X-BOX: The enemy (Microsoft Xbox)

Member Name: fredsmiff

Product:	Microsoft Xbox
Date:	23/06/02 (108 review reads)
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Advantages: Pre-marked X on the top of it so you can hit it with a golf-club., A few good games., Great potential for games that will sadly, never happen.

Disadvantages: Expensive., A health risk., You can't pick it up without the aid of a crane.

Or, in other words, a challenge for Microsoft's marketing department. A clunky, clumsy peice of hardware that claims to be the fastest games console in the world. Okay, fine. It probably is, but what use is speed if there's no substance, no innovation, no risk of arthritis in later life? I'll tell you how much use it is. None. Zut. Absoloutley diddley-squat. In fact, I'd make a safe bet that all that's keeping Microsoft's concrete block from sinking is its rather annoying marketing campaign. For instance nowadays, it's hard to escape microsoft what with windows and all, but now pretty much all games retailers on the net have been told by Microsoft (with which their buisness probably wouldn't exist without) that this is THE best games console.
So now everywhere we have "Win an X-BOX with such and such a company". I hate it.
So, Halo's good and a few other games look rather nice, but really, there's very little to this console when push comes to shove.
I mean we have to remember, almost all the games for X-BOX are third-party titles, and do, in the light of the certian rumors of Halo coming to the PC, have the potential to come out on other formats. And if there were few dedicated games, Microsoft would go about like Microsoft does and develop Its own games. And you have to remember that they thought it would be OK in the flight sim series to pass off the UK as a randomly shaped blob with a few trees here and there where as the USA was topographically accurate to the last speck of dirt.
However with GAMECUBE, you see a broad spectrum of games each unique with bags of character also having a host of games also available on the X-BOX.
My advice is: Touch only with a long stick at the risk of contracting terminal boredom.

It's just computer-game ethics.

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