XBOX -Europe announcement. Microsoft plans to launch the Xbox in Europe sometime in March 2002. Officially, the company has only confirmed a tentative spring 2002 release date. Microsoft and Flextronics have established manufacturing Xbox facilities in Mexico and Hungary in order to ensure a healthy supply of consoles for both the European and North American launch.
Max Payne coming to PSX2, if you have not already heard. And a XBOX announcement coming at E3, you can count on it. Metal Gear fans should be happy ( that's you Oddbodd).
Namco's... Dead to Rights, a third-person action-shooter for PSX2 now coming to XBOX. PSX2, where it was originally coming is up in the air as of now.
The coolest aspect about this game was the disarming scenes, in which the lead character Jack Slate grapples an enemy, steals his shotgun, and then dusts him. Namco's team plans to animate the enemies' deaths realistically, with characters shoulders swaying back and forth, their heads popping back with force, and limp bodies crumbling to the ground. Enemies contain about 10 different impact points along their body for a variety of animations. Slate also can shoot while diving in four different directions, backward, forward, left and right -- and will dive off high ledges, balconies, and crates, for cinematic effect. MGS style gaming for all, another big feather in the cap for XBOX, Namco with this game and there already great fighting games and racing game Ridge racer series makes the Xbox sweeter again.
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