Xbox 360 exclusive mega-game revealed later today on IGN
Air Raid
Taken from Doug via IGNXBOX360 channel on his nightly update:
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SPECIAL DELIVERY:
Check back in the early afternoon PST for an exclusive story on a game
you would never, ever have expected. IGN Xbox 360 will have the first
details, news, screens, and an interview with the company's president.
Can you guess who it's with?
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Later he posted
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OK, so... just for clarification, we're hoping to post a story around
noon tomorrow, maybe earlier -- that's PST time (California time) that
nobody has heard about. It will be on the Xbox 360 site. It's an
exclusive Xbox 360 game. None of your guesses are correct so far. I was
totally unable to guess what it was until I heard about it two days
ago, and I'm still amazed by the subject matter and the people putting
it out. Sorry to be such a tease about it, but I haven't even told my
team about it yet. I can't say a word.
Anyway, I expect the range of reactions to be wide in range and long in
wind. Heh. And, in order to avoid the mess that happened last fall with
a certain midnight review that never happened ( ), let me put it this
way: Don't stay up all night. Please do not. The story won't be up
until tomorrow -- Friday, March 3, around noon PST at the earliest. Go
to sleep, do whatever, beat people up in Fight Night Round and then
gather round here about noon-ish. I should have an update on the exact
timing earlier than that, but not everything is tied up tight. There
are still a few loose ends before I can concretely give an exact time.
Until then I look forward to your guesses. This should be fun.
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well obviously this is not Halo 3 or any other major Xbox 360 game
known about......
any guesses ?
Jordan
unable to guess it until he was told... Hmmm....
The most outrageous stuff I can think of would be a Sega Classics
collection for Xbox Live, all the old Genesis titles available for
download. Or replace "Sega" with the company of your choice. Midway,
Atari, Capcom, Konami. Nintendo won't do it because that's their
selling point on the Revolution.
- Jordan
croaker68
ScoopeX
super *crap* mario 25
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Kavvy
Phil Da Lick!
> Elite Evolved
>
now that would be something to take note of
Carlos
Diablos Rojos
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> Horrace Goes Skiing?
>
What used to keep us entertained eh?
ha ha class
Skijumptoes
<M.B.@tiscali.co.uk> wrote:
>> Horrace Goes Skiing?
>
>What used to keep us entertained eh?
>ha ha class
I could still be entertained by horace i think.
Lets demand a speccy & c64 pack for xbox live arcade!!
Paul C.
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> any guesses ?
Pong
Gorf
Smurfs Adventure
Zaxxon Extreme
E.T. the extraterrestial (Atari 2600 emulation)
Gaz
You laugh, but these are exactly the kind of thing that can make money big
time. Make the download costs marginal, say 50p to £1 per game.
I seem to remember some research into preliminary video on demand services,
it was the old classics that dominated.
Some of us a bit more savvy will just get them for free via a pc or a
chipped xbox, but it would certainly be a money spinner.
Gaz
Diablos Rojos
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The Ultimate collection, just had a peek on the net and found this review
for Sabre Wulf
http://www.crashonline.org.uk/06/sabre.htm
Liked this bit
'In my opinion this is "state of the art" Spectrum software. It's basically
a jungle version of Atic Atac but much more involved (and better too). The
graphics are superb and extremely colourful. Many animals are to be found
and there are lots of game features. I felt that I had travelled for miles
yet only attained 25% - Indiana Jones eat your heart out!
Jonah Falcon
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Chris F
well yes, but can you see 99% of live users actually wanting to play a
spectrum game on their 360?
as you say, the people who would most likely wait to play them would
do so on pc, or a chipped xbox.
retro is popular to a point, and it has its market.
i know i certainly wouldnt fancy playing spectrum games on a 42" hdtv.
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Chris F
<jonah...@mindspring.com> wrote:
>I'm HOPING... High Heat 360.
>
hardly a game you would never, ever have expected is it?
Jonah Falcon
"Chris F" <ch...@asifimtellingyoulot.com> wrote in message
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> On Fri, 03 Mar 2006 12:46:01 GMT, "Jonah Falcon"
> <jonah...@mindspring.com> wrote:
>
>>I'm HOPING... High Heat 360.
