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    Microsoft: All You Need

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    If you're looking for a good primer on what Microsoft is up to this E3 you've come to the right place. We'll continue to update this page with the best from Microsoft over the next couple days.

    Top 10 Trailers


    Microsoft

    • Xbox Live soon to recieve 1080 HD streaming, Facebook/Twitter/Last.fm integration.
    • Xbox peripheral Project Natal "makes you the controller". Essentially a camera that can recognize your movement.
    • Beatles Rock Band looks better then expected with a unique art-style that goes through each phase of their career. Yoko, Paul and Ringo show up.
    • Alan Wake is not only still being made, but looks great. Lots of lighting and slow-mo effects.
    • Infinity Ward showed off some Modern Warfare 2 gameplay footage featuring some epic ice-climbing and snowmobile battles.
    • Metal Gear Solid Rising will be a X360 release. It's a totally new game.
    • Lionhead is working on some crazy Life-gaming with "Milo" a virtual character you can interact with through Natal.
    • Halo: ODST looks like a team-based Halo game. Halo: Reach also announced but unknown as to what genre it is.
    • Left 4 Dead 2 is a surprise sequel due out in the Fall.
    • Tony Hawk shows off Ride, his newest game that uses a skateboard controller.
    • Crackdown 2 is confirmed.
    • Forza 3 is confirmed and looks a lot like Forza 2 with sharper graphics and nice skinning options.
    • Shadow Complex is a metroid-like shooter that will be an arcade download game.
    • Joy Ride is a free kart racer that uses your avatar's in game.
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    #1  Edited By snide
      


    If you're looking for a good primer on what Microsoft is up to this E3 you've come to the right place. We'll continue to update this page with the best from Microsoft over the next couple days.

    Top 10 Trailers


    Microsoft

    • Xbox Live soon to recieve 1080 HD streaming, Facebook/Twitter/Last.fm integration.
    • Xbox peripheral Project Natal "makes you the controller". Essentially a camera that can recognize your movement.
    • Beatles Rock Band looks better then expected with a unique art-style that goes through each phase of their career. Yoko, Paul and Ringo show up.
    • Alan Wake is not only still being made, but looks great. Lots of lighting and slow-mo effects.
    • Infinity Ward showed off some Modern Warfare 2 gameplay footage featuring some epic ice-climbing and snowmobile battles.
    • Metal Gear Solid Rising will be a X360 release. It's a totally new game.
    • Lionhead is working on some crazy Life-gaming with "Milo" a virtual character you can interact with through Natal.
    • Halo: ODST looks like a team-based Halo game. Halo: Reach also announced but unknown as to what genre it is.
    • Left 4 Dead 2 is a surprise sequel due out in the Fall.
    • Tony Hawk shows off Ride, his newest game that uses a skateboard controller.
    • Crackdown 2 is confirmed.
    • Forza 3 is confirmed and looks a lot like Forza 2 with sharper graphics and nice skinning options.
    • Shadow Complex is a metroid-like shooter that will be an arcade download game.
    • Joy Ride is a free kart racer that uses your avatar's in game.
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    #2  Edited By chickendoughnut

    Microsoft won for me

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    #3  Edited By jNerd
    @chickendoughnut Agreed, good times....
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    #4  Edited By chililili

    Movent? Spellcheck please

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    #5  Edited By snide
    @chililili: Corrected. TY
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    #6  Edited By Seedofpower

    Thanks for the summary.

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    #7  Edited By asurastrike

    Crackdown 2 is listed twice in the top 10 trailers.

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    #8  Edited By Guybrush

    Crackdown 2; so good it's in the top 10 twice

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    Can't wait for Mass Effect and Forza.

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    #10  Edited By Reuben

    I'm going to be spending a lot of money on games the next year.

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    #11  Edited By LordAndrew

    Hmmmm. Yeah, pretty good conference. Not as good as Sony's but still pretty good.

