Nodz86

Have they nicked the headlights and the bonnet of a 'Vette????

my played up a few days before it died, one minute it would have RRoD then it would be fine, took it 4 days to die properly

TDU with harddrive install is great, graphics look sharper, especially in car, loads unbeleivably quick on the loading scvreens, and no traffic pop up as of yet. Cars still take a second to load in the garage but not as bad as it used to be. loving it. Shadow stop being a fanboy, its getting annoying now, if its not constructive and just blantently slagging off things about the xbox then don't post.

Right go on xbox.com go to and report a repair they will send you an email with confermation. (think you will need to register your console if you haven't). You also get 3 years warrenty for RRoD. Just send back the box, keep all, leads, HDD controllers etc. Dont send it back in the xbox box send it in a plain one as you dont get it back and make sure it is well packaged. Sorry to hear its happened, have you tried unplagging and plugging the leads back in?? Edit: just seen you edit. hopefully it'll live

The F1 Olympics: Bernie wants to scrap points, use a medal system in 2009 Posted Nov 20th 2008 7:58AM by Jonathon Ramsey Filed under: Motorsports The points system used by Formula 1 has been the subject of debate for years. When the system was expanded after 2002 and began offering points up to eighth position, people thought that would create more suspense since Michael Schumacher was running off with the trophies every year. It didn't work, and now with Schumacher gone, all the points system tends to reward is consistency over winning. Lewis Hamilton won five races this year and Felipe Massa won six, but Lewis Hamilton is the world champion because he scored more points. F1 impresario Bernie Ecclestone wants to move to a medal system next year, awarding gold, bronze and silver to the top three finishers. The guy with the most gold at the end wins the championship. If that had been in place for this year, Felipe would have won the championship. If Lewis had won the last race in Brazil, he and Felipe would have been tied on gold medals and tied on silver medals, but Lewis has one more bronze medal (third place) than Felipe, so Hamilton would be champion. Will it happen? Bernie says the teams are behind it, so it only awaits a vote from the World Motorsport Council. From autoblog.

Why's ShadowGT voted even tho he doesn't have an xbox???

As far as I know there is no DLC for the PS3, the DLC is only for the Xbox 360 as it was part of the deal they signed with MS. It might surface on the PS3 but that will be at least 6 months after the 360 release

Rockstar Games 'Grand Theft Auto' yields road to the 'Lost and Damned' Meet Johnny Klebitz, the protagonist in Grand Theft Auto IV's downloadable episode 'The Lost and the Damned.' The upcoming episode of the video game Grand Theft Auto IV looks to be a wild one. GTA IV, which was released in April for the Xbox 360 and Sony PlayStation 3, focused on former Eastern European soldier Niko Bellic and his escalating life of crime in the boroughs of Liberty City. This new episode, available Feb. 17 via download exclusively for those who own the Xbox 360 version (no price yet), stars Johnny Klebitz, a member of Liberty City biker gang The Lost. "Johnny is a very different character than Niko, with a very different background," says Dan Houser, vice president of creative development for Rockstar Games. "I can't go into too much detail on the story, because we try not to give away too much plot before the game is released. But I can say that the story will show you a different side of Liberty City." The episode, titled The Lost and Damned, requires players to have the full version of the Mature-rated GTA IV (ages 17 and older) and an Xbox Live membership to download. It's likely to carry an M rating, too. (Parents can use the Xbox 360's parental controls to prevent children from accessing inappropriate content.) GTA IV is the top video game this year; nearly two-thirds of the 5 million copies sold have been for Xbox 360, according to The NPD Group. In the original game, Niko crossed paths with The Lost several times. This time, Niko has only a bit part, Houser says. "The story is not directly impacted by decisions you took in the main game," he says. But "tons of details and mysteries from the main story get explained, so it will add a lot of color to the main story." 'Damned' will offer hours of gameplay, not just extras Rockstar Games has been fine-tuning its explorable 3-D virtual worlds since launching its first "sandbox" game with Grand Theft Auto III in 2001. The new game will let you download more sandbox time. "We feel like we've only scratched the surface in terms of the depth and detail in" GTA IV's mythical Liberty City, says Houser. Previous games have used downloads to add "new stages, weapons and costumes," says GamePro Media features editor Dave Rudden, "but GTA IV's content will reportedly add hours of gameplay." Rudden hopes the episode costs $15 or less, but Wedbush Morgan Securities analyst Michael Pachter expects a $20 price and says Rockstar could sell 2 million to 3 million downloads. "I see episodic content as a natural progression of the quality of downloadable content." 'The Lost and the Damned' star Johnny Klebitz finds himself in a biker gang standoff in Alderney, Liberty City's equivalent to New Jersey. Biker gang The Lost rides through Alderney. Johnny takes a night ride. Source

