However, since PCs and Xboxes share similar organs and therefore the potential for crossover is so strong, the fear was PC SWAT 4 would be a port of the Xbox’s arcade-orientated adaptation. Which is exactly why the SWAT game headed for Xbox is called Global Strike Team and has as much in common with lightgun shooter Virtua Cop as it does previous PC-based SWAT games. Of course there is a reason for such a drastic transformation console players would no more enjoy playing a 600-hour beardathon in front of a 32-inch TV than a PC gamer would take delight from guiding a hyperactive monkey through a supermarket. Even so, we’re sure there are thousands of people grinding their battleaxes that the mighty Gate has been 'cheapened’. In fact, I preferred the PS2 game to its big PC brother, since I’m not big on dice-rolling anyway. Nowt much of a to-do about that as far as I’m concerned. Yet on PlayStation 2 Baldur's Gate is known not as an RPG, but as an action game - almost a 21 st century version of the classic Gauntlet. A heavier stat-based experience would be hard to locate, even with a level 14 Detection spell.

Have you noticed how once-proud hardcore PC games have been defecting to consoles? Take Bioware’s life-sapping RPG series Baldur's Gate for instance.

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