posted 10-16- 12:14 AM               

I spent a lot of time playing Odd World (finished the in store demo) and watching all the movies of the other games on the demo CD. I was lucky to be the only one even NEAR the XBox, and didn't get interrupted at all. I have to say, that movie on the web of the Ferrari in Gotham Racing looks MUCH better than what I just saw at the store. I hope what I saw on the demo XBox machine was much older, because it looked a lot different. The web-video is very very nice looking where as the store version looked somewhat cheesy (the red was much to bright). We can only hope the finished product will look that great (as web video).

Watching the Halo movie, well, it just didn't impress me as much as the screenshots do on the net. I was hoping for something more. To see it in motion just wasn't all that thrilling. But again, it was just a movie playing in the machine and not the actual game. It just gave me the impression that the game environment wasn't as huge as we are all hoping. But man I hope I'm wrong in the end because I AM buying one. I'm happy to be getting Gotham Racing, but not too sure about Tony Hawk, or Odd World. But a game like Odd World is nice to have after you get tired of racing all day.

I really want Air Force Delta as well. So I'll probably end up trading in Tony for that and of course, getting Halo also, despite what I saw. I have to give the game a fair chance.

If you have a Toys R Us near you, go see it in action for yourself. I'd have to say the most impressive thing about it were the load times of everything. Pretty fast compared to when I loaded up Spy Hunter on the PSX 2 next to it.

posted 10-16- 12:34 AM               

D O A 3

posted 10-16- 04:30 AM               

My must have list of games I hope to have within a couple weeks of Nov 15th launch...

Air Force Delta Storm
DOA 3
Project Gotham Racing (included)
Halo
Munch's Odd World (included)
Tony Hawk 2 (included)

And that's it for starters.

Check this one out! Transworld Snowboarding! Gorgeous! So is their surfing title as well...
http://www.xboxpix.com/transworldsnowboarding.html
http://www.xboxpix.com/transworldsurf.html

posted 10-16- 05:02 AM               

Just watched these movies on this site. Cel Damage looks insanely fun.
http://www.celdamage.ea.com/index.html

posted 10-17- 03:31 PM               

for that I'm getting

XBox
A Second controller
Carrying Bag
Munch's Odd World
Project Gotham Racing
Tony Hawk2