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Thursday, May 10, 2007

Forza 2 demo, new Crackdown DLC ...

Forza 2, probably Microsoft's premiere title for the Xbox 360 (maybe until PGR4), saw its free demo released last night on Xbox Live MarketPlace. (As an aside, I was entertained watching forum posters percolate the "it'll be available at 2 a.m. EDT" rumor all last night, and saying they were going to wait up for it. Since Microsoft only releases content on a PDT schedule, those East Coasters waiting for the content at 2 a.m. EDT (rather than 5 EDT) are probably sucking it up in home room this morning.)

More exciting to me (I'm stoked about Forza, but that's in the context of my sucking at racing games) is the massive amount of downloadable content coming in the next week for one of my favorite 360 games -- Crackdown (at which my suckage is less obvious).

Check out the MajorNelson.com post for all of the details (and videos), but there's a ton of free and premium content coming for Realtime Worlds's seminal sandbox title. The free stuff''ll get you new and improved attacks and effects, new game types, and achievements. The premium content (800 MS Points) will get you new vehicles, races, weapons, achievements, and gametypes -- including formally supported rocket tag. Sadly, it looks like it's all still limited to 2 player, so I'll feel a bit mislead by the released screenshot with 4 of the new Agency Buggy vehicles (turns out the new race type actually supports 12-way racing, but 10 of those racers are NPCs).

And really cool? If your friend buys the premium content and you join his / her co-op game, you get that premium content for that co-op session. That's a really intelligent product choice, in my mind.

Check out the post for the pages and pages of text and video goodness.

Labels: DLC, driving, sandbox