Top 15 Xbox Games since 2004?

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electro wrote:

> This list is built from reviews/personal taste. It is primarily action
> oriented so no racing, sports, strategy or any other genres are really
> supported. What would you replace or add to this list to get the 15
> must get action/adventure games since 2004 for a new Xbox owner?
>
> Splinter Cell CT
> Jade Empire
> Brothers In Arms: Road To Hill 30
> Doom 3
> Halo 2
> Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
> Star Wars KOTOR II
> Ninja Gaiden Black
> Fatal Frame II Directors Cut
> Otogi 2
> Tom Clancy Rainbow Six 3 Black Arrow
> Tom Clancy Ghost Recon 2
> Tom Clancy Ghost Recon 2 Summit Strike
> Close Combat First To Fight
> The Chronicles Of Riddick: Escape From Butcher Bay

Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath.

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electro wrote:
> Thanks. What game or games on that list would you replace with
> Stranger's Wrath?

I would get rid of Fatal Frame 2.

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> This list is built from reviews/personal taste. It is primarily action
> oriented so no racing, sports, strategy or any other genres are really
> supported. What would you replace or add to this list to get the 15
> must get action/adventure games since 2004 for a new Xbox owner?
>
> Splinter Cell CT
> Jade Empire
> Brothers In Arms: Road To Hill 30
> Doom 3
> Halo 2
> Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
> Star Wars KOTOR II
> Ninja Gaiden Black
> Fatal Frame II Directors Cut
> Otogi 2
> Tom Clancy Rainbow Six 3 Black Arrow
> Tom Clancy Ghost Recon 2
> Tom Clancy Ghost Recon 2 Summit Strike
> Close Combat First To Fight
> The Chronicles Of Riddick: Escape From Butcher Bay
>

If Otogi 2 is on your list, get the Original one too! Both are
outstanding games.

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I would add Crimson Skies
"electro" <electro77@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> This list is built from reviews/personal taste. It is primarily action
> oriented so no racing, sports, strategy or any other genres are really
> supported. What would you replace or add to this list to get the 15
> must get action/adventure games since 2004 for a new Xbox owner?
>
> Splinter Cell CT
> Jade Empire
> Brothers In Arms: Road To Hill 30
> Doom 3
> Halo 2
> Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
> Star Wars KOTOR II
> Ninja Gaiden Black
> Fatal Frame II Directors Cut
> Otogi 2
> Tom Clancy Rainbow Six 3 Black Arrow
> Tom Clancy Ghost Recon 2
> Tom Clancy Ghost Recon 2 Summit Strike
> Close Combat First To Fight
> The Chronicles Of Riddick: Escape From Butcher Bay
>

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This list is about the 15 best. Not every good game is going to make
it.

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electro <electro77@hotmail.com> wrote:
>This list is built from reviews/personal taste. It is primarily action
>oriented so no racing, sports, strategy or any other genres are really
>supported. What would you replace or add to this list to get the 15
>must get action/adventure games since 2004 for a new Xbox owner?
>
>Brothers In Arms: Road To Hill 30

Not that much of an FPS fan.

>Doom 3

Graphic greatness, but I hate the flashlight/gun dichotomy. In
real life, today, cops can use both at once, so why can't Space Marines?

>Fatal Frame II Directors Cut

Not my cup of tea.

>Tom Clancy Rainbow Six 3 Black Arrow
>Tom Clancy Ghost Recon 2
>Tom Clancy Ghost Recon 2 Summit Strike
>Close Combat First To Fight

I'd dump all four of these. Just not my taste in games.


OK, so that's about seven games I'd dump off my top 15 list. To
fill back up to 15, I'd add JSRF, Panzer Dragoon Orta, Psychonauts, NBA
Street 3 (or 2, depending on taste), a racing game (I like
NFS:Underground, but I could see arguments for Forza, Sega GT, Underground
2, PGR/PGR2), Beyond Good & Evil, and Soul Calibur 2. Possibly substitute
Gunvalkyrie for Otogi 2, while I'm at it.


So my list would be:

>Splinter Cell CT
>Jade Empire
>Halo 2
>Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
>Otogi 2
(or Gunvalkyrie)
>The Chronicles Of Riddick: Escape From Butcher Bay
>Ninja Gaiden Black
>Star Wars KOTOR II
(Haven't played KOTOR 2, but from reviews I'd say it's a toss-up
whether to go with this or KOTOR 1.)
*Psychonauts
*Jet Set Radio Future
*Panzer Dragoon Orta
*NBA Street 3
*NFS:U
*Beyond Good & Evil
*Soul Calibur 2




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Doug Jacobs <djacobs@shell.rawbw.com> wrote:
>Overall the game seems like a very weak implementation of Dynasty
>Warriors, only not as satisfying to play.

You can fly in Dynasty Warriors? It seemed to me on a brief play
session that Otogi was meant to be played mostly off the ground.

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Andrew Ryan Chang <archang@sfu.ca> wrote:
> Doug Jacobs <djacobs@shell.rawbw.com> wrote:
> >Overall the game seems like a very weak implementation of Dynasty
> >Warriors, only not as satisfying to play.

> You can fly in Dynasty Warriors? It seemed to me on a brief play
> session that Otogi was meant to be played mostly off the ground.

No, you can't fly in DW (though I wish you could do more wire-fu type
manuevers

The flight thing, however, drains your magic so I usually try to avoid it.

However, some stages require flight - such as the one where you have to
kill the wizard who's flinging stones or whatever at you. If you just try
to platform-hop, you'll get hit for sure. That stage annoyed the heck out
of me until I figured out how to "fly".

Even then, "flying" is rather hard on the hands for me. It seems to me if
it was so important, they would have made the controls easier or
something. Hitting jump/dash over and over and over again just isn't my
idea of a good control scheme if you ask me...