New Toy: xBox 360 Premium
I’ve never really been into gaming, years ago I was highly addicted a computer game called Subspace A.K.A Continuum, which was a very simple game similar to the classic game Asteroids. You would battle your 2D spaceship online against people from all around the world, there were teams/squads and even a competitive league. Other than that I had a PS2 that I would occasionally play Madden with friends or Socom II online, which was pretty fun. Until I let a friend borrow my PS2 and never seen it again, so I pretty much stopped gaming at all.
These last couple weeks I’ve heard a lot of hype about the new GTA IV. I remembered the game from PS2, it was pretty cool, but didn’t look like anything being advertised as far as graphics. So I decided I would try it for my self on a new HD gaming console. I was indecisive on weather I wanted a PS3 or an xBox 360. I picked up a PS3 used form Gamestop for $350 with GTA IV, brought it home plugged it in to my HD TV to discover the picture was really dark and very difficult to read small text. This obviously wasn’t acceptable since the PS3 + HDTV cost around $2,000. So I tried the PS3 on another TV, this one wasn’t HD so I used standard A/V hookups and the picture was still dark, this time there was even a horizontal shadow that crawled up my screen. So I decided to bring the PS3 back and get my money back, with intentions on picking up an xBox 360 off the internet for much less than i paid for the PS3 from Game Stop.
I found an xBox 360 Premium console on Craigslist for $300 that was brand new. Apparently the seller had issues with his original unit so Microsoft sent him a new one, which he decided to sell. I also ended up buying Call Of Duty 4 off him and was able to swap my GTA IV for PS3 for the xBox version from Game Stop.
So now I setup on my TV, turn it on and the picture looks amazing! Way better than the PS3 did. Now I’m not trying to dog on the PS3 I’m sure it’s a great console, I may have just gotten a defective one, since I did buy it used, or maybe it didn’t like my older HDTV that does not have an HDMI input.
Anyways both of the games are truly amazing, I can’t even begin to imagine the amount of work put into these games. I like COD4 very much, the missions are so real and I can literally sit there and play it for hours on end without getting bored. GTA IV is needless to say awesome beyond belief. The multi player for GTA IV is great, you can get a group of your friends together and have battles with other gangs, take over territories or just have death matches. I like jumping into a car with like 3 other live players and doing a drive by while your talking to them over a headset. That’s another reason I’m glad I got the xBox 360 over PS3, I know a lot more people with an xBox live account then I do with PS3. Although Live costs like ~$20 every 3 months, it’s pretty cheap and well worth it.
So if you have an xBox Live account, you should add me to your friends list.
Gamer Tag: mikecicc