Comments on: Xbox Experience

By: Jurie Horneman

Jurie Horneman — Sun, 04 Dec 2005 17:21:57 +0000

I will give it a try when I get the chance. As for release date: Mizuguchi just announced a delay until spring 2006. http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=61969

By: tobe

tobe — Sun, 04 Dec 2005 04:21:34 +0000

I have to agree about NNN: this truly looked impressive, and after completing the demo I am curious about the full game. As it is still in production (wasn’t the shelf date rumoured around 2007) it hardly counts as a launch title, though. I might be wrong, it’s just something I heard at the party.

By: Jurie Horneman

Jurie Horneman — Mon, 28 Nov 2005 07:00:35 +0000

I didn’t play it. It looked intriguing and I liked the character design, but the depth of field was a bit too much for me. It looked as if you were beating people up during rush hour. There were a lot of characters on screen, but most of them seemed to be just running around and past you – all except the ones you’re hitting with your sword. That seemed a bit weird to me. It struck me more than in, say EA’s Lord of the Rings games, which had similar scenes.

By: soco

soco — Mon, 28 Nov 2005 05:34:18 +0000

did you happen upon Ninety-Nine Nights? that was the only game i was really impressed with there. the demo was incredibly easy to crash and it seemed to happen anytime you’ll pull off some massive kill, but i was quite impressed with the graphics. at first glance they didn’t look so impressive, but after noticing some of the detail like the enhanced focal blur i was rather impressed, even if there was a bit of flocking.

By: Kotaku

Kotaku — Mon, 28 Nov 2005 04:03:31 +0000

XBox Roadshow in London, Monday

We Euros don’t have the XBox 360 yet. We sit here reading about the frenzy in Best Buy, the crazies spending thousands on eBay, the muggings and the punch-ups, and then we go back to watching Monty Python re-runs…

By: Jurie Horneman

Jurie Horneman — Sat, 26 Nov 2005 23:38:10 +0000

The blooming was remarkably tasteful. And yes, my statement only referred to the transition to next-gen.

By: Factory

Factory — Sat, 26 Nov 2005 20:17:16 +0000

“Depth of field was another over-used effect.”
Well, at least it wasn’t coated in bloom filter mush, erm, I assum.. erm, hope.

“The Xbox 360 and the PS3 are about behemoths battling for your living room and your wallet, not about advancing interactive entertainment in any meaningful way.”
In fairness, consoles have more innovative games than the PC space nowadays (Even if we exclude the Nintendo consoles), but then again this doesn’t actually contradict the quoted statement.