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Wolfenstein Xbox Map - Downloaded Or Unlocked?

Posted by simoniker on from the quick-downloads-and-heightened-suspicions dept.

Thanks to EvilAvatar for pointing to a Boomtown.net article discussing whether the new Xbox Live-exclusive Return To Castle Wolfenstein maps released a couple of days ago were actually downloaded. It seems the size of the files downloaded from Xbox Live were way too small to have been an actual level, despite the official press release indicating it was a "downloadable map", so it's possible the maps were on the game disc all along, and all that was downloaded was an 'unlock levels' message. The Boomtown article puts its own spin on this: "Providing these levels as a sweetener for Live Subscribers would be all very well, if extra development - over and above that of the game itself - is involved. But if the levels are already developed and present on the disk, then the publishers are inviting flak from the many Xbox gamers who don't have broadband."

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  1. Re:Invite to hacking by Mike+Mentalist · · Score: 3, Informative

    I know someone who has 'looked' at the disc already, and he says that it looks like there are at least two more maps on the disc - one of which is called 'Safe'.

    Hell with 'downloadable content' like this, even the hard drive-less PS2 can compete...!

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  2. Dreamcast did the same thing by ragingmime · · Score: 5, Informative

    I remember Sonic Adventure 2 for Dreamcast doing the same thing... there were costumes and menu themes that you could unlock by downloading files from the game's website, but each file was only 1k and so they must've been just "unlock this" messages. I think there were some new go-kart courses that you could download, too, but those weren't actually included with the game... you really did download those. Granted, there's a lot more space on the Xbox's hard drive than there is on a Dreamcast VMU... Sega at least had an excuse to offer files like that.

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  3. Re:Invite to hacking by amuro98 · · Score: 2, Informative

    By "new playstation" do you mean the PSX?

    The PSX does contain a HD, but its primary purpose is to act as a PVR. It is not known if the PSX's HD will be able to be used by PS2 games, or if you'll have to purchase a second HD (the "offical" PS2 HD), or if PS2 HD games (like FFXI) will even work on this unit.

    Furthermore, the PSX seems aimmed at the A/V market by being a DVD recorder with a built-in PVR that also happens to play PS2 games.

    Although I have no doubt that the PS3 will launch with a built-in HD.