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Customizing Your Ncaa 09 for Your Ultimate Xbox 360 Gaming Experience
Thanks to the power of technology, you can customize everything, from your online avatar to your daily wardrobe – and yes, you can get the ultimate NCAA 09 experience for your Xbox 360. Thanks to development in the NCAA 09 game (which will be out soon), you can have better players, better plays, and even more enjoyable gaming features to explore.
Here are a few examples of how you can customize your NCAA 09 for a more fun Xbox 360 gaming experience:
- The simplest way to customize your Xbox is to change the interface and get a theme that you want. This is available largely in College Hoops, where you can change themes to fit NCAA member schools. So if you’re a big Oklahoma State fan, you may want to get your fingers ready to push some buttons and feed your school obsession.
- The Campus Legend mode in NCAA football is quite an experience to go through. In this special mode, you actually step into the big shoes of an athlete in your choice of school: you need to excel in the field and rack up the points, and you need to keep a great GPA. Talk about reality!
In this mode, you can pick whether you take over the life of an existing student player in the NCAA roster, or create a new student player. This means that at the beginning of your game, you can immediately pick whether you will have new players created out of your imagination, or players who actually exist but who will be your special pawns for your game.
- The Create a Legend Mode will make your NCAA football customizing even more fun. Through this special mode, you can make your player fit your standards of fitness. You can give names to your individual players and have names as common as your John or Jim, or as outlandish and exotic as your Babaganoush and Badzilla (it isn’t recommended that you actually baptize your poor footballers with some really horrendous names, but you get the point). You can even change your players’ features, such as specifying the height and weight that you would like them to have.
- Still in Create a Legend Mode is the ability to change your players’ accessories. Do you want them to have special elbow pads? Are you looking for a specific brand of shoes? There are many things that you can customize in this mode, and you can outfit your players to wear what you want them to wear.
- Having a game of football in the rain can be the ultimate challenge to any NCAA football fan who believes that his or her players are in the best shape to run through the mud and get a touchdown even with the heavens pouring down. For beginners, a nice sunny day in spring could be a great way to be introduced to football. Thanks to new modifications, you can customize the weather in which your team will play in NCAA!
- You can also get free downloads online, through Xbox Live, where you can get rosters updates as well as tips on how you can better improve your game. If you can’t upload the rosters yourself to your Xbox 360, lots of roster editors providing new memory cards filled with roster files can help you here. If you have your own memory card, you can send it to the roster editor instead and it will be mailed back to you. Such rosters can allow you to have a ready made team – talk about customizing your entire play!
These are only a few tricks and customizing aspects in the new NCAA 09 and your Xbox 360. Actually, you’re about to learn more since NCAA 09 will surely be packed with new gaming features. If you want to learn more about how to further enjoy your Xbox gaming experience, talk to your fellow gamers, and keep yourself updated on the latest in gaming through online message boards, forums, and news sites. With customized games, you can certainly have more fun playing NCAA 09 with your Xbox 360 console.
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Guitar Hero III World Tour
Guitar Hero has become a cultural phenomenon in the world of computer video games. The guitar, software, and accessories are availabe in all gaming platforms including Wii, Playstation, Xbox, etc. Guitar Hero is a series of music video games published by RedOctane, in partnership with Activision. The series is notable for its use of a plastic guitar peripheral to simulate the playing of music, represented on-screen by colored notes that correspond to fret buttons on the controller.
Heidi Klum Guitar Hero
Their has recently been a controversial advertisement with model Heidi Klum playing Guitar Hero in her undergarments! The games support individual play as well as cooperative and competitive modes for two players. The series has used a range of both licensed and independent rock music tracks from the 1960s, throughout the decades to the present, including many master tracks from the bands. In total, six games have been released for video game consoles. Games have also been released for mobile phones and the Nintendo DS handheld gaming system.
History
The series was originally developed by Harmonix Music Systems from 2005 to 2007. Then development duties of the series were transferred to Neversoft, whose first effort, Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock was released on October 28, 2007 in North America.
The Guitar Hero franchise has become a cultural phenomenon, making many appearances in popular culture, and the games have become extremely popular as party games and hobbies. The series has sold 23 million units, earning $1.6 billion in retail sales.
