Xbox 360 - It's Here & It's On
Our detailed impressions and obligatory photo overload is here, as Kikizo's Xbox 360s arrive. Has it really been worth all the hype? Let's see, in our definitive feature.
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The first thing you need to do before using the console properly is sync your wireless controller to the Xbox 360 unit. It takes a little while at first but basically, pressing the big X start button on the controller sets the process going. The lights on the main machine's power button flash around to assign you as Player 1, and the "top left" portion of the "ring of light" will remain evident on both the console and your controller.
Additional players will also have to sync their controllers, and get the next part of the circle. It's pretty cool, and so much better than plugging leads in everywhere. You can actually walk around playing the game, and even avoid those tricky "tripping on controller lead causes console to fall in fishbowl!" type incidents (you know who you are).
The controllers themselves are likewise wonderfully built, and ever since E3, have been pretty unanimously regarded as the best console controller ever made. An extremely solid feel, perfectly placed buttons with the right level of resistance and perfect thumbstick spring-back, superb triggers (both the main analogue triggers and the clicky ones (LB and RB, placed just above) feel almost perfect, although sometimes it's easy to press them when you don't really mean to (try Xbox 1 Ninja Gaiden on Xbox 360 and you'll see what we mean with a menu coming up when you don't want it to!) but the whole unit is comfortable to hold with good ergonomic shape and grip, and of course, it's compact and classy. The wireless controllers also rumble pretty decently considering they're battery powered, and they auto power-off after a period of inactivity, which is a good battery-saving feature, regardless of whether you're using the AA battery pack or the rechargeable battery pack - and a simple press of the controller's 'X' on-button means you're back in action.
The Xbox 360 then asks you about the basic settings for your machine. Username, language, time zone, display aspect ratio and resolution. These options cal all be revisited again in the System tab. The output options are pretty good; you can obviously select between normal and widescreen aspect ratios, and separately define what resolution you'd like if you're HDTV-ready - either 480p, 720p and 1080i. On this PAL machine, vitally, you can also choose between PAL-50 or PAL-60.
However, as with the original Xbox systems, it would be nice if this retail machine offered the more expansive and advanced options that the debug system affords industry users, for example being able to freely select NTSC signal for some reason, other resolutions, and well, OK, you wouldn't be able to select Game or DVD regions like you can in the debug, but we can still dream...
The front end is clean, concise, easy to navigate and very easy on the eye. Four main colour-coded sections are the basis for your fiddlings; Xbox Live (orange), Games (blue), Media (green) and System (purple). A subtle moving effect seen in the background, visible in many of the video snippets we've brought you in past Xbox 360 video features, complements the complete feel of this comprehensive Guide through Xbox 360.
One central component of the front end is your Profile, which comprises your Reputation score, Gamerscore, and also your ability Zone - i.e. if you're want to say you're a 'Pro' you'll get tougher opponents and 'Family' will give you, presumably, crapper players to play against.
The newly revamped Xbox Live is even more integral to 360's front end than before. You automatically sign in and the whole system really does feel (just like they promised) that it revolves around 'you' and your online profile. You can check your messages, add friends to your friends list, and more importantly, get down to the Xbox Live Marketplace - the best new thing about Live that enables you to download playable demos, trailers, and customisable backgrounds based on different games for your front-end's theme. This stuff costs money though, but using a very fairly priced "Microsoft Points" system allows you to top up on credits and spend on all this junk at will. A great value proposition, and there's some cool stuff in here that the IP owners (both first- and thirdparty) are bound to love the spin-off revenue from.
Now we've had the chance to test it all, we know it works really well. Unlike a PC user experience, this is all relatively foolproof. We downloaded a 500MB demo of the new NBA LIVE in a few minutes; you just fire it up with a single click, and you're away. Seamless, easy, and great to see what titles you might want to buy. You can easily check out your Download History, Featured Downloads, and more. We'd like to see a few more playable demos available for launch, but of course, that's all maybe still to be added, with a few days still to go until consumers get their new Xboxes (unlike us, did we mention we have one already?).
