X-Box Vs PS2
Rob bought his
target="_blank">X-Block over today for an afternoon of “hot hot
gaming action”. He also has Need for Speed: Underground so we played that
first. My initial reaction was eurgh! I cannot emphasize enough how much I
hate the X-Box controllers. They are too big and they have too many buttons.
Needless to say I got caned at NSFU. Then I gave him his belated xmas/birthday
present, a copy of Soul Calibur II, and we started playing that. I’m glad to
say that even with the lumpy brick of a controller I managed to stage a bit of a
comeback and beat him 8-2.
Today was the first chance I’ve really had
to play on an
target="_blank">X-Box aside from in-store demos and at the
GameOn exhibition. Having read many times that the X-Box “kicks the PS2’s ass”
I expected to see a huge difference. I have both the games we were playing on
the PS2 (NSFU & SC2) and they looked identical on the X-Box, the graphics
were no better, they weren’t any smoother or faster, so I don’t see the
difference. Maybe cross-platform games are coded the same way, so the graphics
will look similar. If that is the case and it’s only X-Box exclusive titles
that take advantage of the full power of the machine then I’m really not missing
out. For the last 12 months I was subscribed to Edge and it was very rare that
they had anything good to say about X-Box only titles. Rob also showed me
Project Gotham Racing which is the X-Box equivalent of Grand Turismo 3 and I
would argue the graphics in Gran Turismo are far better. The only things that I
like about the X-Box is the built in harddisk (no need for expensive and
irritating memory cards) and the fact that it can be hacked easily to do other
things but I’d still rather have my PS2.