I’ve had my Sony PlayStation 3 for a couple of weeks now. While I cannot say that I wish I had never gotten it, I can say that I am currently disappointed with this system.
It really doesn’t matter what message board or forum you visit, you’ll find people comparing the PS3 and the Xbox 360. And there will always be someone asking which is better. My response was always the same, “it depends on what you want it for.” Continue reading
I was pretty excited when I first heard about Mortal Kombat vs DC. The thought of Scorpion vs. Batman was just cool. Yesterday evening my step brother decided to pick up the game for the Xbox 360. While it was a fun game, I’m glad I wasn’t the one that spent $50 on it.
While it has a lot of nice visual details, and the story was decent, the game itself felt like it was missing a lot. For starters, there isn’t a lot of fighters. MK vs. DC only has 22 characters so it’s missing a lot of people from both universes. If you’re expecting to unlock additional characters, you’ll be sadly mistaken… there are two characters that can be unlocked by completing each of the story modes. Two, that’s it.
The only hope is that maybe, we’ll see additional characters added by way of downloadable content. After all, that is the new way of milking money out of the customers, isn’t it??
While fun, right now I couldn’t justify buying the game. Perhaps if the downloadable content adds enough at a fair price (i.e. free) then I might change my tune.
Despite that nice new PS3 that I got for Christmas, I’ve not been able to put down my Xbox 360 remote just yet. I’m in the middle of Prince of Persia, and I’m having a lot of fun with it.
I find it ironic that as New Year’s Eve approaches, I’m stuck in the middle of Prince of Persia. A year ago on New Year’s Eve my home was broken into and most of my video games were stolen including two Prince of Persia games; The Warrior Within and The Two Thrones. I was in the middle of The Warrior Within at the time.
The graphics of the game took me a while to get use to, but they aren’t bad by any means. I was just expecting them to look more like Assassin’s Creed (another awesome game!).
The new Prince of Persia is more of an acrobat story than anything. You spend most of your time jumping, running, and climbing. A few puzzles are mixed in to break things up, but for the most part that is all the game offers.
Combat? Oh sure, you get that on occasion. Usually when you are fighting one of the main bosses, which you’ll do several times. Aside from the bosses, you may run into another enemy here and there, but it’s certainly not the combat game I would have expected.
There is also a good bit of dialogue within the game, part of it offers details to the story, while other parts of the dialogue (usually from the Prince) add some humor and comic relief… some of which has had me rolling on the floor.
Those of you who enjoyed Assassin’s Creed may be happy to know that you can play through Prince of Persia as Altair via an unlockable skin. Both Assassin’s Creed and Prince of Persia are Ubisoft games.
Yesterday afternoon Microsoft released the much discussed Xbox 360 fall update which contained a major overhaul to the Xbox 360 dashboard. Dubbed Xbox Experience (or NXE), the new dashboard operates much faster, but takes some adjusting as it is drastically different.
With the new update users now have the ability to create cartoony “avatars” (very similar to Miis on the Nintendo Mii). Hopefully they’ll be some more customization options added later on (and hopefully they wont cost MS points).
Probably the biggest thing is the addition of Netflix. That’s right, you can now stream movies from Netflix to your Xbox 360, provided of course that you have a Netflix membership. This might just cause me to renew my membership. 
One last thing that I’m happy to see is that you can now “install” Xbox 360 games to the hard drive. I’ve not tried it out yet, but it’ll be nice to not have to swap out disk to play games.
On the downside, since updating to the NXE I’ve had some major problems with my system just freezing up. Granted, I did just get my system back from Microsoft after a RRoD so this may be pure concidence. However, some folks over at Neowin are also reporting freezing during games or while on the dashboard. Anyone else having problems?
Feel free to friend me on Xbox Live. As you’d probably expect, I use the gamertag “d3bruts1d“. 
Early this morning, I received an email from the Microsoft XBox repair shop. Thankfully, the subject of the email made since, or I might have suspected the email from Xbox_ AOC Web EN (XBOX_.HARD.NA.00.EN.000.000.TS.T01.SPT.00.WB@css.one.microsoft.com) to be spam. Seriously, what’s up with the email address?? Was repair-services@microsoft.com already taken??
The email states that my XBox 360 has been received by the service center. Good news indeed, as the UPS tracking number I had showed that the package was delivered on 11/07/08 @ 3:45 pm. Following the link included in the email, I’m taking back to the XBox “repair status” website, which shows that not only has it been received, but repaired and reshipped. I even have a new UPS tracking number that indicates it is on its way back to me.
While I applaud Microsoft with the quick turn around time for fixing my XBox, clearly their notification system needs some tweaking.