its entirely possible, but i hope the online co-op works fine becuase me and a friend have been planning on playing for a while now

Well, the past couple weeks have been almost nothing but bad news for the XBLA.... I hope IKaruga does well.....

it's been a rough couple of weeks (outside of those who like pinball), but don't forget that it's been a pretty good year so far, and with Ikaruga, it should be back on track

As for whether it can suck or not, yeah of course it could, but from a couple of reviews that I've seen, it looks like the only two areas I'm worried about (online and controls), aren't a problem

The Gamecube port of Ikaruga sucked, so while I do think that the XBLA version will be terrific 'cause it should, there's slight chance it won't be. As always.

However, for me, a bad online component wouldn't really make it a poorer game. A less great game, perhaps, but it wouldn't suck just because of that.

IGN gives it a 9.

An instant classic. No lag in multiplayer.

They also say some casual gamers may have a hard time because of its difficulty.

IGN has a tendancy to review press releases and not actual games. Not to mention their heavy biases.

How well is the port is one of those have to wait and see situations. I have never played the GCN version so I cannot copmare it to the Dreamcast release.

of course is there always the chance that they could make it suck, i mean they ruined "paper boy" how do you screw up that game?? so there is always that possibility for any game coming to xbla when they try to "enhance" it. i have high hopes for this one but tomorrow will have the end result for us all to judge on our own.

God I hope this game rocks. I have to wait to get my system back from repair but I will be buying Ikaruga before I even pop GTA4 in.

I hope I (finally) get to see what the fuss was you old-timers kept saying about it.