Robot Monkey Posted June 17, 2003 Report Share Posted June 17, 2003 Go behind the scenes as three teams race to create the next great American video game... and Microsoft battles to take over a $20 billion industry that's bigger than movies and records. Will Xbox be the next Windows? Stay tuned... X Factor: Inside Microsoft's Xbox will air this Friday, June 20, at 8 and 11 pm. Obviously, I can't comment on the quality of the program, but it could be interesting. -j Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PoisonJam Posted June 17, 2003 Report Share Posted June 17, 2003 Sweet, thanks for the tip, Jay! I'll definitely check that out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robot Monkey Posted June 19, 2003 Author Report Share Posted June 19, 2003 I'm bumping this. Here's a bit info from another location: The show will primarily focus on three titles: Halo 2, Crimson Skies: High Road to Revenge, and Oddworld Inhabitants' next Oddworld game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robot Monkey Posted June 20, 2003 Author Report Share Posted June 20, 2003 And the very last bump (it's on tonight). -j Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robot Monkey Posted June 21, 2003 Author Report Share Posted June 21, 2003 Okay, I just watched the program. Not bad, I was afraid it would be a 60 minute ad, but there was some good stuff there. Not too deep, but I didn't expect much within the time constraints. Some stuff from the program: 1. Halo: Ability to control weapons on a space station (orbital weapons platform?). 2. Halo: Fighting on old, destroyed Halos (!) 3. Psychonauts: Visually very cool. 4. Crimson Skies: Troubled development. Apparently much-improved after the new dev team took over. Who knows. 5. Oddworld: They're trying to do a Western-style adventure game. Without Abe or Munch. Visuals are what we can expect from Oddworld Inhabitants -- very expressive animation, quirky, funny. -j Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan B. Posted June 21, 2003 Report Share Posted June 21, 2003 Pretty interesting stuff. Fries seems on the ball, Lanning is just as I imagined him to be...and Fries is right on the money about Lanning being full of ideas & short on executing them. The playtesters were harsh on Crimson Skies...and so was Microsoft, re-assigning the whole team! The clips of Halo 2, Psychonauts, PGR2, & Fable were all lovely. I would liked to have seen more on those, but their development is probably going too smoothly for this program, which concentrated more on the difficulties of game development. I'd like to see more of this stuff on TV in the future. 8) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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