XBox 360 Date Release, Preorder
XBOX 360 Basics & List of New,
Old games playable on XBOX 360
by Princy
The Xbox 360 is Microsoft's successor to their Xbox video game console, aka "Xbox 2". The console is scheduled to be released on November 22, 2005 in North America (two days before the American Thanksgiving and three days before Black Friday, one of the biggest shopping days of the year in the United States), December 2 in Europe, December 10 in Japan, and elsewhere in early 2006. The Xbox 360 will compete against the upcoming generation of consoles, including the Sony PlayStation 3 and Nintendo Revolution.
In United States and Europe, the console will be offered in two versions: an Xbox 360 Core System and Xbox 360 Premium Edition.
The entry-level $299 core system includes the basics: the game system, a wired controller (the system has built-in wireless support for controllers) and standard video cables.
A $399 premium package includes the console, a detachable 20GB hard drive, wireless controller, headset and cables for connecting to an HDTV and a home computer network. Sold separately, the hard drive costs $100; wireless controller, $50; and headset, $20.
But if you want to save games you will need a 64MB memory unit ($40) to save games, so Premium version will give you more bang for buck.
Here is the list of XBOX 360 games for this Holiday season.
Amped® 3
Call of Duty® 2
College Hoops® 2K6
Condemned: Criminal Origins™
Dead or Alive® 4
Dead Rising
Demonik
FIFA 06
FINAL FANTASY® XI
Need for Speed™ Most Wanted
Frame City Killer™
Full Auto™
Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter™
GUN
NHL® 2K6
Kameo™: Elements of Power™
Peter Jackson's King Kong™
Madden NFL 06
Ridge Racer 6
Perfect Dark Zero™
Project Gotham Racing® 3
QUAKE™ 4
Saint's Row
Test Drive® Unlimited
Tony Hawk's American Wasteland
The Darkness
Top Spin™ 2
The Outfit™
NBA 2K6
Here is the list of Original Xbox Games Playable on Xbox 360
AirForce Delta Storm
Alias™
Aliens versus Predator™ Extinction
All-Star Baseball™ 2003
Amped®: Freestyle Snowboarding
Army Men®: Sarge's War™
Atari® Anthology™
ATV: Quad Power Racing 2™
Baldur's Gate™: Dark Alliance™ II
Barbarian
Barbie™ Horse Adventures™ Wild Horse Rescue™
Batman Begins™
Battle Engine Aquila
Battlestar Galactica™
BMX XXX™
Brute Force™
Buffy the Vampire Slayer™: Chaos Bleeds
Cabela's® Dangerous Hunts™
Cabela's® Outdoor Adventures™ 06
Cabela's® Deer Hunt™ 2005 Season
Cabela's® Deer Hunt™ 2004 Season
Call of Cthulhu®: Dark Corners of the Earth™
Call of Duty™: Finest Hour™
Casino
Catwoman™
Chicago Enforcer
Circus Maximus
Close Combat: First to Fight
Codename: Kids Next Door™
Colin McRae Rally 4
Combat Elite: WWII Paratroopers™
Commandos 2: Men of Courage™
Conflict: Desert Storm
Constantine™
Crash Twinsanity™
Crash Nitro Kart™
Crimson Skies®: High Road to Revenge™
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon™
Curse: The Eye of Isis
Dark Angel
Darkwatch™
Dead or Alive® 3
Deathrow
Digimon® Rumble Arena®
Dinotopia
Drake™
Egg Mania™: Eggstreme Madness
ESPN MLS ExtraTime 2002
Euro 2004
F1 2001
Fable®
Fable®: The Lost Chapters™
Fairly Odd Parents: Breakin' da Rules
FIFA Soccer 2003
FIFA Soccer 2004
FIFA STREET
Fight Night 2004
Fight Night Round 2
Ford Mustang
Ford vs. Chevy
Forza Motorsport™
Freedom Fighters™
Frogger Beyond™
Futurama™
Fuzion Frenzy®
Genma Onimusha
Goblin Commander™: Unleash the Horde
Grand Theft Auto 3
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas™
Gravity Games Bike: Street. Vert. Dirt.
