Demo cabinets for the Xbox 360 are apparently popping up across the country, and who was I to resist? This morning I set out on a mission to track them down!!! By which I mean pop into Game and Gamestation and look for them.
And yes, they both had them. Both playing Kameo. Do you like first impressions? I do!
First, the looks. Unlike the original Xbox, the Xbox 360 doesn’t look hideously ugly and it isn’t the size of a Challenger tank, which is a bonus. It might look a little bit like a tower PC, but it’s a sleek and shaggable tower PC, at least.
The vast improvement was thrown into sharp relief by this monstrosity for the original Xbox, on sale in Game.
Kameo looks tasty from a distance - lots of lighting, depth of field effects and lovely creatures flying around - but from closer quarters it looks horribly pixellated. Urgh. This is probably down to the very shiny plasma display the display cabinet was using, but still - wot no Hi-Def? I’m a bit surprised by that, as I had assumed Microsoft would be driving their demo displays at the highest possible quality, regardless of the experience the average (standard bedefinitioned) home user will be getting.
I’ll probably sneak back at some point for another look, hopefully when there isn’t some girl monopolising the machine - oh yes, it will be mine.
