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Review by Jeremy C. GreenRating: I played PS2 in college so bought a PS3 when it come out and I was in graduate school. I only had two games for the PS3 for a really long time, then got Heavy Rain, and then got back into gaming and got a bunch more PS3 games. I sought after to play some of the XBOX 360 exclusives so got this elite edition with splinter cell. I was torn between getting the cheaper Spring bundle with Halo and the racing game, and this one. I really sought after the two controllers, and Splinter Cell looked cooler then Halo, and I already have a racing game for PS3 so that seemed redundant.

I reckon the 360 is great and recommend having both the 360 and the PS3 to anyone seriously interested in gaming. I’ve really enjoyed Splinter Cell and the 360 controller is great for first person shooters as noted in numerous comparisons between the systems — the triggers feel like gun triggers. I play Splinter Cell on the 360 and am still working through Uncharted 2 and FF13 on my PS3. I am certainly going to get some more games for the 360 — Mass Effect 2 and other XBOX exclusives. For multiplatformers, I lean towards 360 for shooters and similar (e.g. Red Dead Deliverance) and PS3 for strategy and RPGs.

I give this 360 only 4 of 5 stars because of some insignificant glitches — I was getting a disc read error whenever I first opened this thing and tried to play Splinter Cell. I thought I might have needed to return the disc, but then I went to the support website as prompted by my 360 and went through their steps — after resetting the cache for the 360 Splinter Cell worked fine. It crashed once while restarting one of the missions after dying, but that does not seem to be a recurring problem, the game is probably more reliable now that I installed it to the hard drive. Which is another reason this bundle is great — its best to install as many games as possible to the hard drive, so its excellent to have 250 GB available for this.

Xbox 360 250GB Elite Splinter Cell Conviction Bundle