X05: Hard Drive Loaded

[Phantom]

Hey Gang,

I picked this article up from ign.com

http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/656/656427p1.html

X05: Hard Drive Loaded
J Allard reveals the packed-in hard drive content. What could it be?
by Douglass C. Perry
October 5, 2005 - In a behind-closed-doors session with Microsoft Corporate Vice President J Allard, IGN learned the specialized Hard Drive peripheral will come bundled with special content.

Don't get your feathers too ruffled, it's not Perfect Dark Zero. The Hard Drive contains a custom soundtrack, a few videos, one of which is "The Making of Xbox 360," a few gamer tiles, and the arcade puzzle game, Hexic.

Now before you run away whining, as if this weren't enough, consider the material. First, Allard confirmed the content is the same on every single hard drive, whether you buy it bundled or separately.

Second, Hexic is created by Alexy Pajitnov, the original creator of Tetris. You know, one of the greatest games of all times? I have played this game, and it is as addictive as candy is to a kid. Before you even slip a disc in the 360, give this game a whirl and you'll spend the next two hours playing it.

Third, the packed-in content is designed to show consumers what they can do with their new sophisticated game unit in addition to playing games. They can instantly play a free soundtrack (though who knows what this soundtrack will sound like), stylize their GamerTag with the bundled Gamertiles, dress up the interface with wallpapers, tune their settings, and watch a video offering insight into just how this crazy machine was made. The content is in itself a roadmap to the system's other uses, besides games.

Does it come with the backward compatible data necessary to play Halo or Halo 2? Ha, well, Allard wouldn't say, but Microsoft long ago confirmed Halo 2 will be backward compatible, so whether it's on the hard drive or not, that shouldn't be a worry. If there was one "best selling game" on Xbox, Halo 2 was never in question.

[pApA SmerF01]

that's nice. i was expecting the harddrive to come with a game, but not a soundtrack and a making of the xbox360 vid.

[Grindstone]

I'm not complaining, it was more than I expected. Hexic, eh? I'll give it a whorl.

[P Mack]

Nice find! I was hoping for demos/previews of PDZ, Kameo or anything.

[Æ N I M A 4 6 N 2]

i wonder what music is going to be on the custom soundtrack

[Jeet]

awesome, free game

[tkd_guy]

Hopefully there'll be plenty of demos and trailers on Live beacuase this is nothing, the soundtrack is just one of those they had in the videos when they were showing demos of the 360. The game? I can download on my cell phone. And I don't think I'm going to be buying the 360 and to play this game, especially supposedly for hours.

[lawrence]

my wife loves tetris style games, looks like the 360 will appeal to all members of my family

[pApA SmerF01]

the only problem is, if this does appeal to my whole family, my whole family is going to want to use it...

[cablekiller]

Originally Posted by pApA SmerF01

the only problem is, if this does appeal to my whole family, my whole family is going to want to use it...

I know what you mean... Unbelievably, I got my wife hooked on NFSU2! She ended up playing it more than I did, because I didn't get to anymore...

[pApA SmerF01]

Originally Posted by cablekiller

I know what you mean... Unbelievably, I got my wife hooked on NFSU2! She ended up playing it more than I did, because I didn't get to anymore...

my mother loves kid games, arcade games, etc.

i think i'm gonna have to lie to her and say that every game they make is rated "m" for mature, lol.

[TurkeyRap]

yea i heard about that on xbox360news.com Thanks so sweet.

[DeadOneWalking]

But is it going to be a full version of Hexic, or a demo?

[DeathDealer]

full version, its on the kiosks.