 will probably be my next purchase on the Xbox.

pan6467

Pitfall is pretty cool. I'm more computer games but since the wife left I've been playing the X-Box I got her for her b-day and find Pitfall takes me back to the old Atari days (in fact they have an original 2600 Activision version of Pitfall in there).

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pixelbend

Nice to know your (her) X-Box was there to comfort you in your time of need.

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cheeterbo

xbox not only has games, but it makes them look so much fucking better than poopS2

Talon Valdez

I'll toss in my 2 cents for reccomendations...

Baldurs Gate : Dark Alliance 2 - Good singleplayer or with a friend (Has to be a dedicated, always around friend though)
Hunter The Reckoning - Great Multiplayer game. Skip the sequel, Redeemer, it's dumbed down too much.
Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay- Great Game. Looks amazing too.
Ghost Recon: Island Thunder - Most reliably fun Xbox Live game out there right now.
Morrowind (Gold edition that includes the expansions) - Simply amazingly open gameplay. If you have a good PC though...Just get it for the PC. Keyboard > Controller
Full Spectrum Warrior - Decent single play, but really shines on system link or Live.

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-Project Gotham Racing 2, I personally love racing games and this one takes the cake for Xbox and Live.. the paris expan/long beach expansion are cool.
-Rainbow Six 3, love the realism, even though I suck hardcore at it.
-Mech Assualt, it's a classic.
-A few others I also have.. basically I am a big XBL person.

slapperywombat

Spiderman 2 has got to be the sleeper hit of the year. The sensation of flying through the air with that "sort-of-control" feeling of going around a too-sharp corner... so fun. Plus, exploring all of manhattan to scale with no loading times... it's very cool.

The missions are standard fare, the many side crimes are repetitive, but over all, I've logged about 50 hours trying to get all the exploration tokens, beating all 150(!) races, picking up all the hint markers, delivering all the pizzas, etc etc etc... wow it's fun.

Ninja Gaiden was very dissapointing to me. I also find it very difficult to believe that you beat it on hard in 9 hours.

Samurai Warriors is fun for some good old fashioned button mashing. Just that game you pick up at 1130 at night because you don't want to think, you just want to game on.

I'm surprised no one mentioned Psi-Ops. I just picked up this little gem yesterday, and I've been very impressed with it so far. It's the first game running on the HL2 physics, and it's very impressive. Pick up dudes with your mind, shoot them, then throw them into other dudes, or into an explosive barrell near other dudes, or off a building, or... anything. Total creativity in death. Fun times.

silver26

Psi Ops is a good game. Im stuck towards the end of it right now :s The Psi abilities really livens up the same ol 3rd person stealth shooter.

I was playing Samurai Warriors tonight. My thumbs are sore, and it is very hard.

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Lasereth

That's my list-o-good-games! I have a list for PS2 and GC as well...check one of the stickies at the top of the gaming section to find the rest.

-Lasereth

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cheese

ninja gaiden rocks, Riddick fuckgin just owns. Gotham project racing is good.... DOA3 is good.... Soulcalibur is a gift from god.


splitercell pandora tomarrow is a great game.. and well DOA volley ball is umm... good? i think

Carno

I find it odd that so many people advertise Chronnicles of Riddick when the game is so friggin short. I beat it in one night, and was extremely glad that I rented it instead of buying it.

It may be an awesome game, but if I'm only going to get 10 hours of play out of a $40 game, there's no way in hell I'm buying it.

PS I hate Ninja Gaiden with all of my soul. Actually, I hate the fact that it laughs at me each time I die. It mocks me with every hit I suffer. It shrieks with joy when I reload my game just to die another gruesome death. I hate you Ninja Gaiden! I HATE YOU!!!

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silver26

LOL. The laughing makes me angry as well. Mainly because I keep dying.

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