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Microsoft's X06 Announcements

[September 27, 2006, 2:46 pm ET] - Share - Viewing Comments

Xbox 360 Ushers in Exclusive New Worlds of Entertainment for Most-Anticipated Franchises Ever at X06 is the very lengthy press release offering a series of announcements from Microsoft from the X06 extravaganza. The announcement includes word on a new Microsoft/Peter Jackson game studio, development of an Xbox 360-exclusive RTS from Ensemble Studios called Halo Wars, episodic GTA4 content on Xbox Live soon after the game's release, the Xbox-360 console exclusivity of the follow-up to Splinter Cell Double Agent, the planned Windows and Xbox 360-exclusive release of BioShock, the announcement of PGR4, the release of DOOM on Xbox Live Arcade, and more, including word on the release of the add-on HD-DVD player for the Xbox 360 this November:

Arriving at retailers in North America, the U.K., France and Germany in mid-November 2006, the Xbox 360 HD DVD Player will retail for $199.99 in North America (estimated retail price)* and euro 199.99/129.99 pounds Sterling (estimated retail price)* in the U.K., France and Germany. The Xbox 360 HD DVD Player comes with the Universal Pictures' blockbuster film Peter Jackson's "King Kong" on HD DVD (for a limited time) and the Xbox 360 Universal Media Remote.

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18.	Re: No subject	Sep 28, 2006, 10:34	PHJF
	Me looks into my crystal ball and sees the Halo3 for PC announcement and I smile... ..and then proceed to wait until dinosaurs roam the earth again before you can actually play it on a pc... ------ "I have a grave announcement. Anyone with a weak heart had better leave now. Goodbye." This message was edited at Sep 28, 10:35.*




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17.	No subject	Sep 28, 2006, 08:42	Brainp0wa
	So, I wonder if Halo Wars will remain "exclusive" just like the original Halo and Halo2 were... *Me looks into my crystal ball and sees the Halo3 for PC announcement and I smile...

16.	Re: Bioshock	Sep 28, 2006, 01:24	Jerykk
	* Gameplay: Experience all the classicDOOM and DOOM II levels, monsters, and weapons. Play the entire single-player game solo or in co-op mode via split screen or over Xbox Live. * Multiplayer: Play up to four-player deathmatch, either in split-screen or on Xbox Live. Earn achievements and check the leaderboards for the high scores. * Next-generation features: With 1080i HD support, 5.1 Surround Sound, and smooth textures, this isDOOM for the next generation. So it's basically Doom Legacy for consoles.

15.	No subject	Sep 27, 2006, 21:09	StreetPreacher
	They've really got their S together this generation. That is all.

14.	Re: Bioshock	Sep 27, 2006, 19:52	Jedi Master
	I guess you have time to reply but not to read the links? * Gameplay: Experience all the classicDOOM and DOOM II levels, monsters, and weapons. Play the entire single-player game solo or in co-op mode via split screen or over Xbox Live. * Multiplayer: Play up to four-player deathmatch, either in split-screen or on Xbox Live. Earn achievements and check the leaderboards for the high scores. * Next-generation features: With 1080i HD support, 5.1 Surround Sound, and smooth textures, this isDOOM for the next generation.

13.	Re: Halo RTS	Sep 27, 2006, 18:27	Jerykk
	An RTS on a console... laff. Well, EA managed to port BFME2 to the X360, albeit with oversimplified micromanagement. Regardless, the RTS genre, even more than the FPS genre, does not belong on consoles. It was clearly designed with a mouse and keyboard in mind.

