X-box-What would you score these games

[Residents of Evil]

Fable-8.5 out of 10
Halo-8.5 out of 10
Halo 2-9.5 out of 10

[Loki]

Fable- Never played it but based on the way the industy over hyped it. 2 out of 10

Halo- I got the sword and was winning but then my friend fired duel neadlers into my head and I lost. So I hate it. -10 out of 10

Halo 2- What an ending! Fantastic! The best game I ever watched a net movie about! 4 out of 10.

[Vonwert]

Fable - 5 / 10 (ugly looking characters and blurry graphics. Along with stupid villagers who seem to love to get in the way when I am trying to protect them.)

Halo (single player) - 7 / 10 (too many corridors that look alike and some really boring moments)
Halo (multiplayer) 9.5 / 10 (fun!)

Halo 2 (single player) 5 / 10 (even more boring than the last one and even less outdoor fights)
Halo 2 (multiplayer) 9.5 / 10 (fun!)

[Kefka Jr.]

Fable
Never interested. Never tried.

Halo
My brothers liked it way more than I did. Though when we all played, it was certainly a big ol' bag of fun.

Halo 2
I actually thought single player really improved. Keith David is the man. And the multiplayer levels are better as a whole. Even on my snail-pace connection, it's fun to play online. Mostly, I figure I should have one FPS as "my favorite", and this is it.

As for ratings, numbers are cold and misleading.

[Residents of Evil]

I think I overrated those games a "little" but halo 2 definitely deserves at least a 7. And Monkey King..Screw you :lol (just kidding...sort of).

[Loki]

I kid because I care. And that you remind me of my old buddy, FinalFantasy2005,

[MaRc]

Isn't he working for Square Enix now?

[Redneck 2000]

Fable - 5/10
Really boring story, and once you get over the fact that you can make your character good or evil, it gets extremely boring.

Halo (Single Player) - 2/10
Sorry, I find the single player of Halo (both 1 and 2) to be absolutely godawful. Boring, repetitive... the same couple enemies over and over, and horrible level design.

Halo (Multiplayer) - 9/10
The multiplayer is fun, and the only reason I would ever pick up the game.

[Chrono]

heh, that letter was genius. :jesus

Fable: 8/10 I haven't beat it yet, but have had a great time so far. Too short and the world is too constricting.

Halo 1 5/10 Probably one of the worst single player campaigns ever. I can't believe I made it through the Library without breaking the controller. Yeah, the multiplayer is fun but the level design is inexcusable.\

Halo 2 9/10 The single player is vastly improved along with multiplayer. Great fun.

[Nixon]

Fable: 6/10

People just expected more because they were promised more. It's a great start, and if they used the complaints to improve the game, they might have something more worthy of such attention/buzz.

The graphics were alright, but dull. Not enough customization, and some of the outfits/hairstyles/body art just looked stupid. I loved the wacky british accents, but I got tired of people running away screaming when I was just hanging out and not killing civilians.

Lots of limitations, in terms of what you could and couldn't do, which wasn't supposed to be the case.

I did like having both wives and man-husbands, and the ability to sneer and fart on the commoners.

Not enough story, not enough areas, not enough freedom to make your own path. I am less harsh on it because I borrowed it from a friend. I wouldn't give it such a score if I had purchased it myself.



Halo and Halo 2:
Played the first one, thought it was meh, checked out the second one when my bud was online with it and it looked like the first one.

So I don't know.

[Dreamknight]

But so many other great games came out last year on Xbox...why just rate those three?

[SirTMagus]

Well, since we got those games covered, how about these...

Ninja Gaiden
Brilliant single-player game. YOU - the PLAYER - you improve. Not your character. There's no level-up system. The game forces you - by killing you and your entire family - to actually excel at it. Your videogaming skills increase exponentially. It's a fantastic feeling. But yeah, all this entails a steep steeep steeeeeep learning curve. Fantastic game.

Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay
Say what you will about the movies (I happen to enjoy them) but this game beats them all with a terrific amalgamation of several genres - fighting, FPS, RPG, stealth - creating an action/adventure game so memorable and gritty and FUN it's worth replaying over and over. Spot-on control and atmosphere make this the TITS.

