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What can we say... Microsoft is the big boy when it comes to the Xbox. Microsoft's past hits include MechWarrior 4: Vengeance, Links 2001, MechCommander 2, and Combat Flight Similator 2.
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An exciting first-party snowboarding game that takes a unique and welcome turn away from what snowboarding games have been in the past. Rather than limiting the player to a norrow track, "Amped" gives the gamer a mountain, a snowboard and complete control over where they go and what they do. Combine that with a full-featured "fame" sytem, "Amped" is a game to watch for!
Amped 2 is the ultimate freestyle experience, offering the largest, most varied trick library of any snowboarding game. Explore vast areas of wide-open, spectacularly rendered real mountains packed with terrain parks designed by world-famous snow park architect, Chris Gunnarson. Play head-to-head with friends in the various multiplayer modes. When you're ready to take it to the next level, connect to Xbox Live to check rankings and challenge the world's best virtual riders.
A high-profile, first-party Xbox title that pits you in a battle to bring justice to your land, Perathia. "Azurik: Rise of Perathia" will have a heavy focus on action, jaw-dropping graphics and a unique, element-based combat system.
BC
Genre: Action/Adventure
Release Date: To Be Announced
Blinx 2: Masters of Time & Space is the world's first 5-D game, giving players control over both Time and Space. Using customized characters, gamers can choose to battle against one another in Battle Mode or team up in two-player Cooperative Mode.
Blinx: The Time Sweeper is a fast-paced action game featuring a cool, clever new character in wild, warped worlds. The ability to control the flow of time provides a totally new gaming experience only possible on Xbox.
Blinx is a cat on a mission to fix glitches in time. With the aid of his trusty and powerful Time Sweeper, the TS1000, Blinx recovers lost time crystals and fights Time Monsters in his attempt to rescue a kidnapped princess and return order to the world.
Blood Wake is a vehicular combat game with a twist: the pavement and dust has been replaced with the most realistic water to be featured in a game to-date. Zip along the calms and crash through the waves while trying to keep your target in site with this pulse-pounding, first-party action title.
Brute Force
Genre: Action/Adventure
Release Date: 5/27/2003
Players can instantly take control of any one of four highly specialized super-commandos in Brute Force, a new action-packed sci-fi squad-based shooter game. Whether the encounter requires stealth, tactics, sniping or just "Brute Force," the team is ready and able. Gamers experience the intensity of a shooter game with the cunning strategies of team-based tactical combat. Brute Force can be played solo through six worlds in the extensive single-player campaign, or gamers can have up to three friends jump in on the fly in Dynamic Co-op mode or to battle it out in a multitude of competitive death-match modes. Brute Force is the first Xbox title from world-renowned developer Digital Anvil.
Citizen Zero
Genre: MMORPG
Release Date: To Be Announced
Combining the guts and muscle of action shooters with the depth and broad scope of online RPGs, Citizen Zero is set to change the way people think about online gaming.
Conker, gaming�s notoriously naughty squirrel, arrives on the Xbox with a bang in an all-new Xbox Live-enabled team-based shooter, Conker: Live and Reloaded.
The game features intense Deathmatch and Campaign story line modes via Xbox Live and System Link, and players can compete as one of six combat specialists across multi-mission campaigns covering Old War and Future War. The warfare promises to deliver the non-stop action, humor, and innuendos Conker is famous for.
Also included is the critically acclaimed single-player game, Conker�s Bad Fur Day, completely recreated for the Xbox with stunning graphics and unparalleled attitude.
Counter-Strike
Genre: First Person Shooter
Release Date: 11/18/2003
�Counter-Strike,� the world�s most popular online action game and first-person shooter for the PC makes its console debut exclusively on Xbox and Xbox Live. �Counter-Strike� for Xbox allows gamers to challenge other players in intense team-based multiplayer action in two thrilling game types: Bomb Defusal and Hostage Rescue via Xbox Live or System Link. �Counter-Strike� on Xbox will be the most graphically advanced version of the series to date, showcasing the technical prowess of Xbox.
"Crimson Skies: High Road to Revenge" combines the thrills of low to the ground air combat with the swashbuckling style of an action-adventure movie. Players pilot powerful fantasy aircraft in a game reminiscent of a classic Hollywood tale, as they battle enemy aces and navigate tricky stunts in single and multiplayer modes. As the handsome and daring air pirate Nathan Zachary, players barnstorm through 1930s America hunting down the murderers of Nathan's best friend.
