Personally I was very underwhelmed by the first wave of 360 games and was zero excited with most of it's launch line up. The 360 looked like a beefed up XBOX to me. It's the games that came a year later that begun defining the console. Games like Gears and Bioshock. Now these were really special
I was barely giving attention to the console at launch. The absence of competition for a year (almost a year and a half in EU) really helped the XBOX gain momentum.
I think Oblivion dispelled the beefed up Xbox delusion. I will say I really felt like I graphically entered nextgen when I first stole a plane in Just Cause. I climbed up to a high altitude during a sunset with volumetric lighting and Crepuscular rays casting off the plane, the archipelago's big volcano was visible miles away, and I had Motorhead playing in the system's background off a USB drive. I was blown away with the experience.
I always feel I need to hand it to ATi for doing such a damn good job with Xenos. The entire system was really a good fit for it's generation, despite some shortcomings and the difficulties devs had in the early years.
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