getting Xbox 360 need advice

randomname

Hey I'm gonna pick up an xbox 360 pretty soon.
I'm just wondering what games are the best?
And...where should i buy it i.e. to get a good bundle deal or get it cheap.

Input is much appreciated!
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GrumPy

Cant really recommened games, dunno what your into, but if you like shooters, and online multiplayer, GRAW, if you like racers pgr3, if you like sports fight night.

randomname

I'm into CS and BF2 on the PC. I had project gotham on xbox thought it was really good.

Is call of duty 2 better than GRAW?
Is Perfect Dark any good?

Oh yeah i love PES.

GrumPy

GRAW is much better then cod, why? because cod2 is a piece of lag, badly coded networking shíte on xbox live.

perfect dark is a BAD version of timesplitters,

and PES5 works on the 360, although there is no 360 version out yet.

randomname

Cheers guys.

Whats da story with Xbox Live, i take it you need to buy a membership when i buy the machine?

Any decent platformers on Xbox 360?

GrumPy

buy a 360, hook it up, you get a months free trial of gold (live, with multiplayer) and if you like it, buy it (€60 for 12months) and if you dont, dont.

randomname

lol nah i'm looking forward to play some online games!! so i will get the 12 month membership after the month one runs out.

dead or alive? is it still the poor mans tekken\soul calibur?

kensutz

Get an original xbox live membership for half the price from Play.com and you get an automatic gold membership

mcgovern

kensutz wrote:

Get an original xbox live membership for half the price from Play.com and you get an automatic gold membership

Do you need to make a new profile for this to work (dont want to lose gamer points) and do you need to connect it upto the original Xbox 1st (mine would get me banned pretty quick )

kensutz

Shouldn't think that you'd have to make a new account, just upgrade it using a "gold" membership

fifth

I think RIdge racer is great.

Definitely get GRAW and maybe fight night. Then Elder scrolls IV later this month.

ANTO D10 DUB

G.R.A.W is a defo purchase , as for racing game's i would'nt bother progject gothem i'd hold off and wait for either testdrive unlimited or moto gp 06 .
plus you have battlefeild 2 out early next month that should be good.

lafors

ANTO D10 DUB wrote:

G.R.A.W is a defo purchase , as for racing game's i would'nt bother progject gothem i'd hold off and wait for either testdrive unlimited or moto gp 06 .
plus you have battlefeild 2 out early next month that should be good.

How much would I get off GRAW in Game if I trade in PDZ limited ed?
I want to keep the rest of my games.

On PGR3 I would get it if you like racing games, I have had a savage time playing on live with it. Solo game is a bit repetitive after a while, though it gives great practice for handling certain cars, which is needed so you won't keep coming last

Laguna

randomname wrote:

dead or alive? is it still the poor mans tekken\soul calibur?

Yeah, pretty much. It's not a very sophisticated fighter, but it's the 360's first and a certain amount of fun can be had with its button bashing delights..

Kinetic^

As people have said before, GRAW is a must.

Then if you like racers then get PGR3, very good game with quite alot of replay value me thinks.

Then sports games, I didn't really get to play FIFA much but I heard its pants. Madden is quite good but can be laggy online if playing americans. NBA is good to but doesn't require alot of skill. I'm getting fight night this weekend but from what I've heard its really good.

PD0 is ok, not as good as GRAW. Its got some good online play but 1st player is lacking. COD2 is the exact opposite (ATM). 1 player game is just amazing and if they bring out this patch then online will be good too but it's probably too late with everybody hooked on GRAW.

So my advice would be to get GRAW, PGR3 & FNR3. Kameo could be a good addition as a different game but I'm hearing alot of good things about oblivion so maybe you could wait for that.

ANTO D10 DUB

i got 40 euro each for PGR and QUAKE 4 of extravision and battlefield 2 modren combat .
for that i got graw a plug'n'charge kit and a silver faceplate:D

Kinetic^

ANTO D10 DUB wrote:

i got 40 euro each for PGR and QUAKE 4 of extravision and battlefield 2 modren combat .
for that i got graw a plug'n'charge kit and a silver faceplate:D

Which extra vision Anto?

ANTO D10 DUB

the ballyfermot one:cool:

Kinetic^

ANTO D10 DUB wrote:

the ballyfermot one:cool:

Sweet, not to far from there so I'll pop down there over the weekend to offload one or 2 games.

turnfan

Smyths have an offer - 360 + PDZ for 349.99(core) 449.99(pro)
Best offer in the market if you don't have a lot of cash to spend.
Perfect Dark Zero is the best implemented Live FPS
-forget GAMEs b*ll*x offers, you have to buy loads of stuff

Skyuser

Get 'Test Drive Unlimited' on 31st March.

Alnilam

Skyuser wrote:

Get 'Test Drive Unlimited' on 31st March.

Not a hope of that. IGHN has the release as july, Atari haven't announced a date, play.com have changed the release to 28th april or something like that so who knows when it will see the light of day. Worst luck, I'm looking forward to that more than any other release that's slated at the moment and there's no date so far on it.

fifth

Now that is a good deal considering I paid €500 for Xbox premium + play and charge kit + ridge racer about 2 weeks ago.

:[

FranchisePlayer

Don't get PDZ after the first two first two levels its ****e.

Timans

ANTO D10 DUB wrote:

i got 40 euro each for PGR and QUAKE 4 of extravision and battlefield 2 modren combat .
for that i got graw a plug'n'charge kit and a silver faceplate:D

That's terrible,

Do you mean 40 overall? or 40 for each game?

Like, that's 20€ for a game which cost 70. I thought you would get at least 35 for each 360 game.

fifth

Timans wrote:

That's terrible,

Do you mean 40 overall? or 40 for each game?

Like, that's 20€ for a game which cost 70. I thought you would get at least 35 for each 360 game.

I'm pretty sure we are only offering €34.99 trade up on 360 games at the moment.

But I haven't had any one trade in a game to us for about 2 weeks.

ANTO D10 DUB

40 each:D
g.r.a.w =75
play'n'charge=23 haha
faceplate=20
and 2 euro change

GrumPy

Why cant anyone get it right? it's a play and charge kit.

GrumPy

AHHH LOL Im from ireland so xbox live edited my card !! :D:D:D

Timans

Yeah, well i have the most rocking card on this whole site!

Mu ha aha aha ahah!

Happy paddy's day guys. :P