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Shacknews Holiday Game Guide

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the shopping-made-easier dept.

rosewood writes "Shacknews' Jason Bergman, aka loonyboi has his 'Holiday Buying Guide 2002' up and ready to read. PC, Gamecube, PS2, Xbox, and Gameboy Advance and over 70 games are covered! You can also look up how other games have rated each game at Shackreviews." Not every game is touched on in-depth, but it's a great resource to narrow down the choices for that special gamer in your life.

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  1. No Macintosh games? by LordNimon · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Macintosh owners play games, too. In fact, a guide like this would be of more value to Mac gamers. Mac games are harder to find, so if you want to buy a game for a Mac user, you probably can't rely on your local CompUseless sales droid to know what's hot and what's not.

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  2. Re:Gamecube is the console to get this season by Trevelyan · · Score: 3, Insightful

    They are, Resident Evil is an example of that.
    But anyway just because some of their games are targeted at the young, does not make them any less fun to play.
    I have sonic adventure 2, and as long as tails voice dont make you too homicidal (I know ppl who switch the lang to jap because of it) It is fun to play (but not too challenging). I wish it had more of what the game calls action levels, ie the ones where you run around as fast as you can (which is what made sonic famous in the first place)

    Games I look forward to: Metriod Prime (and Fusion (GBA)), Zelda and some others.
    I was waiting for Perfect Dark Zero (was a main reason for buying a cube) but alas it is not to be, PD0 will go to the X-Box (which I will not buy)

  3. Somebody always says it, but... by tigertigr · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Look for an old Dreamcast if you don't have one. I just bought one myself a few weeks ago and I can't stop playing it. There's tons of fun games for it and they are dirt cheap. Most of the games I've found have been around $15CDN.

    I highly recommend it.

  4. the old tired kids argument by newsdee · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Chances are that most trigger-happy fps players will hate Metroid Prime. It's not hyped because it's a standard FPS, but because it's a new game of the Metroid series (and actually succeeds in conveying a similar gameplay to the older 2D version).

    Also to pretend that GC games are only appropiate to kids is a major fallacy. A game does not need a rating of Mature to be enjoyable.

    Besides, if what most people call "adult games" are in fact new instances of "Quake3 nth-clone" or "Famous Name's Hyped Sport", then I'm very happy playing kiddie games, thank you.

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  5. Consume! by nfotxn · · Score: 5, Insightful
    I love how holidays are synonymous with buying now.

    ugh.

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