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

...£25 and about a fiver for the network cable. So for half the price and a little bit of cable clutter, you can have the same as the official wireless adaptor. Another advantage of this method is that an access point normally has a stronger wireless signal than the official adaptor. Although £40 a year may seem a little pricey at first, when you consider that the likes of World of Warcraft charge £9 a month for the one game, it's actually quite reasonable. Sony's PS3 has a free online service, however it still needs to mature and the userbase is nowhere near as large. At some point, they may overtake Xbox Live but it won't be for some time to come. When you buy your Xbox 360, you are given a months free trial, activated when you create your Gamertag. Also, new games have a free trial (usually 48 hour), so you have the option to...

Danneey 11.03.2008 · 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 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

Xbox Live - It's another world

Advantages: Superb experience
Disadvantages: Its not free

...style scratch card, you do get the code emailed through in a matter of minutes and all online sellers have to be authorised by Microsoft so you know you are buying a genuine code. Enter this code via the Xbox dashboard and instantly you are upgraded to Gold and can now begin exploring all the extra features. Online play The reason probably 99% of people buy the Xbox Live Gold membership is so that they can play online games. This adds another dimension to gaming as no longer do you just have to beat artificially controlled opponents, you can now take on the world and battle against other people who, like yourself, probably think they are pretty good at a particular game. With most of the popular games, you will never have a problem in being paired with an opponent. For example, when playing the new Fifa 10 game at peak times, it is...

craggybuk 11.11.2009 (09.12.2009) · Read review
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Review of Microsoft Official Xbox 360 - Xbox Live Gold Membership Card

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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Review of Microsoft Official Xbox 360 - Xbox Live Gold Membership Card

Xbox Live Gold Overview/Review

Advantages: Many Features! Cheap
Disadvantages: Needs Broadband Connetction

...If you have an xbox 360 i'm pretty sure you have at least tried Xbox Live Gold. If not I'll give you a run through. Xbox Live is a place where the gaming community can get together. They can play nearly every game online with each other and communicate even if not on the same game. There are two levels of xbox live. Xbox live gold (which averages out to £3.33 a month) and Xbox Live Silver (averages out about 0p a billion years!) I'll simply give you the differences available: Xbox Gold: You can play online on any game You can download everything from the xbox live marketplace With silver you can talk to friends, use MSN messenger, download but not play online whenever you want. Xbox Live has plenty of features I will now tell you what these our. The Xbox Live Marketplace: The xbox live market place is basicly...

JackCanning 11.04.2008 · Read review
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You Are Being Lied To

Advantages: Simple but fun, well directed, entertaining performances, great special effects and score
Disadvantages: Ends abruptly, can be slow paced in places

...John Carpenter's 1988 film 'They Live' stars WWF wrestler Roddy Piper as a drifter who stumbles across a global conspiracy, whereby people everywhere are being controlled and manipulated by aliens using subliminal messaging and radiowave signals to keep the population in check and to disguise themselves as they wander around freely amongst everyday people. Homeless and without a job, Roddy manages to find some work on a construction site, staying in a nearby refugee camp by night. Unemployment is rife, and the gap between the rich and the poor is widening, whilst the middle class appears to be being slowly dissolved. People live in tents overlooked by gleaming, towering skyscrapers, and watch adverts for expensive perfumes and designer clothes on TV as they huddle around campfires under the stars. Roddy observes a group of rebels who...

Burning_Darkness 09.07.2009 · Read review
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Xbox Live : 3 Mounth Gold Membership

Advantages: Great Fun and Great When Playing With Friends
Disadvantages: None So Far

...with Microsoft points. You can download Demos, Gamer Pictures, Themes and many more. When you first sign up with Xbox Live you must make sure that you are happy with your Gamertag as it costs 800 Microsoft Points to change it. On the guide menu you can compare all your games with your friends games. You can also check who is online and what they are playing. I personally find that Xbox live is amazing in every which way. I have never had a problem with it and I am 100% satisfied. Xbox Live is appropriate for all ages but you can edit the family settings of the console if it's for a younger person....

xXx-Peter-xXx 04.06.2008 · Read review
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Review of Microsoft Official Xbox 360 - Xbox Live Gold Membership Card

Xbox Live is a definite YES.

Advantages: play against realtime opposition
Disadvantages: none.

...Xbox live is undeniably the main reason to own an Xbox, I would go as far as saying that you might as well not bother owning one if you have never gamed online! I went with the gold version, which gives you full access to online gaming, and also offers gamer feedback, online leaderboards and probably most importantly, the ability to talk (abuse jokingly) your opponents live via the headset. I also like the way that you can see what games your friends are playing online from your PC! However, if you do prefer to play single player games, rather than against realtime opponents, the downloadable content on Xbox Live is a great place for enhancing the experience of games you own via new levels, items, tracks, vehicles, weapons, characters- anything you want really. Three words - Get Xbox Live....

chriswilcox1980 08.09.2008 · Read review
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