Grooverider: Slot Car Thunder
Half-Life® 2
Halo®
Halo® 2
Halo® 2 Multiplayer Map Pack
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire™
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone™
He-Man: Defender of Grayskull
Hitman: Contracts™
House of the Dead 3
IHRA Drag Racing Sportsman Edition
IHRA Professional Drag Racing 2005™
Jade Empire™
James Bond 007™: NightFire™
Judge Dredd®: Dredd vs. Death™
Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis
Kabuki™ Warriors
Kelly Slater's Pro Surfer
kill.switch
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events™
LOONS--The Fight for Fame
Manhunt
Mat Hoffman's Pro BMX™ 2
Max Payne
Max Payne® 2
Medal of Honor European Assault™
Medal of Honor™ Frontline
Medal of Honor™ Rising Sun
Mega Man® Anniversary Collection
Metal Arms™: Glitch in the System
MicroMachines
Mike Tyson Heavyweight Boxing
Monster Garage™
Mortal Kombat®: Deception™
MTV Music Generator™ 3
Murakumo: Renegade Mech Pursuit
MX World Tour™: Featuring Jamie Little
Namco Museum™
NBA LIVE 2003
NBA LIVE 2004
Need For Speed™ Underground 2
NFL Blitz 2002
NFL Blitz 2003
NFL Blitz 2004
NHL® 2004
NHL Hitz™ 2003
Ninja Gaiden®
Ninja Gaiden® Black
Outlaw Golf 2
Outlaw Volleyball
Pariah™
Phantom Crash™
Pinball Hall of Fame™
Pitfall®: The Lost Expedition™
Predator Concrete Jungle™
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time™
Pro Evolution Soccer 5
Pro Race Driver™
Pump It Up™: Exceed
Pure Pinball
Puyo Pop Fever
Quantum Redshift®
Rayman Arena
Raze's Hell™
Red Dead Revolver
Red Faction® II
RedCard™ 2003
Robotech: Battlecry
Rocky™ Legends
Rogue Ops
Samurai Jack
Samurai Warriors™
Scooby Doo!™ Night of 100 Frights
Scrapland
SEGA GT™ 2002
Shadow The Hedgehog™
Shamu's Deep Sea Adventures
ShellShock: Nam '67™
Sid Meier's Pirates!®
Sneakers™
Sniper Elite
Soccer Slam
Sonic Heroes™
Sonic Mega Collection™ Plus
Speed Kings™
Sphinx and the Cursed Mummy™
Splat Magazine Renegade Paintball
SpongeBob SquarePants™: Battle for Bikini Bottom
SpyHunter® 2
Spyro™ A Hero's Tail
SSX 3
Stake™
Star Trek: Shattered Universe
Star Wars®: Episode III Revenge of the Sith™
Star Wars®: The Clone Wars™
Star Wars® Jedi Knight®: Jedi Academy™
Star Wars: Starfighter™ Special Edition
Star Wars®: Knights of the Old Republic™
Star Wars® Knights of the Old Republic® II: The Sith Lords™
Street Racing Syndicate™
Stubbs the Zombie™ in Rebel without a Pulse™
Super Bubble Pop
Super Monkey Ball™ Deluxe
SX Superstar™
Tecmo Classic Arcade
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles™
Test Drive®: Eve of Destruction
Tetris Worlds™
The Great Escape
The Hulk™
The Incredible Hulk™: Ultimate Destruction
The Incredibles: Rise of the Underminer
The Lord of the Rings™: The Return of the King™
The Simpsons™ Hit and Run™
The Simpsons™ Road Rage
The Terminator™ Dawn of Fate
The Thing™
Thief: Deadly Shadows™
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six® 3
Tony Hawk's American Wasteland
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater™ 4
Tony Hawk's Underground 2
Tork™: Prehistoric Punk™
Toxic Grind
Ty The Tasmanian Tiger™
Ty the Tasmanian Tiger™ 2: Bush Rescue™
Ty the Tasmanian Tiger™ 3: Night of the Quinkan
Urban Freestyle Soccer
Vexx™
Volvo: Drive for Life
World Series® Baseball 2K3
Worms 4 Mayhem
Worms™ Forts: Under Siege
WWE™ Raw™ 2
XIII
Yourself!Fitness™
Note: A software emulator is required for each original Xbox game you play on your Xbox 360™ console. Please check back for more details as we approach the launch date.