>>
> hardly a game you would never, ever have expected is it?
Considering it's March and there's only one announced baseball game, it
would surprise people.
Maybe it's The Sound of Music: The Game.
SyVyN11
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> "Air Raid" <AirRa...@gmail.com> wrote in
> news:1141367970.7...@i39g2000cwa.googlegroups.com:
>> any guesses ?
>>
>
came out. I was crying for weeks. Finally pawned it off on a dumbass at
my middle school for pitfall and ms. pac man.
Blowhole911
Chris F
<jonah...@mindspring.com> wrote:
>
>"Chris F" <ch...@asifimtellingyoulot.com> wrote in message
>news:13fg021l8gjvlq3ln...@4ax.com...
>> On Fri, 03 Mar 2006 12:46:01 GMT, "Jonah Falcon"
>> <jonah...@mindspring.com> wrote:
>>
>>>I'm HOPING... High Heat 360.
>>>
>> hardly a game you would never, ever have expected is it?
>
>Considering it's March and there's only one announced baseball game, it
>would surprise people.
well i suppose it'd amaze you lot, us in europe wouldn't be arsed
though :)
Carlos
The Rev
> known about......
>
> any guesses ?
Got to be a next version of...
http://www.mysecretshame.co.uk/randomimages/mansell.jpg
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Ben Bland
On 3-Mar-2006, "SyVyN11" <711rob...@earthlink.net> wrote:
> E.T. the extraterrestial (Atari 2600 emulation)
> >
> please, don't even joke about that. You didn't waste $50 for it when it
>
> came out. I was crying for weeks. Finally pawned it off on a dumbass
> at
> my middle school for pitfall and ms. pac man.
And I was that dumbass. Luckily I pawned it off on even bigger dumbass for a
copy of Space Dungeon for the 5200.
Badass Scotsman
Magicland Dizzy
Treasure Island Dizzy
Fantasy Land Dizzy
Bubble Dizzy
CJ's Elephant Antics
CJ In the USA
Monstorboy in Wonderland
Cannon Fodder
Alexas (SP?) (Snes Shooter)
Badass.
kavvy
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> Air Raid wrote:
>> http://forum.teamxbox.com/showthread.php?t=422529
>>
>> well obviously this is not Halo 3 or any other major Xbox 360 game
>> known about......
>>
>> any guesses ?
>
> Got to be a next version of...
>
> http://www.mysecretshame.co.uk/randomimages/mansell.jpg
>
> --
Excellent, I'm hoping it's based around brass rubbing this time.
Zomoniac
I'm praying for Shenmue 3, but they said it's nothing anyone would
expect, so that rules that one out.
Chris Kamara's Street Soccer 2006 would be asking for too much.
But these huge announcements are always bollocks. It'll be the next
Army Men game.
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Paul C.
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Sure, I was a stupid kid back then! :) Hell I thought it was defective so I
exchanged it for another copy, same crap falling back into those pits from
hell & government agents getting stuck on the side of the screen.
Fortunately back in those days you could return stuff for a full refund :)
Atari 2600 Pac-man.....brrrrrrrrrrrr !
furious gibbon
haha all the best
MS#1Fanboy-JoJo
AirRa...@gmail.com says...
Exclusive Grand Theft Auto game?
Air Raid
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http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/693/693369p1.html
And Now for Something a Little Different
Forget Grand Theft Auto for a moment. Rockstar Games aims to innovate
in a different way, in a different genre, without a single gun.
by Douglass C. Perry
March 3, 2006 - Earlier this week I spoke with Rockstar's COO Terry
Donovan about Rockstar Games' newest endeavor. He had hinted earlier in
the summer that Rockstar was working on something new and that I
wouldn't believe it when I heard it. Knowing the guys at Rockstar I
asked if they were taking Grand Theft Auto online and I rattled off
some classic action movies. They just shook their heads. No. The look
on Donovan's face was priceless. He had some gem of a game in the
works, and that's all I was going to get, this little hint. But I'm a
patient man, and Rockstar rarely, if ever, under-delivers.
