privateer Δημοσ. 16 Οκτωβρίου 2006 Μέλος Δημοσ. 16 Οκτωβρίου 2006 Call of Duty 3 dated November is looking like a busy month for 360 shooter fans. The carnage kicks off on Xbox 360 first on November 10, with Gears Of War and Rainbow 6: Vegas following only weeks later. The PS2 version is due on November 24 and World War Wii launches on December 1, a week before Nintendo's next-gen system goes in sale in Europe.The PS3 version is currently set for next March.
The_Sheep Δημοσ. 17 Οκτωβρίου 2006 Δημοσ. 17 Οκτωβρίου 2006 panemorfo etsi? collectors edition The collector's edition, for those who don't know, contains a hardbound art book and a DVD full of extra features.
privateer Δημοσ. 17 Οκτωβρίου 2006 Μέλος Δημοσ. 17 Οκτωβρίου 2006 Gears of War: Multiplayer majesty! 16 Oct 2006 In-depth hands on preview... Last week the OXM team were lucky enough to be invited to a secret location in central London as Microsoft's guests. Once there, we were treated an afternoon of hands-on play with a number of titles featured at X06. Top of our collective agendas though, was Gears of War. Whilst some of us had been fortunate enough to play Epic's uber-title before, for others it was their first chance to get to grips with the Locust horde. And get to grips we did! Taking us through his multiplayer hands on experience with Gears of War is OXM Nab Gil - a man who, to this day, is still quivering from the memory of it all. At least, that is his explanation for the shakes.... If you can judge a multiplayer game by how long the post-battle talk lingers, then the overriding impression of Gears of War is that it hasnʼt just ripped the crown from Call of Duty 2ʼs cold dead hands, but it has neck stomped on the other Xbox Live games for good measure. Twenty four hours after our playtest, weʼre still talking about it, about acts of individual bravery, of being showered in the bloody stumps of colleagues gibbed by a shotgun at point blank range. The comment “did you see what I did with the chainsaw?” punctuates each story. Make no mistake; Gears of War is brutal. Sitting in on an eight player, four-on-four team Deathmatch, weʼre given a brief overview of the controls, along with the repeated assurance that GOWʼs streamlined interface is ideal for the pick up and play style. A seven second countdown later and weʼre on the mean streets of the first multiplayer map of the day: Gridlock. After holding down A to charge forward, the camera instantaneously flicks from a static over-the-shoulder viewpoint to a tracking shaky cam by your characterʼs feet. The shift embellishes the experience rather than detracting from it, as you race to the next cover point. What results next is a bloodbath. Youʼre aware of the escalating battle around you as the two sides clash in the middle of a debris filled street, as bullets whiz by your head and a balcony explodes in front, body parts flying everywhere, indicating someone has found the rocket launcher. Grabbing some cover either side of a nearby archway, I watch as a comrade leans round the corner and has his head taken off in one shot. The other side has answered back by finding the solitary sniper rifle on the map. I swung under the archway just a opposing Locusts does the same. Even at such close range their panic means wild gunfire goes over my shoulder. Tapping B I charge them, an unmistakable sound roaring to life at the end of my rifle. As chainsaw meets flesh and I bellow a dark laugh as my Marine pulls the serrated metal through the twitching body and ends with a sickening twist, splattering blood across my screen as the remains fall apart on the floor! Kicking aside an arm, I cock my gun and head for the nearest piece of cover. It's easy to understand why developer Epic Games is riding proud on an 18 certificate rating... Five minutes later and we walk away victorious. The initial thoughts that flare up are incredibly selfish, but with good reason; that you feel incredibly lucky to be an Xbox 360 owner. This is the game youʼre going to show off to friends, to Sony supporters, hell, even complete strangers on the street. Itʼs like Apocalypse Now had a lust-filled affair with James Cameronʼs Aliens. Visually, it gives what could be another generic battlefield a fresh coat of paint, by ramping up the detail of the devastation. The streets are littered with debris. Smashed cars, torn masonry…and what is still upright bares the scars of battle. It feels dirty and decrepit, the smattering of balconies and buildings show off the stunning gothic architecture. And itʼs a far cry from the sterilized blandness of other sci-fi themed videogames, a fully realised urban environment that feels like it can crumble apart at any moment. The other map on offer, Clock Tower, takes place in the garden ruins of a Cathedral, around the titular structure that is even more impressive, with broken spires plunged deep into the greenery. Occasionally the towerʼs bell chimes out, and if you pause long enough between fire fights, the sounds of roosting birds can be heard overhead. It generates a truly tense atmosphere were a orchestrated score would not. Each character is fantastically realised. Huge but limber, youʼll find thereʼs a real sense of physics when a Marine slams into cover by a nearby wall, sending billows of dust from the brickwork as he grunts with the force of it. Picking up a rifle produces a cool animation were he flicks it off the ground and into his hand, spinning it once round his arm before cocking it – at three seconds at most, it never outstays its welcome. But itʼs the Locusts that really shine. Rather than uniform sets of armour, each character model is given its own design, ranging from the fearsome albino visage of a snarling, sharp toothed warrior to a helmeted, cloak wearing behemoth. It makes you realise that Epic arenʼt pumping out generic alien beasties for Marcus Fenix and co to fight. The leap between this and last yearʼs graphical offerings is huge, with the Unreal 3 Engine proving the Xbox 360 is only limbering up to its true next generational potential. Because hereʼs the kicker, Gears of War feels and plays differently from anything youʼve tried before. It has its roots in the strategic squad based warfare