OK, here's my 2 cents I own a PS2, X-Box and a GameCube, so here's my opinions on them
PS2; Good machine with a shed-load of game support - not surprising since it's been out over a year! Has the advantage of running PSX games, but since very few are worth playing compares to the NextGeneration of machines, what would you WANT to play on it? DVD player is definitely second rate - the laser quality is nothing special at all - I have 2 separate DVD players and even the cheaper one (around £100 worth) is a better quality machine! If you want to watch DVDs, buy a real player! You can play DVDs "out of the box", but with the game controller, it's horrible... Naturally 2 game ports, but with multi-taps, you can have 8 simultaneous (that's 8 memory cards too) Quality of games are good, but there's a noticable difference between PS2 and the X-Box and GameCube X-Box; Techincally a fantastic machine, but the foot-print is just HUGE! Pads feel a little "plasticy", but it's standard MicroSoft quality of pads. Naturally 4 ports (Memory cards plug into controllers like the Dreamcast ones did). 3rd party pads currently are HORRIBLE! Game quality is unbelievable - Halo alone is almost worth buying the system for! Other games are great (most visually astounding, but gameplay is all in my book!) DVDs need the adaptor, but it's region dependant on the adaptor! You buy a US one, you can watch Region 1 DVDs, buy a UK one and it's Region 2 (yup, that means people in the US can watch the Buffy seasons when they come out in the UK on DVD!) - for $30 a shot, that's a cheap multi-region DVD alternative DVD quality is quite good, not as good as a decent DVD player, but a darn sight better than the PS2! GameCube; Now, here's a cute little machine - really tiny foot-print Technically, very close to the X-Box, again, out-perfoms the PS2 Pads take some getting used to (ergonomic button layout), but once you're used to them, they're great 4 pad ports (like the X-Box), with the memory cards on the box rather than the pads - 2 of them Game quality is brilliant - games out at launch tend to be more "playable" than "just for looks" - very close quality to the X-Box games, but they're different, so you can't compare directly 3" CDs rather than the full-size CDs or DVDs - so you can't play DVDs on the standard machine, but it keeps the size of the machine down - there is a version made by Panasonic which has the built in DVD player, but not seen it in action Not forgetting that you can connect your GameBoy Advance to the machine and play the games which link between the machine (like Sonic), also, some games allow you to use the GBA for "secret" actions, like strategy games - VERY cool! Overall, if you want a machine with TONS of games, hit the older ones, but they'll stop making PS2 games shortly after the PS3 is out (within a year last I heard), but the X-Box and GameCube are already producing better quality games than the PS2 ones... Out of the X-Box and the GameCube, at the moment, the GameCube has a slight advantage on the games, but it's close - it comes down to personal preference... In the UK we're stuck at the moment, the GC isn't out yet, so we're left with the X-Box... There, I hope that answers a few people's questions <g> Philip Arnold Technical Director Certified ColdFusion Developer ASP Multimedia Limited T: +44 (0)20 8680 1133 F: +44 (0)20 8686 7911 An ISO9001 registered company. ********************************************************************** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the system manager. ********************************************************************** ______________________________________________________________________ Your ad could be here. Monies from ads go to support these lists and provide more resources for the community. http://www.fusionauthority.com/ads.cfm Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-community@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