I got a surprise phone call Wednesday. Rockstar was ready to present,
and they wanted to work with IGN on the story. Donovan and I talked
about the game. With the passion and focus and that has become
Rockstar's trademark, he explained to me that the new title was Table
Tennis. I think there was a silence on the phone for a few seconds.
Rockstar Games, the innovator of urban cool in videogames, the guys who
changed the face of this console generation and who made it OK for
adults to play games without shame, was making a Ping Pong game. I
really didn't know what to say. Table Tennis is a hugely popular sport,
one of the most played casual games on Earth. Everybody at one time or
another has played it. Walk into IGN's common room, the kitchen, and
you'll see a doubles game at any time during the day.
But no guns, no violence, no cars, no gangs? I was honestly shocked.
Not because I didn't think they could do it -- if anybody can make it
happen, it's Rockstar -- but I never thought that was even a
consideration. Look at their games so far: Grand Theft Auto III, Grand
Theft Auto Vice City, Grand Theft Auto San Andreas, Smuggler's Run 1
and 2, Midnight Club 1, 2, and 3, Manhunt, Red Dead Revolver, and The
Warriors. Do you see a progression leading up to table tennis?
Speed, intensity, and focus, that's the game.
More than a year ago Rockstar San Diego commenced on a game that would
take advantage of the Xbox 360's graphic power and capture the
intensity, speed and excitement of Table Tennis. No doubt, there is a
certain level of anticipation on Rockstar's part about the world's
reaction to this slight change of focus. Yet, in the discussion I had
with Donovan and from the intense and edgy tone of Rockstar's President
Sam Houser, I found nothing but purity. These guys mean business. They
love the sport, they love the intensity, and they want to make great
games. I really do think they want to surprise people, to shock them a
little with their direction, their focus, and to cut against the grain
of common perceptions. No doubt, with this new game, Rockstar Games
Presents Table Tennis, they have done all these things.
IGN: Our jaws are a-drop. Rockstar has become the center for urban cool
in videogames over the last five years with games such as GTA, Manhunt,
and Midnight Club. Why on Earth would you go and make a game based on
table tennis? (And more importantly can you switch the way you hold the
racquet from Western to Eastern styles?)
Sam Houser: Mainly because we absolutely love table tennis and wanted
to try and make something that could show the audience what could be
possible -- on a relatively focused level -- in the next generation of
videogames. Our mission brief at Rockstar has been clear to us from
when we founded the company -- to make titles with innovative game play
about subject matters we were interested in. We have always been a
company that likes to take risks, and do things differently from
everyone else. For us this does not just mean gangster films, or car
chases or westerns (much as we still love them), but anything that we
think is interesting and has not been successfully handled elsewhere in
a videogame. From our perspective, table tennis fitted the bill
perfectly -- especially as games with a very strong two-player
component are very fun to make -- and play! Above all, Table Tennis
allows us to showcase what we believe the key characteristics of the
high definition era of console gaming will be. These are not just
higher resolution graphics, but using higher resolution graphics and
hugely advanced animation systems to impart physical and emotional
information to the player, so that the control and tactics of the game
are more real and more diverse than on current-generation titles. To
put it another way -- improved animation and higher resolution graphics
on their own are not enough -- but when the can directly improve the
quality of gameplay and experience, then they become very interesting.
We were keen to test out these theories on a smaller scale, and Table
Tennis felt like the perfect fit. And, yes, you will be able to hold
the racquet in both styles.
IGN: What makes this game so damn Rockstar-ish?
Sam Houser: We wanted to create a sports game with the intensity of a
fighting game and the sense of speed and control that would make
playing it a more intense and more visceral experience than has
previously been possible with sports games. It's not just about looking
better, feeling better or animating better but about using the power of
the hardware to make a game that engages with you on a different
physical and emotional level. Table tennis was the perfect sport
because it is so fast moving that it has never successfully been made
into a game before -- you have to hit the ball far more frequently than
in tennis -- but we felt we could make something both very fast, but in
which the player had unprecedented amounts of control. To us, this is a
gameplay model that has not been explored that effectively up to now --
very fast, but very fluid control -- and something we feel will be
vital if the new consoles are going to take off, as it is a key area
new games should be able to distinguish themselves from current-gen
ones. Unless new games try to do something fundamentally beyond the
scope of current games at a level beyond merely providing prettier
versions of a current-generation game design, consumers will not feel
compelled to buy new hardware.