About the Author
Webmaster at JustXBOX.com -- Your #1 site for XBOX 360 & XBOX Games, Reviews, & News
Should You Upgrade To An XBox 360
by Colette Ianieri
The XBox 360 is going to be one of the most sought after gifts of this upcoming holiday season. However many people want to know is it worth upgrading now, or should you wait, here are some factors you may want to consider.
The base price for and XBox 360 is $300, the most common accessories are the 20GB hard drive ($100), wireless controllers ($50) and headsets ($20). Many vendors are offering packages with a variety of options with prices of $500 or more. While some of these options depend on your gaming style and preferences the hard drive is the one option we recommend you get right away. The hard drive allows you to save games to play back later and install updates that make many older games compatible on the new platform.
One of the advantages the XBox 360 will have over other game systems is graphics. The graphics of other gaming systems are top notch but on newer games like Project Gotham Racing 3, NFL 06 and Call of Duty 2 which were written for this platform, there simply is no comparison. When you compare the specifications the XBox 360 to any of its competitors, it's anywhere from 2 to 10 times more powerful. If you are lucky enough to own and HDTV you will really notice the difference, although it will work on standard TV's as well.
With this console Microsoft is also making a concerted effort to make the Xbox part of your media center. It can connect to any other windows networked computer in your house. It can be used to play movies, slideshows of pictures, and MP3 files. If you own and IPod or digital camera you can also connect them directly to the USB port located on the front game console.
Lastly you'll want to think about Xbox Live. This is a paid online membership that allows you to get free trials of new games and play in head to head action against other players over your high speed internet connection. You also have access to updates and patches as they become available.
For hard core gamers there is no choice, they will do practically anything to get their hands on the newest and latest systems available. For others it may be worth waiting until 2006 when Playstation 3 is released to see how platforms compare.
© Copyright.Gamer411.net, All Rights Reserved.
About the Author
This article was written by Colette Ianieri who runs http://www.Gamer411.net which features news and reviews of video games, game systems, and portable video games.
Old games playable on XBOX 360
by Princy
The Xbox 360 is Microsoft's successor to their Xbox video game console, aka "Xbox 2". The console is scheduled to be released on November 22, 2005 in North America (two days before the American Thanksgiving and three days before Black Friday, one of the biggest shopping days of the year in the United States), December 2 in Europe, December 10 in Japan, and elsewhere in early 2006. The Xbox 360 will compete against the upcoming generation of consoles, including the Sony PlayStation 3 and Nintendo Revolution.
In United States and Europe, the console will be offered in two versions: an Xbox 360 Core System and Xbox 360 Premium Edition.
The entry-level $299 core system includes the basics: the game system, a wired controller (the system has built-in wireless support for controllers) and standard video cables.
A $399 premium package includes the console, a detachable 20GB hard drive, wireless controller, headset and cables for connecting to an HDTV and a home computer network. Sold separately, the hard drive costs $100; wireless controller, $50; and headset, $20.
But if you want to save games you will need a 64MB memory unit ($40) to save games, so Premium version will give you more bang for buck.
Here is the list of XBOX 360 games for this Holiday season.
