Vagusnet

Now before anybody says anything i just want you to know that these are the views of me and me only and nobody else.

The Xbox 360 has now been out for over 18 months and I’m looking at it and wondering what the hell has it brought to the table in the past 18 months that has justified the console and the new generation of gaming.

First off I’m going to stick up for the 360 by saying that it has pushed online console gaming to a new height because if it wasn’t for the 360 i doubt that Sony and even Nintendo would of thought about going online and i just want to clap my hands for what Microsoft has done.
It has just been online where the Xbox 360 is great at, we know that it has a lot of FPS and racing games but it handles them so well that it shows you a console can handle a FPS and they are not just for PC gamers.

Now it’s time for me to blast the 360, other than it having great FPS and racing games there isn’t much else on the 360 that’s has really stood out, so far most of the games have either been really terrible or they haven’t lived up to there hype.
My first case in point comes in the form of Gears of War now this game was hyped up so much that i wanted to punch anybody else who talked about before the release of the game, when the game finally got released did it live up to my expectations well for the first 5 minutes it did but the more you scratched the pretty graphics surface the more you realised that this is just another bog standard no brainier action game, the saving grace of Gears of War came in the form of the multi player however even this started to grate on me after a while and i started to get sick of it.
It’s not just Gears of War that has disappointed me i was really looking forward to Lost Planet, Dead Rising, Splinter Cell etc but even these turned out to be last gen games with a few nice graphical touches.
So this goes to show that the 360 is rooted in the last gen but is trying to make up for it with new shiny graphics and passing them off as something new, if i wanted a last gen game i would of stayed with the xbox, ps2 and gamecube but the whole point of a new generation of gaming is to be treat with something new not thrown the same game out again and again.

I have enjoyed my time so far with the 360 but there have been a lot of times when i look at my white console and think to myself did i make the right choice in choosing this or should I’ve just waited a little longer before buying one.
I’m looking on the horizon of the 360 and it is starting to become a bit more clear that this new generation might live up to the hype but it has taken over 18 months for this to happen and a lot is riding on the second generation of games for the 360 because now it has competition from the PS3 with it’s better graphics (sort of) and the Wii with it’s different take on gaming.

Whether the games coming out for the 360 over the next year makes me happy that i picked it remains to be seen but i am keeping my fingers crossed that my white box of tricks is going to shine.

Now if you have any opinions on what I’ve just said by all means post up a comment as i would like to know what you think.