12.	Re: Halo RTS	Sep 27, 2006, 18:17	Tumbler
	development of an Xbox 360-exclusive RTS from Ensemble Studios called Halo Wars I wonder if they are going to go MMORPG with Halo eventually. It's got to be in the works or at least on the table... I wonder if this game will get hijacked and turned into an MMORPG. @PHJF Apparently the idea that consoles were cheaper investments because you didn't need to upgrade them is now a thing of the past? Technically it's not upgrading anything because it serves a seperate purpose all together. A 360 with an HD-DVD drive and without will both run games at the same speed. It will be interesting to see if they make changes to the system over teh next couple of years. I think many are expecting them to replace the dvd drive with the HD-DVD drive in teh main system but they keep denying they will do this. This message was edited at Sep 27, 18:22.




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11.	Re: Halo RTS	Sep 27, 2006, 18:14	PHJF
	Apparently the idea that consoles were cheaper investments because you didn't need to upgrade them is now a thing of the past? ------ "I have a grave announcement. Anyone with a weak heart had better leave now. Goodbye."




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10.	Halo RTS	Sep 27, 2006, 18:04	TangledThorns
	Heh, game gets announced right after a homebrew Halo RTS game was shut down by M$. I'd be jazzed about this RTS if this was coming to the PC.

9.	Re: Bioshock	Sep 27, 2006, 17:51	Beamer
	On one hand, I wish they had done jdoom or something. As mentioned, small boxes are really annoying on the HDTV. I understand for some games, I do not for Doom. On the other hand, 4 player split-screen co-op... nothing more to say. ------------- Doomriders: the first new band worth a signature - http://www.deathwishinc.com/




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8.	Bioshock	Sep 27, 2006, 17:34	changingman
	That trailer for Bioshock was pretty disgusting, and it seemed quite out of sync with the rest of what I've seen of the game being almost puzzle-solving in nature, especially in that 15 minute commented video that was out a week or two ago. I was hoping someone would have a demo of something - teaser trailers and videos don't cut it now they can just throw a demo at me. Any chance that will happen over the coming days?

7.	Re: No subject	Sep 27, 2006, 16:52	Jaenos
	Drop your consol $100!

6.	Re: No subject	Sep 27, 2006, 16:51	Cutedge
	It was leaked as part of that ubisoft stuff a week or two. In fact, they may have two of them in the preprepreplanning stages already. Are you suprised?

5.	Re: No subject	Sep 27, 2006, 16:51	Elf Shot The Food
	"Where? A sequel to Double Agent hasn't even been revealed yet." There was a bunch of concept art for it in that leaked Ubisoft file from last week; it's subtitled "Conviction" or something like that.

4.	Re: No subject	Sep 27, 2006, 16:40	Masa
	Where? A sequel to Double Agent hasn't even been revealed yet.

3.	No subject	Sep 27, 2006, 16:07	Rainier
	"the Xbox-360 exclusive on the console edition of Splinter Cell Double Agent" They were talking about the NEXT, fifth, Splinter Cell game, not the current Double Agent one.

2.	Re: Doom	Sep 27, 2006, 16:00	MeatForce
	Hmm.... never would have thought of bringing this to arcade, but if they get the multiplayer right (co-op, I'm looking at you)and it doesn't lag horribly over live, this could be awesome. I agree in principle, BUT I am totally SICK of this trend of porting ancient games and having them run in little boxes in the middle of my screen. I mean really.. the game is 13 years old.. The friggin vibration controller chips in the 360's controller probably have enough computing power to run DOOM for Pete's sake, but the 360 has THREE nuclear-powered super computers inside it PLUS an insane video processor... So write a goddamn Photoshop filter to scale the shit up to full/widescreen in real time, and THEN re-sell me the 13 year old game. There really is no excuse for this crap IMO. ----- It may be that one day a young man will adore a Pinata.




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1.	Doom	Sep 27, 2006, 15:51	Smoove
	Hmm.... never would have thought of bringing this to arcade, but if they get the multiplayer right (co-op, I'm looking at you)and it doesn't lag horribly over live, this could be awesome. Oh and good call throwing in HD King Kong and the remote into the HD-DVD bundle, at least for the initial run or whatever the limited time is. Now if my 360 would only work... This message was edited at Sep 27, 15:55.

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