IGN: Who's developing it, and why are they so fascinated with table
tennis?
Sam Houser: It's being developed by Rockstar San Diego. The fascination
is really with purity, on concentrating the entire power of the
hardware on one activity to create a game that is precisely addictive
in its focused simplicity. It's an obsession with detail and with
creating a more immediate, more physical, more emotional experience.
Rockstar San Diego is known for being able to create engines to push
hardware further than anyone else, particularly at the beginning of its
lifecycle -- if you remember Midnight Club was the first (and still is
the only true) open city racing game that allows you to go anywhere you
want in an entire city, and Smugglers Run was a huge open environment
that stretched with incredible draw distances as far as the eye could
see and allowed you to go absolutely anywhere. These were also the only
two original titles for PS2 launch. Although Table Tennis has been
created focusing on detail, concentrating the hardware's entire power
on one activity, rather than on size, the same principles apply.
Not your regular Rockstar game.
IGN: What are the online aspects like? Can you play doubles online?
Will there be tournaments? Rankings?
Sam Houser: We can't talk about details of the online aspects just yet.
IGN: Why an exclusive Xbox 360 game?
Sam Houser: The power of the new hardware and the higher resolution of
new televisions really allow us to give the game an immediacy and
physicality that wasn't possible on current-gen hardware. Rudimentary
ball and racket physics would have been possible but we wanted to wait
for the 360 because it allowed us to bring a completely different level
of production and technology to the game.
IGN: Why the $39.99 price-point? Most games have gone up in price. Is
that an indication that it's not a full-priced game, or is it something
different?
Sam Houser: Rockstar's relationship with people who play our games is
something we value and treasure greatly. We believe that Table Tennis
is as pure, polished, intense and fun a game as the other games we have
created, but it would be naïve of us not to recognize that this is a
different sort of game to Grand Theft Auto, for example. In terms of
value for money we think the hundreds of hours of gameplay of Grand
Theft Auto is probably worth more than the $50 price tag, but rather
than pushing to increase the price of games, we'd rather keep on
over-delivering on value.
IGN: What are the graphics and sound like?
Sam Houser: These are unlike anything I've seen anywhere else but not
only does it look and sound incredible but its more than that, it feels
better and is more responsive than any other game I've ever played. You
can start to see from the screenshots what the graphics will be like
and the insane level of detail, but hopefully we will come and visit
you soon and let you feel and experience what I'm talking about for
yourself.
Air Raid
carlah...@hotmail.com
Air Raid wrote:
> the game is Table Tennis by Rockstar Games
>
You lost me at Table Tennis. What a horrible letdown.
Air Raid
more ammunition to attack a great platform.
MS#1Fanboy-JoJo
AirRa...@gmail.com says...
>
>yeah. what a let down. the biggest let down is this gives Bligy
>more ammunition to attack a great platform.
>
Until the reviews come in for this little gem.
SyVyN11
"Paul C." <Paul...@yahoo.canospam> wrote in message
Jordan
Air Raid wrote:
> yeah. what a let down. the biggest let down is this gives Bligy
> more ammunition to attack a great platform.
The only way it would be interesting is if they rip off the Nintendo
motion sensitive controller and let you wave a paddle at the screen to
hit the ball. But in the end I think it's an over-correction to all the
violence complaints they've been getting.
- Jordan
Jonah Falcon
http://www.joystiq.com/2006/03/03/rockstar-unveils-exclusive-xbox-360-title-table-tennis/
Yes, just what the 360 needed: high-tech Pong.
