360 first impressions

paul — Wed, 07 Dec 2005 20:06:00 +0000

Well, I’ve had my 360 since Friday. I haven’t played on it a vast amount, but here are my initial thoughts.

The console itself looks fine. Certainly more styled than its predecessor. No gripes there.

The power supply is enormous! No really, its huge. Got to be the biggest one I’ve every seen. There have been reports of overheating but I’ve not had any issues on that front.

Games; I got Project Gotham Racing 3 and Perfect Dark: Zero. The former is great. Really like. Fantastic gfx. Great gameplay. I haven’t ventured onto xbox live as yet, but as I have a gold account, my offline scores get recorded online and I can see how I’m doing against everyone else. Which is nice.

Perfect Dark: Zero however wasn’t really my bag. I’m not a huge fan of shooters on consoles generally. With this game, I wasn’t ‘feeling it’. The game looks pretty, but I really couldn’t get into it. I’ve exchanged it for Call of Duty 2. COD2 looks great also and I’m having fun playing it.

So, all good really.

xbox 360 core system today

paul — Fri, 02 Dec 2005 10:27:00 +0000

I got a call from HMV on wednesday to let me know that they had a 360 core system with my name on it if I wanted it. I had to think about that (for about 2 seconds) and went ahead and reserved it.

The surprising thing for me was that I had been allocated one at all as I only reserved it about a month ago. At that time there were reports all over the web that most places had stopped taking preorders early September.

So, I’ll be dropping a few quid this afternoon on the core system, a headset and a memory card. I’ll think about the harddrive, wireless controller and all that in the new year I think.

Games wise, PGR3 and Perfect Dark are my top choices. King Kong has been getting some very good reviews too …

Update this evening on first impressions (assuming it doesnt get given away to someone else before I pick it up of course).

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360 first impressions

xbox 360 core system today