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    #12  Edited By RenegadeSaint
    @Guybrush said:
    " Crackdown 2; so good it's in the top 10 twice "

    What he said, except with a colon replacing his semicolon.
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    #13  Edited By Moonshadow101

    Errr, can we NOT make the primary conversation about Halo: Reach a question of genre? Because then they're going to announce it's a shooter, which we all know it most likely (99.243%) is, we will all have wasted a whole lot of breath.

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    #14  Edited By natetodamax

    Microsoft came out strong this year.

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    #15  Edited By MeatSim

    Strong press conference this year.

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    #16  Edited By snide
    @Asurastrike: Fixed... is E3 over yet? I'm losing it.
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    #17  Edited By asurastrike
    @snide said:
    " @Asurastrike: Fixed... is E3 over yet? I'm losing it. "
    One more day. :P
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    #18  Edited By gunslingerNZ

    Wasn't there already a bullet point article like this up?

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    #19  Edited By Duckbutter

    Moneysoft had a better show than Sony's entertainment-wise. Micro had chicks on stage that i wouldn't mind having relations with. Sony had unnattractive translators :( plus Microsoft rocked out with their cocks out on stage and had some random star power. why the fack was Speilsberg needed?

    as far as content though, in my awesome opinion i'd say they're exactly the same. awesome scat commin from both companies. the only difference is, while i wait for Uncharted 2 or God of War and stuff, i can play Killzone 2 or Infamous.
    while i wait for ODST and Splinter Cell i can't play nothin. i have to sit and stare at my Xbox and wait and pray for an awesome 3rd party game.

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    #20  Edited By TehBonerer

    why is everyone riding Daves nuts with the corrections? Grammar Nazis on MY Giantbomb? i say nay to this.

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    #21  Edited By PuppyKisses

    Microsoft for the WIN!

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    #22  Edited By Media_Master

    I must see each conference online

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    #23  Edited By FrumpyBiscuts

    Microsoft FTW! They won completely, but man Sony came in at a close second. And Nintendo . . . ????? I can now read my pulse while I play Metroid Other M; yay?????

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    #24  Edited By bmoney

    Microsoft totally won and I don't even own a xbox.

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    #25  Edited By baggykins

    well.. BAM! there it is!    best E3 moment ever !

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    #26  Edited By ZeroCast
    Hmmmm. Yeah, that was a great conference, better than Sony even.
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    #27  Edited By DMFAMZO

    Oh no!  Ryan you f#cked up really bad on asking "who the hell is Colin Mc Rae?"
    ex world champion of rally who died 2 years ago with his son and family friends on a helicopter crash

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    #28  Edited By foxhound421

    there's some great stuff up there, but in terms of the amount new exclusive games that i can't wait to play, Sony came out ahead for me. it's nice to have all of these videos in one place though, thanks GB crew!

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    #29  Edited By shinyd3mon
    @LordAndrew:
    Funny how the good ol' blue names gotta come and say in an Xbox news post that it wasn't as good as Sony.

    --

    I can safely say I am quite excited for 7 of those 10 games (minus Mass Effect, Brutal Legend and Shadow Complex, but those all look great for their own audiences, just not me), as well as Project Natal, though I will maintain Ryan's skeptical point of view for the time being.
    If they release anything close to the demonstration they showed at their press conference, I'm certain it will be a smash success. I hope they release a practical time frame (before holiday 2010, please..?) and price point (under $200?) in the near future as well.
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    Ha ha.


    "Don't mention that to any person from the UK or they will kick your - big green circle."

    Best jump cut ever.
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    #32  Edited By LordAndrew
    @ShinyD3mon: Are you suggesting that I'm a Sony fanboy? Sorry about that. I simply set my alignment as Sony because most of the games I've been playing are on the PS2. I guess I'll switch it back to neutral so people stop assuming I'm a Sony fanboy. Because I'm not.
    I don't even own a PS3. I just had my alignment set to Sony for a dumb reason and happened to enjoy Sony's press conference more.
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    #33  Edited By jhosaphat

    I'm pretty sure Joystiq confirmed Halo : Reach is an FPS.

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    #34  Edited By MaddProdigy

    Next couple years are gonna be expensive but sweet

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    #35  Edited By Carlos

    Microsoft wins.

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