genre, but has grown that seed at an accelerated rate and brings its own special blend of gameplay mechanics to the fore. Forget comparisons to the other squad-based games like Ghost Recon and Rainbow Six. Epic Games has given the warfare genre a much needed kick up the backside, allowing arcade styling to stick the boot into heavy handed realism while a killer control system looks on. You canʼt run around relentlessly shooting – your head will be quickly detached from your body. You do need to keep moving, as the tide of battle moves quickly, but it specifically cover you need to be moving to. Run with A, holding the button down and directing your character with the left thumbstick towards a jutting fragment of wall will slam them behind it and theyʼll automatically adjust to the size of the cover. Slide up to either end by pressing left or right on the stick and use the right stick to pan the camera round. Pull the left trigger to step out of cover, right trigger to fire, alternatively hit right trigger first to blindly fire round the corner. Continue holding your chosen direction and tap A at a corner to either slide across to another piece of cover, or roll out of cover in that direction. It may sound similar to the Ghost Recon set up, but in reality itʼs a completely different beast. The two maps on offer were relatively small, but this actually improved the gameplay, as it meant teams were constantly jostling for the best positions, sliding round cover in the small courtyards to get a better firing angle on each other. There were no safe areas to hide until only the stragglers were left, and the better vantage points required a lot of guts to storm and successfully hold. Weapons selection was mapped to the D-Pad, with shotgun, rifle, pistol and grenade all within easy reach. The grenades, whose throwing arc is designated by a neon targeting indicator, can be doubled up as a melee weapon, extended spikes on each meaning they can lodged into the chest armour of a foe before the pin is pulled. Itʼs not known yet if players have a few seconds to try and rip free the explosive, but if itʼs like the chainsaw attack, then the first successful tag is usually fatal. The rifle is great at both long range and short range fire fights, but a lot of the closer combat employed the shotgun, perfect for tagging a passing enemy with a surprise attack from behind a corner. A series of cement blocks in Gridlock lead to a number of tense cat and mouse games as opposing players tried to second guess were each were going to appear from. The loser ended up squatting on the floor, blood emptying from their wounds... but not necessarily dying. Downing a player doesnʼt mean theyʼre finished. Epic have devised a system to give you the chance to revive injured team mates. Once you drop, a heart icon will appear on screen with the A button you can keep it pumping with repeated tapping. Hold out for long enough and a nearby ally can come along and revive you. Too long, or donʼt hammer the button enough, and youʼre dead, same if you take another bullet. Incorporating this gameplay mechanic yielded some interesting strategic possibilities, were we deliberately left a wounded enemy and hide nearby until his comrades came to rescue him. Then, stepped out of cover at this moment, it gave the team the perfect surprise attack. But mostly we couldnʼt help but try out the neck-stomp execution, slamming our foot down onto someoneʼs unguarded head with a tap of X, or holding a shotgun to their noggin and antagonise them for a few seconds before pulling the trigger! I could discuss war stories until the gameʼs release date in November, and we havenʼt even mentioned the single player campaign which you can play cooperatively with a friend. Like I said, Christmas 2006 and is going to be an extremely good time to be an Xbox 360 owner, with Gears of War promising to the icing on a very large, very delicious Xbox 360-shaped cake.
privateer Δημοσ. 17 Οκτωβρίου 2006 Μέλος Δημοσ. 17 Οκτωβρίου 2006 Valve offers Source for 360 http://www.gamespot.com/news/6159873.html
privateer Δημοσ. 17 Οκτωβρίου 2006 Μέλος Δημοσ. 17 Οκτωβρίου 2006 Lost Planet images http://www.xboxyde.com/news_3704_en.html
Daredevil Δημοσ. 17 Οκτωβρίου 2006 Δημοσ. 17 Οκτωβρίου 2006 Valve offers Source Engine for Xbox 360 From gamespot.com: Middleware solutions are becoming increasingly common as developers look to mitigate the costs of next-gen game creation. Epic Games' Unreal Engine (Gears of War, Turok) and Emergent's Gamebryo Element (The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion) are a pair of popular engines currently being licensed out for use on the Xbox 360, but it looks like they're in for some new competition on the platform. Today Valve Software announced that the Xbox 360 version of its Source engine is being offered to developers. The Source engine debuted with Valve's own Half-Life 2, and has since been licensed for use in PC games like Dark Messiah of Might and Magic and SiN Episodes: Emergence. Read More: gamespot.com
Daredevil Δημοσ. 17 Οκτωβρίου 2006 Δημοσ. 17 Οκτωβρίου 2006 Images: Xbox 360 HD DVD Add-on At DigitalLife in New York City over the weekend, Microsoft demonstrated its upcoming HD DVD add-on for the Xbox 360. As previously reported, the device is priced at $199 USD and will ship with "King Kong" and a remote control. We snapped some pictures of the prototype on display, which was made by Mitsumi and Hynix.
xvagos Δημοσ. 17 Οκτωβρίου 2006 Δημοσ. 17 Οκτωβρίου 2006 Ευρώπη πότε βγαίνει το HDDVD; Πόσο θα κάνει; Τέλος η προσφορά θα ισχύει και εδώ (KingKong);
poromenos Δημοσ. 17 Οκτωβρίου 2006 Δημοσ. 17 Οκτωβρίου 2006 ti wra peripou tha epanelthei to xbox live?
poromenos Δημοσ. 17 Οκτωβρίου 2006 Δημοσ. 17 Οκτωβρίου 2006 Tiiiiiiiiiiiii? Plaka Mas Kanoun????? Egw Nomiza Pio Prin!eleos!
privateer Δημοσ. 17 Οκτωβρίου 2006 Μέλος Δημοσ. 17 Οκτωβρίου 2006 Ayrio bgainei to Lumines http://xbox.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!378FEC038C02D52C!1106.entry
privateer Δημοσ. 17 Οκτωβρίου 2006 Μέλος Δημοσ. 17 Οκτωβρίου 2006 Next Xbox already in planning http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=68767
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