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Xbox 360 currently offers users the chance to communicate with one another, by utilizing the add-on feature known as Xbox Live. If you are an Xbox Live member, you are immediately part of the chat list. Therefore, you can chat and discuss any point with family and friends through the Xbox 360 headset. Moreover, you can interact and organize a gaming throwdown with countless other Xbox users.  Xbox  Live also lets you buy content in Xbox Live Marketplace, download extra videogame features and even access preview videos. 

If gamers are enticed by these features and want to become an Xbox Live member, then there are two accounts to make a choice from, divided into two separate services - silver and gold. 

Initially, the silver service is just the basic option of Xbox Live. Choosing this variation, users just simply get online and download gaming titles. On top of this, users are given the capacity to use their own voice to talk and meet with other Xbox Live gamers. However, this is all Xbox Live silver provides gamers with. If you’re attempting to find the best Xbox Live experience, Xbox Live gold is what you need to go for. 

Lastly, the Xbox Live Gold service has many functions that make it an awesome way to game on the internet. Aside from the incredible Xbox Live features, it provides users with a large number of additional add-ons. There is augmented chat compatability, as well as integration with many Microsoft products, including messenger and other chat and video programs. The most prominent feature of Xbox Live gold is the way in which your web avatar is displayed to the world.  Every account is allowed to create a different ‘motto’ showing to fellow gamers online and even linking them to Facebook.  Additionally, you’re also able to keep a record of your accomplishments. As you play more you gradually forge a name, and if players warm to you they are able to rank you favourably, making it better to avoid being grouped with players holding negative outlook. 

Users may also build a contact list that will list all your chosen buddies. It’ll also inform you when any of your friends come online. There’s also a player list which will record the last fifty users that you have met. 

Xbox Live is as good as Xbox gaming gets.  It not only offers great gaming but also provides you with the opportunity to share your experience with other players!

It’s also available for PC and plays really quite well on there too, but I’m talking about the xbox360 version here.

This is great value as it is 5 games on one disc and buying pre-owned it is quite cheap.The orange box features Half-life 2, Half-life 2: Episode One, Half-life 2: Episode Two, Portal and the sequel to the classic Team Fortress, Team Fortress 2.

The games are fun as I am a big fan of the half-life series and the easy game play but the complex seeming story lines really captured me.

Being introduced to Portal was extremely fun mainly because of the portal gun that you can control.

Team Fortress 2 is a good game but as I didn’t have xbox live at the time i couldn’t get the full  benefit.

At some point in your lifetime you would have had to have heard of Half-life or Half-life 2, so you will probably be able to grasp the concept of the latest game in the series.

Half-life 2: Episode Two picks up where you left off in Half-life 2: Episode One, but if you haven’t played or finished Half-life 2:  Episode One then that’s there for you to learn what’s been happening to Gordan Freeman (the main character and who you play as in the half-life series) and Alex Vance (Gordans friends daughter).

In Portal you play as a test subject trying to test newly developed ways to get around and benefit people……. APART FROM THE ONES THAT ARE DEAD! That last line is part of the portal ending song “Still Alive”. Anyway You must go through some easy and challenging puzzles with the “Portal Gun” which shoots blue and orange portals. The way it works is you jump though the blue portal and Viola you appear out the orange portal or vice versa.

In Team Fortress 2 (or TF2 for short) you  choose what class you are out of these 9: Scout, Soldier, Pyro, Demoman, Heavy Weapons guy (or heavy for short), Egineer, Medic, Sniper and Spy while you battle with other players either over system link or xbox live. You can play alone but then theres noone to fight with.

The ambush is my favourite bit of HL2 Episode 2. What happens is you and Alex Vance are on your way to White Forest, Black Mesa’s brother. The windy road you are driving down is about to pass the White Forest Inn Hotel when suddenly… BOOM!

You hit a force field and have to take cover in The White Forest Inn to avoid being killed by Hunters (little mechanoids that shoot Flechettes at you) and have to fight your way out.

My Favorite part of HL2: Episode One is when you have to escape city 17 on a train. It goes like this: you and Alex have just finished escorting survivors to trains and about to board your own.

