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Six Reasons To Invest In A Bigger Xbox 360 Hard Drive

Since the New Xbox Live Experience was implemented some months back, the Xbox 360 drive became an even more significant element of the console.

As you may remember, the Xbox 360 can be bought in a variety of packages, one of them being the arcade package in which you get the console, a controller, a  game, 2 Xbox arcade games, and a memory card. That's right, the Arcade bundle does not come with an Xbox 360 drive to make the package more affordable and more enticing for budget-challenged gamers.

However, the Xbox 360 hard drive has become a prerequisite due to the fact the NXLE added a groundbreaking feature for the console, allowing games to be downloaded directly to the hard drive. This is revolutionary, and highly beneficial for Xbox 360 owners for the following reasons :

1. By permitting the console to read games from the Xbox 360 hard drive, heat inside the system will be minimized because the DVD reader, one of the main heat sources, will be hardly used.

2. Playing games will be easier. The largest Xbox 360 drive today, which is 120GB, can store up to twelve full games.

3. Playing games straight from the Xbox 360 hard drive will minimize, if not eliminate, the hazards of lens damage - one of the most common breakages for the console.

4. Beat of those disc read errors that you keep receiving for particular games. Once your favourite games are installed on the Xbox 360 hard drive, you won't have to encounter such a message again.

5. Many gamers say that playing Xbox 360 games straight from the drive provided a smoother experience. Loading time has become quicker.

6. Disc loading will be a thing of the past. No more sights of doors opening solely to hide the fact that the game is loading up.

Bigger Xbox Hard Drives bring all these benefits and more, well worth spending a few extra pennies for, trust us!

9 Reasons To Invest in an Xbox 360 Elite

At $399 RRP, the Xbox 360 Elite package isn't actually an inexpensive purchase that any zealous gamer can afford. Is it worth the investment though? We say it is, and we have 10 reasons to back up our claim.

1. All the games you would like, here, now. The Xbox 360 has thrice as many as the Sony Playstation 3.

2. Great upcoming games: Halo: ODST and Reach, Rock Band : Beatles, Metal Gear Solid : Rising, Final Fantasy XIII, Modern Warfare 2, Assassins Creed 2. These are just some of the games that are coming very, very shortly the Xbox 360 Elite. If games define a system, then Xbox 360's future is quite secure.

3. Home of a hundred exclusives. Only in the Xbox 360 will you be in a position to play exclusives like Halo 2 and 3, Fable 2, Mass Effect 2, Gears of War 2, and many, more.

4. Multimedia. Watch films, play music, surf thru net pages, stream Television shows and blockbuster hits, and the like. The Xbox 360 Elite is a multimedia monster that is capable of reading and playing a variety of file formats.

5. Best online gaming. The Xbox Live has the best infrastructure among the networking systems of current consoles. The Nintendo Wii's web capacities are nearly non-existent. The Xbox 360 Elite via the Xbox Live is the best online multi-player experience currently available.

6. Netflix free trial, movies here we come! The Xbox 360 Select includes a free Netflix trial that will enable you to stream your selected movies on your console from  the comforts of your own home. This trial is totally non-committal. You can decide to continue with a regular subscription or decline the service altogether once the trial concludes.

7. 3RL no more. Say hello to the Jasper. The three red lights of death - a mistake code that signals general hardware failure and plagues a third of the Xbox 360 consoles released earlier - is nearly nonexistent with the Xbox 360 Elite.

8. The Xbox 360 Elite comes with 2 pre-packaged games. Currently, the latest package includes two fantastic exclusives, Halo 3 and Fable 2.

9. 120GB drive! The Xbox 360 Select includes a humongous 120GB hard drive, which is bigger than the storage capacity of most PCs these days. You will not have to worry about lacking storage space for your downloads.

Why the Bioshock 2 Game Will Be So Popular

Now it will be very often agreed by lots of gamers and critics together that Bioshock is an example of one of the best First Person Shooters to be developed in the past 10 years. It boasts a standard critic rating of 96% at Metacritic.com, and some communities even describe the title as a work of art. Bioshock's storyline is in myriad ways based on and galvanized by the top selling novel "Atlas Shrugged", and centres round the geopolitical situations occurring in an oceanic Atlantis-like metropolis named Rapture.

In a deviation from the first title, the Bioshock 2 game will put gamers in control of the slow and lumbering Big Daddy. As gamers of the first game will understand, Rapture was set up with the idea of founding a culture freed from capitalistic government laws and religious moralities, but naturally, it then went significantly pear-shaped. As Bioshock hero Jack exposed mutated and disgusting creatures named Splicers were at large in the area, roaming and slaughtering at will. These monsters were actually all that was remaining of the society.

During the Bioshock 2 game, Big Daddy has the dangerous task of returning to Rapture, looking into a sequence of abductions. It seems that the multitude of Little Sisters that succeeded in making it to the surface in the first game are being thieved away and returned to the shadows of Rapture, and it's up to Big Daddy to put things right.

The Bioshock 2 game follows the foundations and idiosyncrasies of the first, with some important twists on the gaming. Graphical augmentations are also there, with the game functioning a lot more smoothlysmoother, allowing for a clear demonstration of graphics. This contributes to the feeling of a great game, and developers 2K have pulled it off with merit.

Of course being in charge of a robot does bring varied gaming benefits, he is able to combine a number of guns and drills in one hand, while using the arcane 'plasmid' with the other. Plasmid is employed to make e;ectricity, fire and also to control things using telekinesis. The abilities are improved duringthe game and levelled up as you progress forwards.

Plenty of time and attention has been applied in the Bioshock 2 game. There are some updated areas in Rapture, it's now possible to investigate the ocean floor and research the systems around the domain of the city. A complaint with the first was that the array of creatures was somehat limited and repeated, and this has been nicely fixed in the follow up with a range of interesting nasties. Watch out for Big Sister, who tracks your progress and will attempt to impede you at various parts. 2K Games are hoping for a release this Fall, and for many devotees of the first, the Bioshock 2 game is set for release simultaneously on the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and Microsoft Windows platforms and cannot come soon enough for their fans.

Terminator Salvation: The Game!

With the Terminator Salvation movie fast approaching, games developers GRIN are about to release their videogame adaptation. Adaptations of movie material within the gaming world have been steadily increasing in quality recently, first with Riddick: Dark Athena and now with Wolverine Origins. Terminator Salvation hopes to emulate this success, bringing us the war ravaged environment of the future war, controlling John Conner in his battle against the machines.

The game actually takes place two years before the events of the movie, chronicling the events leading up to the film as Connor fights his way to the rank of leading officer in mankind's struggle against Skynet. The game acts as a great prequel to the film, showing how Conner comes to meet the characters he knows in the film, along with establishing himself as a leader of men.

The gameplay itself is geared towards tactical assault, revolving around outflanking and careful maneuvers, along with extensive use of cover. Many enemies that are nearly impenetrable from the front can sometimes be easily obliterated from behind, and this is accomplished by using mechanics such as sliding from cover to cover and using blind fire to draw attention. Inflicting a certain amount of damage against your cyborg enemies will reveal inner circuitry, which if targeted skilfully can deliver crippling or finishing blows. The wide variety of weapons available provide various tactical options, ranging from accurate sniper fire to destructive RPG missiles. The addition of multiplayer rounds off an impressive looking game.

The release of Terminator Salvation just before the film is an interesting and potentially hugely marketable move, but time will tell whether the game will stand alone as a great adaptation, or like many past attempts will fail to satisfy the consumers.

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