This is nothing special but I’m bloggy anyway. I played the Xbox 360 at CompUSA and saw another demo at Best Buy. The one at CompUSA was running a demo disc (as was the Best Buy one) but the funny thing was it reset two times while I was trying it out. It reset probably because it was encased in plexiglass without any obvious venting. Wtf.

Overall I agree with the disabled wookie post on the 360, it’s very PC-like not really pushing any boundaries besides framerates. Although this is a large step up in the console world, I don’t think it’s going to be any kind of gaming revolution. Oops, I might have linked that last word on purpose.

Anyway. The framerates are crazy high even with all kinds of obvious shader tricks (heat mirage in the distance etc) and no doubt little boys will flock to it for crazy ultra-violent entertainment, ignoring all M 17+ stickers and blah blah blah. I’m sure to be one of these boys but probably after the hype settles down and you can actually buy one for less than $999.

It was the same old Medal of HistoryBook game playing on the demo disc. “Oh WWII! Oh the conflict! You damn kids today! Buy my mass produced media!”. The effects were neat but it wasn’t any different than FarCry, Doom3. And certainly wasn’t up to par with FEAR’s firefights. Still I longed for a keyboard and mouse because the controller was not built for first person shooters. That genre started with PCs.

It’s a step in the right direction and it’s way cheaper than a PC. I hope someone runs OSX on it one day, triple 3.2ghz PowerPC cores for $400 would be sweet.