Target Practice

The PS2 had some pretty classic games released for it in its lifespan - Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, GTA: San Andreas, the original Mercenaries, Final Fantasy X, but which one makes you want to dig out the console just to play it again?

For me, it's Fight Night Round 3 - it was pretty much the first decent boxing game for any platform, and probably still just shades FN:R4 even now - the battles you could have with friends on that game were amazing - last-gasp knockouts, 9 rounds of beating your buddy to a pulp until he can't stand up any more, even those battles that could basically take place in a phonebooth - you both just stand there and throw punches until one of you falls down. Just a brilliant, brilliant game.

Also worth a mention is Burnout 3: Takedown. Still to this day one of the finest Arcade Racers I've ever played - it had everything - weaving in and out of traffic at hundreds of miles per hour, just missing trucks by inches, then at the last second, slamming into the side of your friend's car and sending him head-first into a concrete wall. THAT's what friendship is all about.

Hey guys, hope you don't mind me making a little suggestion - might it be worth putting a description on each forum so we know what goes where? You've got 34 separate forums on the index page - so many in fact, that I completely missed the 'Getting Started' forum, because I didn't know what it did - it was only once I actually clicked on the forum and opened it up, THEN opened a thread, that I realised what was supposed to go in there. :)

I have a few more suggestions too, but I'd rather not make those in public. If you're interested, send me a PM. :)

Anyway, enjoying the site so far. :)

Hi, I'm Jason and I've been gaming for pretty much 20 years now, ever since the Amstrad CPC 464 (there's no shame in googling that if you don't know what it is... let's just say the games came on cassette tapes and leave it at that...)

Anyway, I figured this looked like an interesting place to talk about games and gaming, so here I am! :)