Amped® 3
Call of Duty® 2
College Hoops® 2K6
Condemned: Criminal Origins™
Dead or Alive® 4
Dead Rising
Demonik
FIFA 06
FINAL FANTASY® XI
Need for Speed™ Most Wanted
Frame City Killer™
Full Auto™
Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter™
GUN
NHL® 2K6
Kameo™: Elements of Power™
Peter Jackson's King Kong™
Madden NFL 06
Ridge Racer 6
Perfect Dark Zero™
Project Gotham Racing® 3
QUAKE™ 4
Saint's Row
Test Drive® Unlimited
Tony Hawk's American Wasteland
The Darkness
Top Spin™ 2
The Outfit™
NBA 2K6
Here is the list of Original Xbox Games Playable on Xbox 360
AirForce Delta Storm
Alias™
Aliens versus Predator™ Extinction
All-Star Baseball™ 2003
Amped®: Freestyle Snowboarding
Army Men®: Sarge's War™
Atari® Anthology™
ATV: Quad Power Racing 2™
Baldur's Gate™: Dark Alliance™ II
Barbarian
Barbie™ Horse Adventures™ Wild Horse Rescue™
Batman Begins™
Battle Engine Aquila
Battlestar Galactica™
BMX XXX™
Brute Force™
Buffy the Vampire Slayer™: Chaos Bleeds
Cabela's® Dangerous Hunts™
Cabela's® Outdoor Adventures™ 06
Cabela's® Deer Hunt™ 2005 Season
Cabela's® Deer Hunt™ 2004 Season
Call of Cthulhu®: Dark Corners of the Earth™
Call of Duty™: Finest Hour™
Casino
Catwoman™
Chicago Enforcer
Circus Maximus
Close Combat: First to Fight
Codename: Kids Next Door™
Colin McRae Rally 4
Combat Elite: WWII Paratroopers™
Commandos 2: Men of Courage™
Conflict: Desert Storm
Constantine™
Crash Twinsanity™
Crash Nitro Kart™
Crimson Skies®: High Road to Revenge™
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon™
Curse: The Eye of Isis
Dark Angel
Darkwatch™
Dead or Alive® 3
Deathrow
Digimon® Rumble Arena®
Dinotopia
Drake™
Egg Mania™: Eggstreme Madness
ESPN MLS ExtraTime 2002
Euro 2004
F1 2001
Fable®
Fable®: The Lost Chapters™
Fairly Odd Parents: Breakin' da Rules
FIFA Soccer 2003
FIFA Soccer 2004
FIFA STREET
Fight Night 2004
Fight Night Round 2
Ford Mustang
Ford vs. Chevy
Forza Motorsport™
Freedom Fighters™
Frogger Beyond™
Futurama™
Fuzion Frenzy®
Genma Onimusha
Goblin Commander™: Unleash the Horde
Grand Theft Auto 3
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas™
Gravity Games Bike: Street. Vert. Dirt.
Grooverider: Slot Car Thunder
Half-Life® 2
Halo®
Halo® 2
Halo® 2 Multiplayer Map Pack
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire™
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone™
He-Man: Defender of Grayskull
Hitman: Contracts™
House of the Dead 3
IHRA Drag Racing Sportsman Edition
IHRA Professional Drag Racing 2005™
Jade Empire™
James Bond 007™: NightFire™
Judge Dredd®: Dredd vs. Death™
Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis
Kabuki™ Warriors
Kelly Slater's Pro Surfer
kill.switch
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events™
LOONS--The Fight for Fame
Manhunt
Mat Hoffman's Pro BMX™ 2
Max Payne
Max Payne® 2
Medal of Honor European Assault™
Medal of Honor™ Frontline
Medal of Honor™ Rising Sun
Mega Man® Anniversary Collection
Metal Arms™: Glitch in the System
MicroMachines
Mike Tyson Heavyweight Boxing
Monster Garage™
Mortal Kombat®: Deception™
MTV Music Generator™ 3
Murakumo: Renegade Mech Pursuit
MX World Tour™: Featuring Jamie Little
Namco Museum™
NBA LIVE 2003
NBA LIVE 2004
Need For Speed™ Underground 2
NFL Blitz 2002
NFL Blitz 2003
NFL Blitz 2004
NHL® 2004
NHL Hitz™ 2003
Ninja Gaiden®
Ninja Gaiden® Black
Outlaw Golf 2
Outlaw Volleyball
Pariah™
Phantom Crash™
Pinball Hall of Fame™
Pitfall®: The Lost Expedition™
Predator Concrete Jungle™
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time™
Pro Evolution Soccer 5
Pro Race Driver™
Pump It Up™: Exceed
Pure Pinball
Puyo Pop Fever
Quantum Redshift®
Rayman Arena
Raze's Hell™
Red Dead Revolver
Red Faction® II
RedCard™ 2003
Robotech: Battlecry
Rocky™ Legends
Rogue Ops
Samurai Jack
Samurai Warriors™
Scooby Doo!™ Night of 100 Frights
Scrapland
SEGA GT™ 2002
Shadow The Hedgehog™
Shamu's Deep Sea Adventures
ShellShock: Nam '67™
Sid Meier's Pirates!®
Sneakers™
Sniper Elite
Soccer Slam
Sonic Heroes™
Sonic Mega Collection™ Plus
Speed Kings™
Sphinx and the Cursed Mummy™
Splat Magazine Renegade Paintball
SpongeBob SquarePants™: Battle for Bikini Bottom
