bumcrack

Just wonderd how the new Xbox 360 owners rate it. I've got a old one and am thinking of upgrading.
What's games are good?

messiah

When it works it's great - when it's hanging and chucking red lights at you it isnt.

Had a lot less problems since MS replaced mine but the dashboard is still plods a long a bit.

Games? Depends what you like really, I think every game has someone on here who loves it and hates in equal measure but I'd recommend Burnout, PGR3, CoD2 & GRAW - and get ready for Gears Of War out next month, it looks a stormer (CoD3 out same day I think), good games due out early next year too - Forza 2, Rainbow Six Vegas, Halo 3...

and anyone know when Half Life 2 is due out?

ScoobyDoo555

Great - I've been one of the lucky ones. I only get a red circles when I turn it off and back on again quickly.

Give it 5 mins, and it's AOK

Dan

Iain Young

I'm now on my 4th one!!

Great machine when it's working though. I would't be without it

Mogsi

I must be one of the lucky ones, still on my launch day console here.

* goes away to touch a huge piece of wood....

I'm sure most owners would agree it's a superb piece of kit and the games will only get better... Gears of War being the next 'biggy'.....

NWMark

Mines great, only ever get red lights (the overheating ones) if i close the cover on the cabinet, but to be fair that shuts off all ventilation with only about a 2 inch gap either side and 1 inch gap above. Its never craashed or failed for any other reason.

Games: In no particular order.

PGR 3 - Cant get into it at all, GFX look good, game not my cup of tea
NFSU - If you like this sort of car game its great (kid loves it) again not my cup of tea
COD 2 - Excellent game single and multiplayer both excellent
Kameo - Great game although a little short and not played since i completed it.
Table Tennis - Really good, not much depth to it but the price reflected this, great playing against friends
Fight Night - Single player game pretty good, online not bad but much better against a friend.
LOTR BM 2 - much prefer this type of game on the PC, theyve done a good job with the controller, rate it good no more
Burnout Revenge - loved this on the XBOX this ones even better, online play loads of fun too.
The Outfit - enjoyed the single player game, multiplayer not a patch on other games
Ridge Racer 6 - Again couldnt get a handle on the controls, basically no braking just powerslide everywhere, didnt enjoy this one at all.
GRAW - again really liked this, single player good although ending is rubbish very abrupt ending, multiplayer it great too, loads of options and variation.
Hitman - Didnt like this one too much creeping around and investigation involved and one wrong move in a mission and you where toast

bob269

It must be good if thats what it does to you

I'm also still on launch day console and have had no problems what so ever. PGR, Oblivion, DOA4 are all good,

Forza 2 and Gears of War due soon look promising.

nathanb

iTrader: (1)

I'VE NEVER EVEN SEEN A RED LIGHT ON MINE SO AINT GOT A CLUE WHAT ALL THAT MEANS.....

Sorry for shouting, just taken caps lock off!!

P.s 1st console too.....

RB5-Black

Launch day console (or near enough 7th Dec) never seen a red light yet.

Best console I've ever owned. Xbox live is really showing it's worth now.

You will hear a lot of people moaning about the quality of the demos you can download, what they forget is until a year ago you had to buy a cr@p magazine to get those demos.

ScoobyDoo555

forgot to add, mine's a launch day console too

Dan

messiah

When your console is playing silly beggers your "Ring Of Light" turns into the "Ring Of Death" - the green lights will turn red and flash a code to tell you whats gone fubar this time, such as 2012 = "Why the hell did you buy King Kong???"

ex-webby

Launch day console and no problems what so ever.

Cracking bit of kit on my opinion. Xbox and PS2 havent been used for months now. XBOX360, DS and PSP get the bashing nowadays - when I find time to use them that is.

Mogsi

LOL...

You could well be onto something there, did everybody who had a faulty 360 put King Kong in the drive tray....

messiah

...or spend £400 on a console package to play Hexic all day long...

guilty your honour.

