16 million hours, 2.7 million players and 1.1 billion kills. Not a bad combined effort during the Halo Reach 18-day multiplayer beta.
To say thanks, Bungie have uploaded a new trailer called “The Good, The Badass and The Ugly” featuring awesome kills and freaky glitches that occurred during the beta event.
“It’s exceeded our expectations. Our only real perspective going into this was the ‘Halo 3′ beta test, which had about 800,000 people. We knew there were a couple million copies of ‘ODST’ out there, but we really didn’t have any specific information that let us know what the population might be like.” – Brian Jarrard, Bungie Studios Community Director
For me, the most enjoyable Xbox 360 games are those which I can play through co-operatively with friends. As many people who visit this blog or read my twitter already know, I am currently playing Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Vegas 2 far too much. Why? Because it offers numerous multiplayer modes of which to play through co-op, such as campaign mode, terrorist hunt, and several other more competitive team-based game types.
This led me to wondering; “What other co-op games are there on the Xbox 360 that I can play with friends?”. After some research, I stumbled across an awesome list of games which states not only if the game is co-op or not, but if it is local/online co-op, the number of players, and much more. The list is constantly updating, so below is a list of just some of the Xbox 360 co-op titles currently available:
Army of Two
Burnout Paradise
Call of Duty: World at War
Crackdown
Dynasty Warriors 5
Dynasty Warriors 5 Empires
Dynasty Warriors 6
Earth Defence Force 2017
Eternal Sonata
Fable 2
Gears of War
Gears of War 2
Grand Theft Auto IV
Guitar Hero 2
Guitar Hero 3
Guitar Hero: Aerosmith
Guitar Hero World Tour
Halo 3
Kameo: Elements of Power
Kane and Lynch: Dead Men
Kingdom Under Fire: Circle of Doom
Left 4 Dead
LEGO Batman: The Video Game
LEGO Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures
LEGO Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy
LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga
The Lord Of The Rings: Conquest
Mercenaries 2: World in Flames
Marvel: Ultimate Alliance
Monster Madness: Battle for Suburbia
MotoGP 07
Perfect Dark Zero
The Outfit
Resident Evil 5
Rock Band
Samurai Warriors
Samurai Warriors 2
Samurai Warriors 2 Empires
Saints Row 2
The Simpsons Game
Shaun White Snowboarding
Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter
Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2
Tom Clancy’s HAWX
Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Vegas
Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Vegas 2
Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell Double Agent
Tony Hawk’s American Wasteland
Too Human
Unreal Tournament 3
Viva Pinata Trouble In Paradise
Warriors Orochi
What games do you most enjoy playing co-operatively with friends? Halo 3? Gears of War 2? Feel free to post your most favourite games in the comments area below.
Those who have been following my 360voice profile will know I have been spending quite a lot of time on Rainbow Six Vegas 2 lately. The game is incredibly enjoyable online with many features and unlockables which keep me coming back for that “just one extra round!”.
One thing I have always wanted to do though (since Rainbow Six Vegas 1) is map my face onto my character. Last night I finally got that opportunity thanks to a friend of mine temporarily lending me his Xbox 360 Live Vision Camera.
The results were.. interesting. The face-mapping is quite detailed but for some reason it can’t quite do hair properly. Nearly every attempt resulted in me looking either bald, or having a huge white skull showing at the back. Luckily I managed to get over the baldness issue thanks to a hat I managed to unlock a few days earlier. Phew!
Anyway, this got me to thinking. What other Xbox 360 games make use of the Live Vision Camera? Thanks to Wikipedia, I managed to find this great list of games:
In-Game Video Support
Battlezone
Band of Bugs
Bankshot Billiards 2
Bomberman LIVE
Burnout Paradise
Carcassonne
Chessmaster LIVE
Civilization Revolution
Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars
Domino Master
Duke Nukem 3D (in lobbies)
Gin Rummy
Hardwood Backgammon
Hardwood Hearts
Hardwood Spades
Lost Cities
Pinball FX
Rocky and Bulwinkle
Soltrio Solitaire
Spyglass Board Games
Texas Hold ‘em
Ticket to Ride
Uno
Uno Rush
Vigilante 8 Arcade
Warlords
Wits and Wagers
Word Puzzle
Controller Functionality
Pinball FX
TotemBall
Rayman Raving Rabbids
You’re in the Movies
Face Mapping Support (Digimask)
FaceBreaker
Football Manager 2007
Pro Evolution Soccer 2008
Pro Evolution Soccer 2009
Tiger Woods PGA Tour 08
Tiger Woods PGA Tour 09
Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six: Vegas
Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six: Vegas 2
World Series of Poker 2008: Battle for the Bracelets
World Series of Poker: Tournament of Champions
Other
Viva Piñata: Trouble in Paradise
Admittedly, I haven’t heard of all of these. I imagine some of them are American releases or like “Uno Rush”, coming soon.
