Jack Mathews at Shacknews now has an Xbox and a GameCube, and so to start off a new round of fla... I mean, discussions, he's posted a few positive impressions of titles for each console to start off:

Halo - Surprisingly very fun, especially the indoor combat. The enemies are extremely fun to fight against, the health system is great, infinite respawns at checkpoints are nice. The controls (once I could invert the lookaround) are pretty damn nice.

Not really sure why that starts with surprisingly unless he never really enjoyed reinstalling Windows 98SE. But then again, later on in the article he calls Super Monkey Ball a great party game so perhaps normal human beings aren't competent to even guess what he considers fun .