Gaming Xbox Impressions

[Adam]

My friend has had an xbox for a few days now and has been playing it nonstop. The system looks really cool but everytime i've seen him play Halo, it's looked REALLY underwhelming.

It's just like any PC first person shooter with not so great graphics, big deal. This is supposed to be the system's killer app?

-Adam

[RicoTranzrig]

Maybe b/c it's played on a TV...it does have low resolution as opposed to playing Halo on a computer. But I heard Slow framerates and slow load times for it.

[MysticGohan]

My friend currently bought Xbox and I thought it was 'okay'. Like Rico said, the quality of the resolution does depend on your tv. I have played numerous consoles on different kinds of tvs. The best tv to play ANY console on is either a flat screen tv or a Sony Wega Trinition television set. I currently have the sony one and all I can say is that it's great! But yes, I did think that Xbox would put out a better preformance than what it did. I would rather much play my dreamcast and playstation 2! :)

[James]

[color=crimson][size=1]The type of TV you have doesn't affect the resolution of the game -- unless you're talking about digital television over analog television.

However, some TVs are clearer than others, depending on the size and shape of the screen.

Xbox's resolution is the same as PS2 and GameCube, the only difference is that sometimes the textures are rendered at lower resolution to preserve memory.

The Xbox arguably doesn't handle textures as well as GameCube, as with many Xbox games we've seen so far, texture quality isn't all that good.

Although some games buck that trend, Shrek is a game which has some really nice looking textures. But yeah...the difference between TVs is highly minimal.[/color][/size]