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curl-6 on 25 August 2026
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archbrix said:

My friend got one shortly after launch and Project Gotham Racing 3 was enough for me to see the potential, even if some of the other games available weren't big jumps over the 6th generation. It certainly didn't have anything at launch even close to Halo on the original Xbox but the higher resolution really popped and the controller was infinitely better.

Project Gotham Racing 3 must have looked insane back in the day, when we were all used to 6th gen graphics.

For me COD2 and Condemned were the best launch titles; yeah neither was as iconic as Halo 1 but still, excellent games.

Zippy6 said:

I think we got one close to launch, iirc a 20gb model. No hdmi but we only had SD TV anyway. PGR3 graphics still blew my mind when you're walking around the garage.

I don't really remember getting any other games for it that early. Hexic HD was free, and then I remember playing demos but that's it. We traded it in for a PS3 once that came out.

Later we got a 360 again, a fat 60gb model in 2008-2009.

The era of PS2/360 multi-plat is very interesting. Especially when the 360 ports messed with the lighting or added insane bloom and the PS2 version actually looked better in some ways lol.

Yeah that era felt very experimental in that devs suddenly had all these new tools and techniques and were still playing around with how to best use them. You do get some somewhat weird looking games as a result, but for me that's part of the charm.

Veknoid_Outcast said:
I sort of experienced the first year, but only after the fact. Definitely not firsthand. 
 
The 360 was my first Xbox console. I picked it up in 2008. I decided the "proper" way to experience it would be to collect all the must-have Xbox original games, and play through them first via backward compatibility. Then, I played the 2005 hits before diving into the Gears, Halos, and Elder Scrolls of the world. It was important to me to play through the library in order, more or less. 
 
I have very, very fond memories of playing Kameo: Elements of Power, Perfect Dark Zero, Quake 4, and Call of Duty 2. It was all very new and exciting. Kameo in particular blew me away with its graphics and art.

I actually played Quake 4 last month (cool game but whoa that framerate) and plan to give Kameo and PDZ a second chance later this year. (Didn't like them back in the day, but maybe I've mellowed with age haha)