I played a 360!

I hit up my local WalMart yesterday after hearing that they had a 360 display up. I went in and it just so happened to be sitting there without anyone on it!

Initial impressions:
-I LOVE THE CONTROLLER!!! It was so damn comfortable even with it being restricted by the display harness. The button locations are absolutely perfect. Even the new location for the black and white buttons felt great. As soon as I picked it up I was able to play. There was 0 learning curve. My favorite part of the controller is the Xbox Guide button. Even though the guide wasn' t supported with the demo it still had the menu pop up from the left. It was just so cool!

-The graphics were f-ing awesome. Call of Duty didn' t look quite as good as what the recent trailers have shown but it was still great. Kameo was fairly impressive. I only played it for about 5 minutes but it was fun and looked quite nice. King Kong had some freaking amazing graphics. The human character models were decent but the enviroments and the T-Rex looked amazing. Sadly WalMart sucks and they didn' t set the resolution to match the wide screen display. The games were all running on the basic resolution so the widescreen automatically stretched and distorted everything. That' s dumb for even WalMart.

-The console itself looks even better in person. I wanted to touch it but it was locked away behind the glass. It actually does seem fairly small. I' ll have no problem finding space for it.

XBL Gamertag: Rampage99

" Basically, pollute the air all you want, your just speeding up the inevitable. Our future generations are f*cked as it is and there' s really nothing we can do about it. Have a nice day "

Sadly WalMart sucks

I get so frustrated even talking to WAL-MART about games. I hate phoning up and asking about a game and getting a 60 year old women ask " Is that for Sega or Nintendo?" because thats exactly what happened when i was looking for Shadow of the Colossus.

http://img176.imageshack.us/img176/3962/dieee0pd.jpg

Cod2 look awesome on my pc :P
Im sure it look amazing on xbox360,btw what did the middle button do on the controller?
Hopefully we in sweden get to try the xbox360 some days before december as when it come :S
cause playing cod2+morrowind to pc wont let me sleep at night :P
I dont get it about wallmart,everyone trashtalk it but still every american seems to buy things there O_O? what is wallmart?
And why dont we have it here in sweden,if its so damn big and great.

Even if you break 2 legs from a crab it still runs!
What you gotta do is find its weak spot and do massive damage at it.

it' s not great, lol, they' re cheap tho

- If you' re searching for truth you must look in the mirror and make sense of what you can see, just be..just be!

Wal-Mart at night is where all the freaks go...but, aside fomr that its just a place that sells just about anything for cheap prices.

They dont have any of the stands up near where I live yet. However, while visiting a friend in the middle of nowhere Wisconcin we stumbled upon a fairly fancy Wal-Mart and the 360 was there. Sadly, they had to shut it off since it was interfering with the security systems...at least I got to touch the controller. O so so nice.

Hmm..i think jay leno is a bastard then,if its a shop who just sell everything for cheap,cause every american seems to buy every kind of stuff there,and he seems to make fun of the shop :O
Is he so rich that he thinks low of middle class?
What a jerk.

Even if you break 2 legs from a crab it still runs!
What you gotta do is find its weak spot and do massive damage at it.

I' ve read a lot of Wal-mart and K-mart and all of those cheap stores in the US. And know this: Things aren' t cheap without a reason! Never ever! I have never bought anything in any of those stores. But from documentaries and common sence I' ve learned a few things. The people who work at those stores often get really bad pay checks, forcing them to take two jobs to make a living. And the conditions at work are often really tough! No breaks or anything. Of course there are laws about how hard you can force someone to work, but the employees are often to scared to lose their jobs to tell anyone how it is. The stuff they sell at those stores are not friendly to the environment and they are often of bad quality. The cheap prices are making all competition go bankrupt, and eliminating competition means you can lower the quality even more since you can' t buy stuff close to their prices anywhere else. Their products can often be made of dangerous materials or chemicals. Their products are sometimes made by children in 3rd world countries. This is beacuse the company running these stores have no care about ethics at all. They don' t care if the poor mother with 5 children isn' t getting enough money when she is selling stuff of bad quality made in Bangladesh by some porr child working for water and bread! And they don' t care if what you just bought brakes or is hazardous to you in any way. This is what it takes to make products cheap!
Think about that before buying stuff at stores that are cheap. Of course, if you don' t have much money, I won' t blame you. But if you can afford to play videogames I' m assuming you have enough money to stay away from those places.

even expensive stores have their stuff made in 3rd world countries.

