The good: Best under-the-hood specs; built-in broadband adapter; 8GB hard drive for music and saved-game storage; high-resolution display support. The bad: Big and bulky; separate kit required to unlock DVD-viewing capability; no progressive-scan DVD playback. The bottom line: The Xbox is the most...
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Lacking the breath of games of the PS2 this is still a strong console contenter
Read the full review →XBMC is an open source OS you can put on the xbox. It does take some work, but the end product will blow your mind. You can store games on it, emulators for old school systems, even playstation! You can load it up with movies, music and more. Now let me talk about the actual system. Xbox is a...
Read the full review →Was already a very good system (though expensive), for its time, I picked it up for its potential as being the Dreamcast successor, and some of the best looking game of this generation. But XBMC really made it shine, and made it the best Media center (somehow even beating the Xbox360 and PS3 for...
Read the full review →The Xbox was a game changer product. Unfortunately, but today's standards, it's graphics are bad, lacks any online support, and doesn't have a huge game library. It was SICK back in the day though.
Read the full review →An okay system. Mostly used mine for LAN parties on Halo. In fact the Halo series probably saved Microsoft's console industry. Halo definitely established the Xbox as the console for FPS's, no offensive to the the PS3 owners, I am one myself. A few other decent titles were Crimson Skies...
Read the full review →It was my first game console experience, and it could have went better. There were a lot of games to choose from, but Microsoft killed support for it too early. Furthermore, games would crash on a regular basis. I did have fond memories with Halo though...
Read the full review →Microsoft nailed it when they created a gaming console based on x86 hardware. While the console is aged now, it still makes an excellent media center when powered by XBMC.
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