Tom's Hardware Reviews Xbox Live

VividU writes "Tom's Hardware has a review of Xbox Live." Also includes a bit of a summary of the state of networked gaming on the other 2 major consoles (Coleco and Intellivision). A good read if you're looking to see what's going to keep you glued to your couch in 2003.

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Maybe, and just for the sake of compensation,

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Karma Burn: Sell your X-Box and buy Metroid Prime

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Time for some karma burning.

Aside from the fact that I dislike Microsoft, which is apparently since I'm posting on Slashdot...

I have not been impressed with X-Box, the games, or this X-Box live thing. It seems that Microsoft is charging X-Box users an extra $10 a month so that X-Box consoles can establish a connection with one another... this is on top of the $50 fee for broadband that you have to pay. To me, this is what it all boils down to.

Top it off with the fact that I have yet to see an X-Box game that surpasses Quake 3, CounterStrike, UT2003, Wolfenstein, etc. on the PC in terms of enjoyability, controllability, etc.

Even if I put my dislike of Microsoft aside, I still don't see a reason to own an X-Box.

And the sad thing is that aside from maybe one or two games, I'm not seeing very much use out of my PS2 either, except as a DVD player.

On the other hand, I HAVE been impressed with Nintendo. Instead of trying to turn their console into a computer, they have instead focused on delivering completely awesome games. If you play Metroid Prime, you'll know what I mean. It is the most awesome console game I've played in two years by far. The most exciting thing is that the new Zelda is supposedly even BETTER than Metroid Prime. To top it off with all the other awesome games, Mario Sunshine, Animal Crossing, etc., I don't understand why people aren't flocking to the Game Cube.