New OXBM: Demo movies get the thumbs up!

**Cheebs** · 02 Oct 2002, 10:34 AM

Some good playable demos this month. 3 football games (Madden, Microsoft's game, and Midway's game), Aggressive inline, Timesplitters 2, and Sega GT 2002. My jaw is still on the floor from the cars in Sega GT 2002. I swear, they're real. Or at least as close to real as I've ever seen. Agressive Inline seems fun, but way too complex for me. Too many buttons!

The lack of any kind of "support" for the female skaters is so over the top in this one it's kinda' funny.

By the way, ever get the feeling sometimes that game design has passed you by? In addition to Aggressive Inline, all 3 football games (including the Midway game) felt so darn complex that all I could do way shake my head as I got saked time after time while I fumbled around with the 30,000 usable buttons scattered all over the controller. I know it's me and not the games. 8 year olds all over the country play this stuff with no problem, I'm sure. Thank goodness companies still know I exist and throw me Beach Spikers and Super Monkeyball every now and then. 0-2 usable buttons. Yeah, I can handle that.

Back on topic.... I might have to actually get Sega GT 2002. Very impressive indeed.

Movies... Ninja Gaiden, DoA Volleyball, and Panzer were already instant purchases but after seeing these movies they are somehow more instant of a purchase. DoA showed actuall volleyball, and damn if it doesn't look fast paced and potentially good. Oh, and everything moves and bounces very nicely, thank you.

There is no way this game can be anything other than perfect. Ninja Gaiden showed platforming action. Ryu was bouncing/running off walls to get over chasms and good stuff like that. Good to know it won't be confined to just DoA vs more than 1 opponent. Panzer looks like Panzer, only with graphics that would have been amazing for a pre-render back in the Saturn days. In fact, all three games have real time graphics that favorably compare/destroy pre-rendered graphics from the 32 bit era. Great stuff.

**ChaoofNee** · 02 Oct 2002, 10:39 AM

Wow, so it looks like there's finally a good OXBM demo...
...at least it's better than the past few.
...or rather should I say, combinations of the past few repeated many times.
Gotta love the last issue: "Seven Classic Demos!"
Translate: "We've got nothing good for you, so pay money for stuff you've played alredy!"

**EThugg** · 02 Oct 2002, 10:45 AM

They repeat demo's for newsstand casual buyers who don't get every issue and demo. And the OXM staff has no say in the approval process or creation of demo's for games, if you don't like the number of new games, blame MS and the game companies.

**Despair** · 02 Oct 2002, 10:50 AM

Hmm, So the only good demo on it is Sega GT 2002. I'll pass

As for game movies, yeah, Ninja Gaiden looks amazing, and so does Orta.

**EThugg** · 02 Oct 2002, 11:34 AM

This just in (again, thanks to the team xbox forums, I still hate them though) PDO and Splinter Cell demos on the next OXM disc! http://www.pbase.com/image/5415907

Looks legit to me, and the current issue's cover (12) was 1st sighted around this time last month.

**Despair** · 02 Oct 2002, 11:39 AM

Cool Ethugg, I will look for it

**EThugg** · 02 Oct 2002, 11:42 AM

You had better! Get DJ his own copy as well.

**Riptwo** · 02 Oct 2002, 12:14 PM

Anybody else notice that the Team Ninja movies were way higher quality than any of the other movies on the disc? Almost looks like they were demos running the actual engine instead of just a movie file.