And because Live is so much more intimidatingly central to the Xbox 360 front-end, it doesn't seem all that far-fetched that Microsoft aims to get the majority of 360 users subscribed to Live. With a month's free trial in the box, good pricing options for beyond the first month, and considering how easy and rewarding it all is, it's surely just going to be a no-brainer for anyone with a credit card.
The Games tab does pretty much what you'd expect; as well as accessing data on your Achievements in various Xbox 360 titles you've played, you access your current game from here, and can also get to the promising Xbox Live Arcade option, which will offers tonnes of simpler (but highly addictive) titles for you to waste time on against other Live users.
What about the Media playing aspect of Xbox 360? We've had very mixed feeling so far, to be quite blunt. While everything that works, works very well, it doesn't let you do the things you really want to do, and which you can already do on your chipped Xbox 1 (or your laptop, which for now, will have to remain the hub of our digital lifestyle). Firstly, regarding music playback, this is all pretty much fine; you can listen to music stored on the Xbox 360's own hard disc (with a selection of music pre-loaded for you o test out), and you can also connect any music device to one of the 360's three USB ports and play music off of there. You also have the option to stream music from your PC via direct Ethernet cable connection, or by hooking up the 360's wireless adapter, which attaches to the back of the 360 console and plugs into the console's conveniently located rear USB port. Whether or not you actually get it to work is another matter...
Here's where we started to have problems. Firstly, it wasn't particularly easy took get our Xbox 360 to talk to our PC in the first place, and it took some time to get things working. In the end, we got it working via the Ethernet cable connection, and then you have to install Windows Media Connect (which works on Windows XP Service Pack 2 or higher) in order to hopefully start streaming music to the Xbox 360. Widows Media Connect is a small download (available here) and easy enough to get going, but for some reason our 360 didn't get its ass in gear very quickly in welcoming aboard the PC connection, even though all the settings on the PC's WMC were apparently sorted out properly. This is the sort of inconvenience that PC users will deal with all day with software, but which console users might just give up with after five minutes of trying. Update: Microsoft has also released an Xbox 360 setup tool for your PC here).
The next issue is that we can't get anything wireless working for love nor money - you have to disconnect the Ethernet cable so that the wireless adapter to becomes the primary communicator, which is fine. But then, things seem to be in a world of their own. There is an option on your PC to automatically export all network settings data to a USB device and then transfer these settings to 360 via USB, making everything just work magically - supposedly. Well, erm, we've tried, and it's still not working. So we'll have to get the Microsoft techies on the case at some point, because everyone knows that no wires is better than stupid silly wires.
The next gripe is that you can't copy any music to your 360 via these streaming channels. The only way we can see to do this is by actually taking an original music CD inserted into the 360 and ripping the music in the same way you'd do with Windows Media Player 10 or the first Xbox. Insert an audio CD, and mercifully, it auto-detects and starts playing, and then you can easily rip away. But why not through these other devices? It should just let us do what we want!
On the plus side, the 360's intelligent playlist creation and browsing system is pretty good, automatically creating lists of tunes based on genre and so on, if the files are tagged accordingly. Also, the visualisation software, designed by Jeff Minter, creates really funky images while music it's playing and is probably the best consumer-level visualisation thingy ever made. Not that we've ever seen many apart from those in WMP, but it's probably the best ever, regardless. It goes with the music really well and you can spin stuff around with the thumsticks - cool.
Otherwise though, the music, photo and video viewing tools are very basic, and will not satisfy users of something like even older versions of Windows Media Player for the PC. You don't appear to be able to fast forward videos that are on the hard disc. You can't zoom on photos for crying out loud. And the music playing options are also limited - again, not even a fast forward option. Pretty weak - and something MS should definitely consider upgrading via Xbox Live if possible.
