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How Xbox Changed the World

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Ever since good old Tim Berners-Lee gave us the gift of the internet back in 1989 the World Wide Web has been expanding and evolving beyond our wildest dreams. It has improved our daily lives in more ways than we can count, giving us unlimited possibilities in the realms of communication and interaction, and it has most certainly changed the face of gaming, forever.

Perhaps the first to show us the true potential of this new era of gaming was World of Warcraft. With it’s totally immersive game play and free-roaming environment it took the gaming world by storm, never before had gamers been able to become so involved. But that’s PC gaming and if you ask me the real game changer was the advent of Xbox Live two years earlier.

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With Xbox Live, gamers don’t just have the World Wide Web as their oyster, playing games designed specifically for online play, they have more. With Xbox live gamers have the opportunity to expand the universe and interactivity of their favourite well established games. Now when gamers play games such as Rockstar’s Grand Theft Auto or Red Dead Redemption those free roaming environments are linked to the wider world, enhancing and expanding those environments from their virtual realities into reality itself. Who can argue that Call of Duty wouldn’t be half the game it is without being able to team up with your mates to launch an attack.

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Xbox Live led the charge (in my book) and others have followed. Companies like Euro Palace offer a large range of games based on established classics such as their Game of Thrones game or their Lara Croft: Tomb Raider game. And I’ve found their Euro Palace blog most helpful when looking for online games to play. With a host of reviews on a range of games I found their recent article on zombie games very helpful, it not only reminded me of some classics but also pointed me in the direction of some new ones.

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One hot tip I gained from reading the Euro Palace blog was the release of the next season of Telltale’s Walking Dead action/adventure game on Xbox Live in 2016. Much maligned I enjoyed it thoroughly, it took me back to the days of Monkey Island on the Amiga. Which as I browse through Xbox Live’s selection makes me think. It’s not just the game play itself which has changed, and improved vastly, but also the whole way we consume our games. Services such as Xbox Live Arcade have not only made Indy games readily available, they’ve made all games readily available. The ability to download games direct to your console means now more than ever gamers truly have the world at their fingertips and that’s in no small part down to the internet. Needless to say, the internet has changed video games forever, and I’m sure anyone who’s lost their internet connection half-way through a game of C.O.D would agree.

TXH
TXH
TXH loves nothing more than kicking back at the end of the day, controller in hand, shooting the hell out of strangers via Xbox Live.

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