Gamespot has a video hands on demo of Wii/DS title, Geometry Wars Galaxies, and while it is for a competing platform, there is one thing worth bringing to your attention. During the gameplay demo, whenever the Bizarre Creations developer pauses the game, the word "Achievements" is clearly shown in the pause menu. Also worth noting is that the selection is skipped over whenever scrolling down to "Exit Game". So, the tradition may be kept alive with a new Geometry Wars game released alongside PGR4. Either that, or else the Wii version will have in-game Achievements, which may or may not be "allowed". Either way, very interesting stuff.
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7-01-2007 @ 12:19AM
Platinum_Skeet said...
Come on 360 fanboy look at comment 17 on the joystiq article... Skeet found it first...
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7-01-2007 @ 3:06AM
mike said...
really? You scoward the entire world checking timestamps to see if you noticed it first? Interesting. And what do you win for noticing it? A million dollars?
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7-01-2007 @ 7:01AM
RangerPrimeX said...
I noticed that while they were doing the demo too. They skipped by it without a mention. Special 360 announcement pending?
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7-01-2007 @ 7:52AM
Supino said...
I would love to get hotseat coop on 360.
If not this is comeing to 360, Geometry Wars 2 will...
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7-01-2007 @ 2:26PM
Toph said...
Yeah as we said together Knuckles, I'm dubious of the whole term' Achievements' in light of video gaming. It's almost as if Microsoft has that term patented when it comes to gaming, and I don't think Nintendo would get away with using that word in regards to a game that began originally on 360 to begin with. it'd be like saying 'Mario BOOM' or Sam Fisher in Splinter cell using a 'codec' to talk to someone. (Snake does that in Metal Gear.)
So yeah..I think some form of Geometry Wars Galaxies will hit our XBLA...do what now? :)
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7-01-2007 @ 4:33PM
geeky said...
When a game gets ported over to another console, early versions of the port often retain stuff from the previous console's version that wont apply to the console its being ported to. Obviously, these eventually get coded out as the game gets worked on. I think that is what we are seeing here.
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7-01-2007 @ 5:46PM
Mr Khan said...
Possibly, but wouldn't you think that the easiest thing to fix about a game would be the menu screens? The "Achievements" spot (and anything else linking it to XBLA) would've probably been the first things to go
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