Video Coverage (Latest Videos & Video FAQ) | |||
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Description | Dur. | Size | Details |
Direct Feed Xbox 360 Videos: | |||
Project Gotham Racing 3 HD Las Vegas Gotham TV |
1.02m | 27MB | HD, 60, DF 800x448 4Mbps |
Gears of War Gameplay |
0.52m | 19MB | HD, 30, DF 800x448 3.5Mbps |
Perfect Dark Zero Cut scene, no audio |
1.02m | 21MB | HD, 30, DF 800x448 3.5Mbps |
Kameo Gameplay |
1.04m | 24MB | HD, 30, DF 800x448 3.5Mbps |
Call of Duty 2 Gameplay |
1.02m | 23MB | HD, 30, DF 800x448 3.5Mbps |
Full Auto Gameplay |
1.08m | 26MB | HD, 30, DF 800x448 3.5Mbps |
Moto GP 2006 Gameplay |
1.02m | 30MB | HD, 60, DF 800x448 3.5Mbps |
Hi-Quality Xbox 360 Videos: | |||
Dead or Alive 4 Gameplay video blowout! |
10 vids | N/A | HD, 60, CAM 800x448 3.5Mbps |
Project Gotham Racing 3 Gameplay video blowout! |
10 vids | N/A | HD, 30, CAM 800x448 3.5Mbps |
Perfect Dark Zero Gameplay video blowout! |
4 vids | N/A | HD, 30, CAM 800x448 3.5Mbps |
Splinter Cell 4 Teaser trailer (hi quality) |
0.54m | 21MB | HD, 60, CAM 800x448 3.5Mbps |
Gears of War Gameplay video X05 (hi quality) |
3.05m | 68MB | HD, 30, CAM 800x448 3.5Mbps |
Gears of War New trailer (hi quality) |
1.01m | 24MB | HD, 30, CAM 800x448 3.5Mbps |
Too Human (Silicon Knights) New trailer (hi quality) |
1.24m | 30MB | HD, 60, CAM 800x448 3.5Mbps |
Mass Effect (BioWare) Teaser trailer (hi quality) |
1.09m | 27MB | HD, 60, CAM 800x448 3.5Mbps |
Crackdown Announcement trailer (hi quality) |
1.46m | 38MB | HD, 30, CAM 800x448 3.5Mbps |
King Kong Xbox 360 trailer (hi quality) |
1.32m | 33MB | HD, 30, CAM 800x448 3.5Mbps |
Kameo Newest trailer (hi quality) |
1.32m | 33MB | HD, 30, CAM 800x448 3.5Mbps |
Call of Duty 2 Gameplay video (hi quality) |
3.51m | 96MB | HD, 30, CAM 800x448 3.5Mbps |
FIFA 06 Newest trailer (hi quality) |
0.58m | 20MB | HD, 30, CAM 800x448 3.5Mbps |
Tomb Raider Legend Xbox 360 teaser trailer (hi quality) |
0.39m | 13MB | HD, 30, CAM 800x448 3.5Mbps |
Wolfenstein Next-Gen Announcement video (hi quality) |
1.34m | 34MB | HD, 30, CAM 800x448 3.5Mbps |
GUN Law and Order trailer (normal quality) |
2.32m | 20MB | SD, 30, DF 640x360 1Mbps |
EA: Xbox 360 Line-Up Line-up videos (hi quality) |
1.11m | 28MB | HD, 60, CAM 800x448 3.5Mbps |
Xbox 360: The Complete Line-Up Line-up videos (hi quality) |
3.22m | 84MB | HD, 60, CAM 800x448 3.5Mbps |
Previous Xbox 360 Videos | |||
ChromeHounds Trailer cam (hi quality) |
2.31m | 67MB | HD, 60 800x448 4Mbps |
Sonic the Hedgehog Realtime in-game gameplay footage demonstrated by Yuji Naka (hi quality) |
5.08m | 140MB | HD, 60 800x448 4Mbps |
Sonic the Hedgehog The full trailer (hi quality) |
2.22m | 64MB | HD, 60 800x448 4Mbps |
