By The XBox 360 finally arrived at my house last night. Last week I wrote about the 360 tracker at Ben's Bargains that tells you which sites have it in stock. As soon as I started using that, I found the 360 online. I ordered the mega-bundle from Wal-Mart, which contains the premium XBox package, six games, and various accessories. The price totaled over $900 with tax and shipping. It's outrageous, but I read on a message board that you can return the games and accessories that you don't want to any Wal-Mart store. This is true--I've already returned a number of items from the bundle. You don't get the shipping cost back, but paying an extra $25 doesn't seem so bad compared to people paying $100-$500 more on EBay.
I almost believe in karma, or maybe that everything in life has to be balanced. On the day the XBox came, a few minor things broke in my bathroom. Then I made the mistake of upgrading my Windows XP Pro computer to Windows Media Center. Various things went wrong with that and I spent a lot of time trying to repair it. As a result, I played only a couple of hours of 360 games.
Quick impressions: Project Gotham Racing 3 is fabulous in every way. Perfect Dark Zero has a terrific opening screen, like a James Bond movie, but the game itself is a big letdown. Geometry Wars Retro Evolved is like crack cocaine and Lays potato chips, you can't play just one round. My mission is to crack 100,000 points, the closest I came was 93,000.
I gotta tell you, when that box arrived, I felt like Link uncovering a magic ring in Zelda. Or Dr. Don Blake finding the cane that he would tap on the floor. Or Dolph Lundgren as He-Man, raising the sword: I Have The Power! Isn't it pathetically geeky? Maybe I can calm down now and stop whining about not having the latest toy. Nuff said.
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