Fable is a ground-breaking role-playing adventure game from Peter Molyneux, in which your every action determines your skills, appearance, and reputation. Create your life story from childhood to death. Grow from an inexperienced adolescent into the most powerful being in the world. Choose the path of righteousness or dedicate your life to evil. Muscles expand with each feat of strength; force of will increases with each work of wit. Obesity follows gluttony, skin tans with exposure to sunlight and bleaches bone-white by moonlight. Earn scars in battle and lines of experience with age. Each person you aid, each flower you crush, each creature you slay, will change this world forever. Fable: Who will you be?
Racing sim from Microsoft, targeted at gamers who are passionate about cars and racing. Own, customize, and race your favorite cars in the most technologically advanced and realistic driving sim yet. Use race earnings to buy upgrades and aftermarket parts, so you can transform real production cars into high-performance racers. On the track, experience an impressively accurate simulation, while putting your performance-tuned creations to the test against the online gaming world on Xbox Live. Features car models from more than 60 top car manufacturers, customization via decals and team paint-schemes, and vehicle tuning that really affects performance. Supports Xbox Live online play.
One of the most fun and addictive games at E3, "Fuzion Frenzy" had us hooked on its intuitive and engaging gamplay. As the flagship party game for the Xbox, "Fuzion Frenzy" has its worked cut out it but looks prepared to beat everyone's expectations.
�Grabbed by the Ghoulies� is a humorous beat-�em-up adventure game that takes place in a haunted house full of crazed ghoulies. Gamers play the role of Cooper, a kid on a mission to rescue his girlfriend, who has been �grabbed by the ghoulies.� Players will venture through the haunted and ominous Ghoulhaven Hall, battling it out with a variety of monsters while trying to escape the many tricks, traps and shocks awaiting them along the way. Packed with action, �Grabbed by the Ghoulies� is filled with unexpected surprises, and all that fail to get through Ghoulhaven Hall are imprisoned within and never seen again.
Halo
Genre: First Person Shooter
Release Date: 11/15/2001
Considered by many to be the Xbox's flagship title, Halo is a highly anticipated, story-driven FPS. You play the role a futuristic warrior fighting against a hostile alien force for control of a mysterious halo-shaped world. With its amazing graphics and promising multiplayer features, Halo is bound to sell like crazy come this November.
Halo 2
Genre: First Person Shooter
Release Date: 11/9/2004
Pushing the Xbox hardware to its very limits, Halo 2 will expand on everything that made the original game great, plus add a wealth of technological and gameplay advances. Significantly improved graphics, enhanced AI, destructible and interactive environments, and an advanced real-time lighting engine are just a small part of Halo 2's evolution of design and technology. Every improvement in Halo 2 is designed to take gameplay to a new level, and in the end, to tell a better story.
It's a brand new ballgame! Inside Pitch 2003 delivers all the hard sliding, barehanded, grand slam action of the majors! Make a homerun-robbing snag at the wall to retire the side. Then dig in and drill one over the fence to win the day! Build and train your big league team from scratch and turn the entire roster into superstars. And once you're convinced that you can't be beaten, try out your stuff against friends and opponents from all over with Xbox Live online gaming. From Spring Training to the Fall Classic, this is your game!
Bioware RPG, in the style of Knights of the Old Republic, set in ancient China. In the ancient, mysterious world of Jade Empire, train under your master's watchful eye and learn powerful martial arts and mystical powers. Travel across the world, from the harsh mountains of the Land of Howling Spirits to the lush gardens of the Imperial City. Face powerful human and supernatural foes. Learn exotic and magical martial arts. Discover the darkest secrets of the world. Only by mastering the greatest fighting styles and defeating the most powerful enemies will you earn your place as a master of martial arts in the world of Jade Empire.
Kakuto Chojin is a gritty street fighter with dark, edgy, and mysterious, battles that take place in dark alleys and rain-soaked rooftops. Combatants fight with raw emotion and use styles unique.
Kameo is a highly inventive and atmospheric adventure, offering you the chance to join roving princess Kameo on her travels throughout the land and the unveiling of her inherited gifts in the wake of Dark King Thorn's return. Blending the heady thrills of exploration and puzzle-solving with the adrenaline rush of real-time 3D battles, Kameo: Elements of Power is an ambitious title with something for every gamer to love. Enter Kameo's breathtakingly beautiful world and join her voyage of discoveryand a breathtakingly beautiful world and join her voyage of discovery.
