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I have been an avid gamer from a young age, i have used a range of game console providers and this console meets expectations. Everything promised by Amazon was delivered , if you want to buy a console buy this one , well worth the money and the games that come with it are good too.
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This review is from: Xbox 360 250GB Console: Includes Forza 4 Essentials Edition and Full Game Download of Skyrim (Console)
Along with the xbox came a headset, controller with batteries (thanks for those), the xbox and necessary cords, and of course a disc copy of Forza 4 which I found to be quite fun, and a digital download of Skyrim. At £10 more than the regular 250GB Xbox you may as well get these two games with your console, seeing as they both retail for at least £10 each! Overall happy with the console, plenty of storage and it runs with less fan noise than the previous Xbox’s.
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This review is from: Xbox 360 250GB Console: Includes Forza 4 Essentials Edition and Full Game Download of Skyrim (Console)
I think everyone knows by now about the XBox so I won’t waste your time. Two things about this surprised me, one good and one bad. Good – it’s much quieter than the previous XBox we had, it was often mentioned that this would be the case, but it’s nice to experience that it really is a lot quieter.
Bad – On powering on, we had to download an update before it would connect to XBox Live. Then next time we switched it on (next morning), we had to do another update before it could connect. We downloaded the included SkyRim game (download only). When we started the game it needed a download before it would play. We have a slow broadband connection and we spent pretty much all of the first two days just downloading updates (plus the heavyweight download of the game itself).
Tip: if you have a slow connection, you should go into your settings and extend the inactivity power-off period and/or allow background downloads (download continues when powered down). Otherwise you leave it downloading and come back to find that it didn’t get very far before it shut down to save power.
So this isn’t a criticism of the XBox itself, but rather the problems of delivering software that needs immediate and extensive patching via downloads – and the fact that without the downloads we couldn’t connect to XBOx Live at all – so each download was mandatory and not simply adding extra features, etc. Don’t let it put you off, but be aware that it may be a little frustrating for the first few times you power up.
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Superb.,
I have been an avid gamer from a young age, i have used a range of game console providers and this console meets expectations. Everything promised by Amazon was delivered , if you want to buy a console buy this one , well worth the money and the games that come with it are good too.
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|A good deal with all the necessary components,
Along with the xbox came a headset, controller with batteries (thanks for those), the xbox and necessary cords, and of course a disc copy of Forza 4 which I found to be quite fun, and a digital download of Skyrim. At £10 more than the regular 250GB Xbox you may as well get these two games with your console, seeing as they both retail for at least £10 each! Overall happy with the console, plenty of storage and it runs with less fan noise than the previous Xbox’s.
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|Nothing surprising perhaps but quieter than expected – be aware of downloads,
I think everyone knows by now about the XBox so I won’t waste your time.
Two things about this surprised me, one good and one bad.
Good – it’s much quieter than the previous XBox we had, it was often mentioned that this would be the case, but it’s nice to experience that it really is a lot quieter.
Bad – On powering on, we had to download an update before it would connect to XBox Live. Then next time we switched it on (next morning), we had to do another update before it could connect. We downloaded the included SkyRim game (download only). When we started the game it needed a download before it would play.
We have a slow broadband connection and we spent pretty much all of the first two days just downloading updates (plus the heavyweight download of the game itself).
Tip: if you have a slow connection, you should go into your settings and extend the inactivity power-off period and/or allow background downloads (download continues when powered down). Otherwise you leave it downloading and come back to find that it didn’t get very far before it shut down to save power.
So this isn’t a criticism of the XBox itself, but rather the problems of delivering software that needs immediate and extensive patching via downloads – and the fact that without the downloads we couldn’t connect to XBOx Live at all – so each download was mandatory and not simply adding extra features, etc.
Don’t let it put you off, but be aware that it may be a little frustrating for the first few times you power up.
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