Jonah Falcon
Jeremy Reaban
"Jonah Falcon" <jonah...@mindspring.com> wrote in message
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> Yes, and the exclusive game is... TABLE TENNIS:
>
> http://www.joystiq.com/2006/03/03/rockstar-unveils-exclusive-xbox-360-title-table-tennis/
>
> Yes, just what the 360 needed: high-tech Pong.
Hmmmm, April's Fool isn't for another month or so...
Jordan
Jonah Falcon wrote:
> Yay! Pong 360!
Oh, you laugh, but Virtua Tennis on the Dreamcast kicked ASS!
- Jordan
(Ps, anyone remember the gag-crossover with Pong and Grand Theft Auto?
That's what I was thinking... "Rockstar Table Tennis? No....")
Hank the Rapper
> the game is Table Tennis by Rockstar Games
Cool. In the mean time I will enjoy this while I wait.
http://jokerpingpong.ytmnd.com/
Doug Jacobs
> E.T. the extraterrestial (Atari 2600 emulation)
I don't think the 360 could handle this game. ;)
Doug Jacobs
> http://www.joystiq.com/2006/03/03/rockstar-unveils-exclusive-xbox-360-title-table-tennis/
But it's from Rockstar, right? Maybe it'll be Grand Theft Pong? Take out
your opponent by thwacking him with the ball - heck, that's how my brother
and I used to play when we were younger.
Maybe they'll use the incredible graphics to depict the horrendous
injuries you can inflict on your opponent as you use various weaponry
balls on him or something? Just think, your screen could go reddish-pink
as your own virtual blood seeps over your virtual eyes (assuming they
haven't been put out by your opponent already...)
Yeah, that's what the world needs - Pong, rated M For Mature.
ScoopeX
ffs
why x-post when we already know the fucking news you tosser.
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Blig Merk
Poster on this, shit stain and you look like even more of an ass than
you usually do. I never said the xflop three-shitty was not capable of
slightly better than Pong graphics. Just slightly better than Pong,
though. A Ping-Pong game is just the game for the xflop three-shitty,
especially with a million polygon ping-pong ball, and don't forget it
has to be SHINY because SHINY defines next-gen graphics for the xflop
three-shitty and xflop fanbitches. Gameplay? The xflop three-shitty
don't need no stinking gameplay. Just give the xflop fanbitches SHINY,
that's all they need to make themselves cream all over themselves. What
a toxic pile of vomit you have become. You are actually making
Teemonkey look like he was only a half-wit compared to a full nit-wit
like you.
The many psycho-schizo split personalities of Cyg-anus:
CygnusX-1
video-game dude
Air Raid
multi-core
Radeon
Radeon350
NV50
NV55
R420
R500
R520
Xenon
MS Will Destroy Sony Computer Entertainment
and probably half a dozen others
Blowhole911
Air Raid wrote:
> yeah. what a let down. the biggest let down is this gives Bligy
> more ammunition to attack a great platform.
Actually, it's the writers fault for knowing what the game was, but
talking it up like it was going to be a MEGATON~.
ScoopeX
terryfied
What about sparks?
Jonah Falcon
>
> Yeah, that's what the world needs - Pong, rated M For Mature.
Stripper Pong 360! The Japanese would love that. Especially if the stripper
is 10 years old.
Jonah Falcon
JoblessDave
"Blig Merk" <blig...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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<snip>
> has to be SHINY because SHINY defines next-gen graphics for the xflop
> three-shitty and xflop fanbitches. Gameplay? The xflop three-shitty
> don't need no stinking gameplay. Just give the xflop fanbitches SHINY,
> that's all they need to make themselves cream all over themselves.
LOL! I'm selling my 360 and buying an aluminum foil ball. They're SO
shiny!
MS#1Fanboy-JoJo
jonah...@mindspring.com says...
>
>You enjoying Kingdom Hearts II, Blig? Hee hee.
>
>
Doug Jacobs
They already have strip mah jong and strip horse racing, so why not strip
pong?
Carlos
> Monkey Tennis?
>
I am claiming a point for being closest! You don't know how close I was
to putting Pong instead of Horrace Goes Skiing. That would have won me
an hour with Poopex.