Major XBOX gaming news was announced by Microsoft today at their E3 briefing.
Project Netal adds new motion tracking accessories more powerful than Wii and allows you to play games without any controllers
A new Halo game, Halo Reach, was announced
Halo 3: ODST gets a release date and more
Left 4 Dead 2 comes out this year (exclusive to PC and 360)
Forza 3 comes out this year
Metal Gear Solid announced for 360
Facebook, Twitter, and Last.fm come to the New Xbox Experience
Full XBOX 360 titles will be downloadable from XBOX Live
Beatles for Rock Band announced
New skateboard peripheral announced for Tony Hawk game
Crackdown 2 announced
Splinter Cell: Conviction announced
Add Netflix titles to your queue via the XBOX
Simultaneous viewing of Netflix movies
Instant 1080p streaming for videos over the Marketplace
Avatar marketplace
Final Fantasy XIII releases spring 2010 for XBOX 360
Halo: Reach
A multiplayer beta of Halo: Reach will be available with the purchase of Halo 3: ODST which releases September 22nd. Halo: Reach will be released sometime in 2010.
There’s no indication what genre this game will be although many believe it to be a prequel.
Halo 3: ODST
Narrative for Halo 3: ODST:
The year is 2552. The Covenant control the city of New Mombasa. They are searching for something beneath its darkened streets. You are an Orbital Drop Shock Trooper. Your orders: Stay alive, meet up with your scattered squad, and escape the embattled city. Stop the Covenant and we just might win this war.
Firefight is a new co-op mode available in ODST. Form a squad and fend off the Covies.
All released Halo 3 DLC maps plus three new Halo 3 maps will ship with ODST: Heretic, Longshore, and Citadel.
Recon armor will be achievable by playing Halo 3 and ODST.
SGT. Johnson will be a unlockable character in ODST if you pre-order.
Left 4 Dead 4
New melee combat options announced. Chainsaw, frying pag, axe, baseball bat, and blunt-force objects can be used. New AI Director 2.0 announced and will direct weather effects, world objects, and pathways provided to players.
To be released November 17th.
Valve has said this game will be larger than the original game with more maps and campaigns.
Crackdown 2
Lego Rock Band 2
Beatles Rock Band
To feature harmonizing vocals.
I Saw Her Standing There
I Wanna Hold Your Hand
I Feel Fine
Day Tripper
Tax Man
I am the Walrus
Back in the USSR
Octopus's Garden
Here Comes the Sun
Get Back
"Abbey Road" will be the first downloadable album.
Forza 3
Screenshot:
Project Natal:
The “Project Natal” sensor is the world’s first to combine an RGB camera, depth sensor, multi-array microphone and custom processor running proprietary software all in one device.
Uses a 3D camera and a plethora of other sensors to detect emotion, the tone of your voice, recognize your face, and monitor you arm, hands, legs, feet, and body movements.
Call a play in a football game, and players will actually respond. Want to log onto Xbox LIVE? Simply step in front of the sensor
Steven Spielberg helped with the project.
Avatar Marketplace
Not only clothes, but new characters can be unlocked and purchased. Finally.
1) only SD videos will be offered
2) LIVE Party viewers must be Netflix subscribers
3) Netflix servers will handle the streaming
4) No downloading; just streaming
5) Not avialable for Silver memberships
6) Free for XBL Gold subscriptions
Here's the official press release which misses some of the details above:
