It's newly 2003 so it's time to prepare for the best three days in every gamers life: The Electronic Entertainment Expo. I know, May is pretty far off right now, but it's never to early to talk about E3. Post your comments, thoughts, plans, and anything else E3 related here.

I got the latest OXM in the mail today and much to my surprise a demo of the game was included with the issue as well as the first review. It got a fantastic 9.0 from OXM, and I'm very happy to report that the game plays wonderfully. The combat is excellent, the controls are solid, and the camera is pretty good as well.

Unfortunately it's only coming out for the PS2, PC, and X-Box. But those of you that have one of these systems should be looking forward to this February release.

I'm about to have dinner so i'll make it short.

Halo will be renamed - and released on Gamecube and Playstation 2. Those of you who know why get a star. The rest of you need to go do some research.

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And we still get nothing of course, thanks to people like NA working at Nintendo.

Quote:Fire Emblem: Rekka no Ken on GBA
Following our story early this past week that Nintendo is working on a new Fire Emblem game for the GameCube with Game Boy Advance connectivity in mind, we've got official confirmation today that the company will be releasing Fire Emblem: Rekka no Ken (The Sword of Fire) in Japan on April 25th for 4,800 yen. The Fire Emblem series originated on the Famicom (Family Computer, Japan's equivalent of the NES) over 15 years ago, and has inspired such beloved series as Shining Force, Langrisser, and Ogre Battle. As our previous report stated, no game has ever made it to North America; hopefully, that will all change soon. Enjoy the first screens of the game below, thanks to john tv. We'll have more soon.

Posted by Soul4ger on 2.1.2003

Let's see how many posts we can get in this thread. We haven't had any mindless spamming threads in a long time.

Okay, I've been reading many a review on RE2 and 3's port to GCN. We all knew there would be pretty much no improvements at all to the games, but I had assumed all the N64 exclusives and the PC exclusive stuff would be added to the PS1's ultimate release and together that would make up this game. Sadly, the N64 and PC bonus stuff is missing, and this is just the PC game. It's kinda sad, but to get all the stuff in this game, you must buy at least two versions, and this isn't one of them since it has NOTHING new added. The minimal two are the PC version for it's "aranged" mode, plus everything the PS1 version had, and the N64 version for it's "random" mode, it's extra "Ex" files, and it's little blood level options (however, it lacks the PS1 version's mode where you have to disarm bombs). They really should have at least taken the time to add all the exclusive material across all the versions into this one, which could have been the "complete" version to get. Sadly, this one comes up lacking due to that.

As for RE3, fortunatly the exclusives are very minor. The PC/DC versions had stuff unlocked from the start, and 2 extra costumes, but lacked the challenge of getting some key to get to a room that the PS1 version had. They used the PS1 version. They could have just added the two extra costumes from the PC/DC versions and again made this the "complete" version, but this too is lacking. Well, it's only lacking something graphical really. RE2 is the biggest lack of effort.

Sorry lazy, but it seems Capcom put all their efforts into REbirth and didn't even want to make a complete version of RE2 and 3.

These are all real games, too :D

And its like Rayman 2, but with even better graphics (Rayman 2 was a very good looking game, on PC anyway) and better gameplay. And now I can actually play a Rayman game with analog control (thanks to my new gamepad)... it is a lot better than digital... there were some frusterating parts of playing Rayman 2 on a d-pad, I will admit. Analog is nice... and the graphics on PC are even nicer. :) Bottom line? If you like Rayman games you'll like it... I really, really liked Rayman 2, so I'm definitely looking forward to this one. When I get it eventually I'll probably get the PC one because it will be cheaper (PC games don't stay at $50 long unless they are REALLY big, and many start lower than that...) and have the best graphics.

Oh... they've got the demo at Fileplanet ( http://www.fileplanet.com ) . Try it... if you have a good PC. The game needs one... :)

There is only one problem with the demo, really-- you can't change the controls. At least its set up for keyboard and gamepad... but the gamepad controls aren't mentioned in the game. You've got to just guess. Also, the camera control axis (mapped to the mouse) isn't by default on the second analog stick, and you can't change it, so with a gamepad you can't change the camera without using the mouse... I expect the full version will fix this problem, but its here in the demo.

::monks singing:: HALOOOOOOOOOOOOOO HALOOOOOOOO MOST OVERRATED GAME OF THIS GENNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN ::monks singing::

The most fun game this generation and so far the best looking that has been released, next to Metroid Prime of course. Incredible freakin incredible... PRAISE BUNGIE.

I just played this game for the first time last night at my friend's house and all I can say is "OH MY GOD IT'S LIKE CRACK!!". Seriously though, the game kicks ass. I'll be getting it as soon as my 9500 Pro comes in the mail.

So do any of you have thise awesome game? We should get together and make Tendo City teams and stuff like that. It would be like, totally rad! Like, omigod!