- If you' re searching for truth you must look in the mirror and make sense of what you can see, just be..just be!

Yes, but they have much higher standards. Not only considering where the things are made but in all other aspects as well. Mostly anyway. But we are talking of a store loacted in the US. The US aren' t as strict as a lot of other countries are. My dear Sweden for example, have very high standards. But I guess it could be much worse.

-I LOVE THE CONTROLLER!!! It was so damn comfortable even with it being restricted by the display harness. The button locations are absolutely perfect. Even the new location for the black and white buttons felt great. As soon as I picked it up I was able to play. There was 0 learning curve. My favorite part of the controller is the Xbox Guide button. Even though the guide wasn' t supported with the demo it still had the menu pop up from the left. It was just so cool!

I sentiment those echos! Wait, or is it, I echo those sentiments?
Bah, I TOTALLY Agree dude! When I first grabbed ahold of the controller back in May I damn near dropped to my knees in the EA booth. Everything is positioned very nicely and the Media button is big and position beautifully in the center.. If it isn' t, they should make the damn thing compatible with the original Xbox!

Terry Bogard - currently the most Unhelpful member of the Kikizo forums.

Please, link some pictures of it! I want to see the beauty again but I don' t have the strength to go find the pictures. I also think others visiting this forum would appreciate if they could look at it in case it was a while since they saw it.

I managed to order a 360 Joypad for Windows from the us and it should (fingers crossed) be arriving any day now. It' s nice to hear it holds well but what I' d really like to know more about is how the games look ' in person' . Was there any trace of PGR3 or Oblivion in there and does Kameo actually look any good?

For those who' ve been to the mountain and saw the light of greatness (a.k.a. XBOX 360)...

You have truly been blessed.

Videogaming is the contemporary interactive pasttime.

I' m tempted to go get the controller right now and hook it up to my laptop. It' s just so great!!! The only problem is the Guide won' t pop up when I press the center button. I still want it now! Hmm.... I foresee a trip to Best Buy tonight.

XBL Gamertag: Rampage99

" Basically, pollute the air all you want, your just speeding up the inevitable. Our future generations are f*cked as it is and there' s really nothing we can do about it. Have a nice day "

Ok, you can all be prepared to hate me. I just won another XBOX 360 through Pepsi. Don' t worry though, I' m not going to be one of those idiots who sell it on ebay just to make a pile of cash. Instead now Rikka can give the one she won to her brother, and I can keep mine for myself. Man, this has been a good week for me, new baby, new 360.

Congrats man. I' m tempted to kill you and steal your 360 in a jealous rage but since you just became a father I' ll fight the urge. Make sure to lock your doors tonight just in case.

XBL Gamertag: Rampage99

" Basically, pollute the air all you want, your just speeding up the inevitable. Our future generations are f*cked as it is and there' s really nothing we can do about it. Have a nice day "

congrats mxpx, can you by any chance buy me a lotto ticket? unforutanly being in europe i havent seen a 360 yet, but i might pass by one in some gamestop shop or someplace during its european launch or around christmas.

The 360 is allmost out now, only something like 2-3 weeks? for the u.s anyway. Good Luck in getting one!

Change is inevitable. Except from a vending machine.

Viva La Revolution! erm, I mean Viva La Wii!

Hehe,we in europe only see sony ads,MS just doesnt give a shit about us here at all.
:S

Even if you break 2 legs from a crab it still runs!
What you gotta do is find its weak spot and do massive damage at it.

I thought they' d be pushing the 360 like crazy over here... but do you remember the old X-Box advert that got banned? It was ace. Can' t remember the catchphrase but it involved a baby spat out from the womb flung through the sky at high speed aging at a rapid pace before becoming old and dying. Brilliant.

