Top 10: Xbox Best-Sellers (As of June 2004)One
Spider-Man 2
Live: No Release: 07/04 Score: Seven
What we said: “The web-slinging parts of the game are brilliantly done... Yet on the ground, the game looks and feels remarkably ugly.”
Two
DRIV3R
Live: No Release: 06/04 Score: Five
What we said: “It’s a real shame DRIV3R feels so unfinished and unrewarding.”
Three
Full Spectrum Warrior
Live: No Release: 06/04 Score: Eight
What we said: “Warrior shines when the level designs challenge your reflexes and wits.”
Four
The Chronicles of Riddick
Live: No Release: 06/04 Score: Nine
What we said: “...lays to rest, once and for all, the adage that movie-licensed games must suck.”
Five
Halo
Live: No Release: 11/01 Score: Ten
What we said: “Halo is, in a word, insanely great. Do it up.”
Six
Psi Ops
Live: No Release: 06/04 Score: Eight
What we said: “...that rare release so packed with potential that the sequel is an already exciting prospect.”
Seven
Shadow Ops
Live: Yes Release: 06/04
Score: Four
What we said: “After several hours, you’ll start to feel like it’s all some lifeless G.I. Joe playset...”
Eight
Showdown: Legends of Wrestling
Live: No Release: 06/04 Score: Three
What we said: “Con-sider this a horrible trip down memory lane and repress it.”
Nine
Metal Slug 3
Live: No Release: 06/04 Score: Eight
What we said: “Herein lies the true art of war, done very well, thank you.”
Ten
Splinter Cell PT
Live: Yes Release: 03/04 Score: Nine
What we said: “Pan-dora Tomorrow is, without a doubt, the best pure stealth-action game today.”
Fame...or Shame?
FAME! Rock you like a hurricane
Ninja Gaiden Hurricane Pack Vol. 1 provides two new costumes for Ryu Hayabusa, a new camera system, improved A.I, and a new weapon. All for free online, because free is good.
SHAME! Microsoft dumps Stranger
As it turns out, Oddworld: Stranger is the belle of the ball, dumped by the heartless BMOC on prom night, only to be rescued by a knight in shining armor.
Top 10 U.K.
Cor round the wickershams, matey!
1. DRIV3R
Lam3
2. Full Spectrum Warrior
Automatic weaponry for the people
3. UEFA Euro 2004 Portugal
Soccer! We hardly knew her!
4. Splinter Cell Pandora Tomorrow
Cellular technology rules
5. Shrek 2
Ogre the hills and far away
6. World Championship Snooker 04
Snooker? We hardly knew her!
7. Red Dead Revolver
Revolver! Oh dear lord, we apologize.
8. Shadow Ops: Red Mercury
Post-operative
9. Thief: Deadly Shadows
You know what else is deadly? Poison.
10. Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six 3
This is Tom Clancy’s Tom Clancy’s blurb
Top 10 JAPAN
It’s like America, only with more tentacle porn!
1. Rallisport Challenge 2
Detrimentally challenged
2. Crimson Skies: HRR
Nothing but blue skies!
3. Deus EX: Invisible War
God out of the machine to shoot stuff
4. Halo
Ring around the Xbox
5. Tenchu: Return From Darkness
Out of the black and into Tenchu
6. Metal Slug 3
Heavy metal.
7. Ninja Gaiden
Silent but deathly
8 Dead or Alive 3
Most alive with huge gazoombs
9. AOI Namida
This isn’t a real game, is it?
10. Guilty Gear X2 #Reload
Guilty as charged
Numbers courtesy of Media Create [m-create.com]
Copyright © 2005 Ziff Davis Media Inc. All Rights Reserved. Originally appearing in Xbox Nation.
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