The 360 thread!

Tuur · Post by **Tuur** » Wed Apr 05, 2006 12:09 pm 0

April 4, 2006 - Eidos announced today Tomb Raider: Legend will now be available in playable demo on Xbox Live marketplace.

The playable 360 demo will be accompanied by a video trailer (in 480p and 720p formats), Tomb Raider desktop themes, and image packs of Lara Croft model, Karima Adebibe. As of the writing of this article, only the trailers were available on Marketplace.

http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/700/700125p1.html

PVB · Post by **PVB** » Wed Apr 05, 2006 12:19 pm 0

Courtesy of Major Nelson.com:

There is an update to the Back Compat update that went out last week. This update does NOT add any new titles to the list, but rather fixes some audio issues.

â€˜Tomb Raider Legendâ€™ and â€˜BF2MC: Air Traffic Controlâ€™ trailers are now live in both 480p and 720p. These trailers are available in all Xbox Live regions.

You can now download a â€˜Ninety Nine Nightsâ€™ trailer from Marketplace in 480p or 720p.

Note: This is only available in Japan

Guess I'll have a look at that tonight.

Some info from Bethesda about the horse armour:

http://www.evilavatar.com/forums/showthread.php?t=11318

Yak · Post by **Yak** » Wed Apr 05, 2006 12:24 pm 0

I'd happily pay for more detailed horse bits.

PVB · Post by **PVB** » Wed Apr 05, 2006 12:27 pm 0

Yak wrote:I'd happily pay for more detailed horse bits.

http://www.bethsoft.com/contact.html

HGFB · Post by **HGFB** » Wed Apr 05, 2006 7:21 pm 0

PVB wrote:â€˜Tomb Raider Legendâ€™ and â€˜BF2MC: Air Traffic Controlâ€™ trailers are now live in both 480p and 720p. These trailers are available in all Xbox Live regions.

Trailer? Would a Tomb Raider demo fucking kill them?

Tyke · Post by **Tyke** » Wed Apr 05, 2006 8:34 pm 0

The demo is out for download now 640mb

PVB · Post by **PVB** » Wed Apr 05, 2006 11:03 pm 0

Tyke wrote:The demo is out for download now 640mb

Yup, went up earlier, just noticed it after a long session of Oblivion.

Grabbing it now.

skweek · Post by **skweek** » Wed Apr 05, 2006 11:20 pm 0

Downloaded the demo and played it. Not bad, but it's no great leap in game experience from the original; jump around, shoot things, solve puzzles, now with prettier graphics.

Unimpressed. 5/10 do better.

PVB · Post by **PVB** » Thu Apr 06, 2006 12:15 am 0

skweek wrote:Downloaded the demo and played it. Not bad, but it's no great leap in game experience from the original; jump around, shoot things, solve puzzles, now with prettier graphics.

Unimpressed. 5/10 do better.

Yup, my thoughts too.

The tutorial instructions aren't great either; how to use the binoculars is only on screen for a short while, then I forgot how to use them.

Here's how Lara looks:

Flabio · Post by **Flabio** » Thu Apr 06, 2006 12:17 am 0

skweek wrote:Unimpressed. 5/10 do better.

Blimey, what did you give Angel of Darkness? -10?

skweek · Post by **skweek** » Thu Apr 06, 2006 12:21 am 0

Flabio wrote:
skweek wrote:Unimpressed. 5/10 do better.
Blimey, what did you give Angel of Darkness? -10?

Didn't play it. Only ever played the first one.

sty · Post by **sty** » Thu Apr 06, 2006 2:07 am 0

Tyke wrote:The demo is out for download now 640mb

That's such a large chunk of my download budget for a month there is no way I'm downloding that!

This could be a big problem for LiveArcade for counrties with bandwidth capping, unless Microsoft were to decide to get into the ISP business and start to offer uncapped services

Tuur · Post by **Tuur** » Thu Apr 06, 2006 8:29 am 0

Along with the Marketplace comes the Xbox Live Arcade (XBLA), for which SNK, Konami and Bandai Namco and Yukes will provide content. A Bandai Namco rep took the stage to announce that Pac-Man and Galaga wil be will be available for download on the service in Japan.

http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/700/700381p1.html

matt303 · Post by **matt303** » Thu Apr 06, 2006 9:07 am 0

There is now a title update and free content download that adds CoOp over live and system-link to Kameo Elements of Power.

Rod_S · Post by **Rod_S** » Thu Apr 06, 2006 9:10 am 0

skweek wrote:Downloaded the demo and played it. Not bad, but it's no great leap in game experience from the original; jump around, shoot things, solve puzzles, now with prettier graphics.

Unimpressed. 5/10 do better.

Which level is the demo set in? What I've seen of the Xbox version has been superb, I'm about five levels in and really loving the pace and atmosphere so far, it's so slick and well presented. Gameplay seems much more refined than the previous installments, it's got the fluid, rhythmic feel of Prince of Persia.

8/10 in the new Edge.