Xbox 360 250GB Halo Reach Console Bundle

I was unsure if I should drop $399.99 on this baby, but I said what the heck. It looks freakin' sweet. You get a nice matte finished console and controller, which feel good in your hands. That alone plus the game give you a great value for new products. I was a PS3 guy since it came out and it is backwards compatible and has not died out on me. All my friends had 360s but they always got the Red Ring and had to send it in for repairs or buy a new one. I felt proud to have a reliable console, but when I heard reviews of how this new 360 console works to better protect itself from overheating, that sealed the deal for me. This console is nice. 250 GB is a lot of room for DLC, videos, etc. The touch sounds you get when opening/closing the disc tray as well as turning it on/off is really nice as it separates it from the gloss finished ones and shows off its limitedness. The console itself is pretty quiet. After playing Reach for 8 hours, it wasn't even alarmingly hot. It was warm, which all electronics tend to be over a period of time. Sorry to all of those who says this overheats, for it does not. There are a total of 5 USB ports on this rig. I currently have no use for any of them, but can be nice when you want to plug crap in I guess. Then you got the HDMI output and whatnot, all that stuff from the old Elites are here. I do enjoy the removable hard drive in this one as it is slim compared to the old Hard Drives. You can take it out and put into other new 360s. If you are worried about having to transfer your files, get the hard drive transfer cable or go to YouTube and find videos that show you how to take apart your old Elite 120 GB hard drive and stuff it in. But be warned as it will be hard to take out after you put in I hear. As for add-ons, you get the good stuff. You get a special UNSC Falcon Avatar item, which is cooler than the Covenant Banshee that came with the controllers (purchased separately), the Officer Elite Armor (comes in limited edition Halo Reach), and the Recon Helmet for pre-ordering (but I bet all the console editions have it included). The only thing you do not get is the flaming spartan head armor effect, but it won't make you feel gypped. Having these cool armors and avatar item is satisfaction enough. Oh, also included is the last episode from Halo Legends, the movie of 8 anime bits in the Halo universe. You get the "Package" and it is quite nice to have and be able to watch it from your xbox. I only dislike how the Halo Legends episode was a code and was not readily available to watch on the console, but downloading it only took a few minutes. It is a 15-minute long episode with CGI graphics and is really the best of the 8 episodes IMO. You can see what I mean as all 8 episodes are available via YouTube. The console, the controllers, the headset, Reach, and all the virtual items you get with this make it worth the money. It saved me headache of wondering what external fan to get for a older model 360 as this stays nice and cool and very quite. The matte finished controllers match the console and just feel good in your hands. Allows you to easily shoot down enemies and do well in Matchmaking. The headset is nothing special, but works. It is black and easily plugs into the controller and has the Talk/Mute option on the side of the cord versus it being at the place where it plugged into the controller of older model headsets. The episode of Halo Legends is sweet and is nice to be able to watch on a television set. The virtual items you get will hold you over until you start ascending the ranks in Halo Reach. I love my Officer Elite armor and I keep my Recon Visor Helmet on all the time. So far, I have not bought any armor as it all looks like crap compared to the default set-up with the Recon helmet equipped. Having the Falcon being controlled by avatar is a plus as almost no one will have it--it is exclusive to users of this console only. If yours did not comes with a code for the Falcon, you can still get it through Halo Waypoint (I had to use this method). All in all, a great buy for 2 controllers, a game, a console, and a few extras you get here and there. Worth my money and glad to be a Gold Xbox Live Member playing Halo Reach matchmaking. It felt like Christmas came early!

This is an Xbox 360 slim and it does play games, come with 2 controllers, a code to download a free chapter of Halo Legends and the Halo Reach game. That being said, for a special limited edition version they certainly cheaped out wherever they could. 1. Only SD Video Cables included. No HDMI, No Component, just Yellow, White & Red. 2. Halo Reach is the regular edition, nothing more. 3. The version of Halo Reach included comes in a regular black case (no transparent green here). 4. Controllers don't come with rechargeable batteries. 5. No charge and play cable. 6. Headset is a generic black wired set. 7. No data transfer kit. Now I might not have really noticed about numbers 3-6 if everything I mentioned hadn't been included in the Halo 3 Edition 360! Come on Microsoft, I expect more when I shell out for a premium version. Also word of advice, don't order this item with anything else as it will smash it to hell in shipping, I have a pitiful looking DVD to prove it. Edit: And now I see that they even sell special Reach edition wireless headsets, why wasn't one of these included?

I bought this 360 used from one of the other Amazon retailers. It worked great when I got it and, aside from a few cosmetic blemishes, it looked great too. The controller was worn and has some stick drift but that's expected of a used controller. What is unacceptable about this is that less than three months after my purchase the damn thing won't work properly. It started turning on a and off by itself, making the startup noises while off and opening the disc tray randomly. Then the Wireless internet connector stopped working. And for icing on the cake, now it won't go five minutes before it turns off by itself. I am very dissatisfied with this purchase. I have owned several Xbox 360s and this is by far the worst of them. I would not recommend buying a used console of any kind from Amazon.

Thank you for packaging it’s nice it works great!

The console runs okay so far. The controller was pretty grimy and so was the system. and I might have misread the description but doesn't the Halo Reach X Box 360 special edition come with the Halo Reach game?

Love the game, console overheats rather quickly. I had to add an external fan to it. I'll probably need to replace hard drive soon.