This would be bad enough, but this school had more to it than boring classes, bullies, and awkward dates, it was the location of some seriously odd goings-on. Various infected classmates were found within the school and enemies were damaged by bright lights. It would be discovered that experiments were being performed on students and it was up to our group of young heroes to stop these events. Puyo Pop Fever is one of the best versions of the color-matching puzzle series, which many western players will recognize more from its Dr.
Developed by Sonic Team, Puyo Puyo has always failed to really make it big in the west aside from the aforementioned Mean Bean Machine , which used the Sonic universe to boost appeal , and so many may not even know of the game series, let alone this excellent Xbox version.
This video game outing for the blue GI was actually very good and was developed by a studio with a clear love for the comics. All of the staples of the comic series were included. The story focused on the overarching plot of the wandering soldier — to get revenge for the slaughter of all of his kind by the Souther traitor general. The world of Nu Earth was recreated excellently, with nods to various Rogue Trooper stories dotted around. Rogue and his abilities were incorporated brilliantly into this accomplished third-person shooter.
Not wanting to compete with the increasingly sim-heavy crowd, Outrun 2 instead stuck to its arcade time trial roots that introduced drifting. This sequel also had a great online multiplayer mode. There were various types of Ferrari for the layer to drive down the sun-drenched highways. It also looked great and ran blisteringly fast, rewarding expert drifting skills and advanced driving.
Although the original Headhunter on the Sega Dreamcast will always be our favorite it was also released on PS2 , the sequel, Headhunter: Redemption , is also worth a look, and takes place years after the first game.
Players take control of Jack Wade again, as well as newcomer Leeza X yes, really , in a more action-oriented title than the first. Redemption ditches the open world and bike sections of the first game and focuses more on Metal Gear Solid -style stealth and cover-based combat. The setting is far more futuristic than before. In essence, the game itself is a totally different beast. Oh, come on! Doom 3 may not have hit the unreasonable goals of many, who were expecting some form of revolution from a series that pioneered the simple art of shotgun-to-face, but it did deliver the trademark Doom gameplay, only with improved visuals and modern tech.
It had great lighting, genuine scares and admittedly, the overuse of monster closets , and was exactly what it needed to be — a modern Doom.
What did you expect? It was great, even if it was met with a lot of ire. This is an odd one, as it was critically acclaimed when it arrived and was widely hailed as one of the best action titles around. This praise was deserved, as Crimson Skies was a superb shooter, with fluid, simple controls, impressive visuals, and a smooth engine. It basically played as well as it looked and offered a unique, s world of the future setting.
A sequel was started after the first hit release, but Microsoft canned it soon afterward. So far, it shows no signs of returning. The last TimeSplitters game released, and although not the best that accolade falls to TimeSplitters 2 , Future Perfect gets its place here thanks to the excellent online mode that made the most of Xbox Live, the major bonus feature of the Xbox. Long before Lara Croft was treading the dangerous depths of crypts and tombs across the world, Indiana Jones was taking on the Nazis and evil cults, while looking for lost artifacts and doing so with a style all his own.
Aside from the excellent Fate of Atlantis from Lucasarts, his adventures have almost always been middling to bad. Probably as Indy lacked oversized breasts. The game used a variety of stealth techniques, and the need to deal with both guards and other inmates to find your way out of various camps, culminating with an escape from the infamous Colditz. The strength here was the unique nature of each escape and the actions the player could take, which varied.
It had a large, open map, and plentiful side missions. As well as fully fleshed out gunplay, the game also emphasized hand-to-hand combat and featured stealth sections and a host of random attacks by bandits. Basically Resident Evil set in feudal Japan, the Onimusha series was fairly popular for a time, but this popularity was short-lived. Onimusha Warlords was the first entry in the series, released on Xbox as Genma Onimusha , an updated form of the initial PS2 outing.
It used the same Resident Evil style of fixed-camera third-person gameplay and pre-rendered backgrounds, but replaced guns with swords. It also added magic and a host of enemies rooted in Japanese mythology. There were even some zombie samurai! The focus on melee combat made the game feel very different to Resident Evil , but the mixture of fighting, puzzles, and horror was still present, and the foes were more varied and interesting than endless waves of zombies and mutant monsters.
One of the scariest games ever made, and also one overlooked by many gamers, Fatal Frame II was a great Xbox title. Using nothing more than a magical camera, you have to explore the creepy locations in the game, finding and exorcizing ghosts by taking their pictures. The use of Japanese Ringu and Ju-On aesthetics was perfect and the atmosphere is far more oppressive than most other survival horror titles.
