I admit I was skeptical over this at first...

User Rating: 8.9 | Marc Ecko's Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure XBOX
Sure, all the hype made by Ecko on about 10-15 On the Spot shows, all the videos, pics and other media made me turn away from this game at first.

But I came across it through a friend and he showed it to me. I've just been playing it ever since. I hope I can finish it as soon as possible.

The graphics and soundtrack make this game. Everything is crisp, detailed and almost impossible to imagine it on the Xbox and PS2. It's a case of seeing to believe. The soundtrack is cool, good thing they didn't go with the trend and add a lot of hip hop stuff. Just a little, it is acceptable...

The mechanics are well implemented, and the grafitti look great. It is easy to start tagging and beat the times the game challenges you to make. I only wish the game would give more control over the way the tags are done, like mixing posters/stencils with the tags as a whole.

The game takes what The Warriors kind of did with the Rembrandt character and takes it to another level. It isn't all-out original, but it isn't the same old gangster-street-smart stuff that's been appearing in the shelves last few months.

That's a good thing. Now get up! :)