Virtua Fighter 5 Stunning hi-res version of the announcement trailer showing all the characters including the newcomers (hi quality) |
1.06m | 30MB | HD, 60 800x448 4Mbps |
Ridge Racer 6 Gameplay footage 1 (hi quality) |
0.45m | 16MB | HD, 60 800x448 4Mbps |
Ridge Racer 6 Gameplay footage 2 (hi quality) |
1.24m | 32MB | HD, 60 800x448 4Mbps |
Ridge Racer 6 Gameplay footage 3 (hi quality) |
1.08m | 26MB | HD, 60 800x448 4Mbps |
Rumble Roses XX Teaser trailer (hi quality) |
0.44m | 7.9MB | SD, 30 640x480 1.5Mbps |
Quake 4 New trailer (hi quality) |
1.15m | 20MB | HD, 30 640x360 2.5Mbps |
Prey New trailer (hi quality) |
1.07m | 17.MB | SD, 30 640x480 2.5Mbps |
Prey Trailer HD (2K Games) |
11.21m | 171MB | DF, HD, 30 640x480 2Mbps |
Ninety-Nine Nights First trailer (standard quality) |
1.22m | 18.4MB | SD, 30 640x360 2.5Mbps |
Resident Evil 5 Teaser trailer (hi quality) |
28.34m | 181MB | SD, 30 640x480 1Mbps |
GUN: Official Trailer High quality (Activision) |
1.28m | 28.3MB | DF, HD, 30 640x480 3Mbps |
Gears of War Trailer HD (Microsoft) |
1.25m | 30MB | DF, HD, 60 640x480 3Mbps |
Gears of War Trailer SD (Microsoft) |
1.25m | 19MB | DF, SD, 30 640x480 2Mbps |
Gears of War Gameplay footage HD (Microsoft) |
0.19m | 7MB | DF, HD, 60 640x480 3.5Mbps |
Gears of War Gameplay footage SD (Microsoft) |
0.19m | 5MB | DF, SD, 30 640x480 2.5Mbps |
Perfect Dark Zero Teaser footage HD (Microsoft) |
0.12m | 4MB | DF, HD, 60 640x480 3.5Mbps |
Perfect Dark Zero Teaser footage SD (Microsoft) |
0.12m | 2MB | DF, SD, 30 640x480 2Mbps |
Project Gotham Racing 3 Trailer HD (Microsoft) |
0.56m | 21MB | DF, HD, 60 640x480 4Mbps |
Project Gotham Racing 3 Trailer SD footage (Microsoft) |
0.56m | 11MB | DF, SD, 30 640x480 2Mbps |
Project Gotham Racing 3 Gameplay footage HD (Microsoft) |
0.19m | 8MB | DF, HD, 60 640x480 4Mbps |
Project Gotham Racing 3 Gameplay footage SD (Microsoft) |
0.19m | 5MB | DF, SD, 30 640x480 2.5Mbps |
Kameo: Elements of Power Trailer HD (Microsoft) |
1.13m | 24MB | DF, HD, 60 640x480 3Mbps |
Kameo: Elements of Power Trailer SD (Microsoft) |
1.13m | 16MB | DF, SD, 30 640x480 2Mbps |
Kameo: Elements of Power Trailer HD, same version with better sound and slightly better video (Microsoft) |
1.03m | 22MB | DF, HD, 60 640x480 3Mbps |
Kameo: Elements of Power Gameplay footage (Microsoft) |
0.19m | 3MB | DF, SD, 30 640x480 1.5Mbps |
Lost Odyssey Trailer HD (Microsoft) |
1.31m | 33MB | DF, HD, 60 640x480 3Mbps |
Lost Odyssey Trailer SD (Microsoft) |
1.31m | 22MB | DF, SD, 30 640x480 2Mbps |
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Trailer HD (Microsoft) |
1.36m | 34MB | DF, HD, 60 640x480 3Mbps |
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Trailer SD (Microsoft) |
