I agree with everyone that's been recommending DOA3. Best fighter game I've played. It's a must have, but I'm not sure that your wife will be impressed with the polygon women .
I wonder how big a HDD Homestation will have, and if MS will enforce the same 8 gig limit that Xbox games can access?
I sure hope those ex-UltimateTV guys are already hard at work with the Xbox team on developing Homestation, and that those TiVo hackers are hard at work trying to scoop prototypes to get a jump on the mods. And thus the cycle of life continues...
Now what Id like to see, is a system that is essentially an Xbox with DVD movie capability, Ultimate TV, a Sony Dream System with its five disc carousel, and a Microsoft TV Photo viewer *but a CD version*, all combined into one unit. Then add a pc card slot to accept WiFi pc cards *I dont like it built in because I want to make the choice between b, a, or g band WiFi*, a satellite radio receiver, Bluetooth with BT enabled speakers, Firewire, a wireless backlit keyboard, and a really nice remote, or software and hardware to run on a pocket pc to make it the remote. They could give it enough connectivity on the back like you find on the back of the Sony Dream Systems, and then package it into a really nice silver casing with a big glowing green X on the top and its name in a glowing green on the front. Now thats a system. One box that does it all... gaming, satellite radio and TV, home theatre, progressive scan DVD movies, CDx, mp3, and SACD music, photo CDs, web, email, IM, chat, DVR, wireless broadband, and HDTV. Whew! They could call it the X-treme Box.
But... if you could combine the Xbox with the TV recording (preferably integrated with the DirecTV box for better quality, like my TiVo or the Ultimate TV), and add to it DVD playing, MP3 storage, and broadband speedy internet access... then you'd have a pretty powerful box. One that I'd probably buy.
I read couple of weeks ago that someone pre-empted MS and wrote software that turns your xbox into a TiVo-like machine. I don't know the site's name, but if this is the case, the thing is a bargain.
I own a PS2 and a growing library of games... but my next door neighbor has an X-Box and I must say pretty cool. So i have gone from one system to the other. The graphics can be much better on X-Box, but really only to the point they you look real close and have a game that spent the millions to make it happen. Microsoft games look increadible, others are about the same as PS2, just a little clearer.
By the way, Grand Theft Auto III is coming to an X-Box near you.
What I am waiting to hear about is PS3.... Once I know what it will do I will decide if i want to jump ship to X-Box. I too would love the homestation and would go that route... but from readin the article, it is a pipe dream at best for the next 12 months. Besides, if it were real, MS would be talking about it. I will also hazzard to guess it will be a $1000 system. Basically it will just be a PC probably running on Windows CE for instant on and off or basically always on.
I may not be crazy about MS, but when they want to innovate, they can do it. If only the Windows team would do it.
I agree with everyone that's been recommending DOA3. Best fighter game I've played. It's a must have, but I'm not sure that your wife will be impressed with the polygon women .
Actually, my wife was kicking my butt at it tonight. ;-) I bought it today ($75! ouch!) and while the graphics are amazing, it's VERY different than the Street Fighter-type games I grew up on. There's something wrong with a game when you can keep pressing one button over and over and kill the opponent no matter what they do. The timing is strange - I couldn't seem to get a punch out even when my opponent was doing a big spin kick or something. I'll see how I do with more practice. :-)
DOA3 - MUST HAVE
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