Crackdown
Crackdown pushes the action-driving hybrid genre into the next generation with
the first ever truly 3-D playground. Gamers will enforce justice by any means
necessary in Pacific City, a crime-ridden urban center built to encourage the
exploration of the full width, depth and height of the city. Coupled with highly
innovative co-op gameplay – a genre first – and an interactive world where
nearly anything can be used as a weapon, gamers will be able to create a
volatile cocktail of judicial oppression as they clean up the streets. More than
100 licensed tracks, spanning a wide range of styles and genres – with
5.1 sound.
Features:
- Players enforce justice against the backdrop of a crime-ridden metropolis that is massive in scale, monstrous in scope and meticulous in detail
- Cooperative gameplay for double the mayhem – Real Time Worlds focused on delivering dynamic, engaging cooperative gameplay for double the carnage, action and intensity
- 3D freeform gameplay – explore and exploit the full width, depth and height of a city, as you face nonlinear objectives in a myriad of wild and creative ways
- All strategies and tactics are acceptable, provided players reclaim the streets – players will be able to run at dazzling speeds, take death-defying leaps, handle the most incredible weapons, perform impossible vehicular maneuvers, move massive objects and deliver bone-crushing blows.
- Use your environment as a weapon – Grab trash cans, vehicles, even people. Take your enemies' weapons, buid barricades, even arrange explosives to set them off later.
Mass Effect
Mass Effect is a science fiction action-RPG created by BioWare Corp., the
commercially and critically acclaimed RPG developer of “Jade Empire,”
“Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic,” “Neverwinter Nights,” and the
“Baldur's Gate” series. “Mass Effect” will deliver an immersive story
driven gameplay experience with stunning visual fidelity. Published by Microsoft
Game Studios, “Mass Effect” will be exclusively for the Xbox 360 video game
system.
As the first human Specter – sworn defenders of galactic peace – your mission is to halt the advancing armies of a legendary agent gone rogue. But as you lead your elite team across hostile alien worlds, you will discover the true threat is far greater than anyone imagined.
Features:
- Immersive RPG: Determine the fate of mankind as you lead an elite tactical strike force as an epic galaxy-wide conflict unfolds. “Mass Effect” will take the player into new depths of an action-roleplaying game, with choice-based gameplay.
- Rich and engaging storyline: While defending galactic peace and earning a position of respect for humanity in the community, gamers will discover that a greater conflict between organic life and artificial intelligence exists. Players' decisions and actions will serve to shape the destiny of all life in the galaxy as you become absorbed in the story that is “Mass Effect,” the first game in an epic trilogy from BioWare. They will become the center of an engrossing story as they battle against alien life forms to save the galaxy from threatening armies.
- Player controls the ultimate fate of the galaxy: The player's decisions and actions will serve to shape the destiny of all life in the galaxy, while raising humanity to the pinnacle of galactic civilization via noble means or via tyranny.
- Real-time squad based combat: “Mass Effect” employs a real-time, squad based, tactical combat system. Players will be immersed in intense, challenging and exciting combat.
- Explore uncharted worlds: In addition to the main story arc of the game, players will be able to visit a large number of uncharted, unexplored planets which are not directly tied to the main story. At any time during the campaign, a player can choose to explore one of these planets in an all-terrain rover in order to discover new alien life, resources, ruined civilizations and powerful technologies.
- Digital actors: “Mass Effect” features a huge cast of in-engine digital actors that you will encounter as NPCs, enemies or as party members. Each will have life-like facial and body movements, and an advanced dialogue system will give them engaging personalities.
- Character customization: Players will be able to choose from a variety of stunning, photo-realistic character appearances at the start of the game, and throughout the game can increase various statistics which will have an impact on their performance during gameplay. Equipment, weapons and armor that are acquired during the course of the story will change the appearance of the characters.
- Next-generation gaming defined: “Mass Effect” takes advantage of Xbox 360's hardware providing gamers with exciting new experiences, including photo-realistic, high definition graphics on an epic scale. As the future of gaming goes online, Xbox360 live features, including premium downloadable content and recognition of achievement will be available via the Xbox Live service.