The list of backwords compatible games on the XBox 360 has reached 300. The update of 37 games includes Unreal Championship 2, Jet Set Radio Future and FIFA Soccer 07.

Here is the complete list:

Avatar: The Last Airbender
Breakdown
Call of Duty 2: Big Red One
Call of Duty 3
Cars
Crash Bandicoot 5: Wrath of Cortex
Daisenryaku VII
FIFA Soccer 2007
Full Spectrum Warrior
Guilty Gear Isuka
Innocent Tears (Japan only)
Jet Set Radio Future
King of Fighters 2002
King of Fighters: Neowave
Mad Dash Racing (Japan only)
Mech Assault 2
Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction
Nascar 2006: Total Team Control
NFL Fever 2004
Oddworld Munch’s Oddysee
Panzer Dragoon Orta
Petit Copter (Japan only)
Phantom Dust
Reservoir Dogs
Return To Castle Wolfenstein
Rugby League 2
Sengoku Warriors (Japan only)
Sonic Riders
Soul Calibur 2 (updated)
Spider-Man 2
Star Wars: Republic Commando
Street Fighter Anniversary Collection
Tenku (Japan only)
Tiger Woods PGA Tour 07
Tony Hawk’s Underground
Ultra Bust a Move
Unreal Championship 2

(Credit: gamespot.com)

Hopefully your favorite XBox game is on that list if it wasn’t already backwords compatible.

-Unstable

The Xbox Live online service reached 6 million users Microsoft announced recently. The service grew to 6 million earlier than Microsoft expected. Last year at E3 they announced that they expected to double the number of subscribers from 3 million to at least 6 million by June 2007.

Considering it is March 2007 we can say that the Xbox Live service is doing extremely well ,being four months ahead of schedule. Only took 2/3 of the time they expected it to take to grab another 3 million users.

What about the rest of the numbers beyond just the users? Check it out, right from the mouth of Microsoft:

• “Xbox 360 owners have unlocked nearly 300 million achievements, for a total combined gamerscore of nearly 7.5 billion.”
• “Gamers have spent over 2.3 billion hours on the network playing games online with their friends around the world. This is equal to 95 million days of gaming or over 260,000 years. “
• “With our top title Halo® 2 being played on both the Xbox and Xbox 360, gamers have spent over 710 million hours playing online with over a half a billion games played.”
• “We are seeing an average of over 2,000,000 text and voice messages sent every day between members on the service. The average Gold subscriber has 22 friends on their friends list.”

So, with people spending over 260,000 years on Xbox Live, where are they spending it?
Halo 2 is the top game based on number of unique users followed by Gears of War and Hexic HD.
Xbox Live Arcade has also become a major hit with the Live service with almost 70% of all Xbox Live users downloading and connecting to the Arcade. 25 million downloads is just one bit of statistical data to show the Arcades success.

Just goes to show how successful Xbox Live has become. Congratulations to Microsoft for reaching another million milestone.

“Turn the Tide” is the main idea behind the latest installment in the NCAA Football series by EA Sports. This shows how much momentum has to do with college football.

Gameplay: 8/10

The gameplay in NCAA Football 07 is very nice on the 360, which I have it on. It seems like a lot of issues with the gameplay have been resolved compared to the XBox version of 07, like much smoother in-game play and some pretty entertaining mini-games; Bowling, where you try to go 10 yards to the endzone in 1 play to get a “strike” or in 2 for the “spare” and Tug of War where the first team to get either a safety or touchdown wins and this game works by elternating offense and defense every other play.

Graphics: 9/10

The graphics are excellent and detailed, much like its NFL counterpart Madden NFL 07. Every detail is visible. Even the field looks realistic towards the forth quarter by showing where the players had been treading and by making it even look wet when it rains.

Audio: 8/10

The audio is good and the voices are clear. The crowds sound realistic and so do the referees when they have to call a penalty. Not much else to talk about here though.

Overall: 8.5/10

Overall, this is a pretty good game that deserves to be picked up by anyone who is even slightly into college football, whether you’re a mild mannered KU Jayhawks fan or an enthusiastic USC Trojan fanatic.

Comments encouraged.

-Unstable

The latest game in the Madden series made by EA Sports came out in August of last year. It’s an amazing football game.

The graphics are excellent and detailed. You can see practically every detail including individual members of the crowd, the wrinkles on the referee’s face(I’m not sure if that’s a pro or con :p ) and the mud on the jerseys.

The gameplay could be improved a little bit, but it’s still good like it always has been. It just lacks the QB vision that there was in its predecesor though a feature that allows you to control a lineman or fullback has been added to the game.

The audio is good with a good soundtrack and you can hear the audibles from the Quarterbacks and Linebackers. The referees also sound realistic, almost as if you’re at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City or historic Lambeau Field in Green Bay watching a game.

Online isn’t lacking either with many games you can have. You can either do one of several minigames or play in a game against someone. This is especially great with XBox Live on the XBox 360.

I hope that after reading this more people go out and buy this. It’s not just a game, but an experience with everything from real stadiums to real teams and players. Beware though, it may end up consuming your life.

-Unstable

I would like to split this review into two parts: Story and Arcade mode. They differ incredibly, and one is far better than the other.

The Story Mode in FP begins well, in a desert base. You have to accompany a few soldiers to a base, on the way confronting the “Timesplitters”, which appear to be some kind of animal / zombie. Arriving at the base you hop into a turret and slaughter your way through twenty or so Timesplitters, before proceeding to the base. After killing a few more ‘Splitters you are led to a huge metal door that slides apart for you. This level contains many weapons, (futuristic ones, more of that later), including the plasma auto-rifle and Sci-Fi handguns. This is one of the Story mode’s strengths: The weapons. As you probably know the missions take place at different time eras and different places, so you get a huge range of weapons. The cut-scenes are brilliant, humerous and very good-looking. Not excactly Square-Enix, but not bad either.
 These good points aside, the missions are terribly repetitive, and I think the Time-Travel could have been used better. The second level is based in Scotland, and it’s okay, but from here, things get worse. And then worse again. A not-so-good 45%.

 Multi-player is excellent. And I mean *excellent*. It has everything, Good maps, weapons and a (though sometimes unbalanced) huge selection of characters.You have everything from the Vintage Rifle to the Plasma Auto-Rifle and Shotgun to Tactical Twelve Guage.It takes a few rounds to get used to the weapon set and character, but once you do things go very smoothly. Maps are as diverse as weapons: Chinese hotel (I think it’s a hotel,) a blimp and a subway are just a select few. The only flaw of multi-player is the horribly over-powered characters. I mean this in the most extreme way: Monkeys and Edwina with thier full Speed stat, and Robot Louis Stephenson- the uber-tough android. There are many more examples, but this problem can be ironed out by selecting Bots manually, so it’s not too big a problem really. Pity such a good Multi-player was attached to a lacking Story mode. 83%.

 Frazz.

  

 

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The Xbox has had many great games but none such as Halo: Combat Evolved. In this game you play as a cyborg named Master Chief, which you know nothing about but everyone else does. You play in the future of the Human race when they have come into contact with a hostile alien race known as the Covenant. You fight to preserve all of Humanity’s right to live as you face countless foes and destroy all that oppose you in an effort to save Earth and the Human race.

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