Hardwood Hearts (Xbox Live Arcade)

Advantages: 6 arcade games and a few demos, 1 month free gold xbox live subscription
Disadvantages: some games are not worth playing

...I got Xbox Live Arcade Unplugged when i bought my 360 at Costco. At first I was kind of skeptical about this game. I mean its just a bunch of arcade games on a disc. But there are two games that are truly gems in this collection. This game comes with 6 games and a few demos. The demos aren't worth mentioning because they are pretty short trials for games that don't interest me. The 6 full version games are Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved, Wiki: Fable of Souls, Bejeweled 2, Outpost Kaloki X, Hardwood Backgammon, and Texas Hold 'Em. Geometry Wars and Bejeweled 2 are by far the best games on this disc. Geometry Wars allows you to control a small ship and you have to shoot at oncoming shapes. Each shape has a unique characteristic and behaves differently. This game could last me forever if I never bought another game in my life. It... Read review

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Advantages: great games, about 8 games, most full games.
Disadvantages: only about 6 are the full games, possibility of loosing all games when disc is lost.

...Price: £15-25 Publisher: Microsoft Min age requirements: 12 Xbox live arcade unplugged is a decent investment for your games collection for your 360. If you are getting a 360 console, this is a decent game to buy along with it, as you can put it in the console, and jump into any of six games included (and several demos). --Advantages-- -You can save money on arcade games (you are paying quite a lot on the live marketplace for the arcade games, why not buy this, its cheaper.) -You can play it on anyones 360 console e.g. a friends 360 (buying the individual games off of live will leave you with them stuck on your own console, the only option for you to do is to take it with you on your 360's harddrive, which isnt handy..) --Disadvantages-- -There are only 6 full arcade games included, and they do not change, so you will be left... Read review

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Advantages: Great looks, Customisable, Good Size, HDD
Disadvantages: Large powerbrick, Noisy, Expensive Games

...aesthetically pleasing, but also very useful, incremental part of the 360, making short work of save game files, with plenty of spare space for downaloading free demos and HD videos from xbox live arcade. (Silver membership is included free with the console, which is great, but doesnt allow the option to play against others without the subscription charge of xbox live gold, which actually is good value for money and well worth it.) however, on downside, the fans are extremely noisy on the xbox 360, and the hard-drive is expensive (if bought as an extra with the core version, which it isnt bundled with) for what it is, at £69, especially as when formatted only 13gb of the said 20gb space is free for use, although it does include the game Hexic HD for free on the hard-drives space, perhaps explaining some of the missing space. Live and XB Achievments... Read review

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