Almost all kids own some sort of game console. Right now the Xbox360 and the PS3 are the two main competitors. So, I want to figure out which one is better. I want one of these products because my old PS3 broke and I want something I can watch movies on and play games when I'm bored. Plus, it is entertaining to have some video games on a rainy day. I found a comparison chart by google searching “comparison chart Xbox360 vs. PS3” and found a website called wuup.co.uk. Which game system is the best?
What a lot of people don’t know is that while the Xbox and the PS3 are very different they have many similarities as well. The Xbox360 has 3 USB ports while the PS3 has only 2 but some older models have 4. Both have audio, video, and DVD/CD playback. The Play Station 3 has built in Bluray and the Xbox has an external HD drive via USB. Both can copy media to HDD but the Xbox can only copy audio via disk drive whereas the PS3 can copy audio and video from a flash drive or network. Both consoles have a messaging system and a voice chat and both have online play although while the PS3 just lets you play online, with the Xbox you have to have a gold Xbox live subscription.
A good hard drive is really important with game consoles. Both hard drives are upgradable. If you buy a PS3, the hard drive can range anywhere from 40 GB to 160 GB before its upgraded. The Xbox ranges from 20GB to 120GB before it’s upgraded. The PS3’s hard drive can be upgraded to 500GB and the Xbox’s hard drive can be upgraded to 120GB. The Play Station 3 has an internal power supply whereas the Xbox360 has an external power supply. Both have a wireless and an Ethernet connection, but only the Play Station 3 has a web browser.
When it comes to actually playing games, the PS3 has a motion sensor while the Xbox’s is sold separately. Both have a home guide button and triggers. But the PlayStation has more pressure sensitive buttons than the Xbox. They both come with a charge cable and have a PC connection. Both have a friends list and both have an avatar creator. With the Xbox you have to have an avatar whereas with the PS3 you don’t. They both have custom made themes but the Xbox doesn’t let the user make themes while the Play Station does. Both have an online store and both have download-able content. The main thing most people look at when they shop for a game console is the price. Luckily the Xbox and Play Station are in pretty much the same range. The PS3 can range from $200-$350 while the Xbox ranges from $200-$300.
Overall I think I like the Play Station 3 better. I really don’t need an extra USB port or HD gaming. The PlayStation 3 has more GB, free Internet, user-made themes, web browser, and blu-ray so it’s better for movies. To me it sounds like the extra $50 is kinda worth it. Plus, I'm more familiar with a PlayStation controler than a Xbox controler.
Tuesday, December 13, 2011
Fablehaven and The Hunger Games Reviews
Fablehaven
Fabelhaven by Brandon Mull has been a very popular book lately. Probably because most kids are more into fantasy fiction books now days and this series has quite a bit of action mixed in as well. The characters were well written as well. Some had a happy ending and others not so much which just draws the readers attention into the book even more. How amazing was this book?
Pacing of a book is important. Honestly a book will bore me if the pacing is too slow or if it just keeps the same pace the whole book. In Fabelhaven the pacing speeds up and slows down, unfortunately I thought the author sped up and slowed down at the wrong times. Whenever the book would begin to get exciting and the action part would come into play the book would speed up and that part would be over about as quick as it started. Of course then the book slows down while the characters are plotting out what to do. Because of this pacing the book wasn’t very suspenseful, but that doesn’t mean it wasn’t outstanding. The author did a brilliant job narrating the story other than the pacing and he was very descriptive with his characters and settings.
Plot lines are what makes a book really popular or really bad. In this case it made the book really vibrant. The plot kept you wanting to know what happened next. It wasn’t suspenseful but once you picked it up the book was hard to put down. I hate it when you’re reading a book and around halfway through you figure out what the main problem is and you already know how the book is going to end and how the main characters will solve their problem. In this book you can’t do that. You can think it through and maybe guess what they will do but you won’t completely know until the end of the book. This book has a lot of mythological creatures in it. It definitely would fall under a fiction/fantasy category which I love.
Out of five stars I give it a 4.5. I think that the book was really satisfying and I'd recommend it to anybody who likes those fiction/fantasy books like I do. There were only about 200 pages in it so it was kinda short but I still think it was a really reputable book.
The Hunger Games
What would it be like where you live in a world that kills you if your name is drawn from a bucket? That’s exactly what The Hunger Games is like. Of course, you have a chance to .live but at the cost of others lives. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins is about a girl who’s name gets drawn to participate in the games. The question is will she make it out alive? How captivating was this book?
Without a plot there is no story. The plot in The Hunger Games was really suspenseful. This book will definitely keep you wanting to read the rest of the book after about a chapter. The way Collins wrote everything was astonishing. She described practically everything so excellently that I could easily see what was going on in my head. The characters were all very vividly described. You could tell exactly what they looked like thanks to Collins.
The Hunger Games didn’t have much to do with fantasy but it could sort of be called a fiction book. Because it was set as an example of what might happen in the future if we don’t change. But of course, its all made up because no one is foolish enough to create a world like theirs.So it’s more a fiction book.
Over all i give this book a 4.9 out of 5 stars because it was really captivating. I would recommend this book to pretty much anyone.
Fabelhaven by Brandon Mull has been a very popular book lately. Probably because most kids are more into fantasy fiction books now days and this series has quite a bit of action mixed in as well. The characters were well written as well. Some had a happy ending and others not so much which just draws the readers attention into the book even more. How amazing was this book?
Pacing of a book is important. Honestly a book will bore me if the pacing is too slow or if it just keeps the same pace the whole book. In Fabelhaven the pacing speeds up and slows down, unfortunately I thought the author sped up and slowed down at the wrong times. Whenever the book would begin to get exciting and the action part would come into play the book would speed up and that part would be over about as quick as it started. Of course then the book slows down while the characters are plotting out what to do. Because of this pacing the book wasn’t very suspenseful, but that doesn’t mean it wasn’t outstanding. The author did a brilliant job narrating the story other than the pacing and he was very descriptive with his characters and settings.
Plot lines are what makes a book really popular or really bad. In this case it made the book really vibrant. The plot kept you wanting to know what happened next. It wasn’t suspenseful but once you picked it up the book was hard to put down. I hate it when you’re reading a book and around halfway through you figure out what the main problem is and you already know how the book is going to end and how the main characters will solve their problem. In this book you can’t do that. You can think it through and maybe guess what they will do but you won’t completely know until the end of the book. This book has a lot of mythological creatures in it. It definitely would fall under a fiction/fantasy category which I love.
Out of five stars I give it a 4.5. I think that the book was really satisfying and I'd recommend it to anybody who likes those fiction/fantasy books like I do. There were only about 200 pages in it so it was kinda short but I still think it was a really reputable book.
The Hunger Games
What would it be like where you live in a world that kills you if your name is drawn from a bucket? That’s exactly what The Hunger Games is like. Of course, you have a chance to .live but at the cost of others lives. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins is about a girl who’s name gets drawn to participate in the games. The question is will she make it out alive? How captivating was this book?
Without a plot there is no story. The plot in The Hunger Games was really suspenseful. This book will definitely keep you wanting to read the rest of the book after about a chapter. The way Collins wrote everything was astonishing. She described practically everything so excellently that I could easily see what was going on in my head. The characters were all very vividly described. You could tell exactly what they looked like thanks to Collins.
The Hunger Games didn’t have much to do with fantasy but it could sort of be called a fiction book. Because it was set as an example of what might happen in the future if we don’t change. But of course, its all made up because no one is foolish enough to create a world like theirs.So it’s more a fiction book.
Over all i give this book a 4.9 out of 5 stars because it was really captivating. I would recommend this book to pretty much anyone.
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