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Archive for the ‘Xbox 360’ Category
There was cake. There were babes in shorts. And then there was Red Bull, the drink that seems to drive all gaming events in India. And oh, there was a typewriter too!
Now we did not get a chance to brave the Delhi heat and attend the Alan Wake launch party at the Oxford Book Store at CP nor guzzle any of the Red Bull that could have kept Alan awake, but some Delhites were brave enough to venture out.
Thanks to Sundeep Singh, we now have a few pictures from the event, for the viewing pleasure of all those who preferred to stay in the cool confines of their AC chilled homes and offices. Hit the jump you lazybones!
Ooooh! Now this is something different!!
Indian launch event invitations have never managed to progress beyond drab and boring looking quick-Photoshop jobs…that is, until now. Imagine our surprise when we stumbled upon this nice looking invitation for the Delhi launch of Alan Wake, nicely tucked away in the Xbox 360 Facebook page. I guess the garish ones are reserved for those that need to be sent out to us journalists.
Facebook link and full text of the invitation after the jump.
Here is the date that all Halo fans have been eagerly waiting for. In a few more hours, the Halo Reach Multiplayer Beta will go live for all those with a copy of ODST. As for us, we have been mucking around in the beta for the past three days now, thanks to Microsoft India. So here is a quick primer of what to expect in the beta. This is by no means a comprehansive preview but a quick and dirty hands-on.
It is quite amazing how times change! Till a few months back, Ubisoft titles for the consoles were not even available in India. We remember ordering pour copy of Assassin’s Creed from Play-Asia and keeping our fingers crossed that the game would reach us safely, which it did, by the way! Now we have all the Ubisoft game’s console versions show up on out shelves as soon as they hit their European counterparts.
Having done that, E-Xpress Interactive are taking another welcome step by getting four Ubisoft Xbox 360 Bestseller titles for just Rs.699/-! That’s right folks. If you have missed out on playing any of these great titles, now is the time to snap them up at dirt-cheap prices. Not only this, E-Xpress promises to bring even more such titles in the future. Hit the jump to see the press-release for yourself.
Battlefield: Bad Company 2 did it first and now Just Cause 2 has done the same; rack up over 2 million downloads of its demo. Nowadays it is very rare to have a demo for a game as most of the developers / publishers do not feel the need to expend any energy in making a demo for their games. Maybe they will give this strategy a re-think considering how well received some of the demos have been in recent times, boosting up the interest in the game as well as converting fence-sitters to day-1 buyers.
Besides chocking the bandwidth, Just Cause 2’s 35 square miles of the Panauan playground featured in the demo for PC, Xbox 360 and PS3 has given us some interesting figures. Hit the jump to head to the trivia section and find out what gamers have been up to in the Just Cause 2 world since the demo hit the web on 4th March 2010.
Being a massive fan of the AvP universe, and having read all the novels in the series, I know I was waiting for this one. I wanted to play the story. I desperately wanted to see Machiko Noguchi kick ass, especially after seeing the first AvP movie make it so close to that story. I wanted to see Yautja battle with honor and the Xenomorphs tear through flesh and bone.
The AvP game of 1999 (which I consider the scariest game of all time), followed a standard movie based plot, while the follow up by Sierra wasn’t very memorable either. I was REALLY hoping that someone would finally go back to the novels and comics and do something different. However, this doesn’t really happen in AvP 2010. The story pretty much follows the AvP movie, throws in the predictable Weyland-Yutani capitalist-bastard angle and doesn’t leave much to remember.
11 years after AvP, Rebellion has reloaded the franchise with all new DirectX 11 based graphics that promises to scare the bejeesus out of you while your jaw drops in awe of the stunning visuals. So does AvP 2010 live up to the hype? Or is it one of those big-title releases that can’t put its money where its mouth is? Read on and decide for yourself.
Wrapping up the adventure of Ezio that he set upon in Assassin’s Creed II, Bonfire of the Vanities is the second DLC for the game, which also happens to be the missing 13th chapter in the game. A corruption in the memory sequence meant that you jumped straight from chapter 11 to chapter 13 in the game. The two missing chapters were provided as DLC’s by Ubisoft, costing 320 MS points each. Battle of Forli (BOF) made up for chapter 12 and now Bonfire of the Vanities (BOTV) completes all the missing chapters.
Ever since the concept of Downloadable Content (DLC) gained popularity within the gaming scene, we have been offered everything as a DLC in games; right from new islands (Burnout), brand new single player campaigns (GTA IV) to new multiplayer maps (COD4, COD:WaW, BF:BC) and even something as inane as horse armor (Oblivion)! Infact, now it is assumed that any new game will eventually have a DLC for it.
Anything that would extend the life of a good game is always welcome but if a couple of chapters in-game are dropped in order to be sold to us later on, then that raises certain doubts in mind. Battle for Forli, the first DLC for the brilliantly made Assassins Creed II manages to raise a few doubts of its own. Fans of the series will love the fact that Ubisoft is releasing two additional chapter (the second DLC sometime in February) missing from the main campaign, which purportedly would have delayed the game. Leaving the questions aside for a while, let’s see what the DLC has to offer.
You have to hand it to those guys over at Bioware. Whether its intentional or not on their part, the times at which a player is presented a particularly dicey scene right after jumping into one of the developer’s games at the very first chance they get can either be highly arousing or terribly underwhelming until enough hours have sunken. For me, it was pretty amusing right from the get go when I chose to play it safe as a Male Warrior. While walking into a kitchen where my soon-to-be-possessed pup was found stirring up a bit of conflict with the local Nanny, a gang of rats had ambushed us in the pantry. Rats! You can’t imagine how underpowered we were for this battle, even if it was a mere 1/10th of an entire nanosecond. Regardless, we took those grimfaced bastards back to the Maker. One of my party members takes the time to reflect on the situation through a dialogue tree, while looking absolutely smeared in rats blood. Clearly, this was no ordinary encounter. This was goddamn war.
Right, so maybe it wasn’t completely intentional on their parts, but I couldn’t help laugh. For all the grandiose I’ve witnessed through their trailers of epic tease and those previews of journalistic gloat, it was clear that Dragon Age: Origins (a role-playing game that’s been in the making for some time) had some hefty +2 DEX boots to fill in. Returning to their roots, Bioware once again proves that it knows how to work the fantasy realm, and that some fancy-schmancy Dungeons & Dragons ruleset wasn’t going to make or break it for anyone’s who come to love the Baldur’s Gate series. But how does such an experience fair on the mighty world of console gaming?
Now that I have five copies of King of Fighters XII for the Xbox 360 sitting neatly on my desk, it is about time we announced the winners of the King of Fighters XII contest.
So without any further ado, here is a list of the five lucky winners who not only get to walk away with a copy of King of Fighters XII but also a fabulous poster of the game featuring artwork from the game itself.
Nimish Shah
Rasmeet Singh
Ambar Dhesi
Ramanuj Doshi
Anil Kadap
Congratulations to all winners! Individual mails have been sent to all winners.
A big thanks to Milestone Interactive for sponsoring the prizes and to all those who participated in the contest! Keep a lookout for more such contest in the future.