THE BEST OF THE BOX

What are your favourite Xbox memories?

jeff

Ripping CDS to the hard drive and driving around to your own custom soundtrack felt magical at the time.

Andy O’flaherty

Even though I’d dabbled in online with the Dreamcast on dial-up, playing Halo 2 online with broadband was a complete game-changer for consoles, and a glimpse into what was coming in the future…

worldofcraig

Seeing Soulcalibur 2 running on the Xbox side by side with the PS2 version is what convinced me to get an Xbox. It just looked so much smoother and nicer. Once I bought one I had fond memories of buying KOTOR and playing that to completion.

Verden Meldrum

Getting a load of ‘the lads’ around, each bringing a TV and an Xbox and having epic LAN nights. Midtown Madness, Halo, Return To Castle Wolfenstein and quite a few others.

Tim Bradshaw

Whilst acknowledging that being released late in the gen gave it a tech advantage, there has never been another console that has been so far ahead of the competition in power terms. I was playing games with scope only achievable on PC for the first time. Halo, KOTOR – sensational.

Harley Palmer Steel Battalion

was and still is a masterpiece. The controller has yet to be rivalled for mech combat. The delete save feature for character death was ambitious in their pursuit of absolute realism.

Imran Yusuf

The fact that focus group results favoured that enormous controller, which looked like it had crashed in Roswell 1947.

Phil Rowland

Burnout Revenge on Xbox Live was off-the-scale good. It actually felt naughty going that fast so recklessly!

Cthulhu Mythos Music

Playing Thief: Deadly Shadows and marvelling at the dynamic shadows and physics of knocking over objects. I hadn’t experienced something like that until the Xbox.

Dave Dragert

Ninja Gaiden, nobody could squeeze power out of the Xbox like Tomonobu Itagaki!