Xbox Live - It's another world

Advantages: Superb experience
Disadvantages: Its not free

...Fifa again as an example, you could potentially be chatting with upto 19 other players if you are in the 10 v 10 match mode. Obviously, whilst playing online you are going to have varying experiences of other players. Xbox Live allows you to leave feedback on other players so that future opponents can get an insight into whether they are friendly or not. In my opinion, this needs a bit of work as I only tend to leave feedback if I have had a bad experience of someone. As well as leaving this feedback you can class gamers as preferred players or as people to avoid. This information is used when the service is trying to pair you up for an online game. If you prefer a player then this person will get priority for you to play against if you are both online at the same time. If you have set someone as ?avoid?, you will never get paired...

craggybuk 11.11.2009 · Read review
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Review of Microsoft Official Xbox 360 - Xbox Live Gold Membership Card

Xbox Live is all Gold!

Advantages: the best online community ever!
Disadvantages: the playstation 3 is free for online play

...- Cloverfield - Braveheart - Harry Potter films and so on ( for a full list visit www.xbox.com) - The best feature of xbox live has to be the ability to play loads of different games online and get the most out of these games. You can play with all your friends and create you own teams or leader boards as well as compare yourself to players across the world in all time leader boards of different games. Most games can be really good offline but they become amazing once you start playing with them online! For example I loved the campaign on Call Of Duty 4, but now can't stop playing online against loads of people and it is so great - if I didn't have my membership I wouldn't be able to do this. Another example is the recently released Mercenaries 2 which involves loads of missions which can be very challenging, however I can now just go...

shamis4 07.09.2008 · Read review
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Review of Microsoft Official Xbox 360 - Xbox Live Gold Membership Card

Live Review

Advantages: Play with friends all around the world.
Disadvantages: Only lasts for 1 year.

...The live 12 month gold card enables the player to play online for a year. When i first received it i accessed it very quickly and was surprised to see how easily i was able to get online and play with millions of people all around the world. All i needed to do was enter the code and i could start playing. The benefits of going live is mainly playing against people all around the world and making new friends. But if you are a hardcore gamer, this is the perfect place to be as you get to challenge the best around the world and you even get ranked. What's more is that you can even download exclusive things only from the xbox live marketplace where you can't get from anywhere else. Overall: A must get for all xbox 360 owners. It completes the console and makes the xbxo 360 that much better....

silvercut 03.08.2007 · Read review
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Review of Microsoft Official Xbox 360 - Xbox Live Gold Membership Card

Xbox live

Advantages: Online gaming, good value, networking
Disadvantages: Some lag, temptation to spend more money on extras

...Xbox Live is good value compared to some other online subscriptions e.g. World of Warcradt or Everquest as with these you pay everymonth just for one game, whereas with xbox live you only pay once to go online with pretty much all your games. You then get tempted, however, to pay for extra online contect such as extra levels, characters, backdrops for your xbox live dashboard, arcade games etc. etc. So it's never as cheap as it seems! The service on xbox live is good and it's rare to have connection issues so gameplat online tends to be smooth. Occasionally you may shoot at someone only to find they already moved- lag is rare but does happen and can be annoying. The range of games that can be played online is excellent, and isn't just shooting and fighting! Guitar hero plays online brilliantly with options for guitar battles...

Platti 30.07.2008 · Read review
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Review of Microsoft Official Xbox 360 - Xbox Live Gold Membership Card

Live and let Live.

Advantages: Online multiplayer, priviledges downloads
Disadvantages: Price a little daunting at first, additional hardware required, PS3 online is free

...What is Xbox Live: Xbox Live is the online service for players of the Xbox and Xbox 360 consoles. Xbox Live Silver is free to all users and gives some limited facilities. With a Silver account you can accumulate a reputation by achieving goals within games. These are own on your Gamercard and allow other users to see how experienced a gamer you are. With a Silver account, you can also download game demos, trailers, and event videos. Some games have the ability to upload performance based stats like lap times etc. to online leaderboards. Xbox Live Gold is a pay-for subscription, approx £35 to £40 pound a year. Gold gives you all the benefits of Silver, however you have access to marketplace items days, and sometimes weeks before the rest. The biggest benefit of purchasing a Gold subscription is that it opens up the full...

