Great $20 XBOX Games

[Rocko]

Hello!

 

 

I got my xbox 2 days ago! I am very happy. Anyway, what are the best $20 titles for the Xbox? I had $40, but last night I bought Halo. I have Midway treasures on my ps2. So, for $20, what game is best?

[chrisbid]

Panzer Dragoon Orta, although it still may be a 30 dollar game...

[Avid Fan]

Spider-Man was a cool game for PS2, so it should be even better for the X-box. It even has an extra level with Kraven

[Adrian M]

MechAssault, Midway's Arcade Treasures, Oddworld, Project Gotham 1, DOA3, Morrowind, Shenmue II, and Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance are all great games worthy of your $20.

[MegaManFan]

Midway Arcade Treasures, Toe Jam & Earl III, Futurama, Legends of Wrestling II, and most of the Platinum Hits.

[JerseyDevil]

You can't go wrong with Rallisport Challenge. Great game.

[+kisrael]

Get the double pack that includes Jet Set Radio Future for less than 10 bucks at EB. That was a terrific cheap game.

 

So far, my three favorites on that system have been Halo, Jet Set Radio Future, and now I'm working on Crimson Skies, which seems to have a lot of the goodness of old school Wing Commander on the PC....

[Malix]

From looking at the 20 dollar list I plan on getting:

 

Max Payne

THPS 4

Brunout 2

Pac Man

[Adrian M]

You can't go wrong with Rallisport Challenge. Great game.

 

D'oh! I forgot to mention that one!

Great game indeed, but the game's difficulty ramps up a bit too quickly midway through the career mode.

[Rocko]

Get the double pack that includes Jet Set Radio Future for less than 10 bucks at EB.  That was a terrific cheap game.

 

So far, my three favorites on that system have been Halo, Jet Set Radio Future, and now I'm working on Crimson Skies, which seems to have a lot of the goodness of old school Wing Commander on the PC....

 

 

I kinda have the double pack. I got Tetris and Starwars with my Xbox, but my brother bought a preowned XBOX (had to return it yesterday, crapped out on him.) and I traded my tetris/star wars for the jet set radio. I loved the first one on the DC, and he liked my starwars.

[+kisrael]

I kinda have the double pack. I got Tetris and Starwars with my Xbox, but my brother bought a preowned XBOX (had to return it yesterday, crapped out on him.) and I traded my tetris/star wars for the jet set radio. I loved the first one on the DC, and he liked my starwars.

 

Ah. Well, I kind of warmed up to Clone War on PS2, so I guess it coulda gone either way. (though my cousing claims clone war is glitchy on his xbox?? Haven't heard much about that.)

[Rocko]

I kinda have the double pack. I got Tetris and Starwars with my Xbox, but my brother bought a preowned XBOX (had to return it yesterday, crapped out on him.) and I traded my tetris/star wars for the jet set radio. I loved the first one on the DC, and he liked my starwars.

 

Ah. Well, I kind of warmed up to Clone War on PS2, so I guess it coulda gone either way. (though my cousing claims clone war is glitchy on his xbox?? Haven't heard much about that.)

 

I didnt find glitches, I just didnt like the game. My brother played through it in one day, and he said nothing of glitches.

[+kisrael]

Ah. Well, I kind of warmed up to Clone War on PS2, so I guess it coulda gone either way. (though my cousing claims clone war is glitchy on his xbox?? Haven't heard much about that.)

I didnt find glitches, I just didnt like the game. My brother played through it in one day, and he said nothing of glitches.

Huh, could be his hardware or something I guess. Which would kinda suck, it was his Christmas present. Maybe a scratched disk?

 

Anyway, once I stopped feeling overwhelmed by the shear numbers of troops in some of the battles, I started to really enjoy Star Wars a lot. I liked JGRF too, but I'm not positive who got the better end of your deal there...call it a tie, I guess, which is probably just as it should be.

[Rocko]

I have narrowed it down to these.....Has anyone played these games:

 

 

Serious Sam

Dragons Lair 3d

Cel Damage

Fusion Frenzy

Crazy Taxi 3

 

 

What do you think about them? Can you give me a mini review?

[JerseyDevil]

I have narrowed it down to these.....Has anyone played these games:

 

 

Serious Sam

Dragons Lair 3d

Cel Damage

Fusion Frenzy

Crazy Taxi 3

 

 

What do you think about them? Can you give me a mini review?

 

 

If you like FPS, then get Serious Sam. Awesome game, non-stop action, no story to speak of. I love FPS and its in my top 5 of all-time.

[tantone56]

I love the game max payne but the only problem was once you beat the game theres really no replay value on it...But for twenty bucks id say enjoy

[SteveW]

I love Cel Damage on the GameCube, it's the one I always go back to. I also bought the GamePro action figures from Cel Damage at a Suncoast Video recently, for $1.50 each! They were marked down to $2.99, but they rang up at 50% off! Man, I love when things like that happen!

 

I thought Dragon's Lair 3D wasn't too bad, either. I didn't spend much time on it, though. That's the problem with having so many interesting games being $19.99, I pick up a lot of them, and when a game stumps me i'll just move on to another game instead of working through the problem that hung me up. I've got a stack of games that i've never completed for that reason.

