E309: MS Conference, MEGATONS DROPPED Options

[Crushinator]

Just some stuff I think was noteworthy

• Beatles RB to have full Beatles Album DLC. 45 songs on disc.
  • They had the real Beatles their, and their families! Totally cool.
• 360 getting timed exclusive on TWO Modern Warfare 2 map packs.
• Square Enix displays FF13 running on 360 hardware for the first time.
• Dude Huge himself, Cliff Blezinski unveils new XBLA title, Shadow Complex. 2D side view game, looks interesting.
  • Looks like contra mixed with metroid, comes out this summer.
• Crackdown 2 announced. Now you have mech suits, and you battle zombies in an infected city (wat?)
  • Developed by Ruffian, a team staffed by former Realtime Worlds members.
• Nov 17th release date confirmed for Dead Rising 2. 360 and PC exclusive.
• Halo: ODST demoed. You switch between different members in the ODST squad during the story.
  • New Co-op mode unveiled.
  • Comes out Sept 22.
• Alan wake Spring 2010 (sigh)
• last.fm support on XBL.
• Zune Video coming to 360 with no additional hardware requirements.
  • Instant on 1080p video promised no pre-buffering
  • Able to share viewing with your XBL friends (like what was promised and then cut from netflix?)
  • All movies and TV shows instantly accessible
• Facebook support coming to the NXE dashboard.
  • Able to capture screenshots from a game and upload them as status updates.
  • Tiger woods will support this.
• Twitter support also coming, tweet directly from the xbox.
• Hideo Kojima sneaks on stage, lolz.
  • Metal Gear Rising coming to 360, "Lightning Bolt Action"
  • Raiden baby!
• Much rumored motion controller revealed, called project "Natal"
  • Supports facial, full body, voice recognition.
  • Spielberg worked with MS on the project.
  • Showed using the face recognition to log you into your XBL profile.
• Peter Molyneaux Natal project, you interact with game characters using the Natal system.
  • You can "Scan" objects with the camera and put them into the game world.

Pretty fucking impressive presentation all told, there was some more stuff I probably missed. I thought MS didn't really have anything up their sleeves, but BAM.

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Shadow Complex vid:

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Halo: ODST

Looks fucking AWESOME.

Firefight = Halo horde mode. I'm so in.

Edit: Halo: Reach

[AC9breaker]

New Splinter Cell looked cash and New Left 4 dead is in New Orleans?


Also, that Halo trailer has me psyched. Can't wait!

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More MS info from their Q&A session:

http://www.giantbomb.com/news/microsoft-sh...-costumes/1358/

• Games on demand service, purchasing full retail 360 games on live and downloading them straight to the HDD. Launching in August with 30 games.
• Props and full costumes for marketplace avatars. Showed things like cheerleader pom poms, RC Halo Warthogs. Costs funbucks, of course.