Live Vision Camera (Xbox 360)
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In a nutshell: The lowdown: It comes with a free download of card game UNO and the Super Monkey Ball style Totemball. Other games that support the Live Vision Camera include Bankshot Billiards, Texas Hold’em, Hardwood Hearts, Hardwood Spades and Ubisoft’s Rainbow Six: Vegas which allows you to digitise your face into the game. The Live Vision Camera has every chance of becoming as essential to next gen gaming as it is to next gen online chat. Most exciting moment: Since you ask: The bottom line: |
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Customer Review: Xbox Live Vision Review
A good idea with some great potential but for the time being that’s all it is. I think it’s great that the camera can be used as a normal webcam, being a USB, you can just plug it into your PC.
The camera is reasonably clear, however you can take a higher advantages of the effects on the 360. After taking a photo, to set as your personal gamerpicture, or to send to a friend, you can add various effects, including the common settings like black and white, sepia, negative, as well as special lens effects that expand, inflate, or reflect the picture, as well as many more.
When i purchased this item, it comes with a one month free gold membership on xbox live, an extra headset for online chatting (worth about ?14.99 at the time), and a code to download UNO full xbox live arcade game. Great if you have friends over with the headset, so you can all talk to different people, and UNO isn’t a bad way to boost your gamerscore.
Similar to the Sony Eyetoy, on playstation 2, you can use it to control characters. However there is few games this is compatible with. TotemBall, (a free arcade game that requires the camera) is not the greatest of games, but, for the younger generation it can be fun. Basically you control a ball rolling around a level, by moving your arms up and down in fountains to control the speed and direction. Doesn’t sound great, because basically it isn’t, specially when you already have perfectly good games to play on.
You can also have video conversations and calls with other xbox live members but they must have a gold membership to view and send their own (if they have the cam), or they can just watch, (with gold).
Another great feature that the visioncam can be used for is ‘Gameface’ technology. Despite only being in one game, this shows great potential for personalising characters. The only game supporting this so far is Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Vegas. I don’t own this game but I would say - aswell as many other people - that it’s possible one of the greatest shooters on xbox 360 so far. In multiplayer you create your own characeter, when the camera is connected, you set up to take a photo, line up your face in good lighting in the box shown on screen, then take a photo, repeat it again from the side. After quite a long wait, that, providing it works, is worth it, a photo appears on your soldier that doesn’t look identical, but looks quite good. Unfortunately, I don’t think you can arm your character with various headgear, like scars, balaclavas and goggles but you unlock an achievement worth 20 or 30 gamerpoints which is a highish benefit if you have a low score like me 
Despite a high asking price, with all the extras and potential included it is worth buying. However it’s also worth waiting for to hope the price lowers and more games include the gameface technology.
Hope this review was helpful to anyone considering buying this item.
Customer Review: An Average product
The Live Vision Cam is the Xbox 360 Webcam. It plugs into the front of your Xbox via USB and enables you to video chat, take personalized gamer pictures and scan your face into games.
As a camera it’s pretty good quality. The picture isn’t fantastic, but it’s clearer than most PC webcams and provides fluid video without any lag. It has a large viewing angle and so can see a lot of the room you are in. The camera seems to get pretty hot when on, so I recommend only leaving it plugged in whilst using it.
This camera didn’t come in a box like it would in the shop, however all the parts were there. The game DID NOT come with UNO, rather the arcade game Robotron:2040 (which has no webcam functionality). This was a disappointment as I wanted UNO, which can used the webcam function. Totemball is not fun whatsoever and just hurts your arms (and your patience).
Overall the camera is okay. It does it’s job, but could be used in future to greater effect. I scanned my face in Rainbow Six, but it looked a bit creepy and wouldn’t allow me to wear my favourite loadout. My camera didn’t come in a box or with UNO which was not properly advertised. If you can get this for about twenty pounds then it’s a good deal, but it is by no means an essential purchase for your 360.
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Halo 3 (Xbox 360) 
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List Price: ?49.99
Amazon Price: ?34.98
Used Price: ?26.99
Customer Review: A must buy
Halo 3 is the third game set in the world of Halo, and it was one of if not the most hyped games ever. It was deliberately hyped and Microsoft knew it would be their money maker, and so gave every single Live member, wheteher GOLD or SILVER membership an entire weekend to play Halo and any other game online for free. All I can say is that Halo, wehile being almost thwe same as Halo: Combat Evolved and Halo 2, is amazing and bering the same is brilliant as it is what people fin so enjoyable and fun to play including myself. Multiplayer is the best part as it is so much fun to pllay with friends and finally you can play with friends in ranked matches.
Customer Review: good stuff
Ive had this game for a while now but have avoided playing it in favour of fifa and fight night. Ive got myself hooked up to xbox live at last and i thought id give the old slayer matches a go online. After getting my ass handed to me on several occasions by all and sundry, i decided to give the campaign mode a whirl to hopefully improve. Ive seen many varied reviews, but ive got to say I really like the game. It looks great, its not massively difficult, there are very regular checkpoints (which i really like) and its ideal for xbox live like most first person shooters. Obviously this game isnt gonna please everybody, but its been a long time since ive played a first person shooter that I like and enjoy, so I have to recommend this game strongly to any 360 owners who have not yet got it.
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List Price: ?39.99
Amazon Price: ?19.96
Used Price: ?12.50
Customer Review: Great game
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Customer Review: Superb
Ever since Project Gotham came out for the Xbox, i have been looking for another driving game to come and knock my socks off. PGR had everything, a good learning curve, replayability trying to ace every single race to get the cars you desired. And on a whim i bought Stuntman II: Ignition. This is the very first driving game which has left me in two states… one of being just really content to play oevr and over again in a fun loving way, and then the other state which is rip roaring aggression to master every single race. At first i thought it was impossible to get over 2 stars on any race, however once I hit the odd jobs, i had a revelation, and i went straight back to the first levels… and 5 star after 5 star came (after playing and replaying and replaying the level!!) This is not a bad thing at all. It is about becoming the master stuntman and mastering every vehicle from monster trucks, to lorries carrying a scud missile to motorbikes. They all drive differently, and you have to adjust your play to crack them. The stunts themselves are brilliantly thought out, from driving through a lava encircled town after a volcano eruption, to a Dukes of hazzard type movie… they are all brilliant fun. The only gripe i have about this (and it is a very small one) is the fact that in the action replays and trailers for the movies, you can actually see the ramps you jump over. It would have been far better to disguise them as in a proper movie… however you can not play this game and want to master it without noticing the imperfections of the game! 
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