Updated 1st post keep them coming. I second that, especially with most of the newer games needing 6Gb

Thought I'd start a directory for all games and how much disk space they take up when installed to the HDD. So post what you've installed and I'll add it to the post. This way we know how much what games need and can work out what ones we can have installed at once (unless you have a 120GB HDD of course, then you won’t have any problems) For reviews of what the installs are actually like (i.e. make the game run better or worse) please see Crazed Dodgem's (a.k.a Who and lwsbrck) thread which is found here #: A: Ace Combat 6 - 6.4 GB Army Of Two - 6.0GB Assassin's Creed - 6.7 GB B: Baja : Edge of Control - 5.4 GB Beijing 2008 - 6.0 GB Blacksite - 6.7 GB Burnout Paradise - 3.4 GB C: Colin McRae Dirt - 6.4GB Crackdown - NOT SUPPORTED D: Deadspce - 6.6 GB E: EA Sports Fight Night Round Three - 3.4 GB F: Fable 2 - 6.8 GB Fallout 3 - 5.9 GB Far Cry 2 - 4.5 GB F.E.A.R. - 4.0 GB F.E.A.R. files - 6.8 GB FIFA 07 - 5.6 GB FIFA 08 - 4.5 GB FIFA 09 - 6.0 GB Flatout: Ultimate Carnage - 4.9 GB Forza Motorsport 2 - 5.3 GB G: Gears Of War - 6.5 GB Gears of War 2 - 6.7 GB Grand Theft Auto IV - 6.8 GB Guitar Hero II - 3.4 GB Guitar Hero III - 3.4 GB H: H.A.L.O 3 - 6.3 GB I: J: K: L: Lego Batman -6.0 GB Lego Indianna Jones - 4.4 GB Lego Star Wars: TCS - 5.8GB M: Mercenaries 2: World in Flames - 6.7GB Midnight Club: Los Angeles - 6.0GB Mirrors Edge - 5.8GB N: NFS: Pro Street - 5.5GB NFS Undercover - 4.8GB O: P: Perfect Dark: Zero - 4.9 GB PGR 4 - 6.0 GB Q: R: RACE Pro - 5.0 GB S: Saints Row - 6.8 GB Saints Row 2 - 6.8 GB Skate - 6.8 GB Skate 2 - 6.7 GB Soul Calibur IV - 5.9 GB Solidier of Fortune: Payback - 3.4 GB Star Wars: The Force Unleashed - 6.9GB Stuntman Ignition - 5.8 GB T: Test Drive Unlimited - 3.4 GB Tiger Woods PGA Tour 07 - 6.4GB Tomb Raider Underworld - 6.9Gb Tony Hawk's Project 8 - 6.4GB U: Unreal Tournament 3 - 6.4 GB V: W: WWE Smackdown VS Raw 2007 - 6.8 GB X Y: Z:

Now that the NXE is upon us thought I'd do a little poll and question. Basically how you finding it?? could it be better??

erm, if its about Nipper it will be when M$ release the next dash update as he'll have that to moan about then, as in nippers eyes nothing compares to LFS :p

I'll send links in a min Car Freak. Koenig, if I'm honest most of the pics are crap, to far away to get good ones and when I was in the car shar was using the camera so they weren't that good. Adam, the Orange Murci (in the link to tinypic) had eveo stickers all over it and I'm sure I'd seen it in there before. The LP640 I drove has had a mis hap or two, theres a dent in the front bumper and one on the rear one(well more that under rear bumper spoiler thingy, can't remember the name).

