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[Borys]

bapenguin, my favourite mod from EvilAvatar played a little bit on Xbox360 at the NYC event.

Here's the bit on Kameo:

NOTE: this is only a short paragraph, read the rest (around 10 times more) HERE.

Usually, you save the best for last. But today, we'll start out with my personal favorite (next go Geometry Wars) on the XBox 360. Kameo was the most impressive original title I got my hands on yesterday. It could just be the "sleeper hit" on the XBox 360.

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Kameo may look cartoonish, but the game is quite violent. In fact, the game rewards you with for more violent kills. This score can then be uploaded to a global leaderboard on Live. For instance, with Chilla (the snow guy with huge spikes), I had picked up 3 Orcs and slammed them onto the spikes on my back. I picked up another and started using him as a baseball bat beating off hordes of other Orcs. Once the baseball bat Orc served his purpose (died) I picked the Orcs off my back and tossed them around. I tossed one into a group of enemies and watched them all fall down like bowling pins. Everything has underlying physics on it, and behaves appropriately. The more carnage you can cause the better, and if you do well enough you enter a “warrior focus” mode in which time slows down allowing you to really combo up things fast between elemental forms.

You can find the full preview in our forums.

This game really shocked me. I've never been a huge fan of the action adventure genre. I've played my fair share of titles, but very few grab me the way Kameo did.

And on the Xbox 360:

NOTE: As above, the rest is HERE.

Yesterday I got to spend some quality time with the XBox 360 console and a bunch of games. I'll be posting up a bunch of articles on the event and the titles. First up is impressions of the system itself and XBox Live Arcade.

You can find the article in our forums.

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All Live arcade titles are in 1080i. Some of the original titles are really sharp looking with bright color and smooth animations with fast and furious action. There’s a title from Bizarre Creations called Geometry Wars. Think Tempest meets Asteroids meets Smash TV. It’s a blast to play and looks amazing. I honestly couldn’t put the damn game down. There’s a puzzle game from the creator of Tetris called Hexic HD. This will be included free with the system.

The whole event was just surreal. I can't thank Microsoft enough for allowing me the opportunity to attend the event.

(I'm drunk now, Poland : England 1:1 in the World Cup Eliminations, 76th minute, DO BOOOOOOOOOOJU POOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLSKA!!!!)

 

[GashPrex]

seems like ms did these mini-shows right

 

[littlewig]

GO POLAND!!!!!!

 

[Borys]

GO POLAND!!!!!!

England scored. It's 2:1 for them now

 

[shpankey]

I guarantee you, Kameo is going to be the IT title when x360 comes out.

 

[bitwise]

had picked up 3 Orcs and slammed them onto the spikes on my back. I picked up another and started using him as a baseball bat beating off hordes of other Orcs. Once the baseball bat Orc served his purpose (died) I picked the Orcs off my back and tossed them around. I tossed one into a group of enemies and watched them all fall down like bowling pins.

<3

 

[SuperPac]

I guarantee you, Kameo is going to be the IT title when x360 comes out.

But it's going to sell the least of the three MGS launch titles. Bank on that.

 

[radrelic]

All in all Perfect Dark Zero seems like the kind of game you play through once and that’s it.

but.... but... Che said it was a killer app ...

most confusing game EVAR

roller coaster....

 

[Dave Long]

heh... that description of Kameo, combined with this article about how Microsoft is making games more for women, families, etc. is just hilarious!

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/11/technology/11soft.html

From the NYT article...

The Pepsi promotion "also hits moms," Mr. Nielsen said, because "moms make a lot of the final decisions" on whether the family buys a new game console.

Microsoft will also try to showcase more family-oriented games that can be played on the 360. The Xbox has long depended on the popularity of games like Halo, the hit shooting game, for console sales. But with the new machine, it will promote games like Kameo, an action-adventure game for young teenagers, including girls.

Then you have this...

For instance, with Chilla (the snow guy with huge spikes), I had picked up 3 Orcs and slammed them onto the spikes on my back. I picked up another and started using him as a baseball bat beating off hordes of other Orcs. Once the baseball bat Orc served his purpose (died) I picked the Orcs off my back and tossed them around. I tossed one into a group of enemies and watched them all fall down like bowling pins

Girls will love it!! :lol :lol :lol

 

[bitwise]

girls are evil. thats probably going to be my little sisters favorite part. :lol

 

[madara]

heh... that description of Kameo, combined with this article about how Microsoft is making games more for women, families, etc. is just hilarious!

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/11/technology/11soft.html

From the NYT article...



Then you have this...



Girls will love it!! :lol :lol :lol

Haha! As long as they dont do that to next Banjo and Kazooie. That was one of main problems with second one.