Wannabe Gamer

Today was a fun filled day for those of us who are Xbox 360 gamers.
During the two and a half hour long session on G4 we learned many
exciting things to come for the Xbox 360. I will list a few of the
major points, feel free to add comments with other things you enjoyed
hearing about.

Games, this is obviously the biggest reason to
watch the show. We got to see some intense Gears of War 2 footage. We
saw plenty of new guns, new techniques, and of course the new graphics.
I’ll have to get that trailer up here tomorrow. We saw the announcement
of Fable 2, some news about Guitar Hero: World Tour, Final Fantasy XIII
coming to the Xbox 360, and Rockband 2. These alone would have made me
happy. They also announced a few suppossedly amazing arcade games that
are coming out. I’m not much for them, so go research them if you wish
to learn about them.

Dashboard is getting an update. We will now
get avatars much like the Wii. They changed the whole community concept
as well as the friends and party abilities. It is something you’d have
to watch the video preview to understand fully. It’s coming later this
fall, and is supposed to make our time much more fun when we aren’t
even playing games.

Lastly there were the new partnerships. They
partnered with a few bigger programs like NBC to get some new movies
and tv shows onto the downloadable content. The biggest of which was
the Netflix partnership. We can soon download over 10,000+ movies
straight to our 360’s for free with our Netflix account. No more
waiting a week to get them mailed to us.