Roadkill is best described as an open world Twisted Metal. Various vehicles could be used and outfitted with a variety of weapons. The world was a post-apocalyptic wasteland of combat and carnage, where there was no law, other than the various gangs that roamed the landscape. It was a pretty decent, and well-presented game with fluid combat — a great alternative to the linear Twisted Metal series, which was exclusive to Sony.
This was a totally crazy third-person shooter littered with oddball enemies and even stranger weapons. Oh well. He may be seen by many as overrated, but American McGee does have a knack for creating striking characters and worlds. His debut title, Alice , was excellent, and this title was another of his successes, at least in terms of quality. Players took on the role of D-Tritus, who lived in the titular robotic world, actually called Chimera by its inhabitants.
There were also humans and other organic beings, and in his job as a reporter, D-Tritus investigated a murder, seemingly perpetrated by a human. The game was similar in some ways to GTA , although more basic, and in an eye-meltingly colorful, neon world. The player could take control of other robot types and utilize their skills. Harry Potter: Quidditch World Cup. Hot Wheels: Stunt Track Challenge.
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Most racing games cannot claim that. Psychonauts went on quite a journey before it was released in , near the end of the original Xbox era. It was the first game from Double Fine, the studio that LucasArts legend Tim Schafer started after going out on his own.
It was originally scheduled to be an Xbox exclusive published by Microsoft in the early years of the console before the business of video games got in the way. It did end up releasing as an Xbox exclusive under Majesco, and it was worth the wait. There were strange and beautiful brains to explore in this telekenetic platformer, and lead character Raz quickly stole every player's heart.
It's poetic that Microsoft ended up purchasing Double Fine and publishing Psychonauts 2 over a decade-and-a-half later. Platforming and puzzles are the backbone of Sands of Time, with combat serving only as a last resort.
Still, that combat was really wonderfully handled, as the Prince was no bulletproof superhero. He wouldn't take much damage before succumbing to his wounds, and so you needed to rely on your wits instead. The ability to rewind time was revolutionary in that moment of gaming history, and Prince of Persia expertly recaptured the spirit of the original game while beautifully reimagining it for the modern era. Long before From Software made it big as the developers of Dark Souls, the talented team made the Xbox-exclusive ninja action game Otogi: Myth of Demons and later a sequel called Otogi 2: Immortal Warriors.
It was beautiful, polished, precise, smart, and action-packed, and it did so half a year before Ninja Gaiden came out. Is it as good as Itagaki's classic? No, but it remains one of the best games — exclusive or otherwise — to ever grace the Xbox. The Xbox-exclusive Steel Battalion would never be made today. It was a first-person mech sim — the mechs were called vertical tanks, or "VTs" here — and the hook was that it was such a simulation that it came with its own proprietary button controller and three-pedal foot box.
If that wasn't enough for you, it was also such a sim that if you failed to hit the eject button on the giant controller prior to having your VT destroyed in the campaign, you'd lose your save game and be forced to start all over again. It is truly a unicorn in gaming history. If at least one cult classic belongs on this list, it's the Xbox-exclusive Breakdown, a one-and-done science-fiction adventure best known for that part where you eat and then vomit up a hamburger without leaving the first-person view.
Stubborn adhesion to the first-person perspective was one of Breakdown's core tenets, but given the game's melee-combat focus, it totally worked. You play Derrick Cole, a man who awakens in a science facility with no memory of what happened to him. The ensuing campaign is one of the most engrossing sci-fi mysteries in Xbox history, and as you get more powerful you feel more and more like a superhero — which was more than you could say of actual superhero-based games of the time.
A tennis game on the top 25 Xbox Games of All-Time list? You'd better believe it! Top Spin wasn't just a phenomenal tennis sim that featured a ton of real-life superstars of the sport. It was also one of the pioneers of Microsoft's online sports initiative, XSN, which integrated Xbox Live online play with webpage-based stats and tournament information, allowing you to participate in online events and then track your progress on the web afterwards.
When Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas came out for Xbox, it wasn't just a big deal because the game was absolutely incredible. It was a big deal because it was the first time that a Grand Theft Auto game released day and date on Xbox along with PS2. The biggest series in the world finally gave equal time to Xbox, and San Andreas was Rockstar's most ambitious effort yet.
It lives on in memories and memes today. Full Spectrum Warrior wasn't a game at all, in the beginning. It was a training tool built for the US Army that was converted into a game. And it made a heck of a unique one.
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