Swen6

Still on my first console from beginning of dec, only time i've seen the red ring of death was when like a **** i left the scart cable out at the back of the console

Marky9074

On launch day console....

Note: NO RALLY GAMES YET

Bummer. Have not really played it to be honest. Have gone back to original as I tend to play rally games.

If you are buying it under the illusion that it is a media player, forget about it. Windows Media Connect is a joke, showing all your music as a big list, and MCE connection is a farce over wireless, even if you have a perfect wireless connection.

I have reverted back to using XBOX Media Center on the original as that has no problem at all over my wireless net. The MCE front end on 360 is so slow you cannot even move the cursor as it is so sloooowwww.

Real dissapointment.

FYI, both DVD drive types firmware have been cracked, so allowing legal backups of your games........

I am waiting for the unsigned code to work, and hopefully the XBMC team will port their good work to the 360!

Mark

bob269

MCE works fine on fine.

davegtt

Mines great too, no problems, Xboxlive seems to be brilliant although Ive not played on it for about a month now and started back on my PS2 but thats because Im addicted to Pro Evo, When number 6 comes out at the end of the month I shall be spending every free minute on the 360 I should imagine and be getting more from xbox live

bigsinky

can anyone let me know is this console anywhere near to being hacked like the old xbox. i have an old xbox with an xecuter3 modchip in it. the pimped version of media centre is superb especially with the wireless link to my big pc upstairs. all those divx movies and torrent downloads streamed to my high def plasma look great.

now if i could get 720i or 1040i that would would be great. can any 360 users out there see this happening soon?

cheers

sinky

PeteBrant

Bought it on launch day - Nowhere near enough quality games - Just generic shovelware. Exception are PGR, Dead Rising, Table tennis, GR:AW - maybe a few others. SHould be rectified by Xmas though, with the likes of Gears of War etc - Also, Lost planet next year, the demo of which is utterly aces.

jaytc2003

iTrader: (1)

only had mine a few weeks and only have PGR, DOA4, Tennis 2,Kameo, must say I am on it every night, the games look stunning and play well, keeps me much more interested than my ps2 which is now just gathering dust.

Iain Young

Erm, well if you are being like that, PGR is definitely generic shovelware as well. It was a rushed out game for release that didn't use anywhere near the potential of the machine, and didn't have as many cars / tracks as the previous game.

There's some great games available for the 360 at the moment, (Oblivion, graw, kameo, lego starwars, burnout revenge to name but a few), and there's some great looking stuff on the run up to xmas. Look out for Forza 2 and Mass Effect early next year as well. They are looking pretty tasty

myblackwrx

iTrader: (1)

I'm looking forward to Bioshock and Phantasy Star universe.

STi wanna Subaru

iTrader: (1)

Doesn't it take something like 2 years to develop a top game? maybe longer... In that case if the developers had some 360 kit before the release it's only going to be from the next few months on that you're going to see anything starting to take advantage of the next gen consoles.....

bob269

The original Sensible Soccer is released on live arcade the start of 2007

myblackwrx

iTrader: (1)

Oblivion took 5 years to develop

Marky9074

As I said....the DVD firmware is already hacked, its only a matter of time before someone runs unassigned code (if they havent already)...

Marky9074

With wireless?

When I do the connection test it passes with flying colours, but when I open up a session it runs like a dog. I just gave up and used XBMC on the classic.

Iain Young

You are not comparing like with like though. Wired will always be quicker than wireless. If you want your 360 mce to run as fast as the old stuff you really need a wired connection, (the wireless spec basically doesn't transmit the stuff as quickly as wired - that's a fault of wireless connectivity, not the xbox).

RB5-Black

Windows media connect on my XP SP2 machine and Connect via my Media centre all work without any problems for me and it's all wireless.

I can even stream the HD demos from the windows site although several people tell me I'm lying