Spacedmonkey

After completely my first year of uni I decided to treat myself to a brand new Xbox 360. This decision didn’t come lightly, as the console cost as much £250 and games nearly £50. But as many of my friends had already got them, I decided to give it a go. I have had it nearly two months now and I must admit that I am completely hooked. I don’t know what it is about the thing but I can’t seem to put down the controller and playing. I got a really good deal on Play.com which also ment the console came with another wireless controller and three games best game of the time, Gears of war and PGR 3. It also came with Xbox LIVE Arcade Unplugged. I love Gears of War, parts of it a simply great to look at. But oddly some of the funniest games are the xbox live arcade which had mini downloadable games like Pac-man. Why this funny is that the xbox 360 is an extremely advanced piece of kit, with 4 proccessors and people are playing 20 year old arcade games on them. The best arcade game that I have played is called Hexic HD. It comes free with the console and I must admit I am still playing it months on. It is a puzzle game from Alexey Pajitnov, the original creator of Tetris and it is as adictive.

The only thing that I do not like about the Xbox 360 is the Achievements. These Achievement points are awarded for the completion of game-specific challenges like completing a level etc. You may think that it is a nice way of getting a reward for completing a game but it is not. It is a about showing off and comparing yourself to your friends. As I am new to the gaming world of Xbox 360, I started off with no points, whereas all my friends that have had the constole for nearly two years now have from 6000-20000 points. As each game, when completed is only has 1000 points, it means to catch up with these guys I have to complete 10 games ompletely.

Other than that I love the thing. If you want to add my on Xbox live my gamertag is Spacedmonkeyj or check out my profile page on the profile site.

If you wanted to play Hexic on your PC on from the MSN games.