Unfortunately theres a roller door in the way. You find the wheel that will open it and your about to run through yourself when wouldn’t you know it there’s a strider there. It then proceeds to blow the wheel up, so you have to run around and up freight containers to find a way to destroy it, so you can meet up with Alex and escape city 17.

My favorite part of HL2 is when you get the organic gravity gun which is so powerful i t can pick up human enemies and even hold balls of pure plasma. The sheer power from this thing is what makes me love that particular part so much.

My favorite part of portal is when you have to defeat GlADoS, the robot that controls most of the aperture science labrotories because she is about to flood the chamber with deadly nuerotoxins that she claims to be able “to eat this stuff on cereal”.

The creators of these 5 excellent games is valve.

In summary the XBox 360 The Orange Box Is A fantastic game that I recommend that you play todau.

This dead rising article will teach you a little bit about the game and why I like it.

Dead Rising is a good game. I like this game because of the weapons and the storyline.

You play as photojournalist Frank West, a man with a hunch. He believes there’s a big scoop in the quiet peaceful town of Willamette, Colorado. He decides to head to the local shopping mall where (wouldn’t you know it?) zombies are.

He tells his chopper pilot  to pick him up in three days.

In those three days you have to uncover the mysterious origins of the zombies while trying to survive using a variety of weapons.

There’s a huge variety of weapons from chainsaws to pistols, Katanas to HDTVs to fight the swarms of zombies with.

Dead Rising Online and a Pile of Zombies

There are a variety of missions to complete if you wanna uncover where the zombies came from.

Along the way you may need to befriend some survivors to gain some PP (Prestige Points) so you can achieve level ups, so you can get past a paticulary difficult bit.

Some of the missions are very annoying and frustrating because of how hard they are so you may lose your temper but in the end it’s worth it.

The graphics and animation are extremely good as well so you can really see what you’re doing to that stupid zombie.

Exploring the mall is great fun as you may be able to find a very effective weapon to a group of zombies or to maybe just one particular Zombie.

Dead Rising Online Map
Exploring is also a good thing to do as you can find various new places like North Plaza or Leisure Park.

There are a few secrets in Dead Rising such as PP stickers (which you take a picture of with your camera and gain PP points) and secret drink combinations.

Drink combination’s are using various items on a blender to create a drink with effects that will help you escape from zombies or do more damage to them.

Two of the drink combination’s are Quickstep (which increases your speed for a short amount of time) and spitfire (which does damage to zombies just by spitting on them.)

Psychos are some survivors who hate you and your survivor friends. Psychos try and kill you so you have to kill them before they can succeed.

Some psychos shoot at you, some try and cut you up and one psycho trys to kill you using mini chainsaws or a very big beach ball.

Dead Rising Online Scary Clown

Dead Rising Bloodbath
In Dead Rising there are also a few submissions that don’t have anything to do with the main storyline. These are called mini-scoops. These mini-scoops can be a range of things from Otis (the janitor) seeing a survivor on the security camera or you finding a psycho.

Completing these can award you some PP and sometimes a new outfit. Escorting survivors is sometimes dangerous to yourself or the survivors you’re escorting, because sometimes the survivors can’t get through somewhere so you have to risk your life to go back and rescue them.

However if you successfully escort a survivor (back to the security room) you will be awarded some PP. As I mentioned earlier you can level up by getting lots of PP. Leveling up is very useful because you can be awarded different things from more hp (Hit Points) to more inventory slots.

You can also be awarded skills from leveling up. Skills are good because they allow you to be more deadly with your hands and feet or maybe hitching a ride on the back of a zombie.

There are 3 different modes. 72 hour mode. Overtime mode. as well as infinity mode. 72 hour mode is the regular game mode with the storyline and the mini-scoops and you can’t play any other mode without completing this.

Overtime mode is the second mode and can only be unlocked by not making it back to the helipad on day three. While in this mode you are able to run around the mall slaying zombies ang getting achievements.

Infinity mode is the hardest mode. In this mode you lose one square of health every 100 real seconds. If you manage to survive in the mall for 7 game days you can unlock one of the hardest achievements.

I think Dead Rising is a very good game on the Xbox 360. I rate this game excellent and a must have if you have an Xbox 360.