Retro Moments - May 2003

Crumpy Andy wrote:

That is far too early for a month that bad, I guess I'll be rebuying HW & Dark Souls.

If Andy thought that about games coming in May 2018, then 2003 wouldn't have gotten him excited either with only 10 games coming out.

We had at the start of the month Burnout 2 coming to Xbox, which is were I played the awesome racer. A few days later we got this month cover star Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow which I've not played because GBA.

A bunch of movie games like Finding Nemo, Hulk but the big one was Enter the Matrix , I was so excited about EtM and it was a muh movie game, thankfully Path of Neo a few years later was much better.

To round out the month saw WarioWare Inc.: Mega Microgame$ again on GBA meaning I missed it and unlike Castlevania, it's not something I'd play and we got an Xbox exclusive Brute Force which me and a bunch of mates played non-stop for weeks also mine came with a t-shirt and bonus disc showing Halo & Halo 2 stuff. I think now it likely suck but be one I hope to see part of backwards compatible with Xbox One along with a reboot.

Did you guys play much from this month back in 2003?

I quite liked the enter the matrix game not only did it fill in the gaps of Matrix reloaded story really well it had a cracking cheat code system that I remember messing about with for a while.

Also Warioware on GBA is an absolute belter of a game.

I can't recall if I played Burnout 2 on Xbox or Gamecube, but it's a legitimate banger. I still remember a few of the Crash courses.

Not that interested in the other games to be honest. Castlevania is a series I really need to get in to, but at the time I wasn't into 16-bit gaming. I was too busy writing for PlayStation magazines.

I'd be all over Aria of Sorrow. I miss Castlevania so much.

I played AoS quite recently, on the WiiU. Goo'n that. Suprising amounts of sprite art GBA teeteeees - make of that what you will.

JayMoyles wrote:

I'd be all over Aria of Sorrow. I miss Castlevania so much.

Soon Jay Soon


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