Danneey 11.03.2008 · Read review
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Review of Microsoft Official Xbox 360 - Xbox Live Gold Membership Card

Enables full use of Xbox Live

Advantages: Play games online over xbox live with thousands of other players
Disadvantages: annual fee

...This card will upgrade your xbox live account to a Gold account for 12 months Giving you access to lots of extras which are unavailable to Silver members. Contents: 1 piece of card containing a code which must be entered from the Xbox 360 console. This card may only be used for Xbox 360 and not the original Xbox. Gold Membership Features: * Play your Xbox 360 multiplayer games online with the premiere online gaming service. * Use the brand new TrueSkill? Matchmaking system to play against opponents with similar skills, personalities, and gaming tastes. * Give player feedback to rate your teammates and opponents on their sportsmanship, abilities, and conduct to influence matchmaking. * Play select original Xbox® games online (the Xbox 360 Hard Drive is required). * Get access to exclusive Gold...

rmarshall1 20.11.2006 · Read review
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Xbox live super fun.

Advantages: Great fun
Disadvantages: Expensive

...If you have a Xbox 360, chances are youll be wanting to purchase one of these! Xbox Live is the leading service for online experiences on gaming consoles, there are tons of arcade games you can purchase, films to rent, tv episodes to buy - the fun is endless. It should be noted that in order to use this code you need to be able to connect to the internet with your xbox, either by wireless or ethernet. This 'card' contains a code which you enter on the xbox to enable you to play online with thousands of other gamers. It costs around £35, unlike the PS3 which is free to play online. But as I and many others agree Xbox Live is far superior and worth every penny. A word of advice, go careful when scratching the code, scratch too hard and code becomes unreadable (There is no way to get your money back!) This card is for gold membership...

cricketfan1 06.02.2009 · Read review
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Go Live Quickly and Easily

Advantages: Easy Easy Easy
Disadvantages: FTP software and Floating boxes

...Want to design a website? There's 2 ways I can think of doing it... 1. Learn HTML. (yawn) 2. Cheat! Admitedly, coding HTML manually should introduce less bugs, and a lot of people swear it's the only way to do it properly... but it's tortously long winded, -both to learn, and to actually do. So instead you use a bit of software to do all the code for you... A multitude of things now save files in HTML format. (You can do it in Word (huck, spit) and the results are at best random. Don't do it!!) The industry standard bit of software for HTML authoring is Macromedia Dreamweaver, which is an extremely powerful bit of kit. However having tried both Dreamweaver and it's main rival GoLive, I plumped for GoLive... Both are available for a free 30day trial -go to their sites and download. Both provide a nice interactive...

miggle 21.06.2001 · Read review
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Xbox Live Gold Overview/Review

Advantages: Many Features! Cheap
Disadvantages: Needs Broadband Connetction

...cost £9.00 which is the equivalent to 1,200 Microsoft points. The Xbox Live Video Store: This is another feature from the marketplace, it involves TV shows and amazing movies which are rented for 2 days. You download these and they cost you 240 Microsoft points for the standard definition version and 340 for the High Definition. There is also a preview trailer to see what you might rent. Online Gaming: Halo 3, Call Of Duty 4, Forza Motorsport 2, Fifa 08, Pro Evolution Soccer 2008, Gears Of War our just a few of many amazing online games. These involve gamers getting together playing competitively or friendly games. Online Leaderboards: Completed a race in what you thinks the quickest time? Well go check it out using the ingame leaderboards. These can show you who's died how many times how accurate you are how many games you've won...

JackCanning 11.04.2008 · Read review
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Review of Microsoft Official Xbox 360 - Xbox Live Gold Membership Card

Xbox Live 12 months subscription (i paid £25 max)

Advantages: Play anyone anywhere at anytime!
Disadvantages: Cost £40 but as title says i have never paid over £25 thanks to ebay

...If you have the following you need to buy this full stop! Xbox 360 Broadband internet (wireless or not) There we go simple! TIP - I have had my xbox 360 for 2 years and both times I have paid for my xbox live subscription, I have got it off ebay for £25 pounds (sent me code by email) so I paid £50 for what at game would of cost me £80 Summary: Xbox live is a must have for the 360 you can play anyone with a 360 on live anywhere in the world at any time! Make new friends and play on-line with your mates. The service is excellent and regularry updated, there so much fun to be had playing on-line you will wonder where the hours went and blame me for telling you to buy it!...

matt_t1986 22.08.2008 · Read review
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