shooter

XIII is a cel-shaded first-person shooter based on a long-running French comic book of the same name. The game definitely plays up its comic book roots, complete with readable sound effects and comic-book-like panels that pop up while you're playing. XIII, or "Thirteen," is both the name of the game and the name of the character you'll play as. The game opens with you waking up with a gunshot wound after washing up on a beach, unable to remember anything at all. As you proceed through the game, you'll begin to piece together your past. As it happens, you have the face of a man accused of assassinating the president with a sniper rifle. Are you that man or are you an agent given a new face in an attempt to get to the bottom of the assassination conspiracy? XIII on the Xbox contains online multiplayer as well as a four-player split-screen mode and the ability to play against bots. The game contains deathmatch, team deathmatch, capture the flag, and sabotage, which is a class-based team game that has one team defending a series of checkpoints while the other is charged with blowing them up. This is a great game and it's certainly worth owning.

XIII (thirteen), is a first-person-shooter, taking place within a conspiracy story. They used cel shading to make the graphics look like a comic book. The whole game looks and feels like a comic book, you'll even see the words to the sounds like "boom" or "kpow", you get the picture. There are lots of weapons through out the games. You can also use objects as weapons; like smashing a chair on someone or throwing a piece of glass to cut people. The action is fun and there are lots stealth missions to add. There is a single player story mode and there are also multiplayer games like deathmatch and capture the flag; its a lot of fun to play with friends split screen. If you have no friends you can play with BOTS and it's a lot of fun as well.

Pros:
+looks like a comic book
+use objects as weapons
+good animation
+lots of weapons
+good sound effects
+multiplayer with bots
+split-screen multiplayer
+good voice acting
+good story
+bloody shoot-outs

Cons:
-too many stealth missions
-stealth missions are boring
-ugly retro-funky music

XIII is an excellent shooter and I'm very happy that it includes split-screen gameplay. I wish all XBOX games had this feature!

I really enjoyed this game and I can't wait for the sequel.
Some people didn't like the cel shading graphics, but I think it looks fantastic. The graphics remind me a little of anime. The story line is great, being based on a French comic book. I had this for PS2 and when I gave that to my brother and bought an Xbox, I made sure to buy this one again. It also has a lot of "replay" value. I like the control setup. I could play this game all day after beating it. I much prefer this game to Halo (which is also a good game, but kinda boring after a while.) The other games I like are Hitman 2 and Hitman contracts.So if you like those, you'll like XIII. In Hitman you can't punch a guy, but in XIII you can. Some people didn't like the save features, (using checkpoints) but you get used to it. For $20 you can't go wrong. For example, I just bought Freedom Fighters for $20 and finished it in about 3 hours. XIII took a few days. Buy this game!