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"A Day In The Life Of An XBox Gamer"

Last night I played my XBox from the moment I got in from work to the moment I went to bed. It helped me realise why the Micorsoft machine comes out as my favourite gaming experience, this is how my night went...

Got in from work, switched on my XBox and stuck in Moto GP 2, eager to raise the stats of my custom bike for online races. After like an hour of playing the game, an invite from one of my online buddies flashes up in the corner of the screen.

I bring up my friends list to see whose invited me and what game they're playing. I've been invited to play Moto GP 2 so I decide to take my custom bike online and have a laugh. I'm taken to the lobby of the game I've been invited to and there are around 10 players chatting. I have a laugh with them and shortly after I'm playing in a big multiplayer race.
After around 3 hours of racing online, one my online friends whose turned up is quick to ask me if I have the latest Mech Assault downloads.

Straight after the race that followed, I switched to Mech Assault and got myself straight to the download area and downloaded the capture the flag mode, a couple of new maps and a couple of new mechs - sweet !
I play a couple of Mech Assault games and then decide to get offline cause its getting late and I have work the next day.
I take out the game and goto the music area of the dashboard. I then play the music on my harddrive while I change for bed and read a couple of sections of my latest official XBox mag.

And there you have it and to me, this is the kind of gaming life Microsoft gives that the competition doesn't match at least for now.
With Moto GP 2 having the friends list available at all times - even when not playing online, its easy to see that Microsoft's finished article of its gaming experience is gradually coming together.
At the moment they're apparently getting developers to all make their games "Live Aware". Basically even if they have no online multiplayer options or downloadable content, Microsoft still want them to include the friends list in the options so players can contact eachother at anytime while they are playing on their XBox consoles.

Its great owning the XBox as your given so many options when playing games. What I told you above was on a Tuesday night. Its so great being able to switch from playing a game on my own to playing a large scale multiplayer within a couple of button presses.
For all the worries of people not using the headset, these seem pretty unfounded as whenever I go online, I always have a great laugh with everyone. :-)

Now before I get people on the attack with comments like "yeah well not everyone can get online" and "yeah but my console has got better games, blah, BS, blah" - this is based on my experience and how it provides the gaming experience to my tastes in games.
All the 3 of the consoles have great games that I enjoy, but the XBox provides the biggest quantity of what I like to play and provides me with the best options when it comes to how I like to play them.
Cheers Microsoft ! Now I'm off to play Moto GP 2 for a little while before I goto bed.

If your an ally on beach, just pick a panzer and blow the bunker a guns to peices with one shot, that will make life easier. With 3 on 3, a smaller map would suit you better

It's only good with 10 + players though.

Having teams of three is rubbish, the allies don't stand a chance of getting up the beach and once you're inside it's like two people having a deathmatch in the middle of a desert.

So Wolfenstine's good online then?

That's the main reason I'm getting a Bill Box, for online. Wolfenstine'll be one of the first games I get most likely.

That Beach Storming level sounds pretty sweet.

Oooooooooooo, sounds cool ! :-)) Wanted to play on that level last night but it was my first time playing and whenever I saw it I wasn't sure about the game type and I didn't want to get other players whining at me for going about it all wrong. ;-))

Trust me though, that will be played a lot today. ;-))

Have you played the beach storming level yet?

It's fun being a Nazi on that one, just sitting in the bunker with the machine gun turret mowing down all the allied players as they desperatly try to get their engineer to the wall to blow it up.


Then when they breach it you sit in the room with the secret documents and just throw grenades down the corridor and in the vent shaft whenever someone approaches.

Well Moto GP 2 lets you play your own soundtracks while playing online. So it can be done.

::sits in corner::

Hmmmmmmmmmmm, toasted allies with a flamethrower.
Dropped grenade next to allied players head while he was dying and blew him up all over the place.
Knifed stupid allied player in the back and then proceeded to knife him in the throat while he was down.
Came to fitting end when 4 players with flamethrowers surrounded me and burnt my Hitler humping body to its component molecules.

Good night it was.

Plus it might just be me but it seems a bit wrong that the allies always place American flags everywhere - bloody yanks trying to take all the glory. At least games like Desert Storm actually remember there are other countries fighting these wars.

Duh-de-da-da, duh-de-de-da-daaaa.....

I love the smell of napalm in the morning...........

Due to huge technology advances, you'll have to hum it.

Hang on. Is there any way of putting music over games in Live?

Ride Of The Valkyries + Halo 2 dropship attack + Live = Interesting.....