1.36m | 22MB | DF, SD, 30 640x480 2Mbps |
NBA 2K6 Gameplay footage 1 HD (Microsoft) |
1.16m | 23MB | DF, HD, 60 640x480 3Mbps |
NBA 2K6 Gameplay footage 1 SD (Microsoft) |
1.16m | 15MB | DF, SD, 30 640x480 2Mbps |
NBA 2K6 Gameplay footage 2 HD (Microsoft) |
0.34m | 19MB | DF, HD, 60 640x480 3Mbps |
NBA 2K6 Gameplay footage 2 SD (Microsoft) |
0.53m | 12MB | DF, SD, 30 640x480 2Mbps |
NHL 2K6 Gameplay footage HD (Microsoft) |
1.22m | 24MB | DF, HD, 60 640x480 3Mbps |
NHL 2K6 Gameplay footage SD (Microsoft) |
1.22m | 16MB | DF, SD, 30 640x480 2Mbps |
Dead or Alive 4 Full trailer HD (Tecmo) |
5.03m | 128MB | DF, HD, 60 640x480 3.5Mbps |
Dead or Alive 4 Full trailer SD (Tecmo) |
5.03m | 91MB | DF, SD, 30 640x480 2.5Mbps |
Quake IV Extended trailer 1 HD (Activision) |
2.23m | 48MB | DF, HD, 60 640x480 3Mbps |
Quake IV Extended trailer 1 SD (Activision) |
2.23m | 31MB | DF, SD, 30 640x480 2Mbps |
Quake IV Trailer 2 (Activision) |
0.18m | 4MB | DF, SD, 30 640x480 2.5Mbps |
Ghost Recon 3 Full Trailer HD (Ubisoft) |
1.34m | 30MB | DF, HD, 60 640x480 3Mbps |
Ghost Recon 3 Full Trailer SD (Ubisoft) |
1.34m | 20MB | DF, SD, 30 640x480 2Mbps |
Ghost Recon 3 Full Trailer HD, same version with better sound and slightly better video (Ubisoft) |
1.28m | 31MB | DF, HD, 60 640x480 3Mbps |
Ghost Recon 3 Gameplay footage HD (Ubisoft) |
0.18m | 7MB | DF, HD, 60 640x480 3.5Mbps |
Ghost Recon 3 Gameplay footage SD (Ubisoft) |
0.18m | 5MB | DF, SD, 30 640x480 2.5Mbps |
Condemned Gameplay footage 1 HD (Sega) |
1.04m | 18MB | DF, HD, 60 640x480 3Mbps |
Condemned Gameplay footage 1 SD (Sega) |
1.04m | 12MB | DF, SD, 30 640x480 2Mbps |
Condemned Extended Gameplay footage (Sega) |
5.24m | 96MB | DF, SD, 30 640x480 2.5Mbps |
Dead Rising Trailer - Kenji Inafune's latest HD (Capcom) |
1.33m | 28MB | DF, HD, 60 640x480 3Mbps |
Dead Rising Trailer - Kenji Inafune's latest SD (Capcom) |
1.33m | 18MB | DF, SD, 30 640x480 2Mbps |
The Darkness Extended trailer 1 HD (Majesco) |
1.31m | 27MB | DF, HD, 60 640x480 3Mbps |
The Darkness Extended trailer 1 SD (Majesco) |
1.31m | 18MB | DF, SD, 30 640x480 2Mbps |
The Darkness Trailer 2 HD (Majesco) |
0.18m | 6MB | DF, HD, 60 640x480 3.5Mbps |
The Darkness Trailer 2 SD (Majesco) |
0.18m | 4MB | DF, SD, 30 640x480 2Mbps |
Full Auto Trailer 1 HD (Sega) |
1.09m | 23MB | DF, HD, 60 640x480 3Mbps |
Full Auto Trailer 1 SD (Sega) |
1.09m | 15MB | DF, SD, 30 640x480 2Mbps |
Full Auto Extended gameplay footage (Sega) |
4.33m | 84MB | DF, SD, 30 640x480 2.5Mbps |
Frame City Killer Trailer HD (Namco) |
1.37m | 29MB | DF, HD, 60 640x480 3Mbps |
Frame City Killer Trailer SD (Namco) |
1.37m | 19MB | DF, SD, 30 640x480 2Mbps |
Frame City Killer Gameplay footage HD (Namco) |
