The new Xbox 360® 4GB Console. Here today, ready for tomorrow with a brand new, leaner machine. Wi-Fi is built-in for easier connection to the world of entertainment on Xbox LIVE, where HD movies and TV stream in an instant. It’s ready for the controller-free experiences of Kinect – you don’t just play the game, you are the game. Xbox 360 is more games, entertainment and fun.

See larger image Xbox 360 4GB Console (Video Game) Rating: Universal, suitable for all List Price: 149.99 GBP New From: 127.00 In Stock Used from: 89.63 In Stock Release date August 20, 2010.

See larger image Battlefield 3 - Limited Edition (Xbox 360) (Video Game) List Price: 49.99 GBP Used from: 22.90 In Stock Release date October 28, 2011.

Battlefield 3 leaps ahead of its time with the power of Frostbite™ 2, the next instalment of DICE’s cutting-edge game engine.

See larger image Duke Nukem Forever (Xbox 360) (Video Game) Rating: Parental Guidance List Price: 49.99 GBP New From: 4.44 In Stock Used from: 3.87 In Stock Release date June 10, 2011.

Ego, and then Some: Step into the shoes of Duke Nukem, the steroidal One-Man Army who never fails and always gets the Babes

When first seeing this game I thought great things. I played the single player which i enjoyed, variety, graphics, a bit of a story line. 

I put in the “battle code” so that I could play online and off I went. I enjoyed the first couple of games however as time went on I just gave up. You literally can’t do anything if you’re on a server with a lot of high ranked players. They have a deadly arsenal and what do you have? Next to nothing.

The multiplayer is so unbalanced it’s unplayable. Every time you spawn being taken out by some sort of bomb or missile isn’t fun.

It’s like when I posted about Xbox Live – Playing online and annoyances.  Homefront needs to work on a better multiplayer environment where the servers are evenly populated with players within the same ranks rather than level 5’s against 61’s. 

When we ran our own 1942 and battlefield series games servers we were fairly lenient. A couple of warnings and then a ban, however would only be for a week anything further and then the offending player would be able to appeal on our forums. This is where console online gaming is limited.

Problems and Solutions

Console Game Server Rental

To make the whole online experience a better one, being able to rent your own preferred game server would stop all the monkeys out there who constantly base camp or just put a downer on the whole game.  This would be 1 step forward as the server could be administered properly creating an environment the player would enjoy.

Game update to include exclusion zones

Googling about xbox server rentals returns absolutely nothing of worth while about the matter in hand, so what else would be done?  This is where the other 50% from the gaming manufacture comes in.  With the advancement of technologies how hard would it be to put a perimeter around say the main base where enemies can’t enter or they lose health.  This approach could only exist on certain gaming platforms, ideal example would be Bad Company 2. Introducing a control mechanism, players on that server can have a fair game without worrying about some base camping rouge player wiping them out as they spawn would be a big thumbs up.

Game Server Software Update

Another option would be to introduce an auto levelling filter. What I mean with this is you get put on a server with players with around the same experience “level” as you. Who’s fault?

This is where playing online fails, miserably. Where does the blame lie? Is it the Xbox Live system or is it the game makers or 50/50?  I recon it’s 50/50.

Any of the above would be a fantastic addition to online gaming especially on the xbox platform. These thoughts wouldn’t exactly being rocket science to introduce.   This would then hopefully stop people like [S7H]beauregard92 stealing an allies helicopter from Bad Company 2 and base raping.

Looking across the variety of different clan web sites out there it would seem that the main platform for such hosting is Linux. Word Press has grown arms and legs over the years with such vast functionality straight out the box and having literally thousands of different plugins and themes.

I’m not going to list tens of hosts to choose from but i am going to list a couple of hosts I have personally used past or present.

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CS New Media web hosting

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Bargain at £11.99 this game is a lot of fun especially online.

The call of duty series keep getting better and better.

Clan tag codes to show off your call sign on servers is just a paragraph away:

• blue – blue clan tag
• cyan – cyan (light blue) clan tag
• grn – green clan tag
• red – red clan tag
• yelw – yellow clan tag

Mixed with explosive action, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare also delivers amazing special effects, including use of depth of field, rim-lighting, character self-shadowing, real time post-processing, texture streaming as well as physics-enabled effects to enlist players into the most photo-realistic gaming experience. Combined with Call of Duty’s award-winning audio design, players will face war as never before.

In addition to single player, Infinity Ward has deployed a dedicated team from the start to deliver a new level of depth to multiplayer. Building on the hit Call of Duty 2 online experience, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare’s new multiplayer is set to provide the community an addictive and accessible experience to gamers of all levels.

Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare is in development for the Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, PLAYSTATION 3 computer entertainment system, and Windows PC.

 

This was game of the year and it’s now only £10.  If you’ve never played this game then it’s a recommendation that you do.

You can unlock cheats by collecting laptops. They’re hidden throughout the whole game. 

A bad year(15)

Enemies explode into tyres

Cluster bombs(10)

One grenade explodes four more explode in a cross-pattern.

CoD Noir(2)

Turns everything black and white

Infinite Space(30)

Unlimited ammo

Photo Negative(4)

Inverts colours of the games

Numbers of pieces of intel in the brackets

A bargain at just under £7. This game is a classic and if you fancy unlocking all levels and pictures then do the following:

Chapter select hold back button and tap in

->,->,<-,<-,X,X.