Favorite Xbox Game?

[Mystictrust]

Quite simply, what is your favorite Xbox game? Also, are there any upcoming games that seem to catch your eye?

I can't get over Crackdown, it is an amazing game IMHO. It's really fun to run up to a cop car and pick it up WITH THE DRIVER AND PASSENGER IN IT and toss it into the river.

It's also a lot of fun to kill enough civilians and cops to piss off the agency and have them launch all they've got at you... while you're driving in one of those stunt ramp cars. You know, the truck with the ramp in the back? All you do is drive BACKWARDS on a highway (with your view switched to the rear) and watch as the cops one by one hit the ramp and go flying, then just swap the view forward and see where they go. Some go flying straight over head, some hit at the side and go exploding off to the side.... it's so devilishly fun. It's similar to GTA in a way with the open-ended freedom and stealing of cars (as a genetically enhanced cop!) but set in a world where almost anything can be picked up and used. Take out a streetlamp with your car, come over and pick it up to throw at your enemies, or a dumpster on the road, or a dead body lying around, or a random car coming by [once you've acquired all of the strength OFC], or the tire of a car that just blew up.

I could go on and on, I love the game.

I also love the GTA series (Vice City being my fav, I've only watched San Andreas being played though) and I have money down at a local Gamestop as a reservation for GTA IV.
Ninja Gaiden is wonderful, I LOVED Burnout: Takedown and I can't WAIT for Burnout Paradise. I realize I completely skipped over Burnout: Revenge but I'll probably end up buying that as well. The demo of Paradise seems to have departed a bit from the "try to cause as much traffic mayhem in slow motion" thing, and the demo doesn't have as many cars as I'd like to see on the roads so I could swerve in an out of them on the opposite side of the road, but hey... it's only a demo.

So... favorite game? I know I mentioned a bunch, Crackdown is probably #1 for now, but if you have like 20 favorite games then feel free to mention them all

[706VZWUser]

Originally Posted by Mystictrust

Quite simply, what is your favorite Xbox game? Also, are there any upcoming games that seem to catch your eye?

I can't get over Crackdown, it is an amazing game IMHO. It's really fun to run up to a cop car and pick it up WITH THE DRIVER AND PASSENGER IN IT and toss it into the river.

It's also a lot of fun to kill enough civilians and cops to piss off the agency and have them launch all they've got at you... while you're driving in one of those stunt ramp cars. You know, the truck with the ramp in the back? All you do is drive BACKWARDS on a highway (with your view switched to the rear) and watch as the cops one by one hit the ramp and go flying, then just swap the view forward and see where they go. Some go flying straight over head, some hit at the side and go exploding off to the side.... it's so devilishly fun. It's similar to GTA in a way with the open-ended freedom and stealing of cars (as a genetically enhanced cop!) but set in a world where almost anything can be picked up and used. Take out a streetlamp with your car, come over and pick it up to throw at your enemies, or a dumpster on the road, or a dead body lying around, or a random car coming by [once you've acquired all of the strength OFC], or the tire of a car that just blew up.

I could go on and on, I love the game.

I also love the GTA series (Vice City being my fav, I've only watched San Andreas being played though) and I have money down at a local Gamestop as a reservation for GTA IV.
Ninja Gaiden is wonderful, I LOVED Burnout: Takedown and I can't WAIT for Burnout Paradise. I realize I completely skipped over Burnout: Revenge but I'll probably end up buying that as well. The demo of Paradise seems to have departed a bit from the "try to cause as much traffic mayhem in slow motion" thing, and the demo doesn't have as many cars as I'd like to see on the roads so I could swerve in an out of them on the opposite side of the road, but hey... it's only a demo.

So... favorite game? I know I mentioned a bunch, Crackdown is probably #1 for now, but if you have like 20 favorite games then feel free to mention them all

That made me fall in love with Crackdown! I'm patiently waiting Ninja Gaiden 2, while I indulge myself in some serious Rock Band play.

[BigDogg795]

I think I'm in love with Call of Duty 4 for now...especially the VERY last mission...

[Mystictrust]

Mind explaining what it is that you love about COD4? I have heard nothing short of "ABSOLUTELY OMG EFFING AMAZING" so was just wondering

[BigDogg795]

The graphics, the story line, the multiplayer set up (when it works right )...It's what a FPS should be...at least to me...

