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Yesterday, while at family dinner to celebrate my upcoming birthday*, my brother- and sister-in-law presented me with an Xbox care package: the spare Xbox they had serving as a media center, 4 controllers, a wireless adapter, HD cables and a small cache of games. Today I plugged it in (and the kids are currently hogging it) and pottered around on a couple of the games that they gave me, as well as cleaned out the save game files and the existing Live profiles on the drive**.

I plan to get an Xbox 360 at some point in the future; the current plan is for sometime early next year once some other things are dealt with. This gives me a nice start towards my Xbox-based gaming though because some of the games I received are in various top 10 lists of games and include Halo, Halo 2, Crimson Skies: High Road to Revenge, Blood Wake and a number of Tom Clancy games. There are a number of Xbox/PC-based games that I’ve had my eye on for some time, but I put off buying them because I didn’t have an Xbox to play them on, and I focused on buying PS2 or GameCube games. The good thing about having done that though is that it allows me to focus on the games that are XBox-centric*** that I want, such as Fable, Jade Empire, both KOTOR games and DOOM 3. I tend to collect games and not trade them in when I finish with them (primarily because I never finish games), so this works out well for me because a great many of the games that I would otherwise get for the Xbox I already have on other platforms. Also, when I finally upgrade to a Xbox 360, I’ll still be able to play these games.

As a newcomer to the Xbox world, I want to mess around with the console and compare it to the other last-gen consoles that we have here. I’ve already noted some things that I like and don’t like, but more on that later. Once the kids are in bed tonight, I’ll crank up some Halo and Crimson Skies and enjoy my impending celebratory day of birthing pain.

* We celebrate all our family anniversaries together on the weekend before or weekend after rather than the day of the event. It allows us to make sure we can all be there and allows us to fit around conflicting weekday schedules.

** I’m conscientious like that. No, really.

*** Yes, I know that they’re available for the PC. I’d much rather get them on the XBox because my PC already has TOO many games on it.

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