13th April 2005, 3:10 PM
Well, the XBox is getting ready to phase out and bring in a new gen system, and of course Rare is there to keep the owners happy until they get the new hardware.
Conker's BFD is about a month or two away from release and it is without a doubt a beautiful remake of the N64 version with a much more detailed multiplayer setup, which is now online as well through the Live service.
The single player game is word for word, shot for shot from the N64 version, and for the first time I am intrigued about the XBox. Taking in to account that Perfect Dark Zero will never see the light of day on XBox; Conker's BFD is probably the only game worth buying on the console. Unless Rare releases a similar remake of Banjo~Kazooie... which I seriously doubt.
I know I love BFD, but the questions is: Do I buy a 'last gen' system for one awesome game? the XBox2 will be backwards compatible, so it would make more sense to buy a 'current gen' console. But what if the XBox2 delivers the same games as the XBox did? To me, the track record is obvious - Hundreds of games that are definitely not worth buying and even questionable as a rental... but the promise of the XBox2 or X-360, whatever you want to call it, is of course Perfect Dark Zero.
Those of you who know me, know how much I love PD. I'm a Perfect 1 and I can still take down a group of Darksims without dying :D
If PDZ is as good as PD... I might have to get an XBox2.
But then again, it could be one game out of hundreds that I would buy.
So what's your opinion? Should you shell out $350+ to get a next gen system for one good game? Be it Conker's BFD or PDZ, which I can only hope will be as good as the original...
Conker's BFD is about a month or two away from release and it is without a doubt a beautiful remake of the N64 version with a much more detailed multiplayer setup, which is now online as well through the Live service.
The single player game is word for word, shot for shot from the N64 version, and for the first time I am intrigued about the XBox. Taking in to account that Perfect Dark Zero will never see the light of day on XBox; Conker's BFD is probably the only game worth buying on the console. Unless Rare releases a similar remake of Banjo~Kazooie... which I seriously doubt.
I know I love BFD, but the questions is: Do I buy a 'last gen' system for one awesome game? the XBox2 will be backwards compatible, so it would make more sense to buy a 'current gen' console. But what if the XBox2 delivers the same games as the XBox did? To me, the track record is obvious - Hundreds of games that are definitely not worth buying and even questionable as a rental... but the promise of the XBox2 or X-360, whatever you want to call it, is of course Perfect Dark Zero.
Those of you who know me, know how much I love PD. I'm a Perfect 1 and I can still take down a group of Darksims without dying :D
If PDZ is as good as PD... I might have to get an XBox2.
But then again, it could be one game out of hundreds that I would buy.
So what's your opinion? Should you shell out $350+ to get a next gen system for one good game? Be it Conker's BFD or PDZ, which I can only hope will be as good as the original...