Posts Tagged “Xbox”

A while back I wrote a review for Ghostbusters, the video game.  I was playing a PC copy on my system and was really disappointed by how badly coded everything was.  If you don’t remember my review of it, I invite you to read it again before moving on with this entry.

All done?  OK.

Since writing that entry, I’ve had the chance to play the game again, only this time on an Xbox 360.  I’m very impressed with the game overall now, and would like to revisit some of the points I made earlier.

I am now playing Halo 2.

This sounds like I’m horribly behind the times, but in fact I’m only a year behind. I’ve played through all of Halo 2 on the Xbox, mastered the multiplayer, pwnd n00bs and l33ts alike, and have enjoyed the game like crazy. However, at some point, long ago, I stopped playing on Xbox Live and canceled my account. Then the world moved past me.

Suddenly we’re on Xbox 360 and Live has been totally retooled. You can now opt to NOT play against foul mouthed 9-year-olds (you can even mute specific people), and giving negative feedback about someone actually does something to them!

Not having the funds for a 360, I kept the multiplayer experience for video game parties at friend’s houses. And I was happy with that (my thoughts on anonymous multiplayer changed drastically when I realized I seemed to be the only person who wasn’t practicing Halo like I had nothing else to do in life).