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Late Night Consoling
by jason bergman, Nov 16, 2001 8:30pm PSTSo I went back to that retailer I spoke with earlier in the week yesterday to fund out how many Xbox consoles they received, and guess how many they got? Three. Three! The person I spoke with said they're expecting to get an okay-sized GameCube shipment, but he tried to downplay it as much as possible, pointing out their ample PS2 stock. I suspect this is commonplace at most game stores these days, independent or not.
- Let's kick things off tonight with some reviews, shall we? PSX.IGN has posted reviews of Enix' decidedly-retro (and superfreakylong) Dragon Warrior VII (8.7) and Syphon Filter 3 (7.5), a review of Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 for the GameCube (9.0) can be found at GameSpot, PS2.IGN's got a review of Half-Life for the PS2 (9.1) and The GIA has reviewed Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver 2 (3 out of 5).
- For those lucky enough to have an Xbox and Halo, IGN has posted their full guide to the game (free registration required).
- More fun for those enjoying their brand new Xbox: Xbox.IGN has posted a round-up of all of their non-game-related articles, which cover everything from the Japanese controller to easter eggs and the system's MP3 player.
- Still more Xbox news: the first details are now available on the system's Australian launch, which is scheduled for March 14, 2002, and it has been confirmed that Microsoft will be releasing an SCART connector in Europe.
- New shots and a gameplay moviefrom the GameCube Resident Evil can be found at Cube.IGN tonight.
- According to GameSpot, the PS2 version of Virtua Fighter 4 will be released in North America in March.
- Pocket.IGN has some new shots from Super Mario Advance 2, which is of course a handheld version of Super Mario World.
- You've read ours, but if you're looking for a second opinion, GameSpot has posted their holiday guide.
- GameSpot has a news item that suggests all may not be rosy with the upcoming Matrix games from Interplay and Shiny. Their reasoning is based on a contract loophole, but they don't seem to have any real evidence that the game is in jeopardy. If anything, the game is benefitting from the delays the movie(s) have encountered, since their contract with Microsoft requires the game to ship alongside the sequel.
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Right it seems the people on ebay are barely breaking even on xboxes...
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Dan - Street Fighter Alpha series (among others)
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GameCube reviews:
Rogue Leader: Rogue Squadron II...9.4
Tony Hawk Pro Skater 3.................9.0
Super Monkey Ball..........................8.8
Madden NFL 2002..........................8.6
Wave Race: Blue Storm...................8.5
Luigi's Mansion..............................7.9
Xbox reviews:
Halo...............................................9.7
Madden NFL 2002..........................8.6
Project Gotham Racing...................8.1
Dead or Alive 3..............................7.9
NFL Fever 2002..............................7.9
Oddworld: Munch's Oddysee.........7.9
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2x............7.7
Dave Mirra Freestyle BMX 2...........7.4
NHL Hitz 2002..............................7.0
Fuzion Frenzy................................6.7
AirForce Delta Storm.....................6.8
Shrek.............................................5.3
4x4 Evo 2......................................4.8
GameSpot reviewed only 6 GCN games and 13 Xbox games. Despite this, 5 GCN games garnered scores of 8.5 or above - only 2 Xbox games achieved a score of at least 8.5.
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does that mean all that crap the people went through was all for nothing since the people are dead? anyone got any thoughts on it?
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I haven't seen driving AI that diabolical and cheat-happy since Mario Kart, or perhaps RC Pro-Am.
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might as well get it from a store and just take it home with you.
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Positives of Aussie Land:
-Hotties
-Nissan Skyline (yeah!)
Negative:
-*Don't get new games, movies, and music until weeks/months after Japan/US release*
Doesn't make much sense since they are much closer to Japan then US (for the Gamecube/PS2 related stuff), X-Box is understandable I guess.
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I was thinking last night in the shower about you that it would be cool if you could do like some console game reviews, etc, since it seems like you're mister console around here...
do you have plans around the shack to do more than just LNC?
just curious really
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For anyone that's interested on how they fit all the components into the XBox. These guys have totally disassembled it. I'm sure they know they just blew their warranty on the thing. I can't tell if the P3 chip is soldered in there...it would be kind of cool if you could replace it with like a 1 GHz P3 or something. :P
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http://xb-power.com/