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Grabbed by the Ghoulies comes to XBL Comments by Oli Welsh

17 February, 2009

Rare's first Xbox game added to Originals.

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DFawkes
17/02/09 @ 09:14
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How about Halo 2? I love that game, and it actually works thorugh VGA.

Never played this first time around, and at that price it's a smidge out of my usual 800 point impulse buy zone.
GamesConnoisseur
17/02/09 @ 09:20
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That great! I havent finished the game and would certainly love to add this to my collection, just need to delete couple of installed games from my 120 hdd though!
Darren
17/02/09 @ 09:28
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Ah Grabbed by the Ghoulies... looked absolutely fantastic visually, as you'd expect from Rare, but it turned out to be a lacklustre, rushed game with awful controls that constantly annoyed me throughout the entire time I played it. I still own the original (I'm otherwise a big fan of Rare's games) but it isn't something I wish to return to any time soon, thank you.
Mildew
17/02/09 @ 09:44
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Let's have an update of Blast Corps! I loved that game!
Ace Grace
17/02/09 @ 09:46
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It did have certain charm though. Also the paintings of the old Ultimate games was superb.
IronCladChicken
17/02/09 @ 09:59
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Tempted; but I'm with DFawks - 800 points is my usual impuse buy threshold.
Britesparc
17/02/09 @ 10:05
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I really enjoyed Ghoulies, but sadly found it a bit too old-school difficult to ever complete. Still, it's a fun, good-looking (for its time) game, and Rare's self-depricating attitude towards it is to be commended.

BTW, does this work on BC? I've still got my old Xbox version kicking about and it'd be good to not have to set up the old Xbox if I want to play it!
Penguinzoot
17/02/09 @ 10:27
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BTW, does this work on BC?

Yeah it does. I recently started playing this again on the 360, but like Darren, the controls wind me up no end.
Pasco
17/02/09 @ 10:37
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How can people that write funny webpages like this also make such insultingly boring games.

Grabbed by the Ghoulies felt like the first try of an amateur game-maker by the way. How can anyone excuse the minute long QTEs where you had to witness a whole lot of nothingness, had to push a button every 15 seconds and had to start all over again (being pushed a couple of minutes back) if you did something wrong? Or a boss fight where you practically run around a table and pause now and then to shoot back?
jonsaan
17/02/09 @ 11:16
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Top game. I may just have to snap it up!
"him"
17/02/09 @ 12:55
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Great game... agree about it being difficult though.

Though I have completed it! (after much swearing!)

The Butler did it...
Bulbatron
19/02/09 @ 08:25
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PLEASE Microsoft, put SILENT HILL 2 on Xbox Originals - and make sure that, unlike the disc version, it also works in the UK. Do this and I will be a happy chap.

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