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MS chest thumps over "flood of brilliant 360 games"

Microsoft has begun chest thumping over it's 2008 line-up of games, saying its invention of Xbox has led to a "Christmas Eve like never before" every week of the year.

In an update on its official website the company cites Gears of War 2 (Nov 2008), Ninja Gaiden 2 (June 6), Too Human (August 29), Viva Piñata: Trouble in Paradise (Sep 2008), Banjo Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts (Holiday 2008), Fable 2 (2008) and Penny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness, Episode One (out now).

It says: "It's going to be very tough sleeping at night with this amazing haul coming so soon."
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Published: 578 days 8 hours ago | News | Xbox 360
 
 

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Darkiewonder - 578 days 8 hours ago
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Oh i can sleep fine thank you though microsoft.
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bfrodo30 - 578 days 5 hours ago
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If your such a MS/360 hater why even come in here and comment?
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thewhoopimen - 578 days 4 hours ago
1.2 - @1.1
Hush Frodo! Go take a walk to Mordor with your precious.
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lessthanmarcus - 577 days 23 hours ago
1.3 - Out of those 7 games..
...I'm buying one. Gears of War 2. This year I'll be picking up MGS4, Resistance 2, Little Big Planet, Socom Confrontation.. Sorry, Too Human and a Banjo Kazooie isn't going to cut it.
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Hoggy1983 - 577 days 11 hours ago
1.4 - Fed up with PS3 fans
Oh look, another Xbox topic filled with bitter PS3 fans what joy
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dan-boy - 577 days 10 hours ago
1.5 - indeed hoggy...take a peek at the pond-life in the open zone lol
i'v been playing gears co-op this week, and that game rocks full stop. does need 4-player co-op though. i'm still on the fence about ng2 though. ng on the xbox was difficult to frustration levels! it seemed to me that the devs made it so hard because there was nothing but run/jump/hack/slash repeat over and over til the end.

fable2 is looking good, and too human is a first day purchase for me! i'm really looking forward to some co-op on too human.
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Fishy Fingers - 578 days 8 hours ago
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lol... you've gotta love MS for their PR, they're always pushing.

Their 2007 line-up was much stronger in my opinion, I want Gears 2, that's it.
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wetowel - 578 days 8 hours ago
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ditto gears 2 is the only one i really want. I may buy the other ones when the come down to like 20 bucks.
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kevoncox - 578 days 5 hours ago
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How do you figure 2007 was stronger when you playstation fans bashed it to no avail..lol

Look at 2008

Fable 2 = AAA
NG2 = AAA
GOW2 = AAA
Other solid titles
Too Human,Banjo

The best titles in 2007 was Bioshock, COD4, Halo and Mass Effect.
I think this lineup is better and more diverse. Like I said, i think MS has Sony beat this year. Yes MGS4 will be great but outside of that everything else is looking solid.

MGS4
Resistance 2
LBP = maybe 2008

FF = 2009
Killzone = 2009
White Knight = 2009( no new screens or news)
Agency = 2009
HOME = 2009
GT5 = 2009

Sony's best games this year will be MGS4 and alot of multi plat games... like Meceneries and Fallout. Add ressitance to that list as well.
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Tmac - 578 days 4 hours ago
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Kevon you fanboy, like everything related to Microsoft, take his opinion with a grain of salt.

However look at IP's Sony has the 1UP this year so far. We still have E3 to see the other high-caliber games.
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kevoncox - 578 days 2 hours ago
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Great response. Call me a fanboy and ignore my post.
You didn't even respond. Are you saying the games isted aren't great? Are any of the Sony games i listed definate for 2008?
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gaffyh - 577 days 15 hours ago
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@kevoncox - I know you can't reply, so just edit your above post if you can.

There are a few 2008 PS3 games you missed out e.g. Wipeout HD, SOCOM

But on the 360 side, NG2 is not AAA, Ninja Gaiden Sigma was quite bad, and you only get that sense when you play the game, it has a very bad story, although I will probably still get it.

