I’ve had the Xbox for a week now and it’s been taking up way too much of my time. Most of that time is spent playing GTAIV, slowly going through story mode while playing a bit of online along the way. The game still impresses the hell out of me. I did my first chopper mission the other day and the city just looks incredible from up high. It’s so much more atmospheric than previous versions, and much less repetative, if you repeat a mission, you don’t get the same dialog on the drive over if you are with a character and I’m yet to hear repetative speak from random pedestrians.

The Xbox community stuff is pretty cool, it connects to MSN messenger, you have a gamercard that you can view online showing your games played and acheivements gained from the game. The voice chat in online games is fun but of course you get lots of assholes and brat kids. The one thing I’m really looking forward to is the streaming media from my PC. At this point I can’t get it to work since my Xbox connects using a seperate subnet created by my Macbook. Next week I will be just sucking it up and getting a wireless adapter for it, since I’ve sussed out that with my Netgear DG834G ADSL Modem Router does not support the WDS settings that my Airport Express uses, which is very disappointing.

So the next step is to call up EB Games and see if I can trade in my double pack Wii Guitar Hero 3 setup for the Xbox equivalent, I assume I’ll have to pay a bit extra, if it’s too much I’ll sell it on ebay and then buy it, apparently the double pack is limited edition and it’s selling for a decent price on ebay. We’ll see.