Band of Slugs

I’ve got an Xbox Original, and I’m not embarrassed

This particular author owns an Xbox. And not the good 360 degree kind either – a big, heavy 3 kg monster from the early naughties. Rather than 360 degrees, you might describe it more as an Xbox 45 degrees. It’s not great – or so people tell me. But if I’m perfectly honest, the thing blows me away with its ’3D’ technology. The enemies in Half Life 2, for example, display incredible artificial intelligence – namely by ‘shooting back whilst standing in clear range of my gun’.

Jokes aside, it still is a lot of fun for a piece of technology that was released in 2002 (in the UK at least). To be honest, a Luddite like myself would be blown away by the 360. One of the best games for me remains Project Gotham Racing 2, a quality piece of high octane urban car racing that cost me only £2.95.

And what about that rumble pack? It’s like those nasty gas masked Germans in Big Red One really are shooting you in the face. That Messerschmidt BF109E really did just blow your arm off. One day of course, you really will see your arm lying on the ground – such will be the virtual reality of the future. It’s only a matter of time before we all start inhabiting VR worlds where we can do all the things we can’t do in what we laughingly refer to as reality – namely shoot Nazi stormtroopers and have biblical encounters with Kate Beckinsale – in that order if possible.

Until then though, its just me and my old fashioned Xbox.