Gears 2 will probably be good also and I may also get Banjo, but i don't expect any of the other games to be good at all especially Fable 2 and Too Human (graphically they both look absolutely rubbish). So I'm pretty sure the 2008 PS3 lineup is better than the 360's, Fable 2/Too Human look like they are going to be Haze/Lair type games for the 360, all hype.
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crck - 578 days 8 hours ago
3.1 - They are just talking about titles published by MS.
Huxley, Left for Dead, Splinter Cell are all 3rd party.
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Boldy - 578 days 6 hours ago
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The games they listed are all games under the MGS brand therefore the exclusives you listed will not be up there.
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Valante13 - 578 days 8 hours ago
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LMAO!! yeah right, Microsoft don't know what a "flood of brilliant games" really is!
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canadianpatriot - 578 days 7 hours ago
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i dont know thats a pretty good line up
-left 4 dead
-ninja gaiden 2
-fable 2
-too human
-gears 2
-infinite undiscovery
-tales of vesperia
-banjo nuts and bolts
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Jenzo - 577 days 13 hours ago
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If you're not sure check gamerankings/metacritic. The 360 has the best games library out there.
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levy - 577 days 13 hours ago
4.3 - @ 4.2
I would say the PS2 has the best lineup. Or maybe the SNES.
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Condoleezza Rice - 578 days 8 hours ago
5 - Gears=Proven franchise,some may say it's overrated but I disagree.Can't wait to play this one.
Too Human= Proven Devs,game isn't.Before you disagree,look at Haze and Free Radical.So far,I'm not greatly impressed with the title,after multiple delays,the game just doesn't look that fun.

Banjo= I feel like the new game is driving away(excuse the pun) from the core Platform gameplay that has made the series into what it is today,will the new one deliver?I don't know,but I'm honestly not as enthusiastic for it as I was before learning of the "80% vehicle" gameplay.I have a bad feeling about this one.

Ninja Gaiden= Gameplay is fast and brutal,Camera needs SERIOUS work.I'm not sure if it was Eurogamer or EGM that recently stated the Camera in NG2 is in need of work,I hope Team Ninja will have it sorted out in the final build.

Fable= Part 1 was MEGA overrated,period.Not only was the game NOT what Mr.Molyneux had promised,but the gameplay got very boring very fast.A rental for me.

Viva Pinata= Haven't tried part 1,don't think I'll be trying part 2.

Penny Arcade= Might download it,not too interested to be honest.

>>>>>>>& gt;>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> ;>>>>>>>

All in all,Gears is the title that'll without a doubt be a day 1 purchase,NG2 I might hold off buying 'til I finish MGS4.
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Blacktigra - 578 days 7 hours ago
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Dont dont the viva pinata lol.Seriously though before i couldnt stand people playing that game now i started playing it and cant get enough lol.
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canadianpatriot - 578 days 7 hours ago
5.2 - blacktigra
i agree i thought viva pinata was lame but its probably one of the most addicting games ive played
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Wraith001 - 578 days 4 hours ago
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I gotta agree with ya on most of that rice, the more i hear and see about Too Human the more i see it being an average 3rd person hack'n'slash/shooter with some bells and whistles on to make it look more interesting and fun because the story's crap.

Fable was a big BIG let down for me, like you said, boring, repetitive.

Looking forward to GOW2, dig the cover moves on that game , in fact i think its the best cover movement represented in a game yet.

However i do disagree with you on Viva, at first i thought it was a kiddy's game, but you can while away hours in your garden hehe, strange i hate gardening TBH.

Never been an MGS fan so my loss i guess.
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ceee227 - 578 days 1 hour ago
5.4 - I liked Fable
I thought it was a fun game, maybe I did not have the high expectations that some of you did. By the way, I only played the PC version.

I think Fable 2 will be cool as well, just stop reading all of the hype. Fable 2 is probably going to be a long wait for me. I don't own a 360, only a PC and a PS3.
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CRIMS0N_W0LF - 578 days 8 hours ago
6 - -_-
their 2007 lineup was better then 2008 lineup
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Mc Fadge - 577 days 23 hours ago
6.2 - Because
LaChance said it himself (below)

That and it's opinion, one which I agree with
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Fishy Fingers - 578 days 8 hours ago
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Offset is now owned by Intel. Rumour has it the game will now be PC exclusive.
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Fishy Fingers - 578 days 7 hours ago
7.2 - ^
Disagreeing doesn't stop it being true.
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Mc Fadge - 577 days 23 hours ago
7.3 - Ooooh....
That'd be a heavy hit, but I think Microsoft would battle hard not to let it turn PC exclusive though. Link to this information?
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gauravraw - 578 days 8 hours ago
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I wonder what they would have done if they had a line-up like Sony for 2008? :D
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glastic - 578 days 4 hours ago
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If the ps3's lineup were on 360, the games would have already been finished and we would be playing them.
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Mc Fadge - 577 days 23 hours ago
8.2 - Correct!
Like Alan Wake and Halo Wars, right?! :D
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AclayPS3 - 578 days 8 hours ago
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Gears 2 is really the only game that matters.