I' ve entered 3 or 4 competitions but no luck so far. I won a Dreamcast though from just one competition on the old sega-europe website :)

Seen ps2 ads at the biggest sport event in europe/" champions leauge" the best club fotball team face of each other,and 100' s of million watchers,but no ms ads,there is a lot of ps2/sony ads though.
They clearly know what to aim at,and why shouldn' t they?
Ps2 sold 29 million here,ofc they wont or let europe market being lost.
And it wont.

And btw yes i remember that add :P
Feel a bit sorry for the old man who was just before death,he must think im hired because i look almost dead :P

Even if you break 2 legs from a crab it still runs!
What you gotta do is find its weak spot and do massive damage at it.

I envy anyone who has played a 360, so how big does it look in (for lack of a better term) person?

December 2nd can' t come soon enough for me!

I almost got to try out an xbox 360 at wal-mart. But stupid wal-mart had it turned off for some reason. At least I got to hold the controller a while. Seemed ub3r comfy. But I had to pretty much get on my knees to be low enough to hold it. Wal-mart sux. Hopefully they have enough 360s I can get one at midnight. Wal-mart rots my gut.

"If you knew how good I am you would think I'm modest."

Ya after my run in with Wal-Mart, I found out they been shut-off all over since it was interfering with their scanner systems or somin.

It isnt to much smaller. But its definatly not a massive giant. Hard to say tho without a side by side with the current xbox.

My friend told me he played the 360 at Best Buy this morning! I' m going there right now. C' ya!

Later!

The 360 pad came straight from Canada this morning and it really is very nice. Good to look at and comfy in your hand, it' s exactly what the X-Box pad should have been, instead of the cumbersome black controller of old. The 360 pad is even smaller than the S-Type X-Box pad which came with my console.

In fact the only problem I have with the pad is that I can' t get it working properly with any games I have for the PC. I' ve only tried it out with Sonic Heroes but it doesn' t seem to recognise some buttons. It plays fine, good even with the pad and feels as good as playing the game on console. However the right analogue stick used for the camera and the LT / RT triggers don' t seem to work. I can' t get the rumble function working either. It might just be the fact the game doesn' t support the controller but I' ll mess about a bit and see if I can get it to work.

You are so lucky! I want my 360 NOW!!!!

No, I want it.

- If you' re searching for truth you must look in the mirror and make sense of what you can see, just be..just be!

Muhahahahaha. I got to hold the console yesterday! I have connections! I hugged it! I so wanted to run off with it! Anyway, I' m garaenteed to get my console launch day. EB is only getting 12 in per store and I just so happened to be the 9th person to pay it off in full (they aren' t going by who pre-oredered first, they are going by who pays it off first). The last three at the store are going to employees. So not only did I snuggle with a 360 I was garenteed to own one on the 22nd! YES!!!!

On a side note my friend in my game group just happened to acquire Totally Xbox J Allard' s phone number. Lol!

XBL Gamertag: Rampage99

" Basically, pollute the air all you want, your just speeding up the inevitable. Our future generations are f*cked as it is and there' s really nothing we can do about it. Have a nice day "

Can' t wait for buy a next gen console


But I will support whom that have moore SEGA,AM & Yu Suzuki titles

NW' s Shenmue, Yakuza and VF5 site!
http://www.novinworks.com/shenmue.htm

Arn' t J.allard the creepy bald guy,who dress himself to look hip?

Even if you break 2 legs from a crab it still runs!
What you gotta do is find its weak spot and do massive damage at it.

Call my old fashioned but I' m just going to wait in line at Wal-Mart for mine. My friend gets that handy 10% discount so no sales tax for me.

In response to the following complaint I have decided to change my signature:

" by the way, yoshimitsu you might want to click the little checkbox that makes your signature disappear." -Jonah Shoemaker, Residential Dumbass

Ahhh, I' m gonna apply at EB Games, see if i can work there full-time for now, if i get hired then im definitely getting my hands on one of the 360s. Anyone have any friends that work at EB Games?? I live in Mississauga btw.

- If you' re searching for truth you must look in the mirror and make sense of what you can see, just be..just be!

so how was it i know it sucked i played one too it sucks