I recently had the privilege of picking up an Xbox 360 from a friend I met at a LAN party.
He offered me the system, 5 games, 2 drum sets, and guitar for only 250 dollars. This alone was a great deal, but I really don’t need a Xbox. You see I am a rare breed, I am a pc gamer. All of the great games end up on our platform anyway, so I just wait for them. Well I said to him, I didn’t need it but I would take it off his hands for 200 dollars. This was a great deal. The drum set, guitar and game alone are worth 158 dollars at the store right now. Needless to say I picked it up that night.
The funny thing was, all the games that were with it I had no interest in. They were all first person shooters and I love first person shooters. There is one difference however and that is input devices. I refuse to go back to a controller after I have been pampered with the use of a mouse and keyboard combo. A mouse is so much more precise compared to using my thumb. On that note I took all the games to a local trade in store known as “gamecrazy.” They gave me 60 dollars for the games. That’s almost 1/3 of the value I paid right there.. and I only turned in 3 of the 5 games. I took the credit however and picked up some casual skating games and Rising Dead which happened to be on my “I want to play list.” All in all I was happy with the system. I didn’t get its full use until last night. My step dad’s family was over and they were looking for entertainment. As I have stated before, we have replaced all of our tv’s for the most part with projectors. They wanted to see the rock band in action and I complied. Never would I have thought that it would have brought so much entertainment over so many generations.
 That night we spent together singing and drumming and picking at a fake guitar had to have been the most fun if not hilarious moments in gaming for me. No one could play the guitar correctly so I was volunteered to play the entire night picking away. My mother however picked up the drums pretty fast out of everyone. She could actually keep up and stayed in the 60% completed range. Singing was on a whole other level. My step dad actually got a 99% on the singing and told me the first song left him out of breath and tired….sounds like someone needs to exercise? Don’t get me wrong, when I tried the drums the first time on medium I was sweating too. The drums really feel like your accomplishing something which was pretty cool.
 So if you have a family that is into music, I really recommend you pick this up.. or at least a WII  and get rock band for it.. Since it really seems like a family console. The only complaint they really had was that there wasn’t any country songs or old songs they remember… downloadable content will soon change that.