The news that you can now play more Xbox games on your 360 is good. I'm still spending a lot of my 360 time playing Pro Evo 5, normally on Live. This is mainly, but not entirely, due to the fact that most of my friends haven't yet managed to pick up a 360. But the lack of a real killer 360 game is also to blame. I'm ploughing through Kameo, mainly because I'm a sucker for gorgeous fantasy romps - Twilight Princess can't come soon enough - and am willing to ignore the derivative design and general hand-holding for the sake of seeing what's next. Interestingly, Kameo failed to even make the Top 40 last week, which sadly only goes to prove that shooting, sport and driving are the key console genres. The heady days of Banjo Kazooie and the first Jak and Daxter are long gone.
Elsewhere PD: Zero and Project Gotham 3 are, well, pretty good. The graphics are lovely - although the overly used "wet" texture look that gives a lot of in-game walls and streets a dank feel is clearly this year's lens flare, or something. But I still haven't fallen in love with either - perhaps that will happen in time. And of course, they're both far better than those moody sludge-fests, Condemned and Quake 4. But for now I'm spending as much 360 time playing original Xbox titles as 360 specific.