Nipper there is a way so then your xmii isn't your gamerpic and you can have the one you used to

I would think we will, bit early ain't it?? thought it was later last time

Cheers Drift, yeah it was. Just thought of something else, whilst I was in the DB9 I nearly went into the back of the LP640. We both over took the Atom iirc after the chicane and when we come up to the bottom corner I braked as normal, a b it earlier as I was following the LP640 but the LP640 virtually stopped so I had to go down another gear and break even harder. I had good distance between the two but the instructor must of needed a change of underwear. Would've been good writing out the insurence form, "as I was braking from 100mph into a corner.........." lol

Monty Python is great, has me in stitches all the time. Good find Iced

Forgot to mention about the breakdowns, we had a Ferrari 360 die, had smoke pouring out the exhuast pipes, a murci span, someone locked up in th Atom and drove through the chicane near the pit. The funniest moment had to be when the Gallardo Spyder (noisey thing it was) broke down, it got towed back to the pits by a Renault Clio, yes you did read that right a Lambo being towed by a clio. Also had this gallardo with some Nice exhausts: [ATTACH]6569[/ATTACH] They are silencers as it didn't meet the noise level requirement, I must admit its sister (the Spyder) was extremely loud, probably the loudest that day.

The LP640 was a great car but it was probably due to the seating position and the instructor as to why it werent that good. The Atom is one car that you must drive before you get old, it is immense and this one was the Atom 2 so it had the supercharged Honda Type R engine unlike the Atom 1 which had the MG Engine in it.

Well it was a bit for this one £495, which tbh was good for what I got as some around that price the cars are not as good, i.e. they have a low end porsche in there or a Scooby or Evo. Some around that let you do 3 cars then half a day Rally driving its all about finding what you want. I've just PM'd Khevo with some links, I can forward them to you if you want. Same for anyone if you want some links to sites that do these PM me and I'll send them to you.

Yep loads, expect a PM just after this post. I'm 22, depends on whewre you go some tracks say as long as you have a full manual licence (so 17yrs old to get that over here) and others like Thruxton, Silverstone and other big circuits say 21yrs old. Some tracks supply race boots and gloves aswell as helmets. Also some require you to wear full length sleeves on t-shirts and trousers (no shorts) Heres some other things: You must hold a full driving license and be legal to drive on the UK roads. The restrictions for all the vehicles and equipment are height between 120 - 200cm and weight below 18 stone. Please check before you book that you meet the requirements Also they do a junior experiance, you don't get to rag it as much as I did but you still get to drive it, again hieght and wieght limits apply. Well mine was only round an airfield with a few cones (some people still mnaged to go through them, someone in the atom locked up on bracking and just carried on going, lol And had a slow speed ride in a RR Supercharged and a high speed ride in a BMW M3 CSL :D

It was Elvington Airfield just outside York. I can't find a pic of the track so heres one I drew earlier (note, not very good as in MSPaint) [ATTACH]6566[/ATTACH] That makes it look bigger than it was and it was set out with cones, 4 laps (1 out lap and 1 in lap) lasted about 10mins

Cool, cheers speedtouch, I knew it was a pillar of some description, but not as comfy as the pillow I'm about to put my head on now. If anyone wants to ask any questions feel free to ask

