 | Xbox 360 Console (20 GB Hard Drive)
Buy used from: £123.97 Pre-ordered this months in advance, with no regrets whatsoever. The Premium set contains everything you'll need.
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 | Xbox 360 Play & Charge Kit (Xbox 360)
Buy new: £14.99 / Used from: £9.00 Not very exciting but useful for the Wirless Controller.
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 | Project Gotham Racing 3 (Xbox 360)
Buy used from: £1.90 Amazing graphics, even now all this time after launch, and great gameplay which rewards stylish driving. Plus all your dream cars!
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 | Perfect Dark Zero Limited Collector's Edition (Xbox 360)
Buy used from: £2.98 Very good game at launch, both in singlepayer and on Live. I wouldn't recommend it now in 2007 - there's so many better games out there.
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 | Need for Speed Most Wanted (Xbox 360)
Buy used from: £26.95 Very different from (though not as good as) PGR3 but great customisation and fun gameplay. It's very satisfying evading the cops for over 30 minutes then escaping!
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 | FIFA 06: Road To Fifa World Cup (Xbox 360)
Buy used from: £2.04 With no Pro Evo on Xbox 360 at the time this was the next best thing. Very good but couldn't recommend it over PES6.
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 | Dead or Alive 4 (Xbox 360)
Buy new: £59.03 / Used from: £3.99 Undeniably beautiful to look at and great gameplay. Beware though it's incredibly tough and requires dedication to master. I actually traded this in after a few weeks.
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 | Full Auto (Xbox 360)
Buy used from: £7.94 Brilliant at keeping me from going mad waiting for Burnout Revenge.
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 | Burnout: Revenge (Xbox 360)
Buy used from: £12.76 Totally worth waiting for. Fantastic high-def graphics compared to the PS2 version, with amazing online play (unlike most EA games). Must be seen in motion to really be appreciated.
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 | Lara Croft Tomb Raider: Legend (Xbox 360)
Buy new: £19.99 / Used from: £3.99 Before this the only Tomb Raider I liked was the original. Finally Lara Croft lived up to the hype. Shame it was over so soon though.
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| The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (Xbox 360)
Buy used from: £8.49 An amazingly rich world, which you can experience pretty much however you want. Potentially could keep you going for years, especially with all the expansions.
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 | Top Spin 2 (Xbox 360)
Buy new: £9.33 / Used from: £2.69 No question this is a very good tennis game, but singleplayer wears thin after a while, and Live didn't really improve it that much.
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 | MotoGP 06 (Xbox 360)
Buy new: £22.86 / Used from: £4.12 Incredibly hard to master but very satisfying when you do. Average graphics can't bring down the great gameplay both on and offline.
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 | Prey (Xbox 360)
Buy new: £8.99 / Used from: £2.93 Doom 3 Engine FPS. Does exactly what you'd expect. Decent if unspectacular adventure, rubbish mutliplayer. Buy it cheap, complete it once, then trade in - it's worth it.
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| Saints Row (Xbox 360)
Buy new: £24.95 / Used from: £3.99 A blatant GTA clone, but with it's own ideas. It's great fun completing the activities, and the story isn't bad. Decent enough on Live too.
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 | Dead Rising (Xbox 360)
Buy used from: £8.93 Enjoyed the demo (i.e. 15 minutes or so messing about) but the full game just didn't grab me at all. I've really tried to get into it - it just lacks that X factor for me. Will trade this in soon.
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 | Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Double Agent (Xbox 360)
Buy new: £34.95 / Used from: £4.93 An excellent, branching single player game with gorgeous graphics and interesting story. Multiplayer is quite niche and not really for me but still very good.
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 | Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas (Xbox 360)
Buy new: £12.46 / Used from: £4.31 I usually find strategic shooters inaccessible but this is easy to get into, and very challenging in a way that isn't frustrating like much of this genre. One of the most popular Live games also.
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 | Pro Evolution Soccer 6 (Xbox 360)
Buy new: £3.95 / Used from: £0.01 Okay it's not pretty but this is simply the best game of football you can get. Period. Shame they dropped some features for the 360 version but Live makes up for this.
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 | Call of Duty 3 (Xbox 360)
Buy new: £24.99 / Used from: £9.18 Not a patch on COD2. The gameplay is far from bad - it's just terribly average. Plus the characters are irritating and the story takes over control of your character too often when there's no need.
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 | Racing Wheel with Force Feedback Edition of Project Gotham Racing 3 (Xbox 360)
Probably the best console steering wheel I've ever used. The bundled force feedback edition of PGR3 gives the game a new lease of life. Will be essential when Forza Motorsport 2 comes out.
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 | Bionicle Heroes (Xbox 360)
Buy used from: £15.00 A Christmas present - I wouldn't have chosen this but actually if you want something that requires very little effort to play it's fun enough.
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 | Gears of War (Xbox 360)
Buy new: £17.99 / Used from: £4.74 This is truly an excellent game and the best 360 game yet (other than Oblivion maybe). Mind-blowing visuals, great gamplay and singleplayer story, and the best online game on the system.
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 | Xbox LIVE Vision Camera with Headset and Xbox LIVE Gold 1-Month Membership Card (Xbox 360)
Buy new: £28.97 / Used from: £14.99 Great if your friends have one as well. Mine don't. It's sat in the drawer since I bought it. The free download of Uno gets used all the time though! Very addictive.
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 | Crackdown (Xbox 360)
Buy new: £7.98 / Used from: £4.96 Halo addicts will buy this just for the Beta invite but this is a great game in it's own right. It's fun just to run around causing havoc, especially in Live co-op!
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