There doesn’t seem to be much in the way of making me want to purchase and Xbox Live Vision Camera (or justify a purchase), but I think the face-mapping feature in Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six: Vegas 2 was very entertaining.
If you have a friend who has a camera, ask kindly if he/she will let you borrow it for a short period. If you are thinking of getting a camera yourself though, my best recommendation is that you get one bundled with the “You’re in the Movies” game.
I stumbled across 360voice after viewing one of my friend’s Xbox 360 motto. I was curious as to what the site was about (although obviously it was something Xbox related), so I logged onto my PC and gave it a visit.
360voice is a site that tracks data about your Xbox 360. Upon signing up you add your gamertag and within a few days it begins displaying various statistics about your achievements, how often you play, and any challenges you have accomplished.
The great thing about 360voice though is that each day your Xbox 360 automatically blogs something about you (or it) whether you play or not (in quite a humorous manner). 360voice also has a great community where players arrange gaming nights and help each other complete games and obtain difficult achievements (where possible). The site even has it’s own form of “achievements” called “badges” which are earned by accomplishing various criteria such as playing/finishing certain games, winning competitions, and playing for a number of days.
Check it out today and get your Xbox blogging!
+ For those interested, you can track my profile here.
On Saturday I managed to grab a copy of the much awaited (by me, at least) Sega Mega Drive: Ultimate Collection. A disc filled with over 40 classics from the 16-bit era. Being the nostalgic nutter that I am, I was in heaven.
Okay, I was almost in heaven. This “ultimate” collection of games isn’t quite what I would consider ultimate. Infact, with little effort I actually managed to think up over 40 games I felt were missing.
These were as follows (in no particular order):
Desert Strike
Wonderboy in Monster World
Super Hang On
Out Run (arcade)
After Burner (arcade)
Zombies (Ate My Neighbours?)
General Chaos
Mortal Kombat 1, 2, (ultimate 3 already on Xbox live arcade)
(street fighter 2 also already on Xbox live arcade)
Sonic 2 + Sonic & Knuckles (combined – I’m aware they are on the disc separately)
Sonic 3 + Sonic & Knuckles (combined)
Castle of Illusion (starring Mickey Mouse)
World of Illusion
Micro Machines
The Revenge of Shinobi
Eternal Champions
Two Crude Dudes
Rocket Knight Adventures
Road Rash 1, 2, 3
Captain America and The Avengers
Chuck Rock 1, 2
The Chaos Engine
Quackshot
Earthwork Jim 1, 2
Gunstar Heroes
The Immortal
Lemmings 1, 2
Lotus Turbo Challenge
Mega Bomberman (although Xbox live has a 3D one, this was awesome)
Michael Jackson’s Moonwalker
Mutant League Football
Rolo to the Rescue
Sword of Vermillion
Terminator 2 (T2): The Arcade Game
Tiny Toon Adventures Busters Hidden Treasure
ToeJam & Earl
Batman (possibly a slightly biased addition)
Okay, so Sega doesn’t own the rights to re-distribute all of these (I think?), nor are all of them classics in everyone’s eyes, but you get the general idea. There are plenty of games to warrant the release of Sega Mega Drive: Ultimate Collection 2 or possibly even some DLC to add a few of these to the archive. So Sega, if you manage to stumble accross this page, please make my dreams come true. If you are a Nintendo employee, please also release a NES/SNES collection (eventhough I know it’s 99.9% unlikely). Still, a man can dream.
In the meantime, I am going to enjoy playing through the current Sega Mega Drive: Ultimate Collection
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