…Xbox Live General Manager Marc Whitten states in a letter to customers that, as recompense for nearly two weeks of outages, the group is offering up a full, free Xbox Live Arcade title free of charge. #
As someone finding finding games in Call of Duty 4 a real headache I can certainly attest to the ropeyness of XBL at the moment. I’m not sure I really want a free game as compensation though. Just get it working MS.
I’ve not had much of a chance to play Halo the last couple of days due in part to Open Mic Night but I shall today. You can see my Halo stats here.
I started Halo on Heroic (I think it was Heroic, not the most difficult setting anyway) and unaware that my 360 wasn’t online I launched myself into the single player mode. About 30 minutes in I noticed the 360 was offline and connected the ethernet cable to take it online. The 360 dutifully told me it needed to update and I let it. It did warn me that it might need to reboot but I let it go anyway, assuming it had saved my process. How wrong was I? Nope, it hadn’t saved and I had to redo the previous half hour. Not a major problem, but annoying nonetheless.
Aside from that little outing and a couple of games online I took it over to a friends and we LANd their Elite and my Premium together with each of our copies of Halo 3 for a 2 TV, 4 player split screen set of deathmatches - FUN!
BioShock is a fantastic game; creepy, unsettling, atmospheric, amusing, fun, etc etc. I suggest anyone with an Xbox 360 go out and buy a copy forthwith.
With it being my birthday next week I’m torn between throwing money away on an Xbox 360, a second hand Xbox or Vice City Stories for my PSP. This is fairly significant in itself because I did promise myself that I’d never buy an Xbox or Xbox 360 - so deep does The Cult of the Macintosh run through my veins.
So why am I suddenly tempted? Well its mainly due to the coverage I’ve been reading and hearing about the PS3. I’m sure the PS3 will be great in 2 years time, pumping out fantastic games, hopefully some sort of rumble re-introduced (even if it takes 3rd parties to make the controllers) and no doubt at a reasonable price. I don’t see the PS3 being viable in the short term though (and certainly not within my budget).
The Xbox 360 looks pretty interesting and I really want to play Gears of War. That’s really want to play it. The Xbox 360 is a stretch for my budget though and I hear of price drops some time after Christmas.
The Xbox, well, its pretty cheap at the moment, £70 for a new one from Game. Asides from my irrational reasons for not wanting to buy an MS product - I don’t really want to have to buy a new wheel for it. I have a USB PS2 Logitech force-feedback which may or may not work with the Xbox with an adaptor - anyone? Id have to play TOCA3 online with the Xbox as I don’t really like the homegrown Xbox driving games (Forza etc).
As for Vice City Stories - Liberty City Stories on the PSP was great and I suspect this will be even better but given the choice between £35 for VCS or £70 and then some for the Xbox I’m really undecided.
Normally I’m sure exactly what I want to buy and just go for it, but I’m genuinely in a quandry with this one.
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