After a few months of pondering the Wii, Xbox 360 and PS3, I decided to plump for the 360. After a start with a fairly uninspiring set of launch and early titles, the 360 seems to be graced with some truly impressive titles lately. The Wii, whilst innovative and having a lot of great first party Nintendo titles, gives me the impression that I'll be playing the same games that I've been playing for over ten years, such as Metroid and Zelda. I got to a point a few years ago with Metroid Zero Mission, where I realized this was happening.

So, the Xbox 360. Virgin Megastore in Leeds has a deal for the console (Premium version) with Project Gotham 3, Oblivion and and extra pad for 300 quid. A large initial investment, true, but much cheaper than anywhere else for what you get. Ah! There was a catch. I was told not to place the transformer near to the console to stop overheating and not to move the console whilst it is running to prevent the lazer head hitting the game disk. Fair enough. I got the machine home and played PGR3 for an hour or so. But then I decided to connect it up to my router for Xbox Live, whereby it prompted me to install the update. I did. Things started to go wrong. Every hour or so the machine would lock up. I was told Mr Mike that this was due to the update and there was an article on The Register. Grumble, grumble, grumble! I then invested in a Nyko cooling system that slots on the back. It's a bit (wall a LOT) noisy, but so far I have not had a lock-up. The last thing I invested in was a proper RGB SCART lead, as composite really does look crap compared to an RGB cable which makes a HUGE difference tgo the image quality. I'd much rather invest 15 quid in a cable that in a HD TV for the moment.

I have decided that as I get round to finishing games I will try and review them, if only as a log for myself.