I\'m talking about with games not sales. Lets compare.
Gamecube - Super Smash Bros. Melee
Super Smash Brothers Melee is a fighting game, much like Powerstone for the Dreamcast, where you get to choose from many of the popular characters from the Nintendo universe and battle it out. The characters include Mario, Donkey Kong, Link, Samus and more. From some hands on experience at E3, I could say that this game is colorful, fast-paced, and lots of fun.
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Xbox - Dead or Alive 3
While Dead or Alive 3 was only showing in trailer format at E3, it was still a show-stopper. The game pushes the Xbox hardware as far as any game around, and from the footage we saw of the Microsoft financial meeting, the actual gameplay is awesome. The environment looks real and the on-screen characters are life-like.
Final Verdict: Both games may fall in the fighting genre, but they cater to a diverse audience. Super Smash seems to be pushing for the fun-factor while DOA3 is looking to provide a sense of realism.
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Gamecube - NBA Courtside 2002
Left Field Productions and Nintendo are teaming up to bring a version of NBA Courtside to the Gamecube to fill that basketball void. The early playable version at E3 didn\'t look like much of an improvement over Sega\'s NBA2K on the Dreamcast. The AI was poor and the controls were mediocre, however there were a few elements of the game that were well done. On the Gamecube controller, the yellow directional trigger on the face of the controller was set as directional pass and it worked brilliantly. Some of the motion capture, like layups and dunks, were well done.
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Xbox - NBA Inside Drive 2002
The Xbox will have atleast three basketball games by close to year\'s end. We haven\'t heard much about NBA Inside Drive 2002, but last year\'s PC version was a solid title, both graphically and in terms of gameplay. With Microsoft\'s Inside Drive, Sega\'s NBA 2K2, and EA\'s NBA Live 2002 all coming to the Xbox within a few weeks of each other, basketball fans should find an acceptable answer to their hoop cravings.
Final Verdict: NBA Courside 2002 looks like it will end up being a decent basketball sim, and we haven\'t seen Inside Drive yet, so the verdict is still out on this one.
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Gamecube - Luigi\'s Mansion
As the flagship title for the Gamecube launch, Luigi has a huge burden on his shoulders. Although the game looked good graphically at E3, it didn\'t compare to the original FMVs we were shown by Nintendo last year. The game isn\'t fast-paced like a typical Mario game, but rather a puzzle-adventure game where you control the slow-moving Luigi and his "ghostbuster" tools through a haunted mansion. To say the least, this game did not interest me, as an adult, at all.
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Xbox - Oddworld: Munch\'s Oddysee
Like Luigi\'s Mansion, Oddworld: Munch\'s Oddysee is one of the flagship titles for its respective platform, the Xbox. To many editors at E3, Oddworld came away as the best Xbox game on the floor. Graphically, the game\'s environments were beautiful and the character models were unique , but strange. I personally didn\'t fall in love with the game like many of my fellow editors because of my gaming tastes, but it is a highly original and imaginative game. For those two reasons alone, Oddworld deserves a ton of credit. Add to that the ton of time the game has been in production and you\'ll end up with a game that\'ll keep you entertained for a very long time.
Final Verdict: Unless you\'re under the age of 10, I\'d recommend Oddworld over Luigi\'s Mansion any day of the week.
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Gamecube - Star Wars Rogue Leader
If there was one game that consistently had a huge crowd wanting to play it at E3, it was the Star Wars: Rogue Leader for the Gamecube. I, too, was awfully gitty while waiting my turn to get a chance to try it out. The visuals really are all that and a bag of lightsabers. Factor 5 has done an amazing job successfully recreating the feeling of being in a Star Wars space battle. If they could keep the gameplay from getting too redundant, then there\'s no reason not to buy this game.
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Xbox - Air Force Delta Storm
AFDS\'s planes look as realistic as you can get in a game. After staring for a few minutes (or hours) in awe and the initial shock of the plane models wears off, you\'ll notice that the environment you\'re flying in doesn\'t look quite as nice as the plane. That would be alright if the gameplay will be able to compensate. The E3 build wasn\'t as exciting as the screenshots suggest, but overall, AFDS seems like a good title for arcade flight fans.
Final Verdict: Hands down, Star War\'s Rogue Leader. Pound for pound, Rogue Leader looks to be one of the best titles released on any platform. While Air Force Delta Storm may end up being a quality title, it\'s simply outmatched the Leader.
Stay tuned for Part II tommorow where we\'ll cover the remaining titles as well as those titles on each platform that don\'t seem to have an answer on the rival platform for the month of November.
For me I think xbox has more games I want in the long run. As for the xbox I really want doa3, halo, project gothem, and RAW is War. Gamecube does have some good games too like RS2, Luigi Mansion. Well I think xbox edges it out. What do you guys think?
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