XBOX 360
I’ve been enjoying the wonders of Project Gotham 3 (amongst others) this week, as Anneka bought me an XBOX 360 for my 23rd birthday (May 14th). However, I couldn’t have it sitting there for a few weeks, wrapped up - so I opened it on Sunday evening and have been tinkering with it ever since. She picked up a bundle from Comet, which includes an extra wireless controller; Call of Duty 3; Project Gotham 3 and XBOX Live Arcade - which included Bejewelled 2.
Speaking of racing games, Adamskii showed me a few videos of Forza Motorsport 2 recently, which looked great; but they’ve just released a complete list of all the cars, within the game. As you can see, it looks a lot like Gran Turismo’s, which is a good thing in my eyes - especially as there are plenty of Skylines to keep me happy.
I’ve bought Tony Hawks Project 8 this week, to add to the fun. Having only played it for an hour so far I can’t comment on it much, but I’m loving the slow-motion when pulling tricks, fuelled by the special bar. I also grabbed a Mad Catz HD VGA cable that included an optical lead. The leap from 640×480 to 1280×1024 was insane, though I get a weird black bar appearing on the right-hand-side of the monitor. It could be down to using a 3rd party VGA lead I suppose.
For those of you, like myself, running Windows Server 2003 (or 2000) on your Media Server, then try TVersity - as I’ve found it flawless at sharing my media library with my 360 - which brings me to the only flaw with the XBOX 360’s blades - it needs a search facility for media, as trawling through 14,001 songs is a nightmare. I’ll be organising it into playlists, but a search facility would be the cherry (on the icing) on the cake.
I’ll write an article sometime soon, documenting the first few weeks of my XBOX 360 experience.
If you’re reading this Adamskii, sign into XBOX Live for a little surprise - oh and remind me of your method for obtaining a year’s subscription for cheap! For anyone else, I’m MJLazlow, but am yet to achieve anything noteworthy.
April 20th, 2007 at 10:49 am
I think the trick to cheap Xbox Live subscription is to buy a budget/discounted or even xbox 1 game that has the years membership free with it.
April 20th, 2007 at 11:35 am
I think that sounds like what he said - just I can’t seem to find any with a free year’s membership, Call of Duty 3 came with 48hours free lol.
April 20th, 2007 at 12:09 pm
Bo bo bo bo bo bo bo BO!
When you sign onto xbox live you will get 1 month free of gold to get you going. Yep what I used to do was buy xbox 1 games with free live subscriptions which would work out as £15 for a game and the year which was a top deal. As you say tho…. Its hard to find thesedays it seems. I fooking hope not impossible because mine runs out early nxt year. ill hook onto live now.
April 20th, 2007 at 12:12 pm
If it helps you locate the xbox live offer, they were called Xbox live starter kits.
April 20th, 2007 at 12:24 pm
hahaha funny voice msg.
Now your my friend! woowoo
Oh and theres a C&C demo out,
Give u a game of forza and Call of duty later dood?
April 20th, 2007 at 12:25 pm
wtf not forza i mean PGR3 of course :|
April 20th, 2007 at 1:14 pm
Sunday evening I can, but I’m off to Windsor at 6pm today.
I’ll look for the XBOX live starter kits in a sec then, but haven’t come across anything like it on Amazon, Play, Game and Gamestation.
April 20th, 2007 at 1:17 pm
Hmmm I found one instantly on Play.com
Pity it’s with Project Gotham 2, but I’ll keep looking. Out of interest, what XBOX 1 games did you get with your starter kit(s)?
April 20th, 2007 at 2:41 pm
erm forza1 and fifa 05 came together with one, and pro evo 5 came with another. That pgr2 starter kit works out cheaper then a year doesnt it? free game too. tell me if you find any others.
Cant play sunday ill be in wales, ill play monday eve for sure tho.
April 20th, 2007 at 4:50 pm
here’s a cool vid of forza 2 customisation. http://www.xboxyde.com/stream_3710_en.html
April 23rd, 2007 at 3:58 pm
another forza 2 vid, looks like the game has come on a looong was in last couple o months, now due out in june :(
April 23rd, 2007 at 3:58 pm
whoops! ^ http://www.xboxyde.com/stream_3713_en.html
April 23rd, 2007 at 8:28 pm
Bo!
I forgot to mention, I picked up Goldeneye Rogue Agent at the weekend, for a fiver. I’ve not tried it yet, but hopefully it’ll work OK on the 360 - but I seem to remember it receiving poor-ish reviews.
April 23rd, 2007 at 10:34 pm
hmm, dont be too hopeful. Its not on the list lol http://www.xbox.com/en-GB/games/backwardcompatibilitygameslist.htm
April 24th, 2007 at 8:16 am
Oh poo. Ah well, I’ll sell it on again for a tenner. I completely forgot to check the list…
April 24th, 2007 at 9:56 am
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/6586879.stm crazy world!
April 24th, 2007 at 10:30 am
That’s mental!