Enchanted Arms is interesting for a couple of reasons. For one, it was the first JRPG on Xbox 360, which technically makes it the first HD console JRPG. Secondly, it was developed by FromSoftware, a company that doesn’t really make this kind of game anymore! Those two facts go a long way to make Enchanted Arms seem more compelling than it actually is.
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The final game from Pandemic Studios is a memorable one. Inspired by the life of William Grover-Williams, The Saboteur is an open-world sandbox WWII game, where you work to liberate Paris from Nazi occupiers.
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In June of 2006 I got my Xbox 360, and my first achievement.
Roughly 20 years later, I just hit 100,000 achievement points. This isn’t a massive accomplishment or anything (I have friends with two or three times that amount), but it feels like a milestone to me, and a time to reflect on my history and future with the platform.
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After playing through the messy but fun Quantum of Solace, my curiosity around 360-era Treyarch increased. I found a cheap copy of Call of Duty 3 at a local game store and decided to give it a go.
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Treyarch’s adaptation of the first two Daniel Craig Bond films makes perfect sense in the context of the games they were developing at the time. In 2006 they released Call of Duty 3, in 2007 the tie-in for Spider-Man 3, and a week after Quantum of Solace, they dropped Call of Duty: World at War. Obviously the studio had multiple teams working on these projects, but licensed games and Call of Duty were what defined the studio in 2008. Which explains pretty much everything about Quantum of Solace.
(more…)I got my Xbox 360 about half a year after launch, in June of 2006. Here’s what I was playing, based on pulling up my achievements of that era:
As I mentioned in my Oblivion post, I got my Xbox 360 early in its lifecycle and absolutely loved the system. While I’ve had mixed feelings about Microsoft and Xbox for the past decade and a half, I will always have a soft spot for the Blades era of Xbox 360.
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