The Battlefield franchise's first venture onto consoles came last fall with Modern Combat (review), a title in which the gameplay was as impressive as it was innovative. Not wanting to break a winning formula, EA is about to release Battlefield 2: Modern Combat for the Xbox 360, and it's not changing all that much from the core of the current-gen version. But what it is changing makes the game even better. Naturally you'd expect the graphics to take a big leap forward, and that they do. Although the screens that … [Read more...]
Xbox 360 News and Related Xbox Live Updates
Welcome to DailyGame's archive of Xbox 360 news and related Xbox Live updates and info.
Full Auto
If the Xbox 1 was the home of the first-person shooter, the Xbox 360 is, for the time being, the home of the racer. Whether you're into Project Gotham Racing 3, Ridge Racer 6 or Need for Speed Most Wanted, it seems Microsoft's next-gen console has you covered. Well, almost. Burnout: Revenge is on the way in a little more than a month, and if that isn't quite destructive enough for you, SEGA last week released Full Auto, an innovative racing game in which the cars have hood- and trunk-mounted weapons. As overused as the … [Read more...]
Q&A with the World Designer of The Godfather
The Grand Theft Auto series has seen many a "me too" sandbox game, the latest being The Godfather, from Electronic Arts. Coming out for the Xbox 360, PS2, Xbox and PC, The Godfather places gamers in the shoes of a would-be Don in the world of the Corleone family. Naturally, this will lead to some intimidating, violent and infinitely shady experiences. EA is hoping those experiences, though, will be compounded by the world in which the game takes place. From storefronts to traffic to pedestrians just waiting to be … [Read more...]
Videogames' Future: Used vs. New, Low vs. High?
With Best Buy announcing last year it was entering the used-game market, Internet forums burst with conversations about the End Times, not to mention the development-profit Armageddon being nigh. But hold the phone. Just how much do used game sales prop-up the sale of new games? No matter what figures the NPD Group may be able to pull from its magic hat, I don't think we'll ever know exactly, and I'm not going to guess for the purposes of this column. Still, it's more a question of "how much" they contribute to new-game … [Read more...]
FIFA 06
Creating titles to launch on a new console must be a tricky thing to do, given the track record of a certain developer of sports titles. EA, which created a new game engine rather than rehash a prior one for Madden NFL 06 on the Xbox 360 (review), continues the trend with FIFA 06. Sadly, this next-gen soccer game also follows the trend that Madden NFL 06 started: incorporating fewer features to focus on the all-new engine and enhanced graphics. Unfortunately only a few modes of play are included in FIFA 06, but … [Read more...]
Peter Jackson's King Kong
With the current-gen consoles (PS2, Xbox, GameCube), many game publishers make a base version of their game and "port" it so it works on the other consoles. When the Xbox 360 launched, only two companies tried their hand at releasing next-gen versions of their games at the same time as their current-gen counterparts. The first of those companies, Activision, released Tony Hawk's American Wasteland (review) and Gun (review), both of which were only marginally better than their current-gen counterparts. The second … [Read more...]
Project Gotham Racing 3
It seems like a console now needs to ship with all its genre bases covered: shooter, racer, platformer, fighter, etc. Microsoft's Xbox 360 was no exception, with all but the role-playing genre covered from the get-go. Although many gamers would've liked to see the "shooter" category grounded by Halo 3, much like Halo 1 filled the original Xbox's shooter hole, Microsoft instead repeated history only in the racing category with Project Gotham Racing 3. With the PGR series now a known commodity among Xbox owners, … [Read more...]
Editor's Blog: Wish List for Project Gotham Racing 4
Dear Diary, I haven't written my Project Gotham Racing 3 review yet, which makes me naughty, I know, but it's past Christmas, and I hear Santa quits taking notes after December 23, so I think I'm in the clear. Part of it's just a lack of time, since I'm still trying to un-bury myself from the 18 games of the Xbox 360 launch, but another part is simply because I'm not sure what to write. I've got some ideas, sure, but PGR3 is such a different game from PGR2 (remember my retrospective?) that I'm at a bit of a loss as to … [Read more...]
Fight Night Round 3
During Sony's E3 2005 press conference, representatives from EA Sports stepped on stage and demonstrated what they said was a real-time round of Fight Night Round 3. Barring blindness, everyone at the press conference couldn't help but be overwhelmed by the impeccable details and animations. Many people had their doubts that the footage was real, but having played a preview build of the Xbox 360 version, I'm here to assure you that Fight Night Round 3 looks every bit as good as promised. And oh yeah, it plays well … [Read more...]
GUN Review
The American Old West hasn’t exactly been kind to the world of videogames as a setting or a gameplay experience. Since the PC game Outlaws, a decade-old first-person shooter, no Western-themed game has come close to being fun, with some of them even being downright horrible. No matter the hype or potential, it seems the Old West was destined to deliver a stinker. Still, I’m an Old West junkie, so in spite of the genre’s dubious history, I was intrigued when Neversoft announced it was working on Gun, an Old West game in … [Read more...]