Yeah MS didn't copy the online service or the dual analogs or the shoulder buttons.... MS is too perfect for thatTimesplitter14

A little harsh, but the point is good. Everybody copies everyone else to an extent. It would be hard for the industry to improve if people said "I don't wanna do it if (Insert company here) already did it." imagine if only one console had online service, and another was the only one with analog. That would suck. I wouldn't know what one to get.

I could say PSN was just a copy of the unified online serivce that Xbox live provided, or that The PS controllers triangle, X, square, O button scheme was copied from Nintnedo's X,Y,A,B scheme on the SNES,(sorry if it seem like I'm picking on Sony, but those were the first two examples to come to mimd.) but it's not. it's just taking a good idea and appling it to your own ideas.

All Halo brought was a bunch of egotistical asshats to Live. Everyone on Halo 2 has a serious attitude problem, or some kind of God complex cause they can pull off a headshot. An easy game like Halo is great, but when you extend it to online play, with voice, then trouble starts.

Halo hasn't brought anything really special to the table, but it has brought a special breed of gamer. And really, this breed screams out for genocide (but not really, that would be extreme)

The new Tenchu game "Tenchu Z" I believe.

And Earth Defence Force 2017.... I dunno... it looks interesting.