X06 is over. The free Xbox Live Gold week long event for European players is ending today. So what have we learned and what were our impressions upon learning it? Let me attempt to run down a few things I thought were the ‘Best of the Show’. For those yet unaware, I’ve renamed X06 to X0Sizzle.
Halo Expanded - New games based on the Halo series are forthcoming and the LOTR man himself Peter Jackson is on board for one of them. Halo Wars is being developed in Dallas!
Bioshock - Easily, at least in my opinion, stole the show! I saw the walkthrough a few days before the show and was amazed. The new trailer just reconfirmed that this title is a must-own for me! It’s exclusive to Xbox 360 and PC.
Assassin’s Creed - I don’t know why I wasn’t blown away by this one but many of you were. It looked incredible don’t get me wrong but I just didn’t get the anxiety feeling in my stomach after seeing it like I did with other news like the Halo and Bioshock news. Still, the first ever gameplay footage left many with soiled pants I hear.
HD-DVD player - It’ll be here soon and for $199.99. Included with the player are a Universal Media Remote and the King Kong HD-DVD. I’ve always been a standalone guy with no interest in playing movies from my console but for this price, I may just budge.
Viva Piñata™ - I may be the only adult waiting for this game but I’ll wear that tag proudly. This game is just screaming family time.
Xbox Live Marketplace - I’m listing this because of all the content, demos and trailers released on the Marketplace during this event. Wow! I got some unexpected demos and some pretty good Picture Packs.
Alan Wake - I’m really waiting on this title! Everything about it seems like my kind of thriller.
Guitar Hero II - I’ll admit that I simply ignored this at first. But after seeing someone rock to it, I said to myself…this game is going to be a kid’s dream and not to mention some busted rocker’s dream.
Well these are just a few of the things that X0Sizzle unleashed that I thought were the best of the show. What are your impressions of the show? It brought as much excitement as I can recall recently from any show.
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September 29th, 2006 at 11:31 am
Yeah no doubt it’s an awesome time to be an Xbox 360 owner, I was really let down by Bethesda and MadDoc by the lack of publicity and content on the marketplace…I haven’t even been able to ascertain whether they were at X06 and this game is supposed to be out late this month or early next month.
September 29th, 2006 at 11:47 am
I gotta give my Game of Show to Assassin’s Creed. That demonstration at the press conference was just incredible.
September 29th, 2006 at 12:10 pm
AC does it for me along with BioShock.
Did they show the Alan Wake demo at X06? I’ve only seen the intel conference demo.
September 29th, 2006 at 12:24 pm
no i dont’ think they did but i put it there because it all happened during the event
September 29th, 2006 at 12:36 pm
X0Sizzle was the shizzle. I will now buy Bioshock & AC on launch day.
I thought MS did a great job Bringin It Home. You’ll never see me complain about free stuff.
September 29th, 2006 at 1:24 pm
I guess I’m a busted rocker then. For the last 8 - 10 months my PS2 has been relegated to “guitar simulator”. Guitar Hero is literally the only game the system has played in that time period. I’m planning to go trade it in now that GH2 is on the 360 and I think it may be difficult to physically remove the disc from the console when the time comes. I’m salivating already thinking about the Marketplace new song download possibilities. Gonna use the trade-in value (what of it there is) to finish up the pre-order for Gears and Bioshock and put some on a Wii if they’re pre-ordering them yet. 2006 is the year-of-gaming at my house. hehe
PS - The Bioshock video induced a need to change my shorts.
September 29th, 2006 at 1:31 pm
Bioshock for sure induced some of those moments Monster lol Guitar Hero, i can really see some fun times with that game and guitar controller.
September 29th, 2006 at 2:59 pm
X06 was just as good or better than E3. The only thing I would have liked to see more of was Mass Effect, and what happend to Too Human. I wasn’t sold on TH at E3 and I’m thinking its broken or something.
September 29th, 2006 at 3:05 pm
too human is being given more time to improve…it’s not there yet as far as what microsoft expects.
October 1st, 2006 at 5:37 pm
How anybody could come close to saying this was anything like E3 is beyond me. I guess some people are just that hard up to see something…anything.