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Wednesday - December 28, 2005

xbox 360 impressions


Mom gave us a brand new xbox 360 for Christmas, along with Project Gotham Racing 3. I plugged it up at my parent's house, and wasn't exactly blown away, but when I got home that changed. The combination of an HDTV, and xbox live makes this system a blast. I've already logged 10 hours or so. You may have noticed I also added my Gamer Tag to my main website. This shows you my game achievements, and what I'm currently playing. PGR3 is on there, along with a couple games I've played on xbox live marketplace. So far, I don't have any major complaints about the system. It works great. The only minor complaint, is that it does not come with a digital optical cable, so I had to use one of my Best Buy gift certs to pick that up so I could get Dolby 5.1.

Also, my sister gave me Mario Kart DS. Lara loves it. She already completed the 50cc mode. I haven't gotten a chance to play it much, but it seems very fun. Unfortunately, I was less than impressed with the online play. First, I had to hard code an IP address, as it wouldn't talk to my DHCP server. Once online, I found it hard to find enough racers to fill up all the spots. Usually, I could only find a single opponent. If anybody has any ideas, please let me know.

Posted by jcraven at December 28, 2005 9:16 AM

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I got Mario Kart DS as well. I had a similar experience with online play. Found one dude who beat my ass a few times and then I gave up and started playing the single player.

I'll be interested to check out the 360.

Posted by: Scott at December 28, 2005 12:33 PM

Man it's so sad, so I created my own Xbox Live Gamer tag: smilling. But alas, I have no achievements. I'm going to be a dork and start playing World of Warcraft...sigh, no HD Blues.

Posted by: Scott at December 30, 2005 2:36 PM

Gave "us" a brand new XBox 360? Get real. You know it was just for you! ;-)

Posted by: Nate at January 1, 2006 10:35 AM

Ha... you'll actually find that lara has been playing quite a bit. She even has a gamer tag http://live.xbox.com/member/HotLara

Posted by: Jeff at January 1, 2006 4:09 PM