As you all know I got a 360 for my B'day. I planned on buying a 360 this year and actually got it earliar than I thought! This happened all the way back in Mid-February and I never unboxed it for many reasons, but mainly cause I was busy with my education and never had the time to play. I decided to open the thing this week and start my first ever playthrough of a non-Sony console. Its the first time I ever had owned2 consolesof the same generation and it was pretty interesting.
After the unboxing stage, I plugged it in, found a comfortable spot underneath my PS3 for it to stayand switchedon my TV and pressed that 360 Power button.. BEEP! that noise sounded off. And sat there staring at the TV with relief... Finally I'm actually gonna get the chance to play a Xbox 360. The 360 logo animation began and I started working my way through the settings and it was quick! And suddenly Avatars showed up on my screen and I was confused, for a second there I thought I just got a Wii... LOL! I skipped throught the avatar part, didn't really care about that part!
Anyways I had 2 games: Gears of War & Halo 3... 2 critically acclaimed games, and 2 of the top 360 games to this date! Before I begin giving my impressions of each gameI'd like to talk about one thing.
THE 360 CONTROLLER IS AWESOME!!! No really it is! I remember playing the original Xbox at my friend's house and it was a nightmare! The controller was Fat, Ugly, and just Uncomfortable! After playing through this new one, It was probably the best controller I had ever used... Don't get me wrong Dualshock is Amazing, but I never thought it would be topped... But This controller actually did! Especially for shooters, nothing feels better than playing a shooter on the 360.. The triggers are more comfortable and designedwith shooter games in mind. Not only does it feel good, It looks good too! Well done microsoft, I give the designers an A+ on what they built here!
Gears of War:Alright I finished this game so this is pretty much my final impressions of the game and very colse to my final review which should be u pby next week! First thing is first! I Love this game... the best part about it is when you play through it with a friend! This third-person shooter rocks and deserves all the Game of the Year awards it got... (Good job GS on choosing it...) The cover system is so fluid and the best I've seen in any game topping Uncharted 2! (cover system only) They kinda in a way perfected it.. :P The Graphics hold up even to this day, and some of the best I've ever seen... Im kinda blown away how this game holds up, last time I checked it was a 2006 game! But for some reason it kinda looks like a 2009 game to me... The shooting is fun, The chainsaw use is brilliant, andthere is a lot of blood! Buckets of it, and thats how I like it :D Its no surprise that I like God of War, and the gore in this game is equal to it... I didnt like 2 things in the game, first the story was kinda dull and not that interesting, same goes with the characters... Also Lots of cheesy dialogue here and there.. Overall this game is a blast, it should be played by every lover of action games!
Halo 3: This franchise is a phenomenon, its partially the reason Call of Duty is as big as it is now. It defined the First Person shootergenre on the consoles and did it in revolutionary ways! Halo 3 is true to that franchise...Im close to finishing the campaignand I mightjust getbashed by people by saying this but I dig this more than the Call of Duty... Nothing touches the brillaint MW2 SPEC OPS modesbut I just love playing with the halo vehicles in general! Something that the Call of Duty ends to ignore in general.Buy this game!
Overall I love my 360, I plan on buying Gears 2 and Mass Effect 1 & 2 next... This year cant get any better for me as a gamer, 2010 you are just EPIC! :D