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Microsoft Xbox 360 Premium
4.2 stars
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paulenew's Review of Microsoft Xbox 360 Premium Console

19th Feb 2008

Overall Rating

0.5 stars
  • Value for money
    2 stars
  • Graphics
    4.5 stars
  • Date of Purchase (MM/YY)
    02/07
  • Range Of Games
    4.5 stars
Good Points

Nice Graphics
Many good games
Good controllers
XBox live


Bad Points

In my opinion incredibly poor build quality (disc drive sounds like a coffee grinder, and now, after just over a year, acts like one too - 2 expensive discs destroyed).
'Red ring of death' only avoided by installing extra cooling fans because Microsoft apparently have no idea that electronics get hot.


General Comments

Played many good games whilst this console lasted, but regrettably Microsofts lack of interest in build quality finally destroyed any interest I had in it. The pathetically inadequate Hitachi/Samsung dvd drives make this a deeply annoying console to use even before they fail and destroy discs after (according to my experience & internet consensus) 6-12 months, because the noise they generate is simply unnacceptable. Mass Effect game finally killed this piece of garbage by daring to stress the dvd drive slighly during a long load.
Briefly considered getting an Elite to replace the thing, but found on google that the 'solutions' MS have built in are by no means a cure for everything - there's not even any guarantee of getting the slightly better Benq dvd drive apparently.
Overall, loved the games, hated the system from day one due to the ridiculous noise levels. Wouldn't consider buying MS hardware again if they were the last console manufacturer on earth.

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