X06 announcements

[SomeGuyWithDSL]

DOOM on Live Arcade as of right now with online multiplayer.

 

Halo Wars RTS under development by Ensemble Studios.

 

Peter Jackson teams up with MS to create new development house, announces involvement in upcoming title set in the Halo universe.

 

Several big upcoming games revealed to be exclusive or temporarily exclusive to the 360, with others having exclusive downloads or episodic content.

 

More.

 

Discuss.

 

[carpecarne]

I like your icon!

 

I think Doom is a neat idea. I wonder why there are only 4 players online? I shouldn't think that the Doom engine is very taxing on the Xbox 360....

[narutofan]

Halo Wars RTS under development by Ensemble Studios.

Go to the end of the paragraph and hit the word "here"

 

Very awsome trailer...

 

not sure about the game

Edited September 27, 2006 by narutofan

[sega saturn x]

Trailers pre-rendered BTW, some other news of interest is a new banjo kazooi is in the works and the next splinter cell is 360 exclusive for a while.

[SteveW]

I really hope that Halo Wars isn't a real time strategy game. I'm really sick of those. If it's a massively multiplayer online first person shooter, it should be at least halfway decent.

[narutofan]

I really hope that Halo Wars isn't a real time strategy game. I'm really sick of those. If it's a massively multiplayer online first person shooter, it should be at least halfway decent.

sorry to break it to you, but it is rts.

[Zoop]

I think ill grab Doom on pay day i have Ultimate Doom on my Doom 3 collectors disc ,but it doesnt have online multiplayer. Any screens of Banjo Kazooie yet. I wonder what they plan on doing with the old banjo games.

[xenomorpher]

Portal is one game I am very excited about as well as Team Fortress 2 even though they did make it a tad cartoony. Either way it looks fun as hell and multiplayer will rock.

[SomeGuyWithDSL]

I really hope that Halo Wars isn't a real time strategy game. I'm really sick of those. If it's a massively multiplayer online first person shooter, it should be at least halfway decent.

 

I don't know, I think I'd take a quality console RTS with a large userbase over a MMOFPS right now. Battle for Middle Earth II was good, but it's already difficult to find an online opponent at times. Sales seem like they were somewhat poor because, well, it wasn't Halo. If someone can bring out a Halo RTS that's even remotely interesting, getting players should be no problem. Considering I haven't enjoyed a console RTS (prior to BfMEII) since Herzog Zwei, I think it's about time.

 

Now I'll also gladly stick around for an MMOFPS, too, but I don't mind seeing this one get some development time, especially from a house like Ensemble Studios that has made RTS hit after hit (Age of Empires 1, 2, 3, Age of Mythology).

 

What does concern me a litle from an RTS player's perspective is the factions involved in the Halo universe. HaloWars.com (the official site) mentions that the game "allows you to take charge of the human UNSC armies and see the Halo universe from a totally new perspective." What about multiplayer? Doesn't say, but I guess that would add in the Covenant as a playable faction, but I've never been a fan of RTS titles with just two factions (see Star Wars: Empire at War).

 

I must hope for Live multiplayer with up to four opposing players, which means at least two more factions to choose from. The Flood would be an obvious common enemy of Humans and Covenant alike, with the ability to infect and repurpose enemy units, but I can't think of a fourth faction ... I guess the Sentinels could perhaps be involved if the Flood are included, but neither seems likely since the game is supposedly set prior to the first Halo.

 

Maybe I just shouldn't get my hopes up.

Edited September 28, 2006 by SomeGuyWithDSL

[narutofan]

I think they should definitley stick the flood in there and make them similar to starcraft's zerg.

 

Maybe they will allow you take command of your commander in fps for a short amount of time, like in that one rts...whatever it was called.

[carpecarne]

 

Maybe they will allow you take command of your commander in fps for a short amount of time, like in that one rts...whatever it was called.

 

Battalion Wars?

[narutofan]

no.. it was some pc game set around the time of age of empires.