Fable 2 is alright but it's no where near as big as the Final Fantasy series, but it's a solid RPG.

And I'm not sure about Too Humuan. I've seen some of the gameplay of Too Human and even Devil May Cry looks better than it.

Banjoe 3 is a pretty solid game title, but the whole vehicle thing in the game has a lot of poeple skeptical of the game and what built on originally. I love platformers, but platforming in a vehicle just isn't the same.

I personally think that Alan Wake would have been the most interesting game on the 360 for 2008, but it's not coming until 2009.
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jackdoe - 578 days 8 hours ago
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Lol, when GeoW 2 and NGII come out it would probably feel like Christmas Eve, but I doubt the Penny Arcade game will make it feel like Christmas Eve. Seriously. That is stretching it. A LOT.
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thehitman - 578 days 7 hours ago
11 - ROFL
*DIES HAVING AN HEART ATK LAUGHING*

NO really lol thats pathetic Im sitting in my chair like O.o something new they havent announced and my eyes behold a shyt list of games maybe gears2 and fable2 the only good 1s on the list. Rofl a flood... more like a drop.
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Boldy - 578 days 6 hours ago
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Second time that I have posted this because obviously the trolls don't have a brain anymore if they ever did.

The games they listed are all MGS games. The exclusives like Left 4 Dead, Conviction, Huxley etc. are not developed with MGS and therefore are not mentioned.
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thehitman - 578 days 4 hours ago
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WTH does MGS stand for? If your talkn about games dev by MS then ur wrong.
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mphraze - 578 days 4 hours ago
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Microsoft Games Studio = MGS
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codeazrael - 578 days 7 hours ago
12 - Dudes and dudettes, we havent even got to the major game conferences like E3 and TGS
So of course there will be surprises.......hell, I'm still waiting for that DAMN Dirty Harry game we seen previews of before ANY next gen system came out! Anybody remember that game????? But just chill out, more games will be announced, for both systems I'm sure. I'm just glad I'm grown up now, so I can get any and all systems as I choose to get them!
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deeznuts - 578 days 7 hours ago
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Too Human? You mean Duke Nuken Forever Jr.?
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bfrodo30 - 578 days 5 hours ago
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I fail to see WTH your talking about.
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Mc Fadge - 577 days 23 hours ago
13.2 - I know!
He's making fun of the game that was initially in development for the PS1 :3
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beavis4play - 578 days 7 hours ago
14 - is MS serious?
shane kim must have wrote this.
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aiphanes - 578 days 6 hours ago
15 - They only have two games...
Actually 1...Gears of War 2...

Fable is gonna suck...if Sony can get White Knight Story out...it will kill Fable 2..

Little Big Planet Kills all casual games on the PS3 and Xbox 360...
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bfrodo30 - 578 days 5 hours ago
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I guess you already own a finished copy of all those games, huh? According to people like yourself, Haze, Lair, Heavenly Sword, and Uncharted were all "gonna be AAA". Why not simply go over to the "toilet zone" with fanboyish comments?
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Willio - 578 days 1 hour ago
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so was Two Worlds.
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miganda - 577 days 23 hours ago
15.3 - at it again
aiphanes, you are so clearly trying to flame. i feel sorry for you. just because the 360 has another really good line up this year doesn't mean you have to feel threatened. its ok, your ps3 line up for 08 is still there. why hate on the 360 line up in this thread. just go on over to a ps3 article and big up your precious ps3 if you feel so strongly about it. maybe game sales will rise.
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yanikins111 - 577 days 23 hours ago
15.4 - bfrodo
Uncharted IS AAA.
Its the only game i have played more than GeOW, and that makes it pretty damn good in my book. Metacritic isnt everything.
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