What makes it different from others?

Excellent, a Must See

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

Despite it's name, X-Play isn't some X-Rated show. It's about video games. (That's what the "play" stands for- playing video games.) Adam Sessler and Morgan Webb rate all the new video games on a scale of one to five; Five being the best, and one being the worst.There are only about two to four reviews for each episode, and about one preview- if they have them. Luckily, they are in depth, just like many of Roger Ebert's reviews, and not like many of mine. (I'm trying people!) Obviously, they know quite a bit about video games, and live up to their claim about being "brutally honest." However, there is one thing about the show that gets on so many people's nerves: the jokes. X-Play seems to make at least one joke per review, and they can get annoying. I'm not saying their a bad thing, but X-Play does overdo them at times. For example, I didn't laugh once at the "Continuation of God of War" skit. However, despite that, X-Play has very many decent jokes. ("The blood in this game floats around like lotus blossoms. Damn, that's a lot of lotus blossoms!")Some of them also relate to pop-culture, and many other things. I'm not sure if this is a good idea, but it does help the viewer relate to the jokes.Morgan: Your opponents will leave you with words of wisdom right before they die.Video Game Character: Women are...scary.Morgan: Charles Foster Kane, you are not.I remember constantly re-watching the "Meet the Sess" skit, because I found it so hilarious. I remember that my friends and I were going over all the funny parts today during recess.However, there is one thing that really bugs me about X-Play. What it is, are those pointless episodes with perhaps one review, and skits the rest of the time. I mean, it's a REVIEW show, for crying out loud! Well, X-Play is decent, and very entertaining. But, if you want reviews that aren't covered waist-high in jokes, go to g4tv.com and visit the X-Play section to read them. Or, you could just watch Judgement Day. (which isn't as "in-depth.") Good: In-depth reviews, and sometimes funny, and always entertaining Bad: over-drawn jokes and skits. Full Metal Alchemist fans won't like it either.

This is a great show for any gamers. A lot of you may think that only game reviews on the whole show is boring, but if you really start to watch it, you'll find that they have skits, sometimes they even have a series, like "Beergoggles." And they really do tell you how good the game is, in a "Brutally Honest" way, as the promo says. So really, if you want to know what games to get, while getting a laugh out of it, watch X-Play!!!! I swear you'll like it....and if you don't, you aren't a gamer. Only gamers would watch this show. And if you're a gamer, you'll watch it. In conclusion, if you have G4techTV and you're a gamer, WATCH THIS SHOW!

While I would not consider myself to be a very enthusiastic gamer, I do enjoy video games. From time to time, in the very rare occasion that I watch television, I watch this show. I like the reviews, but the thing is, the whole show is full of all these lame and unoriginal and stupid jokes. They are really aimed more to be the "hip" kind of stupid and random jokes and usually take no thought at all, but idiots from the culture that I could never identify with would probably enjoy them. I wouldn't even complain as much about the kind of humor the show had if it wasn't basically the whole premise of the show.For instance, from time to time, there are these sketches, one where Adam Sessler pretends to be the main character from the game, "Splinter Cell." In the sketch, he captures people from behind and takes them all into a bathroom cubicle. The problem with this sketch is that, while it's supposed to be silly, is so painfully unoriginal. Any fan of "Splinter Cell" with a sense of humor could think of that and even the writers know it.Skits like that are not even as painful to me as having to hear all these stupid jokes narrated by either Adam Sessler or Morgan Webb (always in the stupidly sarcastic dialect) during the reviews. Being sarcastically insulting is alright once in a while, but they apply this technique in so many reviews that it's usually hard to tell whether they like a game or not. At one point, Adam Sessler reviewed the latest "Dynasty Warriors" game and seemingly insulted it so much that I was sure it was going to get a 1/5, but actually got a 3/5. It is obviously just very hard to tell whether they're serious or not when reviewing a game, what with them being so sarcastically insulting, so I'd just like the writers of the show to drop that crap already.Occasionally, they will also make childish jokes about a character in a game, like a character called Cao Pi in a game they were reviewing... Which is pronounced like "cow pee." Yes, at first, it probably sounds at the least remotely funny, but it was milked so much in the review that I couldn't stand it. At one point, they kept playing the audio for when the voice actor for the character said "I am Cao Pi," and Adam Sessler even milked it more by saying, "Yeah, we KNOW." And even after the review was over, Morgan Webb and Adam Sessler kept talking about it. They'll never let a stupid childish joke die, apparently.Another annoying thing is when they use the Animutation-like technique of moving the mouth of a person (usually celebrity) or animal and make them say obnoxious and annoying crap that only idiots such as the writers would find funny. Usually they consist of the Beatles talking to each other. Once again, part of the stupid random humor, the bad kind where no thought is included for the jokes.Here's what I think -- The show needs to really tone down on humor, especially the blatantly stupid kind, tone down on the sarcastic insulting, and especially tone down on the skits. Then it will probably be a watchable show, with more reviews than anything. I mean, come on -- I doubt even the hosts like to say the stuff that they are made to say.

in my opinion, is a one of the best shows on tech TV, sometimes the banner between Morgan and Adam seems forced at best, and at other times they both have troubles relaying the script off the teleprompter, but the ackwardness of the two hosts comes off as a endearing trait and it kinda works.x plays focus is on video games, but i have to say they don't air enough episodes to acuratally do this tasks, and when they get new episodes on the air, they are so back logged even new episodes seem dated. this also applies to when x play does conventions or comedy bits, it lends it hand for a even further log jam of older games waiting to be reviewed. the show is informative, but their scoring system is flawed and should be fixed.if you like video games and have tech tv, it's worth a watch or two, but don't get high hopes it's not reinventing the wheel it just a show about video games, so take it for what it is i guess. i would like to note, my post seems like i don't like x play but that is not true i really like the show, i just have accepted the show has some flaws that could be fixed, and with a little tweaking x play could be a great show, and it should be a hour long, that would give them enough time to do bits and reviews and possible other neat things.