Played XBox 360 at Best Buy

**Petey Parker** · 11-01-2005, 11:50 AM

Just got home from Best Buy. I was picking up Battlefront 2 for my girlfriend. After picking up the game I decided to stroll through the XBox section and what do I see? A playable XBox 360 demo unit with Call Of Duty 2 on it. There were two people playing it at the time so I just watched for a few minutes. Then one of them asked me if I wanted to play and I hopped on and he gave me a quick run through of the controls. I must say the 360 controller is much better than the Controller S for the standard XBox (and I love the Controller S) It fits very comfortably in your hands. Button layout is great as well.

As for Call Of Duty the graphics were amazing. I've never played Call Of Duty before so I don't know how the other versions are but the gameplay was fast and intense. It feels like you're in a real battle, there were so many things going on screen at the same time. People were all over the place shooting at each other and dying and tossing grenades and whatnot, not to mention planes flying all over in the sky above and even things far off in the distance were clear as day. I kind of wish I had pre-ordered a 360 now.

**Bandit Chimera** · 11-01-2005, 11:52 AM

go to walmart very early on the monday before it comes out and wait like me. or if there is an eb games near you you might be able to preorder it still. You won't get it day one but the place i preordered at (just in case wallmart fails me) said i'll get it before christmas which is fine by me

Cth · 11-01-2005, 11:54 AM

I agree

Great controller layout

And supposedly CoC 2's graphics will be better than what's shown there.

Very cool, and yeah, I didn't pre-order either.. I figure there's bound to be enough at Wal-Mart/Best Buy/etc.

Did you see the PGR3 video? Unreal.

**Bandit Chimera** · 11-01-2005, 11:57 AM

i really want Kameo, cod 2 and morrowind 4 but i think im going to limit myself to 2 of those

**Petey Parker** · 11-01-2005, 11:58 AM

Originally Posted by Cth

Did you see the PGR3 video? Unreal.

Nah. I only saw the one game. I let those guys get back to playing it because I didn't want to be in the store all day. Traffic starts to pick up in that area around this time and I didn't want to get stuck in it. I'll have to remember to check that out next time though.

**Jonny Z** · 11-01-2005, 11:58 AM

so no one is hyped for perfect dark? has it not been getting good first impressions?

**David** · 11-01-2005, 11:59 AM

they have them set up at stores?? i need to see the games in action before i decide if im gonna buy one or not. this solves that problem. thanks pete

Cth · 11-01-2005, 12:09 PM

Originally Posted by Jonny Z

so no one is hyped for perfect dark? has it not been getting good first impressions?

I never played the first one, so I don't have a basis of comparisons.

Some have been hyping it and as a result were disappointed, but overall it seems positive, just not the "reason to buy a 360" some wanted it to be.

I saw a brief clip on IGN and it looked decent.

**Bandit Chimera** · 11-01-2005, 04:23 PM

....i just played a 360 at walmart ...i'm VERY unhappy. I dunno if it was the TV i was playing on or just the demo but dammit it was jaggy as all hell. I wasn't expecting next gen shit to look this jaggy on the lines and pixles. WTF

Was it a shitty tv ? i dunno it looked like a brand new flat screen. (do you need a hi def TV for it to not be jaggy ?)

Was it shitty demos ? could be but i expected better to get people more excited.

The games (both Kameo and COD2) were fairly pretty and the character models looked more realistic but WTF i don't want no jaggies on my demos

**Briomega** · 11-01-2005, 04:26 PM

Well they are demos and not final gold versions, so that could be part of it. Though if it wasn't a HDTV, that likely would cause some degradation in the quality of the graphics, too.