...

Funny, I thought I could talk about more XBox games but that's all I can think of right now.

[John Mora]

Keith David is the man.

He's IN Halo 2?! I wanna be frozen in stone for 1000 years!

[AlexMagusaka]

Fable: 6 of 10. It's fun, despite the limited world you can explore and the limits on the paths you can take.

Halo: 7 of 10. I had fun beating Easy/Normal in single player. I gave up barely off the Pillar of Autumn in Hard mode.

Halo 2: n/a. Have not played it beyond one multiplayer test session.

So, uh, yeah.

[Denmo]

Fable: 7/10
If nothing else, I enjoy the combat system. Then again, I'm a KoH freak, so you can't take my word for anything when it comes to combat.

Halo 1&2: 6/10
The story wows me, the graphics wow me, but overall I'm not much of a fan of single player console shooters. And multiplayer isn't much fun when you're pitted against Halo freaks who believe that there is no better game.

[Loki]

KoH?

[Redneck 2000]

Kingdom of Hearts!

[Mistafopa]

Fable 7.5
Halo 7.0
Halo 2 Haven't played it, but since the SP is only 12 hours long that's an instant 0.5/1 point loss

Ninja Gaiden 8.5 Graphics and Hardness bring it a long way as does the smoothness and polish of the controls, but it's really just too repetive and not very fun.

Riddick 3.0 AWFUL I don't understand why this was a breakout success or anyone likes the graphics or anything. It's a bad game. Genericrap. If you like that game, either you're in love with Vin Diesel or you are such a rabid FPS fan, the likes of which you are have yet to be revealed in the community and you should join the scene right away, and start playing some real FPS games.

[SirTMagus]

A game that isn't very fun probably shouldn't have a 8.5 score.

And why the Riddick hate? :( :( :(

[Mistafopa]

Because I know it's just a matter of taste that I don't like Ninja Gaiden. I don't like olives, doesn't mean they're bad or that there aren't great olives.


Riddick is a terrible terrible FPS. It was generic, and choppy.

[SirTMagus]

I can certainly understand Ninja Gaiden but Riddick is much friendlier.

C'mon. He just wants to shiv your sweet spot.

[Mistafopa]

There must be something about it I missed then. I guess console shooters just don't rub well with me. Even Halo I was tempted to give a 4. But everyone loves the MP so much.

[SirTMagus]

Riddick is a sweet, sweet, sweet single-player experience akin to the Half-Life games. And just as short too unfortunately, but it's got a depth and... err, charm isn't exactly the word to describe RIDDICK but (the presentation is basically on par with the HBO show Oz, in space, and without the recreational rape...maybe).... it's got a depth and charm that grants it a few more playthroughs.

The game (aside from a few clipping issues) is POLISHED and should be the bar that future single-player console FPS adventures and movie-based games are based on.

But, hey, that's just me.

edit: About that bar-future-FPS-games comment... I've yet to finish the Halo 2 campaign, mainly because the XBox is at home whereas I'm in college, and the game seems to fizzle out after the initial first missions... I'm currently up to the 3rd or 4th Covenant mission, where it's snowy and I gotta barge my way through security droids, and unsavory parasitic aliens with a water-based name, in some kind of Covenant version of the warthog... yeah. That mission sucks.

[Mistafopa]

http://mistafopa.com/images/XXX2.jpg

[Dreamknight]

:lol

ZING!

[SirTMagus]

Oh, dude.

If only.

If only. :spin

[Vonwert]

If only Magus was a good looking girl....

[Kefka Jr.]

Riddick is awesome for the rag-doll physics.

*Throws corpses into a pile with Vin Diesel-ease*

[Mistafopa]

Most everything has a decent physics engine these days.
Even the new Age of Empires will feature real time phys.

[JLaCroix]

Fable: Never played it

Halo: 0.5 out of 10

Halo 2: 0.5 out of 10.

[BeeZee]

It's funny how popularity always causes backlashes against things.

[The_Real_Crunk]

Play mech assault 2!

Much more fun than boring old Halo anyday.

[SirTMagus]

I was none too impressed with MechAssault 1.