Posts Tagged ‘xbox’

238th played so far Genre: Driving Platform: Xbox Year of Release: 2003 Developer: Digital Illusions CE Publisher: Microsoft Game Studios As you know, we had to obtain an Xbox a while ago to go with our Steel Battalion controller. We didn’t make much use of it since, but knew we’d need it for the games […]

#660 Jade Empire

Posted: 15th November 2012 by Mulholland in Games
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194th played so far Genre: Action/Role Playing Game Platform: Xbox/PC Year of Release: 2005 Developer: Bioware Publisher: Microsoft (Xbox) 2K Games (Xbox) My love for Bioware has been well documented on this blog before and happily, we’ve already had a chance to play Baldur’s Gate II, Neverwinter Nights and Star Wars: Knights of the Old […]

#504 Steel Battalion

Posted: 4th September 2012 by Jeroen in Games
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176th played so far Genre: Action Platform: Xbox Year of Release: 2002 Developer: Capcom, Nude Maker Publisher: Capcom As we’ve discussed before, there are some games on the list that worry us. Some games, like Reset Generation, because they seem to be impossible to play now. (Actually, due to several issues, this is currently the […]

171st played so far Genre: Role-Playing Platform: Xbox/PC Year of Release: 2003 Developer: BioWare Publisher: LucasArts It’s interesting to see how many Star Wars game have ended up in the list. As much of a bad reputation licensed games have – a result of many of them having been generic platformers with updated graphics and, […]

#601 Ninja Gaiden

Posted: 8th June 2012 by Mulholland in Games
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153rd played so far Genre: Action/Adventure Platform: Xbox Year of Release: 2004 Developer: Team Ninja Publisher: Tecmo People tend to moan about how games have been getting easier when compared to many of the games released in the eighties and early nineties. To be fair this is a fair comment with save points being mostly […]

#497 Burnout 2: Point of Impact

Posted: 17th December 2011 by Mulholland in Games
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108th played so far Genre: Driving Platform: Gamecube/PS2/Xbox Year of Release: 2002 Developer: Criterion Games Publisher: Acclaim Entertainment A racing game? Yeah. A sequel to another one. What does it advertise as its own special feature? High risk racing. Crashes. This isn’t about bashing cars out of the way to get past… although breaking them […]

106th played so far Genre: Shoot ‘Em Up Platform: PC/PS2/XBox Year of Release: 2003 Developer: Remedy Entertainment and Rockstar Vienna Publisher: 3D Realms In the previous installment of this series, we learned that Max Payne became an undercover agent, was accused of a murder he didn’t commit (although in the course of the game, he […]

#476 Halo: Combat Evolved

Posted: 14th October 2011 by Mulholland in Games
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92nd game played so far Genre: First-Person Shooter Platform: Xbox Year of Release: 2001 Developer: Bungie Publisher: Microsoft We DID warn you in our post for Call of Duty 2 that it would be time for a little bit of Halo (yes purists we are only calling it thus instead of the more longwinded, yet […]

#605 Second Sight

Posted: 2nd April 2011 by Mulholland in Games
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43rd game played so far Genre: Action Platform: Gamecube/PC/Playstation 2/Xbox Year of Release: 2004 Developer: Free Radical Designs Publisher: Codemasters Can you quite believe that we have covered a game from every year in the last 15 years with the exception of 2004? It’s a bit of a strange oversight to be honest so I […]

34th game played so far Genre: First-Person Shooter Platform: PS2/Gamecube/X-Box Year of Release: 2002 Developer: Free Radical Design Publisher: Eidos Interactive Of all the first person shooters out there I have lost the most of my time on the Timesplitters franchise. As much as I loved the first installment it was still fairly rough around […]