A few weeks back now, me and Geoff landed on quite an awesome deal to upgrade our home cinema setup. Not only did it include a 50″ Samsung DLP HDTV, a 5.1 Dolby/DTS amp, DVD player and speaker set, but more importantly an Xbox 360.
I’ve been looking to get an Xbox 360 for a while, but I couldn’t justify buying one brand new - I’m not an avid console gamer, but I certainly enjoy playing some games on consoles in front of the TV. For example, I went out and bought a PS2 to play GT3, and then sold it once I’d completed the game. I then went and bought a PS2 slim to play GT4.
One game that I’ve really got into was Gears of War - normally that wouldn’t surprise anyone, because it is a truly awesome game, but it surprised quite a few of the guys in the office because they know I’m a usually in the “FPS games belong on the PC” mindset. While Gears isn’t first person, it’s still a shooter - a bloody good one at that.
I also really enjoyed Bioshock on the Xbox 360 too, arguably more than I enjoyed it on the PC when I had the chance to play an early build of both versions at 2K Games’ offices in July. That game, in particular, has left me in a bit of a sticky situation - I want to play the PC version because that’s my heritage when it comes to first person shooters, but I found myself really enjoying the 360 version too… so much so, that I think I might have to buy both versions of the game.
Anyway, the real point of this post was that I finally signed up to an Xbox Live Gold account yesterday, so if you fancy handing my ass to me in Gears (I’m not particularly good, yet…), I’ll see you online - my gamertag is “mitmitmit“.