Microsoft Offers Free Two-Months Xbox Live With Purchase Of Enabled Game
written by: Dale Alan Mayrose on 9/4/2003 11:34:35 PM
With more than 50
Xbox Live games on shelves this holiday,
Microsoft has announced the start of a free two-month
Xbox Live trial with purchase of select Live-enabled games. Kicking off with the newly released
NFL Fever 2004, gamers will have a FREE two-month pass to explore all that
Xbox Live has to offer.
Xbox Live opens up a whole new world of competition to gamers and their friends, as they can now find the ultimate opponent amongst hundreds of thousands of gamers. Subscribers can also download exclusive levels, devastating new weapons and additional characters. And players can even exercise the right to talk smack with the
Xbox Communicator headset (sold separately).
In the coming months gamers can take advantage of the free trial by purchasing any of the following titles:
- ACCLAIM -- NBA Jam, Burnout 2: Point of Impact(Developer’s Cut), All-Star Baseball 2005 featuring Derek Jeter
- Activision -- Cabela’s Deer Hunt: 2004 Season, Cabela’s Dangerous Hunts
- Atari -- Unreal II: The Awakening, Magic: the Gathering - Battlegrounds, Dead Man's Hand
Codemasters -- Pro Race Driver PRDXL
- ESPN Videogames -- ESPN NHL Hockey, ESPN NFL Football, ESPN NBA Basketball, ESPN NCAA College Hoops
Jaleco -- World Championship Pool 2004
- Konami -- Dance Dance Revolution UltraMix
- LucasArts -- Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Knight Academy
Majesco -- Black 9
- Microsoft Game Studios -- Crimson Skies: High Road to Revenge, Counter-Strike Condition Zero, Project Gotham Racing 2, NBA Inside Drive 2004, NFL Fever 2004, NHL Rivals 2004, Top Spin Tennis, Links 2004, Amped 2
- Sega -- Sega GT Online
- Take 2 Interactive -- Conflict: Desert Storm 2 - Back to Baghdad
- Tecmo -- Ninja Gaiden
- Ubi Soft -- Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Island Thunder, Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six 3, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, XIII (Thirteen)
- Vivendi Universal Games -- Hunter: The Reckoning Redeemer, S.W.A.T. Global Strike Team
Xbox Live, which launched in the United States Nov. 15, 2002, allows gamers to play multiplayer Xbox games with other gamers worldwide via a broadband connection. With a built-in hard drive and Ethernet port, the Xbox console is the only video game system built from the ground up for online gaming. Xbox Live enables gamers to easily find their friends; talk to other players during gameplay through the Xbox Communicator headset; download current statistics and new levels and characters to their Xbox hard drive; and play online -- all exclusive features to Xbox Live.
