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Specification: -CPU Intel Pentium III -Clock speed:733ΜΗΖ -Ram: 64 Mb -Audio: 64-Bit -Hard drive: 8GB -DVD drive: 2x-5x -Resolution: 1920 x 1080 pixels |
Top games: Halo, Hunter: The Reckoning, Splinter Cell, Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon, Rally Fusion Race of Champions |
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Review: This Microsoft's first serious games-only solution claims to blow away the Sony Playstation 2 and was released for under £300. The Xbox always had a good chance of competing as it has better graphics provided by nVidia famous for its GeForce graphics cards sold for PCs. The Sega Dreamcast was the first console to feature PC-like components and PC code-like OS system and an old PowerVR graphics as used by a few people years ago. The Xbox runs at 733 MHz, which is twice the speed of the PlayStation's graphics and aims to do 150 to 200 million polygons per sec compared to 66 million or so that the Playstation 2 can realistically do. The Xbox also has DVD playback if you buy the additional unit and should include at least a 6 Gb hard drive to speed things up. Microsoft also claim that 60% of the games will be made by themselves which is relatively high, and although it may help them in dominating the world, Microsoft do not make the best games for the PC, but companies like Electronic Arts do! There are a lot of on-going costs associated with the Xbox, including game prices and the dvd function explained above. Also the games are not as good as we would have liked, apart from Halo. Plans for the Xbox 2 have been drawn up by Microsoft. Where they hope to increase online gaming following the huge inroads that the PC has made. The Xbox 2 is set for release before the next World Cup in 2006. Conclusion If the Xbox is supported well with good games it will succeed, but the Playstation 2 looks to have taken the majority of eagerly poised games fans from them, as well as the introduction of the Nintendo GameCube which claims to be the best system around currently. Rating:
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