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MS Reveals Big-Name Xbox Games
LukeG writes "At this year's huge X02 event in Seville, Microsoft pulled out all the stops to convince the vast contingent of mainstream journalists present that the Xbox did indeed have the credentials to take on Sony and Nintendo. As well as the huge acquisition of Rare, Microsoft also reveled in the number of other potential AAA titles confirmed at the show. The best of these are examined in this preview."
Wow, there's some new AAA Xbox title that slashdots sites to death?
Coooool.
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You can play games on the XBox?
From reading this site, I assumed it was just another Linux platform.
- A.P.
"Remember when the U.S. had a drug problem, and then we declared a War On Drugs, and now you can't buy drugs anymore?"
The most hotly expected title, IIS5, is another sequel to one of Microsoft's popular games. Players will try to avoid massive publicity that could disrupt their home base, while simultaneously doing patches in real time. Weapons at the player's disposal include new firewalls and cluster services (aka "cluster bombs"). While some multiplayer features are still present from the original version, the much-anticipated massively multiplayer mode is still not available, as verified by a recent posting on Slashdot.
What's your damage, Heather?
Well, the site is running IIS, so the five pro-MS people here could've overloaded it...
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sounds like a shooter
300 titles? maybe one of them will be a game where you, the lone programmer on a daring mission into the depths of hell (i.e. the basement of Microsoft headquarters) try to develop a web server that won't crash.
ads. Come on, guys. I _own_ an X-Box, and that was a bit fanboyish. It had its tongue stuck further up MS's ass than even their magazine, which is saying something.
News for nerds? Where...
"Sometimes a woman is a kind of religion, she can save your soul & set you free from all your sins" - Bad Examples
Hmmm, I didn't see the article before /. effect... but I believe these are some of the titles:
The AntiTrust Shuffle (TM)
You play either Bill Gates or Steve Balmer and using a dance pad you whip out the moves to avoid the slings and arrows of outrageous justice. As you improve your skills you can advance to being the Master of the DRM Market, as you manipulate (again, via the dance pad) the masses and the RIAA/MPAA against each other towards more control for yourself. You can even do doubles with two game pads.
Inter game bonus rounds let you earn extra points based on effectiveness of various celebration dances and 'who's the man' gesturees.
Embrace and Extend (TM)
Kind of like a tetris game where those rectangular pieces that fall from above and can fit in a lot of other game slots below, but in this you must catch the pieces in mid-fall and re-shape them to VisualSquarish#.net shapes where they only seem to fit in the Microsoft game slot... If you don't have time to to 'extend' the pieces you still earn points by getting them all to go into the Microsoft Game slot anyway, if you don't get into MS you loose points and are told you are a loser. (also available for WinCE handhelds)
'Innovation' Avenger (TM)
Fight the evil GPL who wish to suck Innovation out of the Microsoft Universe. Armed with the best legal offenses and wads of cash you pick off the relentless multitudes of drones (liiks like sinistar, but the drones are building some sort of Penguin...)
The game employs advanced AI technologies where the AI drones get smarter faster than you do... But you can also can get political and corporate power-ups to throw more roadblocks into their assault.
EULA (TM)
Word game - still under development.
Have you guys heard of any others being planned?
"Enjoy what you're doing! If it becomes drudgery, you're doing it wrong!" - Jim Butterfield
...Microsoft also reveled in the number of other potential AAA titles confirmed at the show:
help fill in hidden movie endings @ End of the Credits
Our chief feature is Surprise! Surprise and fear ... fear and surprise ... Our _two_ features are surprise and fear. And ruthless aquisition of real game companies. Our *three* products are Surprise, Fear and Ruthless Aquisition. ... and an almost usable Linux platform...
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NOOOOObody expects the Microsoft XBox. Amongst our products are such diverse elements as fear, surprise, rutheless aquisition of real game companies, an almost useable Linux platform, and a new controller that fits normal hands...
1. The controller and console are heavy in a truly aerobic fashion.
2. Games are priced right where kids can afford them if you don't miss a kidney.
3. If you promise to buy 3 1st party games inside your first year, Bill Gates will send you to college.
4. Large, boring game environments encourage outside play.
5. Underdeveloped countries have already discovered the X-Box's invaluable use as a cheap space heater for entire villages.
6. Trying to remember the point of Munch's Odyssey or Halo helps improve long-term memory skills.
7. Ballmer the Hedgehog.
8. Worthless guts can be taken out of the X-Box to convert it into a two-story playhouse complete with green skylight.
9. Billchanger on front works even on old wrinkled fives.
10. Nobody goes blind from SLEEPING in front of the TV too long.
Windows XP SP2 told me to install third-party software that prevents viruses and protects stability... I chose Ubuntu