2.41m | 75MB | DF, HD, 60 640x480 4Mbps |
Frame City Killer Gameplay footage SD (Namco) |
2.14m | 48MB | DF, SD, 30 640x480 2.5Mbps |
Test Drive: Unlimited Trailer HD (Atari) |
1.45m | 33MB | DF, HD, 60 640x480 3Mbps |
Test Drive: Unlimited Trailer SD (Atari) |
1.45m | 22MB | DF, SD, 30 640x480 2Mbps |
Final Fantasy XI Trailer HD (Square Enix) |
1.40m | 29MB | DF, HD, 60 640x480 3Mbps |
Final Fantasy XI Trailer SD (Square Enix) |
1.40m | 20MB | DF, SD, 30 640x480 2Mbps |
Square Enix Xbox 360 Demo Full Demonstration HD (Square Enix) |
0.44m | 17MB | DF, HD, 60 640x480 3.5Mbps |
Square Enix Xbox 360 Demo Full Demonstration SD (Square Enix) |
0.44m | 10MB | DF, SD, 30 640x480 2Mbps |
Call of Duty 2 Trailer 1 HD (Ubisoft) |
1.43m | 34MB | DF, HD, 60 640x480 3Mbps |
Call of Duty 2 Trailer 1 SD (Ubisoft) |
1.43m | 22MB | DF, SD, 30 640x480 2Mbps |
Call of Duty 2 Gameplay footage 1 (Ubisoft) |
0.19m | 5MB | DF, SD, 30 640x480 2.5Mbps |
Call of Duty 2 Gameplay footage 2 (Ubisoft) |
1.24m | 14MB | DF, SD, 30 640x480 1.5Mbps |
Demonik Trailer HD (Majesco) |
1.12m | 22MB | DF, HD, 60 640x480 3Mbps |
Demonik Trailer SD (Majesco) |
1.12m | 15MB | DF, SD, 30 640x480 2Mbps |
EA Xbox 360 Game Line-Up 1 Extended Game Montage 1 HD - with Need for Speed: Most Wanted, Madden 06, NBA 06, NBA Live 06, Tiger Woods PGA Tour 06 and FIFA 06. (EA) |
1.50m | 37MB | DF, HD, 60 640x480 3Mbps |
EA Xbox 360 Game Line-Up 1 Extended Game Montage 1 SD (EA) |
1.50m | 24MB | DF, SD, 30 640x480 2Mbps |
EA Xbox 360 Game Line-Up 2 Game Montage 2 HD - similar to the first montage but a but shorter, better motion and sound (EA) |
1.28m | 39MB | DF, HD, 60 640x480 4Mbps |
EA Xbox 360 Game Line-Up 2 Game Montage 2 SD (EA) |
1.28m | 20MB | DF, SD, 30 640x480 2Mbps |
Madden NFL 06 Gameplay footage HD (EA) |
0.17m | 6MB | DF, HD, 60 640x480 4Mbps |
Madden NFL 06 Gameplay footage SD (EA) |
0.17m | 4MB | DF, SD, 30 640x480 2.5Mbps |
Madden NFL 06 Trailer 1 HD (EA) |
1.00m | 19MB | DF, HD, 60 640x480 3Mbps |
Madden NFL 06 Trailer 1 SD (EA) |
1.00m | 13MB | DF, SD, 30 640x480 2Mbps |
Need for Speed: Most Wanted Gameplay footage 1 HD (EA) |
1.36m | 37MB | DF, HD, 60 640x480 3.5Mbps |
Need for Speed: Most Wanted Gameplay footage 1 SD (EA) |
1.36m | 22MB | DF, SD, 30 640x480 2Mbps |
Need for Speed: Most Wanted Gameplay footage 2, no sound HD (EA) |
0.19m | 7MB | DF, HD, 60 640x480 4Mbps |
Need for Speed: Most Wanted Gameplay footage 2, no sound, SD (EA) |
0.19m | 4MB | DF, SD, 30 640x480 2.5Mbps |
Saint's Row Trailer 1 HD (THQ) |
2.04m | 43MB | DF, HD, 60 640x480 3Mbps |
Saint's Row Trailer 1 SD (THQ) |
2.04m | 28MB | DF, SD, 30 640x480 2Mbps |
Saint's Row Gameplay footage (THQ) |
