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XBOX 360 in EDGE.

Pug

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The cover is Zelda no mention of 360 and the outer envelope it comes is is also Zelda with a small white sticker saying Xbox 360 exclusive. Seems a last minute job to me. Funny thing is the 360 unveiling is 8 pages long. The only screens they have are Kameo and they have been seen online. The article is really well balanced taking all Allards and Bachs PR and spin with a pinch of salt. The things that stick out the 20GB HD is standard for all machine and is as intergral as it was in the Xbox. A really interetsing a good idea is that MS is looking to provide XBOX 360 prefrences which once setup automatically load into new games. So say you have a defalt pad setup for halo that you always use in FPS well in a new game these prefrences are automatically loaded. As for Edge there view is summed up in the last paragraph " MS inteneds to overtake Sony this generation. Its a bold statement-not least because however much Bach wants to take the emphasis off components theres no getting away from the fact that the most important part of Sonys new console will be the bit on the front thats says Playstation. But with a head start, an agressive timetable, a mainstrem friendly vision and a bedrock of gaming credibility, the 360 is unquestionably going to dent Sonys dominancne. And its hard not to feel that gaming will never be the same again."

By the way the Zelda article is big to I'm half way through it. One big disspointment for me though is the visuals well in still form anyway. Seems like they've gone back to big open enviroments with open ended gameplay.
 
Yep but this wasn't a supplemment, although there was one this month about woking in the games industry.
 
Pug said:
Yep but this wasn't a supplemment, although there was one this month about woking in the games industry.

Their Get Into Games supplement from 1999 made me join the games biz.

In twenty or thirty years' time, I may look back and forgive Edge.
 
I cna only imagine D2M15, I have a fair few friends both designers and Jorno's all of whom share your sentiments.
 
Now that's funny D2M15... the same suplement made me fly over to Vancouver BC to attend Digipen for a couple of years...
 
There are not a lot of new info, but it is a very nicely written feature that really gives you a sense of what Aonuma is like. He wanted to move on from Zelda, for example, and he really admires RE4. The two stage horseback boss fight, which is likely to be at E3, sounds awesome. Edge is concerned that the fields are too vast and featureless like WW's oceans, but overall they're positive about it and it seems to confirm the animal/wolf morphing theme in the game.
 
There's a huge article on 360 in the latest Play, too. The one with Tomb Raider on the cover.

Pictures of the system, game screens, interviews...I was kind of suprised since the official announcement was what - this week?
 
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