I love Consumer Depot! Love love love love love them. Last weekend, I stopped in and bought Guitar Hero III, with the guitar, for the 360 for $39.99. Turns out it was a demo model, and it didn’t work very well at all. So I took it, and a few other things I had bought that didn’t work back and got about $75 in credit.
Turns out, this week they apparently got a shipment of XBOX 360 games from the CompUSA meltdown and they are dirt cheap. Sealed in the box games, including GTA IV for $40. So, yesterday, I picked up Karaoke Revolution™ Presents: American Idol® Encore, Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2007, and skate. for the $75 in credit I had. Let me say right now that I understand the hype about skate. It really is revolutionary compared to Tony Hawk, and so much fun to play. I only played for about 30 minutes last night and realized just how hard this thing is going to be to master. It’s hard to go back to real physics when you're used to playing with Tony Hawk (i.e. ridiculous) physics. But so much better.
I also played Tiger Woods for about 2 hours tonight and I'm really impressed by the graphics and the control scheme. It must be said, though, that compared to playing on the Wii, it's just not the same playing it on the 360.
The winner of the bunch, by far, was Karaoke Revolution (henceforth KRPAIE), at least for my wife and kids. She's singing her heart out right now in fact. I realized that Karaoke just isn't my thing. I love to sing, used to being my high school Concert Choir and truly enjoy singing choral music, but pop just isn't my bag. Zoni's absolutely in love with this game that she can play, just by doing what she loves to do anyway. I'm scared, after seeing all of the downloadable content (DLC) available for it, that we may just end up broke due to KRPAIE downloads. (Anybody else find it funny that the abbreviation would be phonetically pronounced crappy?)
Either way, she's having fun with the 360 finally, and I'm happy to finally pull her away from our neighbor's Wii. Maybe I can get her into some other games.