0.19m | 4MB | DF, SD, 30 640x480 2.5Mbps |
Tiger Woods PGA Tour 06 Gameplay footage HD (EA) |
0.13m | 5MB | DF, HD, 60 640x480 4Mbps |
Tiger Woods PGA Tour 06 Gameplay footage SD (EA) |
0.13m | 3MB | DF, SD, 30 640x480 2Mbps |
Robbie Bach Video Interview Extensive video interview with Xbox's top man, on many Xbox 360 topics, including "approachability", world-wide launch factors, the launch price, shortages, all aspects of the hardware, how Xbox strategy has indeed evolved, market leadership timeframe and Xbox in 15 years. |
26.34m | 195MB | SD, 25 640x480 1Mbps |
J Allard Video Interview Kikizo talks to the face of Xbox 360 about deliberate leaks, expanding the audience, graphical quality, changing Xbox politics, the pre-rendered fiasco, Halo 3, managing a team of 20,000 and the future of Xbox. |
11.55m | 95MB | SD, 30 640x480 1Mbps |
"Checkmate" - Microsoft Bosses Bonus footage from Xbox conference with Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer (Microsoft) |
2.14m | 22MB | CAM, SD, 30 640x480 1.5Mbps |
Xbox 360 Game Line-Up Montage HD including Quake 4, Kameo, Test Drive Unlimited, Call of Duty 2, The Darkness, Madden NFL 06, Project Gotham Racing 3, Gears of War, NBA Live 06, Frame City Killer, Ghost Recon 3, Top Spin 2, Need for Speed Most Wanted, Dead Rising, Condemned, FIFA 06, Oblivion, Full Auto, The Outfit, NBA 2K6, Saint's Row, Perfect Dark Zero, NHL 2K6 and Ninety Nine Nights. (Microsoft) |
3.04m | 87MB | DF, HD, 60 640x480 4Mbps |
Xbox 360 Game Line-Up As above, SD (Microsoft) |
3.04m | 44MB | DF, SD, 30 640x480 2Mbps |
Xbox 360: In Depth Video Feature Over five minutes of gaming sex. Includes J Allard, Peter Moore, Jonathan Hayes - the guy responsible for the wonderfully sleek console design. Watch this NOW. (640x480, 1.4Mbps) |
6.41m | 73.5 MB | DF, SD, 30 640x480 1.5Mbps |
Xbox 360 Unveiled: Official Video You're "in control", apparently. See J looking cool! (640x480, 1.4Mbps) |
5.53m | 42.5 MB | DF, SD, 30 640x480 1.5Mbps |
Satoru Iwata Video Interview - the late Nintendo president spoke with Kikizo in 2004 as 'Nintendo Revolution' loomed.
Kaz Hirai Video Interview - the first of Kikizo's interviews with the man who went on to become global head of Sony.
Ed Fries Video Interview - one of Xbox's founders discusses an epic journey from Excel to Xbox.
Yu Suzuki, the Kikizo Interview - we spend time with one of gaming's most revered creators.
Tetris - The Making of an Icon: Alexey Pajitnov and Henk Rogers reveal the fascinating story behind Tetris
Rare founders, Chris and Tim Stamper - their only interview? Genuinely 'rare' sit down with founders of the legendary studio.
The History of First-Person Shooters - a retrospective, from Maze War to Modern Warfare