so Firstly is Oddworld strangers wrath. In the game you play as a bounty hunter ridding the place of bounties and villainous foes. You have 2 main weapons. Firstly is your rather tough fists. and secondly is a crossbow type gun. The difference is with this weapon is that the ammo you use is live bugs! Each bug has a different effect on your enemy. some will simply zap or stun your enemy, where as other are explosive or will latch onto your enemy biting vigorously at their flesh; nice! Each enemy you have to capture has a certain price depending on how dangerous they are. You will also earn more money by simply stunning your foe, and sucking him up using your special weapon. Stranger himself is an extremely enjoyable character to play as. He appears to be half beast, well; he's certainly got the pace and agility of a lion or a tiger. As you sprint through the game at full speed and leaping through the air, it truly is satisfying. The graphics are quite simple but show an effective view of the once peaceful towns. Stranger himself looks like a typically cool and sly bounty hunter; keeping his cool even when heavily outnumbered. the enemies also are made to look very much like goblin type characters; creating a nicely evil feel to them. The gameplay is done very well in the way that the enemies get harder, and your weapon variety gets increasingly bigger. With the increases of toughness in your enemies; it really can sometimes encourage a nice tactical strategic type gameplay of how you are going to pick off your enemies 1 by one. The only problem I found with the game is saving it. Unlike most games oddworld allows you to save the game every time you take even a single step forwards. This can sometimes encourage you to simply take out an enemy, and then save it each time you take out the next enemy. It makes the game a lot less challenging and doesn't always allow you to make the most of the tactical and strategic style of gameplay.
secondly is grabbed by the ghoulies. The story of the game is that you and your friend are walking along on a normal day, but then it starts raining. So you decide to take shelter in an old creepy and spooky mansion: big mistake. Your friend is quickly kidnapped from you, and you are left alone in the mansion to try and get her back! The game works in the way that the levels are pretty much each room of this enormous mansion. However there are individual chapters to this story. The gameplay works in what is seemed to be a very unique way. It seems like a simple fighting game as you fight the various enemies in the mansion; but the unique part is in the way you fight them. You have to fight them following certain rules and regulations. Like complete the room by not taking any damage, finding a hidden key; using weapons only, and many more. Sometimes you are made to also complete these tasks in a certain amount of time. If you either run out of time or brake the rules; then you will have to face the wrath of the grim reaper! One touch of his hand and you will instantly be brought to your doom. But you can use him to your advantage; as anything he touches dies. So by running behind enemies they will be killed by the grim reaper. If your mission is to eliminate all enemies in a certain amount of time; then by killing a few enemies for you, grim could actually complete the challenge for you; therefore opening the next door for you as well. The story. As I said the story has various different chapters, and in each of these come missions, extra challenges; and complications for your character. The story runs pretty smoothly and does not make you feel like the complications have only been added to extend the length of the game. Finally is the graphics. Now these are a particularly good feature of the game as the many ghoulish monsters and characters are animated very nicely in a cartoony way, adding comedy to the game as these skeletons throw a monster disco!
Thirdly is voodoo Vince. The story of this game starts with a shopkeeper getting kidnapped. In the process of this using some magic zombie dust, vince the voodoo doll is brought to life. The game then follows a pathway of vince going throughout the levels with each level getting closer to his master. The controls are quite simple. Simple punch button, one to do a spin attack ( like crash bandicoot) and another one lets you float in the air. The best part of Vince's attack comes from his special abilities. once your power up meter is full vince can release a special attack. Being a voodoo doll a small animation then comes on the screen involving Vince getting killed in some way. This then automatically kills the enemies a certain distance away from him. The good thing is the uniqueness of self-harming to harm others, and the wide range of death animations. The bad side is that all of the death animations have the same effect; instant death. None of the power ups are any more powerful than the last. So although you get a new animation; it still has the same old effect. The platforming elements of the game however are superb. it's brilliantly fun whilst riding around on a giant rat, shooting in a rocket ship, and slinging your way through a magical swamp world/level. The graphics at times can be seen as one of the weaker elements as they can at times be seen as quite dull and grainy. However the settings and locations in this fantasy game do make up for it nicely. The only other bad elements of the game is firstly how sometimes it's very unrealistic. Not the fact that it's a fantasy game, but how when gliding towards a ledge and he misses it ever so slightly; vince doesn't make the effort to even try to grab onto the ledge. So instead you just fall to your doom! The final bad point is how when you run out of lives the game automatically sends you back to the main menu, instead of just being able to reload from last checkpoint.
Next is crimson skies. You play as a pilot/ action dogfighter flying around in your cool old fashioned style fighter plane, having dogfights in the sky and shooting enemy planes out of the air. The basic concept of the game is simple, it's a shooting game with planes. But with a whole variety of missions, planes, and gun turrets; there's certainly enough to keep you entertained and busy. The enemies actually are varied quite nicely. Ranging from a simple fighter plane, to a Zeppelin; all the way to a giant robot. The graphics are nicely done, with great detail on each of the different planes that are available to you. Finally is the story line, and as friends go missing and giant robots suddenly appear in your way; just like the planes; the game also does some brilliant twists and turns along the way!
Second to last is Conkers bad fur day. This game is truly hilarious, the humor is brilliant and really well thought through; so much so that it even makes you want to watch the cut scenes. The gameplay again is of a very platform style. With battling monsters such as a giant poo and a talking pitchfork guy; you kind of get the idea that not only is this a platform style game; but it's not completely serious. You play as Conker, a squirrel, who has woken up after a hang over the night before, and has found himself in a strangely magical place. He starts with the brilliant phrase of " it's just going to be another one of those days." A brilliant phrase that I'm sure most people can relate to where you know from the morning that it's just not going to be a good day. The game then continues as he makes his way through this magical land. On the way you Have to solve puzzles and run through this platformer facing any living, or non living objects that get in your way. The graphics once again are done in a rather cartoony and jokey way and the animation for this magical world is very well done and I see it as a stereotypical fantasy/ fairytale like world that we all imagine when we try and think of them. Finally Is the story line. Now as I said this is Absolutely HILARIOUS throughout, as you come across various characters, face new foes; and watch the brilliantly made cut-scenes unfold. The final added bit to Conkers bad fur day is the online and the multiplayer co-op. This lets you play as Conker as a soldier, with various weapons and enemies; it will keep you and your friend entertained for hours. The thing that I found so ironic about this added part to the game; is simply the way this cute little squirrel; is now in a soldiers outfit shooting down his enemies!
Finally is a game called Kung fu chaos. You play as a character in a movie. And each level is the next scene from the movie. As you can probably tell from the title, there is obviously going to be quite a lot of fighting; kung fu style! But that's not all the game offers, as although some levels simply have you fighting your way through the level; whereas other levels have you in a rubber ring trying to knock the enemies off of the iceberg you are standing on. Other platform style levels include literally throwing your rescued damsel in distress straight at your enemies. Catching stuntmen as they fly out the window; all the way to escaping from zombies in a maze pacman style. The graphics of the game certainly suit the cartoony, comedy action super hero style. And finally the story line. Well this was probably always going to be a strong point with the game being done as a movie. So as you play through action packed levels, and then go to extremely ridiculous challenge scenes; the story line follows the pathway of the scenes being both very action packed, and extremely ridiculous, yet still very amusing!
So that concludes my review to the top 6 ( not 5 ) games for the original xbox; hope you enjoyed it.
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