OXM February 2006 & Demo Disc 54 Discussion (Best of 2005 Awards)

[shipwreck]

Okay, I received the latest issue of OXM today.

Disc #54e: Final Fantasy XI Beta (This is also discussed in a separate thread)

Disc #54:

Playable X360 Demos: Call Of Duty 2

Playable Xbox Demos (Not playable on the X360): Half-Life 2, Painkiller, Stubbs The Zombie, Winning Eleven 9

Videos: Prey, Full Auto, Progressive Insurance, Roland

Features: Making Of Painkiller, Saint's Row Interview, Xbox 360 Launch Party

Unlockable Content:


February 2006 Issue

Feature Story: Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter

There is a eight page spread all about the upcoming highly anticipated title.

Reviews:

X360 Reviews:
No X360 games reviewed

Xbox Reviews:
50 Cent: Bulletproof - 5.0
Aeon Flux - 7.0
America's Army: Rise Of A Soldier - 7.0
Crime Life: Gang Wars - 1.5
Gauntlet: Seven Sorrows - 7.0
MVP 06 NCAA Baseball - 7.0
Samurai Shodown V - 5.0
Shattered Union - 4.5

Hardware Reviews:
Intec Vertical Stand with Game & Memory Storage - 3.0
Joytech Neo Se Advanced Controller - 3.0
Madcatz Xbox 360 Gamepad Pro - 7.5

Previews:

X360:
Battlefield 2: Modern Combat
Blazing Angels
Blue Dragon
Burnout Revenge
Fight Night Round 3
Final Fantasy XI
Rumble Roses XX
Test Drive Unlimited
TimeShift

Xbox:
Arena Football
Dreamfall: The Longest Journey
Rogue Trooper
Sonic Riders
Teen Titans

Interesting Info:

Game Of The Year Awards:

Best Sports Game - MVP Baseball 2005
Best First-Person Shooter - Brothers In Arms: Earned In Blood
Best Action/Adventure - Psychonauts
Best Trend - The classic game within a game
Best Retro Arcade Collection - Capcom Classic Collection
Best Multiplayer Game - Halo 2 Multiplayer Pack
Best Game Based On A Movie License - The Warriors
Controller Throwing Moment Of The Year - Ninja Gaiden Black
Best Soundtrack - Stubbs The Zombie
Best Story (Until 2/3rds of the way through) - Indigo Prophecy
Best Driving Game - Burnout Revenge
Best Easter Egg - Indigo Prophecy (Dance Movie)
Most M Rated Moment - (Tie) Gun & Darkwatch
Game We Wish Was On Xbox - Shadow Of The Colossus
Best First-Person (non-shooter) - Project Gotham Racing 3's in-car view
Best Sandbox Game - Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
Best "Please Make A Sequel!" Game - Condemned
Best Developer - Ubisoft Montreal
Best Cooperative Play - Splinter Cell Chaos Theory
X360 Game Of The Year - Project Gotham Racing 3
Xbox Game Of The Year - Splinter Cell Chaos Theory

Small article about Live Arcade and some of the future games (Crystal Quest, RoboBlitz, Marble Blast Ultra, Hoop World



More Info To Come...

[Zoglog]

Progressive Insurance, LOL!!!


Man I hate how I have to wait till next week to buy this mag to play FFXI beta. In the end I am paying something for this which pisses me off lol

[akilshohen]

even thought they're at the companies mercy, they need to step up that demo disk game. This month with stubbs seems good but the last two months were horrible, they just sat around my house. I hate it when they put one war game on the disk and call it a day.
On a side note, that's the highest score for bulletproof yet.

[PittsburghAfterDark]

I have yet to see NPD numbers for Bulletproof but of 35 copies or so at Media Play at 40% they were still sitting there with no takers.

Thank God this game sucked critically and seems to have bombed badly commercially. Maybe someone, somewhere will learn a lesson from this crap on a disc.

[BREVITY]

Lame that there is no 360 games reviewed. But I guess they are caught up now.
"Game We Wish Was On Xbox - Shadow Of The Colossus" I love that they have this catagory.

[Stryffe2004]

Thanks or the info shippy. Now I will have to wait for my copy. They have really messed up my subscription of late.

[LinkinPrime]

Damn I always get OXM and EGM late. I see them in shelves before I see them in my mailbox. Thanks for posting this info shipwreck!

[LinkinPrime]

I have yet to see NPD numbers for Bulletproof but of 35 copies or so at Media Play at 40% they were still sitting there with no takers.

Thank God this game sucked critically and seems to have bombed badly commercially. Maybe someone, somewhere will learn a lesson from this crap on a disc.

I remember him saying that he was invited to do voice-over for a character in GTA:SA and he refused. He said he was going to make his own game that would blow away GTA...

[rabbitt]

"Game We Wish Was On Xbox - Shadow Of The Colossus" I love that they have this catagory.

It's a very 'humble-ish' thing of them to admit that they enjoy games on other consoles aswell. I've even read Nintendo Power articles about PlayStation 1 games that they enjoyed.

[LinkinPrime]

Any subscribers out there not get this months issue yet? I havent gotten one yet, wonder if its time to contact OXM

[psychobrawler]

Haven't gotten mine either...

[LinkinPrime]

I just emailed them to find out whats up.

[SeeYa]

Haven't got mine either

[LinkinPrime]

shipwreck or anyone, what was the unlockable content.

[shipwreck]

shipwreck or anyone, what was the unlockable content.

I honestly have yet to put the disc in my 360. I'll give the answer tomorrow if nobody else posts it though.

[LinkinPrime]

I honestly have yet to put the disc in my 360. I'll give the answer tomorrow if nobody else posts it though.

The secret content was stupid, it only gave you a slide show of the in game pictures published in the mag. Damn and the "making of..." fetures were f'ing long I had to turn off my stereo and change the channel while I let it play.

[Roufuss]

I have yet to see NPD numbers for Bulletproof but of 35 copies or so at Media Play at 40% they were still sitting there with no takers.

Thank God this game sucked critically and seems to have bombed badly commercially. Maybe someone, somewhere will learn a lesson from this crap on a disc.

Haha, the funny thing is the game did great commercially.