X06 Announcements
Microsoft's annual gaming press event, X06, kicked off Barcelona, Spain today and the company had quite a few things to announce, mostly relating to the Xbox 360. The full press release can be found here, and includes the following
- Ensemble Studios is working on the Xbox 360 RTS Halo Wars. - The Splinter Cell game after Double Agent will be console exclusive to the Xbox 360. - Following the release of Grand Theft Auto IV, the Xbox 360 will receive two exclusive downloadable episodes. - Project Gotham Racing 4 is in the works. - The HD-DVD player for the Xbox 360 will be released in North America, the U.K, France and Germany this November for $199/e199. - Rare is working on a new Banjo-Kazooie game. - DOOM is coming to Xbox Live Arcade today, with co-op support.
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reply" Ensemble Studios is working on the Xbox 360 RTS Halo Wars. "
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BFMEII was actually surprisingly playable on the 360, hopefully they can come up with an even better control scheme for Halo Wars, although it still likely won't be as good as kb+m
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Nope, no mouse, not ever. It really doesn't work for the ten foot experience. It's not a PC - certain game genres are just best played on the PC, and perhaps something altogether new and exciting will come out of adapting an established genre (RTS games) to a console. It will be different, but it will probably be fun.
In short, let's not try to make something newer (a console) act just like something older and more established (a PC). That's not interesting, and at the end of the day, it wouldn't result in a better game on the console. It also doesn't work too well in the opposite direction - think of the recent PC games that almost require a game controller to play them - is it really a unique and worthwhile experience to buy that game for the PC instead of a console?
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