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As I have mentioned quite a lot recently, I have become tired with the Wii’s lack of hardcore games (or decent games, for that matter); so I decided to buy a 360.
The first thing I thought upon buying the console was “Freakin’ heck, this is ridiculously expensive”. I bought an Xbox 360 Elite with two pre-owned games (Halo 3 and Rainbow Six Vegas 2) and one new game (Battlefield: Bad Company) with two controllers, one of which was pre-owned. The whole lot amounted to over £400, which is about $800. On top of this, I have to pay to play online. Sure, it’s only £40 ($80) a year, but before you even start paying for this cost, you have to pay £50ish ($95) to buy the part of the 360 which connects to the internet. It’s worth noting that the other two consoles of this generation allow free online play.
I’ve done some more research, and it turns out that as well as paying for the part of the Xbox 360 that connects to the internet and then paying £3 each month to use it, I also have to either buy a specific router which works for the 360, or get an extended cable which connects my computer to the 360 which would have to stretch over...
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This is a sequel-article to one of my recent articles which was a giant rant about the apparent crappiness of the 360. I think it's fair to say I made it out to be the greatest rip-off on the face of the Earth. EVERYTHING is different once you have got your Gold Membership, there's so much new stuff to download and re-theme your screen. That is, once you've got past the torturous set-up of the internet connection and membership.
My horrible journey started with trailing a giant ethernet cable across my living room (from PC to 360) and digging a nail into the wall above the door frame to serve as a shelf for the cable. The next part was a tedious task which could have been mistaken for setting up a freaking bank account.
After giving the 360 a brief life-story, I thought it was almost done, but then.... over-protective disaster struck. The 360 came to the ridiculous conclusion that I was a 7 year-old child on a quest to find new swear words and rude pictures (even though I'm only a few months away from being able to legally buy every gory, horrific DVD in the world). This resulted in having to set up a whole new account for my mum, so she could...
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The logo for Mirror's Edge (late 2008)
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Sonic Unleashed
Sonic Team clearly stole this from The Hulk. I predict this to be like any other 3D Sonic game: boring, fiddly and a crap story with useless jargon about chaos emeralds and other pseudo-scientific gibberish. The only way for the Sonic series to be salvaged is if they take the story back to Mobius.
Mirror’s Edge
Looks fantastic and original. A first-person free-running game with hyper-sterile graphics and you don’t actually have to kill people to complete your objective.
Fable 2
At E3, Lionhead showed even more footage of Fable 2. Their “fourth feature” (online co-op) wasn’t as exciting and deep as the other 3 features, but good nonetheless. The trailer starts with a bird flying through Bowerstone, it looked so realistic that when the camera followed the bullet-time bird-crap down towards the hero’s head I actually flinched. Lionhead also allowed the press to try out Fable 2 for themselves. Judging from the footage brought back, I’d say that the game is going to be great.
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