SpyHunter® 2
Spyro™ A Hero's Tail
SSX 3
Stake™
Star Trek: Shattered Universe
Star Wars®: Episode III Revenge of the Sith™
Star Wars®: The Clone Wars™
Star Wars® Jedi Knight®: Jedi Academy™
Star Wars: Starfighter™ Special Edition
Star Wars®: Knights of the Old Republic™
Star Wars® Knights of the Old Republic® II: The Sith Lords™
Street Racing Syndicate™
Stubbs the Zombie™ in Rebel without a Pulse™
Super Bubble Pop
Super Monkey Ball™ Deluxe
SX Superstar™
Tecmo Classic Arcade
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles™
Test Drive®: Eve of Destruction
Tetris Worlds™
The Great Escape
The Hulk™
The Incredible Hulk™: Ultimate Destruction
The Incredibles: Rise of the Underminer
The Lord of the Rings™: The Return of the King™
The Simpsons™ Hit and Run™
The Simpsons™ Road Rage
The Terminator™ Dawn of Fate
The Thing™
Thief: Deadly Shadows™
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six® 3
Tony Hawk's American Wasteland
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater™ 4
Tony Hawk's Underground 2
Tork™: Prehistoric Punk™
Toxic Grind
Ty The Tasmanian Tiger™
Ty the Tasmanian Tiger™ 2: Bush Rescue™
Ty the Tasmanian Tiger™ 3: Night of the Quinkan
Urban Freestyle Soccer
Vexx™
Volvo: Drive for Life
World Series® Baseball 2K3
Worms 4 Mayhem
Worms™ Forts: Under Siege
WWE™ Raw™ 2
XIII
Yourself!Fitness™
Note: A software emulator is required for each original Xbox game you play on your Xbox 360™ console. Please check back for more details as we approach the launch date.
About the Author
Webmaster at JustXBOX.com -- Your #1 site for XBOX 360 & XBOX Games, Reviews, & News
Should You Upgrade To An XBox 360
by Colette Ianieri
The XBox 360 is going to be one of the most sought after gifts of this upcoming holiday season. However many people want to know is it worth upgrading now, or should you wait, here are some factors you may want to consider.
The base price for and XBox 360 is $300, the most common accessories are the 20GB hard drive ($100), wireless controllers ($50) and headsets ($20). Many vendors are offering packages with a variety of options with prices of $500 or more. While some of these options depend on your gaming style and preferences the hard drive is the one option we recommend you get right away. The hard drive allows you to save games to play back later and install updates that make many older games compatible on the new platform.
One of the advantages the XBox 360 will have over other game systems is graphics. The graphics of other gaming systems are top notch but on newer games like Project Gotham Racing 3, NFL 06 and Call of Duty 2 which were written for this platform, there simply is no comparison. When you compare the specifications the XBox 360 to any of its competitors, it's anywhere from 2 to 10 times more powerful. If you are lucky enough to own and HDTV you will really notice the difference, although it will work on standard TV's as well.
With this console Microsoft is also making a concerted effort to make the Xbox part of your media center. It can connect to any other windows networked computer in your house. It can be used to play movies, slideshows of pictures, and MP3 files. If you own and IPod or digital camera you can also connect them directly to the USB port located on the front game console.
Lastly you'll want to think about Xbox Live. This is a paid online membership that allows you to get free trials of new games and play in head to head action against other players over your high speed internet connection. You also have access to updates and patches as they become available.
For hard core gamers there is no choice, they will do practically anything to get their hands on the newest and latest systems available. For others it may be worth waiting until 2006 when Playstation 3 is released to see how platforms compare.
© Copyright.Gamer411.net, All Rights Reserved.
About the Author
This article was written by Colette Ianieri who runs http://www.Gamer411.net which features news and reviews of video games, game systems, and portable video games.
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