Kingdom Under Fire: The Crusaders is a strategic action game of epic scale, with cutting-edge 3D graphics and gritty combat scenes. The player takes the role of a general in a fantasy battleground, fighting alongside his/her troops of warriors, catapults, and even dragons to crush all enemy opposition. There will be up to 150 characters fighting on one screen and each character is modeled with 3,000 ~ 5,000 polygons, boasting breathtakingly large scale and realistic details. The scenario consists of more than 100 missions and it fully supports Xbox Live function, including head-to-head, deathmatch, ranking updates, and feature downloads.
Kung Fu Chaos
Genre: Fighting
Release Date: 1/25/2003
"Kung Fu Chaos is a quirky brawler game inspired by the '70s Kung Fu movie era. You fight as one of eight outrageous characters going head-to-head with up to four of your friends, battling it out on interactive movie sets that add an element of challenge to the mayhem. Engage in Hong Kong-style combat with over-the-top gigantic leaps, suicidal stunts, and multiple-opponent action - all while unleashing humiliating insults that can be as damaging as the karate kicks themselves.
Links, the best-selling golf franchise for the personal computer, has been rebuilt�from the ground up�exclusively for the Xbox video game system. Links 2004 delivers one of the most realistic and competitive golf experiences for Xbox. Golf fans worldwide can compete online in friendly matches with old golfing buddies or compete in tournaments against the best golfers in the world via Xbox Live. Links 2004 also features top championship courses and top professionals, including cover athlete Sergio Garcia.
MAGATAMA
Genre: Action/RPG
Release Date: To Be Announced
Pilot the most powerful weapons available in the 31st century, a 40-foot tall walking tank known as a BattleMech. MechAssault is a 3rd-person action/shooter, where environments are not only fully destructible, they're your weapons. Choose from a dozen 'Mechs ranging from quick 30- tonners to huge 100-ton beasts. Configure your 'Mech and optimize it to crush your opponents. Challenge yourself with 20 single-player missions and get prepared for the ultimate multiplayer online experience. Download free Mechs, maps and more with Xbox Live!
MechAssault 2: Lone Wolf is in development by Day 1 Studios, creators of the original MechAssault for Xbox. In MechAssault 2: Lone Wolf, gamers will be able to step outside the 'Mech and live the life of a human pilot in a fresh new single player game. Tanks, VTOLs and BattleArmor will offer players plenty of opportunities to rain destruction on their opposition in both single and multiplayer games. Xbox Live gamers will enjoy a whole new level of strategy, as BattleArmor-equipped players 'jack enemy 'Mechs and VTOLs drop supplies to their teammates. Both online and off, MechAssault 2: Lone Wolf will offer players an unparalleled gaming experience.
Midtown Madness 3, the latest in the popular Midtown Madness franchise, allows you to get behind the wheel of more than 30 vehicles while competing in exciting race modes such as Blitz, Checkpoint and Cruise. With a robust Career mode featuring 14 driving careers, Midtown Madness 3 delivers the rush and excitement of street racing while challenging gamers to put their driving skills to the ultimate test.
N.U.D.E @
Genre: Simulation
Release Date: To Be Announced
The Natural Ultimate Digital Experiment is a simulation game where you can take full control of a Personal Assist Secretary System (PASS) using the Xbox Communicator and create your version of these robots. They start with no intelligence at all, to later learn new skills with the help of the player's teaching.
The PC version of NBA Inside Drive 2000 was a stellar first effort that more than stood up to EA's NBA Live offering of the same year. Expect great things from the Xbox version.
In NBA Inside Drive 2003 gamers will continue to enjoy team-specific playbooks and tendencies, superior graphics and fluid gameplay. NBA Inside Drive 2003 will include numerous updates, including a season dynasty feature and Dynamic Player Performance.
NBA Inside Drive, with its fluid gameplay and lifelike player models (decked out in tattoos and cornrows), is taking its game online with the help of Xbox Live. Utilizing revolutionary new Web-based technology exclusive to XSN Sports, basketball gamers and sports fans can easily organize teams, leagues, and schedules from a centralized Web site, which pulls the information from Xbox Live. New "jukes" and post moves will be "breaking ankles" all over the court, and a revamped defensive game will be shutting down high-scoring teams and making them run home to their mamas.
Microsoft's first entry into the Xbox football world, NFL Fever 2002 will pack some serious features for a first generation football title. The standard fair of game modes will be included as well as a dynasty mode that will allow the player to play up to 25 seasons with their favorite team. An intriguing challenge mode where two players will be able to pit their two favorite Super Bowl teams of yore head-to-head.