As some of you might know I did a driving day at the weekend. It has to be one of the best things I have ever done, ever. I thought I'd post a little review of the cars I drove and was driven in. I started the day being driven round the track (at low speed) in a Range Rover Sport Supercharged, very nice car, just a quick lap to familiarise us with the course and the general do's and don’ts. Then I got thrown in at the deep end, in an Arial Atom. That thing is immense, one of the experiences I remember most of the day. The acceleration needs to be experienced to be believed especially with the cold, crisp air of a November morning rushing in any gap on the helmet!!! The time in this car can only be described mental, only used 3rd and 4th gear (same as in most cars) but the instructor I had in this car was the nuts (had an intercom on the helmets). After the 1st lap he was just encouraging me to go faster and faster. This car felt the quickest of the day by far even though it probably wasn't. If I was in this car last I think I would have been quicker as I would've known the track more. (pic of me being strapped in the Atom with helmet so I didn't get the Clarkson look) Next up was the Aston Martin DB9. Unfortunatly coming after the Atom it didn't feel like anything special. The Flappy Paddle shifting was smooth and slick, as you'd expect from an auto box. Apart from that it felt like a normal drive nothing to out the ordinary. Don't think the instructor helped much, was pretty quiet and seemed like he wanted to be elsewhere. (Pic of me in the Aston) After the Aston and some chips came the Ferrari 360 CS. Thought I'd have trouble fitting in this but the instructor was taller than me. Very comfy car to be in had the carbon ceramic brakes (which apparently last the lifetime of the car). The instructor was really good and very knowledgeable. Encouraged me to boot it and it was easy to do, very good to drive (probably because it weren't in race mode and had all the aids on). He said if I was to do a full day in the car then we would come to the stage of turning all the aids off and putting race mod on (something which I am actually looking into). The only floor with this car was the Flappy Paddle gear box, when you changed gear it was laggy, for want of a better word. Where as in the Aston it was smooth and unnoticeable to some extent this lagged a bit, apparently in race mod it weren't as bad, but it is probably due to the type of box it is. (Pic of me getting briefed in the 360CS) After a bit of waiting and a long speech I got to the Audi R8. The pre speech was rubbish and a pain and made me late for the LP640 (this car was actually subbed from another company on the site that why I had to sit through there rubbish). That said, once I got into the car it was all worth it. The instructor was a happy, chirpy chap, was making me boot it as where the rest. Really quick acceleration on it and a smoother box than the 36CS but still lagged a bit. On the chicane I dropped it to 2nd and as I accelerated hard out flapped the paddle to change out and it went into neutral, which was strange. Apart from that it went, and boy did it stop. The brakes where probably the best I'd used all day, very sharp and responsive, better than the ceramics on the 360CS (but then they need to be hot to work properly and for how much I used them they probably weren’t that hot). This car was probably the biggest surprise of the day as it was the easiest to drive and when you give it some it responded. (Unfortunately the other company were a pain so couldn't get a pic of me in it but here’s one from earlier in the day) Last but not least was the Lambo LP640. From outside what an amazing car, looked the dogs and had a yellow interior to keep with the subtle looks. Climbed into the cockpit and my legs needed to be shorter and my arms needed to be longer, also had a proper gear box instead of the Flappy paddles. Found this to be probably the most difficult car to drive, seating wasn't comfortable (I know it’s not meant to be), the B pillar (the one next to the windscreen, I'm sure Hybrid will correct me if I'm wrong) was right in the way, couldn't see round the bend at all and didn't really have any room to move unlike in the others. Once I got used to it, and knowing the track by this time I was confident to look down and see what speed I was doing when I got near the breaking point. I was doing well over a ton (100mph) after I had started braking but that wasn't the thing worrying me, more the engine warning light and check engine warning writing that was flashing at me, not good to see at any speed let alone that speed. Again the instructor wasn't the best in this car so probably didn't help too much. Still a great car but just didn't do it for me, might need a go in it again. The other thing I noticed is when you turned the steering wheel (noticed this whilst in the "pit area") on both the LP640 and the orange murci it sounded like one of the wishbones or track rods was going to snap, had a creaking and growing noise coming from them. (Pic of me trying to find the seat belt, only to realise I am a prize muppet and it is fed from the centre). To end the day I had a high speed ride round in a BMW M3 CSL. The driver was a nutcase, was basically trying to scare us by braking late etc, but on the first corner over cooked it and nearly had us spinning. This was over as soon as it began. After got my certificate, got some track photos of me driving the cars (so I was £90 lighter). All in all a very enjoyable day and I would recommend it to anyone. The highlights of the day was definitely the Atom that car has to be driven to even understand the madness of it. The biggest surprise of the Day had to go to the R8, what an amazing car one you could live with every day, I didn't hold much for it before I went and was saying it’s an Audi it won’t be nothing special but I take that all back, it was one of the better cars. The Aston was average sat next to all these, whether it was because I drove the Atom before, who knows, but still a great car none the less but would choose an R8 over it. The Ferrari was outstanding piece of kit that I could thrash round all day, not as much adrenaline as in the Atom but then I weren't out in the elements in it, only downside was the gearbox. Unfortunately the biggest let down was the LP640, whether it was due to my seating position, view, instructor, I don't know or because this was the car I was hyping up the most (the opposite effect from the R8), who knows, still a great car in its own right but it just didn't do it for me. Here is a selection of pics of the other vehicles they had there: http://tinypic.com/useralbum.php?ua=h%2B5OO51Iht3nF1cMcXoLTg%3D%3D *photo's of me in vehicles where taken by shar, thats why half the car is missing on some of them.

Oh dear, that was a bad move, we now have a drunken squirrel mafia