It's really good!!!

I never played it as a kid because it just looked like a "generic shooter", but this is totally the original Xbox's version of Vanquish for the 360. A shockingly polished shooter with 1 nonintrusive gimmick [The one-resource-backpack-crafting-thing] that doesn't do anything surprising story wise, but does it VERY well.

It's just filled with so many little things like an intercom telling the enemy near the end of one mission you killed a general last mission. A turret section were you have to run between 3 different turrets while fighting people off your train. And the art direction is beautiful!! I was stopping just to look at the cool sky vortex thing during the stealth tutorial, or a massive crashed ship you have to climb into, or the neon signs throughout the city level. The crafting system even put me into this survivalist mindset where I was asking myself is it worth fighting this group or should I sneak past? I was thinking like I was a "Rouge Trooper" behind enemy lines!!! I was so pleasantly surprised by this! Only real problem is the final boss was just a horde fight. Nothing special.

The port's ok enough, I had to set up the controller myself because there's no contoller support or widescreen. I really wanna get the remaster when it's on sale, but this version is perfectly playable and fun and I highly recommend it.