NFL Fever 2003 is the best-selling, fast and hard-hitting football game for Xbox. Easy to pick up and start playing, NFL Fever 2003 delivers all the action, attitude and excitement of the National Football League, allowing gamers to create, play and control their ultimate NFL team. With the opportunity to earn all the accolades and honors of the NFL, NFL Fever 2003 challenges hardcore football fans and gamers to be the best in the world. The realism of NFL Fever 2003 provides gamers with the ultimate NFL experience.
�NFL Fever� is back and better than ever. The third installment of Microsoft Game Studios� exclusive football title for Xbox, �NFL Fever 2004,� redefines the console football gaming experience. Gamers will be impressed with the features of this latest version of �NFL Fever,� with revamped artificial intelligence (AI) including significant offensive and defensive adjustments, animated NFL coaches roaming the sidelines offering situational analysis, a brand-new offensive playbook, totally reworked stadium models and �Read and Lead� advanced passing. From traditional, single and multiplayer gaming to league and tournament play on Xbox Live, �NFL Fever 2004� is taking football gaming to the next level.
This dramatic hockey simulation immerses gamers into one of the most realistic and exciting hockey experiences ever created. With more than 700 in-game, motion-captured animations, hockey fans will be able to take one-timers, blast slap shots, and dish out the big body checks, just like real NHL superstars.
Enter the world of dwarves, dragons and magical powers and play the role of an apprentice mage. Nightcaster will feature a strong magic system and a fleet on NPCs to interact with plus an innovate aiming technique. While Nightcaster may have been overlooked at first, VR1 plans to pull out all of the stops by the time it launches this November.
In the world of Odd, there has been a new addition to the family, albeit a crippled addition, but an addition nonetheless. The newest member of the Oddworld family goes by the name of Munch. Munch is a Gabbit, which is an amphibious race, and the last remaining Gabbit on the planet.
Playing as both Munch and Abe, you must restore the Gabbit race and dish out a bit of juctice.
Developed in the UK by Sumo Digital Ltd, the Xbox conversion of OutRun2 will feature the same classic thrill ride as the SEGA-AM2 original and will be enhanced with many new features.
Phantasy Star Online makes it's debut on the Microsoft Xbox! Enter the fantastic multiplayer RPG world that is PSO, and explore distant lands populated with real players like you. Chat, exchange items and information, and go into battle with other online players -- all in real-time. With Phantasy Star Online, RPG gaming has no boundaries.
Phantom Dust
Genre: Action/RPG
Release Date: To Be Announced
First party racing title from the developers of "MSR". This title looks to bring some fierce competition to Sony's Gran Turismo franchise. Featuring real-life cars, Gotham has the added bonus of having cars you can damage (something that the car manufactures usually do not allow).
Project Gotham Racing 2 is the ultimate test of racing skill, style, and daring that rewards you not only for how fast you drive, but also for how you drive fast. Earn Kudos and gain recognition for cornering on two wheels around the Sears Tower in Chicago; power sliding through the ancient streets of Florence, Italy; or maneuvering along the racing line through the slick streets of Edinburgh, Scotland�all while racing some of the most exotic high-performance vehicles available. Challenge other gamers online, utilizing Xbox Live, or take on your friends in a multiplayer race via System Link.
�Quantum Redshift� puts gamers in command of the most extreme, hyperspeed racing machines that travel in excess of 650 mph and are able to interact with the terrain. As players progress, they unlock not only new characters but also new speeds (five in all), providing a racing experience like no other. In addition, the vehicles are equipped with highly advanced offensive and defensive weapons systems, allowing characters to attack each other with everything from plasma bolts to tidal waves. Players will have the opportunity to race on a total of 16 detail-laden tracks and compete in up to four-player split-screen against their friends.
The variety of race types in Rallisport Challenge allows gamers to experience traditional rally racing against the clock, as well as fierce, wheel-to-wheel grudge matches. Gamers will find over 25 licensed vehicles (with a few hidden surprises) from manufacturers like Audi, Citroen, Lancia, Ford, Subaru and Mitsubishi. Daring drivers can also take the wheel of the (in)famous Group "B" cars from the 1980s, which are now banned from real Rally competitions.
RalliSport Challenge 2 is the second installment in the critically acclaimed RalliSport Challenge franchise -- and it's the first racing title in the XSN Sports lineup. The game boasts several new features, including a new graphics engine, online play through Xbox Live, new race modes, more cars and tracks, and the ability to set up leagues and tournaments using XSNsports.com. The game actually boasts twice as many tracks as the original game, 40 rally cars, and variable weather conditions. There are five unique rally sports, including the new Crossover duel that test a driver's skill and stomach for danger with extreme speeds on tracks that could send even the best driver on a collision course with disaster.