[Mystictrust]

There's a lot going on for it, especially if everybody and their puppy owns a copy. I need to pick a copy up for sure!

I'm going back to Crackdown, because some events happened in my co-op game with my brother that made me LMAO all night long. Yes, it's a story :

At the end of our game, before we called it quits for the night, I told my brother [over the headset of course, since we're playing over Live] that we should race before we go. We both grabbed cars and met at the starting point I specified... it was for an official race against traffic on the left side of the highway. We started, raced towards the off-ramp; I got stuck in front of an oncoming car, he passed me by... we had a lot of fun getting stuck in pile ups and jacking other cars to continue on with the race. It came to a point where we were both running around looking for cars to get in at the same pileup. Well, I found the only one with the cleanest path to freedom without barreling over other cars, and as I got in, my brother [his strength is a little higher than mine] picked up my car with me in it and turned towards the edge of the highway and proceeded to throw it off the freeway! I fortunately jumped out in the nick of time, getting into a car and driving off, only to ram into another car at a good speed and get my car stuck halfway over the edge of the freeway bridge. I couldn't move backwards or forwards, so I naturally got out of the car. Well, the driver's side door happened to be hovering over the edge, so I fell 60 feet to the streets below... my agility was only one star at the time so I couldn't jump back up, so my brother ended up passing me by. Then, somehow he ended up in an explosion while I had already given up and swam out to the ocean nearby to watch from afar... and that ended the game.

I had also read up on the "Global Impact" achievement so I got the absolutely HUMONGOUS ball that's as light as a feather and walked around with it, trying to figure a way to get it to a bunch of gang members [we had already killed the boss by the radio tower the ball was at]. We kicked it around a bit, played some soccer with it [my bro plays soccer games on his xbox] and found it'd be wonderful if he picked up the ball and carried it while I jacked a truck and drove with him in the flatbed. It was the most hilarious thing I'd seen in a longtime, this truck driving along with a man lifting a ball 3 times his size on his shoulders, acting all natural in the back... and I couldn't drive straight with tears of laughter in my eyes. We came upon some gangsters, tossed the ball back and forth and squishing them, got the achievements, and went on our way with continuing to kill gang bosses without the ball. 20 minutes later, driving to the island with the Volk gang, we decided to drive separate cars instead of just riding in one car together, and my fast civilian sports car was about 2 minutes ahead of him on the freeway, when suddenly I saw that huge ball rolling down the OPPOSITE SIDE OF THE FREEWAY! I screeched to a halt but smashed into a truck and went flying off the freeway, but told my brother to get on the other half of the highway and find that ball! No luck! Now we have a runaway ghost ball in our game, kind of like a UFO sighting I'll keep ya'll informed if I see it again.

[Guaner]

My favorite would be Marvel vs Capcom 2. It is not a 360 game but the gameplay is amazing. If you like fighting games or grew up playing Street Fighter type games, then you know about this game already.

It was expensive to buy though. I had it on the Dreamcast but when I went to find it for the Xbox, it cost me around $60 used.

[Mystictrust]

Hey I remember Marvel vs Capcom games... fun stuff. Though I never knew it was on Xbox... gotta look that up, see if it is backwards compatible for the 360.

$60 used during the Dreamcast era is expensive even in todays terms!!!!

[liquidcipher]

Yep, one of the most popular fighting games out there was MvC.

As for me, I am a huge first person shooter guy. I loved the orginal Halo for its arcadey feel, but I am nerd for the tom clancy games. Rainbow Six, Ghost Recon, even Splinter Cell, I love and play them all.

Currently we are playing COD:4 like it's nobodies business and PGR4 for some racing. Also tossing some Tiger Woods 08 for some mellow time.

Some new games on the horizon I am looking forward to are the new Turok, Conflict: Denied Ops, Rainbow Six Vegas 2, and Battlefield: Bad Company. Aside from that, its business as usual on the xbox for me. Im online nightly from around 9:30pm-12:30am EST, so hit me up, Username is LiquidCipher.

[Mystictrust]

Awesome... isn't it nice to have a unique username? Heh, mine is Mystictrust Turok [demo, anyway] is fun, Rainbow Six looks awesome, Conflict: Denied Ops I got to watch being played [such a tease... my fault for sitting right by the xbox's at work, and I have yet to download a demo] and what do you think of the upcoming Frontlines: Fuel of War?