With Microsoft recently touting its sale numbers and rumors continuing to swirl about the Xbox 720 (or whatever it will be called), we thought we’d take a short retrospective look at the key moments and decisions that have made the Xbox 360 a household name in this 7th generation of consoles.
While some video games overwhelm you with sheer scale, titles like Asura's Wrath and Doom Eternal make you the boss player right upfront.
Wolfenstein: The New Order turns ten years old today, so we decided to play it again and discovered just how much of an extinct kind of game it is.
It's an outstanding game and so was The Old Blood. Also a lost era of gaming. Interesting, I received a physical copy of The Old Blood 9 years ago today from Poland. It was digital only in North America initially upon release so I had to import.
Wolfenstein: The New Order launched 10 years ago today, but can it stand up to the modern FPS titles it inspired?
I disagree. Its still a fantastic game, with very good gunplay and a surprisingly loveable cast of characters and a good story trough many different and interesting setpieces
All The New Order needs for my tastes is a this gen enhancement patch.
I played New Order a couple of years after launch and I give it an 8/10. The shooter holds up because it is focused on being a good shooter. There is no crafting, no RPG elements, no open world find the question mark Weapons are fun. Enemies are fun. Levels offer a nice mix of stealth and shooting. You get to be the predator; this isn’t a game about fending off waves of enemies while a robot companion unlocks a door. Most importantly, New Order is the last of a dying breed of single player shooters.
Singleplayer shooters are still getting released every year, just look up "boomer shooters" and you'll find an an abundance of them. AAA fps campaigns, not so much.
Last year had Trepang2, RoboCop: Rogue City, Turbo Overkill, Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun, Dread Templar, Sprawl and more
The games you mentioned are not from AAA developers. Wolfenstein likely had a budget that was probably as big as all those games you mentioned combined. I'm not knocking the new wave of retro shooters. I absolutely love them (I think some get much higher review scores than they deserve though). I just really wouldn't describe Wolfenstein as purely a boomer shooter based on the relatively cohesive story, with cut scenes and is fully voice acted. Full set piece moments.
AA development seems to be focused keeping the single player solo experience alive. But the big developers are only concerned about the MTX and milking players who enjoy multiplayer.
The age of AA shooters. I’m not saying it’s a bad thing. I like less expense, shorter games.
Weird all the Wolfenstein articles.
Can you guess what will be announced at Xbox showcase?
What Machine Games did with Wolfenstein franchise is awesome. The game play definitely to me , is still very fun to play !!!
Xbox live quality, the interface's ease of use(click one button for messages etc). Party chat and private chat. The controller is my favorite one too. Sufficient RAM. That's all.
RRoD/E74/etc, Price of Live, much less games than Ps3 and PC(due to lack of exclusives), ugly machine(until slim one came out) although I could hardly count that I suppose
Not alot
Make the xbl silver look less appealing just to get others & me to buy xbl gold to get any decent features on our 360s.
Marketing/Advertisements efforts coupled with XBL Updates & Deals with new content distributors...which have had an effect on SALES.
Much better than the Original.
I'll stay off the negatives..The article asks about Positives.
I haven't read the article, but I can tell you their controller by far is a huge improvement much more comfi. Also, Microsoft's price point was spot on, Xbox live no need to go into detail about that.