[PuddWakkr]

A good game that can be found for $20 or under is Syberia. It's a port of a PC adventure game so if that's not your bag you might not go for this. I enjoyed it alot just for the fact that there are VERY few console game like this. The game does seem to end pretty abruptly but it is a very enjoyable ride.

[hex65000]

Crazy Taxi 3 is one of my favorites. It's quite nice, but I had a few minor nitpicks over it.

 

The good:

The eye candy is there! The music is generally appropriate for the game. The driving around the city is reasonably possible for any skill level. You also get three different maps to tool around in v/s the two maps found in Crazy Taxi 1 & 2. Let the intro run once, it'll put you in the mood to play I swear. The new glitter oasis map has some easy access locations and some that are counter-intuitive. The cabbies of course do have their own weird personalities.

 

The bad:

Two of those maps are slightly modified maps from Crazy Taxi 1 & 2. This felt disappointing to me since it meant that I was getting less original content and got 2 remixes instead. Beware when the arrow lies and leads you to a dead end.

 

The irritating:

That crazy 'X' is _hard_. Learn to hop-drift?

The voice acting for most of the Crazy Taxi 1 characters have changed (except Axel). B.D. Joe sounds less funky, Gena reminds me of a stoned southern belle, and Gus went from his semi-NY accent to Lurch from the Addams Family.

 

Overall: It's worth $15-$20 and is a good 'quickie' game

 

Serious Sam is a no-brainer FPS. Croteam cartooned Sam up a bit for the X-Crate. Having played and completed SS1&2 on PC I haven't sat down to see how this version covers both chapters in what I fear will be an incomplete trilogy.

 

The good:

Croteam has a very competent 3d engine for SS. On the PC version of SS1 there were 2 complaints: Very basic story, and everything was in Egypt. The first is excusable since this is not a "thinking person's" game. You get the gun, you find (or encounter in vast quantities) monsters. Shoot them. Shoot them ALL! The other part jives with the basic storyline they started in the first place. In SS2 the single location issue was corrected. There are all sorts of odd secrets and pseudo easter eggs to find. Some are time based. (IE: you have 10 - 15 min. to get to a certain location and the door opens, after a minute the door closes again) The Xbox version also added some new cutscenes to make it a little more interesting. If you unlock the moon mountain entrance you will get a cutscene. I couldn;t stop laughing with that the first time I saw it.

 

The Bad:

I like this game, but there are some issues. The first is that Croteam admitted that they had to occasionally scale back/adapt their code to support the 64MB memory space in the Xbox. The PC version breathes better when it has 128 or better on board (no nasty slideshow as it caches the world around you) I also don't know if it was a bad press run or what, but my copy is pretty twitchy about loading sometimes--causing the game to crap out. Just remember to save a lot, because you don't want to redo 6 waves of monsters because the disc it being evil.

 

The irritating:

The monsters do not have any meaningful AI. This is compensated by sheer numbers and combinations of monster types. There never seems to be enough ammo to go around at times. If you think it's a trap it probably is and yes, you need to trip it off to continue.

 

Overall: It's worth $20 when you get tired of all that gripping tension found in Halo.

 

Hex.

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[Rocko]

I also don't know if it was a bad press run or what, but my copy is pretty twitchy about loading sometimes--causing the game to crap out. Just remember to save a lot, because you don't want to redo 6 waves of monsters because the disc it being evil.

 

 

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I have heard about the twitchiness in the EB reviews, it kind of makes me look for something else. Did they ever fix it In the new copies ? In halo, I wanted to play the fuzion frenzy demo, but they changed it to a bunch of halo 2 crap. So they do change in the newer versions.

[Adrian M]

A good game that can be found for $20 or under is Syberia. It's a port of a PC adventure game so if that's not your bag you might not go for this. I enjoyed it alot just for the fact that there are VERY few console game like this. The game does seem to end pretty abruptly but it is a very enjoyable ride.

 

I've been eyeing Syberia for quite some time as it seems to resemble the old Sierra adventure titles that were common on the PC back in the day. Approximately how many solid hours of gameplay can one expect to get out of this game?

[PuddWakkr]

I honestly can't remember how many hours. Plenty of hours to get your $10-$20 worht though. Also the sequel is getting some press in the PC gamer mags and I'd expect an Xbox port not too long after it gets released for the PC. I'd actually pay full price for the next one now that I'm into the story

[Rocko]

It sounds okay, but I am not really into adventure games.

[Adrian M]

I honestly can't remember how many hours. Plenty of hours to get your $10-$20 worht though. Also the sequel is getting some press in the PC gamer mags and I'd expect an Xbox port not too long after it gets released for the PC. I'd actually pay full price for the next one now that I'm into the story

 

Sounds great!

I'll look for a copy the next time I'm in Best Buy. It's been ages since I've played a good adventure game, so this is something I'm looking forward to.

[PuddWakkr]

I honestly can't remember how many hours. Plenty of hours to get your $10-$20 worht though. Also the sequel is getting some press in the PC gamer mags and I'd expect an Xbox port not too long after it gets released for the PC. I'd actually pay full price for the next one now that I'm into the story

 

Sounds great!

I'll look for a copy the next time I'm in Best Buy. It's been ages since I've played a good adventure game, so this is something I'm looking forward to.

 

Check at a used games store I've seen then for around $16