Shenmue II is an epic adventure with all the elements of a great movie: drama, mystery, suspense, and action. It offers a unique game-playing experience the seamlessly blends elements of action, adventure, fighting, and role-playing games. In Shenmue II, players assume the role of Ryo Hazuki, a young man dedicated to the task of tracking his father's murderer and unlocking the mysteries of the Phoenix Mirror. Shenmue II continues where Shenmue left off, bringing Ryo to Hong Kong with many unanswered questions as he follows the trail of Lan Di, the man who killed his father.
Sneakers is a fun, comical adventure filled with cartoon combat. Players take on the role of a mouse named Apollo, who must lead his friends through a human-sized town to battle the enemy. Fights are comical battles where you throw wind-up punches and flying kicks while also directing the actions of your troops. Being mouse-sized offers its own unique advantages and obstacles. A rolling apple could be as dangerous as a tumbling boulder while a small hole in a wall serves as an ideal shortcut. Players have to be cunning and quick to find and defeat the enemy. Sneakers is being developed by Mediavision. Available only at Toys "R" Us.
Four heroes � a sultry wizardress, a soaring gunslinger, a powerful swordsman and a dark huntress � are about to be hurtled over the edge in a flight into darkness. �Sudeki� pushes the limits of what a role-playing game (RPG) can be by providing bigger worlds, more powerful heroes and sexier heroines, all set in the context of Hong Kong-style cinematic combat. In a world ripped apart by deceit, �Sudeki� players become heroes on a twisting path of betrayal, gravity-defying combat and unbelievable magic.
�Tao Feng: Fist of the Lotus� is the perfect blend of fighting realism and stunning special effects. �Tao Feng: Fist of the Lotus� delivers a classic battle between good and evil as two ancient Chinese clans of superfighters, each seeking to uncover the secrets of immortality, battle for dominance. Hand-to-hand combat is furiously intense with amazingly realistic fighting and stunning special effects. Arenas are highly interactive and destructive. When the fight ends, players will witness the devastation of battle.
Tennis anyone? Work your way up through the amateur ranks to the pros in tournaments all over the world. Play as or against 16 licensed pros such as Anna Kournikova, Pete Sampras and Lleyton Hewitt, or create your own unique character with looks, playing styles and personalities all their own. Take your game online with XSN Sports and Xbox Live for tennis match-ups with anyone, anytime -- you can even pair up with a doubles partner and let the tennis trash talking begin!
'True Fantasy Live Online' takes place in a world filled with fantastical characters such as high-flying broomstick-riding wizards and armies of armored knights working together to vanquish evil creatures that threaten the innocent. Numerous players will work and play together in one of the largest massively multiplayer online role- playing games created for Xbox Live.
"Voodoo Vince" offers unbelievably wacky fun for gamers of all ages, taking them on a light and humorous adventure through an exaggerated re-creation of New Orleans. The game offers colossal non-stop action, allowing players to pilot toy airplanes, saddle up on a bucking wild rat, enjoy a high speed ride on a bayou fan boat and navigate a submariner shrimp. Developed by Beep Industries, "Voodoo Vince" will arrive on Xbox this autumn.
Whacked!'' will feature fast and furious combat in which eight demented contestants are pitted against each other in the world's most irreverent and dangerous game show. When contestants take the stage, all hell breaks loose as free-for-all combat ensues. Contestants must use power-ups and zany weapons such as giant staplers and rubber ducky grenades to flatten their opponents and win a grand prize that's out of this world.
Xbox Live is driving the market forward with new and innovative offerings, such as the recently announced Xbox Live Arcade, which will provide fun, engaging digital entertainment to gamers of all levels and interests.
Xbox Live Arcade, coming this fall, is a new casual game experience that will bring an added social dimension to the online console environment. A virtual destination within Xbox Live, Xbox Live Arcade will enable Xbox Live subscribers to try out different types of games, download them and then play them with their friends and family around the world. Xbox Live members will find puzzle games, card & board games, social sports, pub games, and classic action/arcade favourites such as "Galaxian," "Dig Dug," "Poker," "Bejeweled" and "Feeding Frenzy." These games are tailor-made for a quick five minute fix or endless hours of intense fun.
Take the party to the next level with Xbox Music Mixer. With the first alternative entertainment title for Xbox, aspiring singers, VJs and party hosts have the opportunity to personalize their music experience with pc media sharing, customized soundtracks and visual accompaniments; bring down the house with the only console Karaoke engine that lets players sing to nearly any song; digitally enhance favorite music with various audio features; and create custom photo slide shows enhanced with unique soundtracks.
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