Never going to happen. FASA owned the rights to Mechwarrior, Microsoft owned FASA, Microsoft killed FASA. Now I know Wizkids owns the rights to the boardgame, but I don't think they own the rights to the videogame. Oh wait thank you wikipedia...
On December 6, 2007, FASA founderJordan Weismanannounced that his new venture,Smith & Tinker, had licensed the electronic gaming rights toMechWarrior,Shadowrun, andCrimson Skiesfrom Microsoft.[3]On April 28, 2008 Mike "Skuzzy" Nielson announced plans to createVor2.0.
Yeah all half-life based multiplayer games--Counte-Strike, Day of Defeat, Team Fortrest Classis, should run fine on you connection, just don't play on 32 player servers. :) If you are looking for a MMO Guild Wars is a good choice as it isn't really depenent on a fast connection, plus it is free to play. For RTS I would recomend Warcraft 3 or Starcraft. There are also a tone of free to play games, you've got lots of choice, though given your slow connection speed you should probably avoid any games that have really big downloads. Cause it will take you about 18 hours to download a gig of data.
The only game I remember having problems with is the 64bit version of UT2004, oddly enough. In general I find Vista 64 has no problems running any game I've thrown at it. That being said I don't think I've tried to get any games that don't use older versions of DX. I could see games that are madefor versions of DX before 8 having issues, but that is more a DX thing than a 64bit thing.
You need to get the HD transfer cable to move all your data from one HD to another. Or you can use a memory card to transfer saves and what not and than just redownload any large files. If you want the bigger HD just buy the 120GB it comes with the cable. The only reason I can think of getting a new xbox is if your old one is out of waranty, or you can find a sucker to give you a lot of money for it.
If your TV handles image processing differently on each input, than yeah you would need to recalibrate... this problem is totally TV dependent. So see what your manual/forums say about your TV and input lag.
Given the exchange rate we actually pay less for most games than Americans do. A $59.99 US game should be around $75 CDN and at most we are ask to pay $69.99 for a game. But most games are actually sold at $59.99 CDN or about $48 US. So until the CDN dollar strengthens expect to pay more for new game releases. I found Lost Odyssey for 29.99 used and as the guy above said the other recent Square RPGs are both now $39.99 new.
It is a much more rational take on the whole issue of piracy, that is for sure. However, it doesn't diminish the fact that piracy is an issue. On a side note, I'm a big booster of valve and steam, but it erks me that I can't transfer the rights to games that I purchased, which I don't play anymore, to my brother. Yes, I know a system like this could potentially be abused, but I think it consumers should have the right to transfer licences to other individuals. Heck, I'd even play valve a couple of dollars to do it.
ive got a core xbox from well back in the day before they even had hdmi ports
its never had a red ring but then again ive hardly ever played it....
im thinking of getting a new one specifically an elite but a friend said that they get the ring of death more often
so which model of this console is most reliable, cause all i hear is "im on my fourth 360 in 4 months" do they all just suck or what
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What model an xbox is in unimportant. When was the system manufactured and what components it uses, determines its reliability. Newer systems have been engineered to use less electricity, therefore producing less heat, making the possibility of RROD failure less likely.
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