It’s a simple, yet fiendishly deep puzzle set up that’s easy to play, and when up against good players, very hard to master.ĭeveloped 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. 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. It’s ironic that the game would end up being exactly what it was named, but this is a shame, as it’s a great horror adventure, one worth seeking out if you’re a fan of the genre.įurther Reading: 25 Best Elder Scrolls Quests 44. 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. Various infected classmates were found within the school and enemies were damaged by bright lights. 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. This was an interesting survival horror that starred five teenagers who found themselves locked inside their school. At a time when WWII titles were so long in the tooth a woolly mammoth would look on in envy, this was a different take on the subject – and a welcome one at that. The game’s trademark bullet cam kills for well-placed sniper shots were first shown here, in all their graphic glory. As with the sequel, the game cast players as an elite sniper in enemy territory, emphasizing the use of stealth tactics to achieve objectives. It’s now more popular thanks to Sniper Elite V2, but back in the time of the Xbox, the original wasn’t so well known to the mainstream. The underground world was large and surprisingly varied at times, with plenty of dangerous creatures to face off against.
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It’s been ported to the PSP since, but still remains largely ignored.Īrx Fatalis was well worth a look too, as it featured some classic D&D style play, with a cool underworld setting and coupled this with first-person melee combat and a robust magic system. Shadow of Memories was an interesting outing for Konami and featured a plot that impressed critics and players who discovered it. So, you had to hurry things on to prevent his eventual demise. If the time in the current day reached that of Eike’s murder, the game was over and the chapter reset. Time flowed both in Eike’s current time period and the current day. The game took place in a fictional German town and utilized a clever dual clock system. Shadow of Memories was a time-traveling adventure that saw protagonist, Eike Kusch, attempt to stop his murder by journeying to the past in order to change future events. Here we have another adventure title, this time from Konami. A sequel was released, but ultimately, the game didn’t do all that well.
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Spread over a series of missions, the game retained the original ’80s game’s theme, even using remixes of the famous Peter Gunn tune, and also featured impressive visuals and extra features, such as the car’s bike mode.
So, if you’re looking for some older classics, read on… Hopefully, you’ll find some new gaming gems to seek out and try, and if you do, you won’t be sorry you spent the time digging them out of second-hand stores or eBay.
These are great games that helped to make the Xbox such a good gaming platform but still failed to make it commercially or critically. Some games were either critical failures, often unfairly so, or simply failed to make it into the public eye in order to become a success. The original Xbox had a host of great games, many of which have gone on to become successful franchises, with no better example than Halo, but not all of its good games gained the attention they deserved, even if sequels managed to appear in later years. The PlayStation 2 would go on to win the war of its generation, but Microsoft’s Xbox was a tough competitor, giving the company a secure foothold, which it would later take advantage of in the next generation with the Xbox 360’s dominance. The console wars may have turned into a two-horse race in the last few years, with Nintendo playing catch up, but wind back a few years to a time when Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo were all hard at it, competing for your money and loyalty.
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