So, anyone spot the Xbox 360 "revealing" on MTV about a minute ago? No? Good, don't go looking for it. You can find it on IGN much faster, with actual information.
WHY the hell does MTV have to utterly destroy everything that comes in it's path? Elijah Wood hosts the unveiling of XBox 360. There's a crowd of cheering people in the audience, and by the looks of it, about 95% of them play games for about 20 minutes a month. Shortly after unveiling the system, LET'S ROCK TO MUSIC!
Lame. Cut to commercial, waste an extra 5 minutes of my life. Then we come back to half-second screens of what appears to be "games", when they are ALL freakin' renders, minus a handful I'm sure. How could I tell? The real ones had frame issues. But this is MTV. Nobody really knows or cares why some of them jitter or not.
Let's talk specs. What specs? It's wireless, can go online, you can buy stuff for your games, and the inside of the machine is a "MONSTER". Wow. Great. Informative. Thanks a lot.
Then there's that whole Perfect Dark Zero showing. Lovely, more renders. The full screen video shots are obvious renders, mostly because they kept showing the same sequence over and over again. When they focused on an actual tv screen, there was frame droppage from left to right. Yet they cut away from it all the time. Yeah. Great.
I love the power of the Xbox 360. The power of pulling CG's and renders out of its ass.
And then it ends... with another rock performance! WOOOOH! PARTTTYYYYY, SPRING BREAK!!! *topless*
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Why must MTV and the mainstream crowd try to pry their hands into us gamers' life style. They've taken music and the minds of the rest of the country. Leave the rest of us alone! >.<
[This has been a rant from the man of the hour, Jin-a-bun]
...yeah, that show sucked horribly. You can tell that was made to appeal to MTV fans, not gamers.
Another thing, that "Team Deathmatch" SUCKED. It'd have meant SO much more if they had shown what the heck was going on. Instead we get clips, most of which last no more than a second, to only hint at the bigger picture, but leaving you bewildered nonetheless.
Note to Microsoft: Your console looks sexy. But please, next time you unveil it, choose a better channel. I hate to say it, but G4's more appealing than that dreck.
That being said, anyone who actually CARES for the console can read this, since, being written by GameSpot, you'll actually LEARN something instead of watching mindless dribble.
The only thing I saw that didn't seem like a render was Project Gotham 3, Call of Duty, and some small shots of Perfect Dark when they're in some desert area, cuz it's actual gameplay.
EA is NOTORIOUS for not showing actual footage of their new stuff. It's ALWAYS, ALWAYS, renders. The Madden footage you saw? Not even coming from a game console. It was a 2nd party company EA hired to create a simulation of what the next gen hardware may be able to pull off, to which they put that in an ESPN commercial. EA Tiburon discouraged EA from even airing that commercial of "Madden 06 next gen" because they say that their work doens't look anything like that, and actually looks a lot better. The shot of the new Need for Speed? Same company did the same thing. The rest of those games I can't comment on, but that looks way too smooth to be real time, and them camera angles don't help. Looked like Tech Demos to me.
E3 is the real verdict. MTV can go screw off. XP
I seriously doubt Quake IV was rendered, paricularly if you have any idea what DOOM 3's engine is capable of. And I know Microsoft's been touting how the Xbox 360 can pull off the DOOM 3 engine in its sleep.
As for the whole lot being renders, GameSpot has videos of a few select games. Watch those and make your mind up.
I'm sorry, all the camera angles and the such just seem too perfect for them to be in game. Show me in-game with your HUDs and everything and I'll be content.
I'm not saying the 360 can't pull it off, I'm just saying dammit show me what I can DO and PROVE it to me.
