Xbox Reviews

Spent a lot of time recently playing through Resident Evil 4 again on the Game Cube so this past week I've got into a few titles on XBox. Even though it's approaching the end of it's life cycle, there are great titles still coming out by developers who have learned how to harness the power of Xbox.

Medal of Honor: European Assault
This is by far the best MOH on Xbox. It tries a few new things which is good - and bad at times. Still very addictive and fun. You can command members of your squad in certain missions. The levels are pretty interesting and the degree of difficulty is fitting.

There is a revive feature now where you can come back to life with half your life bar ... and end up exactly where you died... in the middle of a firefight... or meeting the butt of a rifle ...or giving a sniper extra practice. As you can see, this feature is hit and miss. I thought this was supposed to be realisitic? Another problem with the game is that when you eliminate an enemy they may drop much needed ammo or health packs. These disappear after 20 - 30 seconds. Since you spend much of your time peeking around corners and shooting combatants in the distance through your scope - this sucks. This sucks-ass!

Still a kick ass game overall. No online play? Wussupwitdat??? 7 out of 10 for me.


Delta Force: Black Hawk Down
You'll hear all the VG snobs open their reviews with, "this is a 2 year old PC game port". Screw them. This game kicks ass. 50 players on XBox Live! Campaigns are well designed and hard as hell! Still you'll be coming back for more. Co-op missions are enormous and don't have save points - this will drive you nuts ...but you'll keep coming back for more. Awesome game. To make up for the lack of precise controls found on the PC the developer uses auto-targeting. Ususally I'm skeptical about this feature, but it works well here. Do you like fun? Then get this game. Very difficult game, but just what I needed to hold me over until Conflict: Global Terror comes out. 9 out of 10 for me.