Xbox Live Arcade and Marketplace Thread # 2

Teal · Post by **Teal** » Fri Nov 02, 2007 5:47 pm

Murph wrote:Americas Army: True Soldiers demo now available to download on XBL.

That was...underwhelming...

JackB1 · Post by **JackB1** » Mon Nov 05, 2007 12:56 pm

sportdan30 wrote:Scene It demo is up.

By the way, I love the new pinball table. Murph looks to be holding the high score thus far.

Just purchased Pinball FX and am really enjoying it. My favorite tables
are Bucaneer and Agent. The graphics and sounds are great. I used to play the old Empire Pinball games on the PC and these table are right up there with Empire's.

What camera views are you guys using. I can't settle between #1, #3 and #5. It's too bad we can turn our widescreen's vertical

That would make for great pinball!

Teal · Post by **Teal** » Wed Nov 14, 2007 8:39 am

New Fall update will include Xbox 1 games in the Marketplace: among them are Halo, and my personal favorite...Crimson Skies!

Getting some old school Crimson Skies going again in MP would be killer-I loved that game!

warnerwlf98 · Post by **warnerwlf98** » Wed Nov 14, 2007 11:27 am

[quote="JackB1

It's too bad we can turn our widescreen's vertical

That would make for great pinball![/quote]

Don't you know it!

Murph · Post by **Murph** » Tue Nov 20, 2007 9:51 am

Just noticed that CHoops 2K8 (360) demo is finally out.

JackB1 · Post by **JackB1** » Tue Nov 20, 2007 11:36 pm

The Mx vs ATV Unleashed (Is that the title?) demo is out.

Tried this demo last night. Not too impressed. Feels like the same old
mx vs atv games we've seem the past 5 years. The graphics are OK but they dont seem "sharp" to me. I don't really notice any visual upgrade from the last several games. Same floaty physics. You can make insane jumps where it takes like 5 seconds to come down.

I really wish someone would make a decent MX 360 game. Something like MotoGP 07 on dirt. Codemasters....PLEASE make a MX game!!!

Murph · Post by **Murph** » Thu Dec 13, 2007 3:41 pm

2 new demos up:

Burnout Paradise (Racing)
Frontlines: Fuel of War (Shooter)

10spro · Post by **10spro** » Fri Jan 04, 2008 2:11 am

MS is to offer a free XBLA game as compensation for the recent downtime. I guess it's better than nothing.

JackB1 · Post by **JackB1** » Fri Jan 04, 2008 11:42 am

10spro wrote:MS is to offer a free XBLA game as compensation for the recent downtime. I guess it's better than nothing.

How do u go about claiming one?

10spro · Post by **10spro** » Fri Jan 04, 2008 12:50 pm

JackB1 wrote:
10spro wrote:MS is to offer a free XBLA game as compensation for the recent downtime. I guess it's better than nothing.
How do u go about claiming one?

Details to come but this is what a GM from XBL said:

'At the same time we would like to offer a token of our appreciation to all of you in celebration of record success for the service. And as a thank you for your loyalty during this holiday period, we will be offering all of our Xbox LIVE members around the world access to a full Xbox LIVE Arcade game that will be available to download free of charge. In the coming weeks we will be sharing the specific details of this offer with you.

Thank you again for helping make Xbox LIVE everything that it is today'.

XXXIV · Post by **XXXIV** » Fri Jan 04, 2008 5:41 pm

10spro wrote:MS is to offer a free XBLA game as compensation for the recent downtime. I guess it's better than nothing.

Sounds sweet. That is if we are able to pick the game...If they just stick us with some stupid game then not so sweet.

JRod · Post by **JRod** » Fri Jan 04, 2008 5:59 pm

They'll probably stick us with Space Giraffe.

Gurantsu · Post by **Gurantsu** » Sat Jan 05, 2008 9:20 am

Just give us 500 points so we can get more songs for RockBand!

XXXIV · Post by **XXXIV** » Sat Jan 05, 2008 11:25 am

Gurantsu wrote:Just give us 500 points so we can get more songs for RockBand!

Now that would rock...

dbdynsty25 · Post by **dbdynsty25** » Sat Jan 05, 2008 1:40 pm

Frontline - Fuel of War = BADASS

Played it for a while last night and it's a blast. Controlling drone helicopters that can fly through buildings and tear sh*t up is a damn good time. LOL.

Teal · Post by **Teal** » Sat Jan 05, 2008 8:18 pm

dbdynsty25 wrote:Frontline - Fuel of War = BADASS

Played it for a while last night and it's a blast. Controlling drone helicopters that can fly through buildings and tear sh*t up is a damn good time. LOL.

Yeah, I didn't post in about this demo before, but I agree. Some new stuff that's definitely cool. Wish the AI was a little smarter, but can really see some great potential for a great MP game...

XXXIV · Post by **XXXIV** » Wed Jan 09, 2008 8:08 pm

Wow!! I never noticed how much Tron sucked til I played the arcade demo...

Speaking of suck...Downloads speeds are back to being as slow as they were when I got My first 360.

WillHunting · Post by **WillHunting** » Wed Jan 09, 2008 11:55 pm

I never liked Tron... but man oh man, Omega Five is the shizzz. It is like an update to Forgotten Worlds (old Capcom shooter). If you like shmups, get this game now!

Danimal · Post by **Danimal** » Fri Jan 18, 2008 5:04 pm

Free game is Undertow

P.S. i really wish you would sticky this and the psn threads.

Teal · Post by **Teal** » Fri Jan 18, 2008 5:17 pm

Pinball F/X has a new table...a haunted mansion sort of thing. It's fun, and has great music...

Spooky · Post by **Spooky** » Fri Jan 18, 2008 5:37 pm

Danimal wrote:Free game is Undertow

P.S. i really wish you would sticky this and the psn threads.

Free for who and for how long? I thought this game looked really neat.

Danimal · Post by **Danimal** » Fri Jan 18, 2008 6:30 pm

It's free all next week and I assume for Gold members. It's the promised free game for the service problems.

Found the link

http://gamerscoreblog.com/team/archive/ ... harge.aspx

Post by **ScoopBrady** » Mon Jan 28, 2008 2:10 pm

This week will see Rez and Chessmaster for 800 points each.

http://www.majornelson.com/archive/2008 ... -live.aspx

Slumberland · Post by **Slumberland** » Mon Jan 28, 2008 2:29 pm

omg Undertow is SO, SO LAME. I know it's a bit de rigeur to bash it, but seriously. Why would anyone want to play a 2D version of Battlefield where everything's too damn small to see what the f*ck's even happening. Not the best use of Arcade, and clearly a form of compensation that MS was only too happy to part with.

WillHunting · Post by **WillHunting** » Mon Jan 28, 2008 2:34 pm

Slumberland wrote:omg Undertow is SO, SO LAME. I know it's a bit de rigeur to bash it, but seriously. Why would anyone want to play a 2D version of Battlefield where everything's too damn small to see what the f*ck's even happening. Not the best use of Arcade, and clearly a form of compensation that MS was only too happy to part with.

Undertow is pretty bad. I don't get all the "awards" and good reviews it received either. There is very little strategy involved (especially with the territory capturing), I basically find the choke point and just park my guy there and fire away. Yippee, I win by 90+ points. The harder levels don't make sense either since they just swamp you all over the place and your teammates cannot defend for their life.

Anyway, it is free, but not even worth a download.

Rez is going to be awesome this week though.