Guitar Controller
Guitar Hero is unusual because it comes packaged with a controller peripheral modeled after a black Gibson SG guitar. Rather than a typical gamepad. This guitar controller is the primary input for the game. Playing the game with the guitar controller simulates playing an actual guitar, except it uses five colored “fret buttons” and a “strum bar” instead of frets and strings. The development of Guitar Hero was inspired by Konami’s GuitarFreaks arcade game, which at the time, had not seen much exposure in the North American market; RedOctane, already selling guitar-shaped controllers for imported copies of GuitarFreaks, approached Harmonix about creating a game to use an entirely new Guitar controller.
The concept was to have the gameplay of Amplitude with the visuals of Karaoke Revolution, both of which had been developed by Harmonix. The game was met with critical acclaim and received numerous awards for its innovative guitar peripheral and its soundtrack, which comprised 47 playable rock songs (most of which were cover versions of popular songs from artists and bands from the 1960s through modern rock). Guitar Hero has sold nearly 1.5 million copies to date.
Guitar Hero II Release
The popularity of the series increased dramatically with the release of Guitar Hero II for the PlayStation 2 in 2006. Featuring improved multiplayer gameplay, an improved note-recognizing system, and 64 songs, it became the fifth best-selling video game of 2006. The PlayStation 2 version of the game was offered both separately and in a bundle with a cherry red Gibson SG guitar controller. Guitar Hero II was later released for the Xbox 360 in April 2007 with an exclusive Gibson X-Plorer guitar controller and an additional 10 songs, among other features. About 3 million units of Guitar Hero II have sold on the PlayStation 2 and Xbox 360.
The final game in the Guitar Hero series to be developed by Harmonix was Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks the 80s for the PlayStation 2, which was released in July 2007. This final game version, changing the visuals from Guitar Hero II, and shortening the song list with no bonus songs was not as well received by reviewers.
Transition
Transition Both RedOctane and Harmonix were experiencing changes in 2006. RedOctane was bought by Activision in June while it was announced in September that Harmonix would be purchased by MTV Networks. As a result of the two purchases, Harmonix would no longer develop future games in the Guitar Hero series. Instead, developing would go to Neversoft, a subsidiary of Activision known for developing the Tony Hawk’s series of skateboarding games.
Neversoft
Neversoft was chosen to helm the Guitar Hero series after Neversoft founder, Joel Jewett, admitted to the RedOctane founders, Kai and Charles Huang, that his development team for Tony Hawk’s Project 8 went to work on weekends just to play Guitar Hero. In 2007, Harmonix and MTV Games released a new music title through rival publisher Electronic Arts, called Rock Band. It expanded upon the gameplay popularized by the Guitar Hero series by adding drum and microphone instruments, allowing players to simulate playing songs as bands, though this functionality has now been implemented in Guitar Hero World Tour.
Guitar Hero III:
Legends of Rock was released in late 2007 for the PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Wii, PC, and Mac platforms. The title is the first installment of the series to include wireless guitars bundled with the game and also the first to release a special bundle with two guitars. The game includes Slash and Tom Morello as playable characters in addition to the existing fictional avatars; both guitarists performed motion capture to be used for their characters animation in the game.
Guitar Hero III World Tour (aka Guitar Hero IV)
Guitar Hero World Tour, previously named Guitar Hero IV, is the fourth full game in the series and was released on October 26, 2008 for PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and Wii. Analysts had expected that future Guitar Hero games in 2008 would include additional instrument peripherals to compete against Rock Band. Guitar Hero World Tour was confirmed as in development following the announcement of the merger between Activision and Vivendi Games in December 2007. Activision’s CEO Bobby Kotick announced on April 21, 2008 that Guitar Hero World Tour will branch out into other instruments including vocals. Guitar Hero World Tour includes drums and is packaged with a new drum set controller. A larger number of real-world musicians appear as playable characters, including the great Jimi Hendrix, Billy Corgan, Sting, and Ozzy Osbourne. Guitar Hero World Tour also features the creation of custom songs that can be shared with others.
On September 4, 2007, Billboard announced that the band Aerosmith was “working closely with the makers of Guitar Hero IV, which will be dedicated to the group’s music.” On February 15, 2008, Activision announced that Guitar Hero: Aerosmith, an expansion game to the series, would be released on June 29, 2008.
Guitar Hero: Aerosmith is developed by Neversoft for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 versions, while the Wii version of the game is developed by Vicarious Visions and the PlayStation 2 version is developed by Budcat Creations. The game features a track selection composed of 60% of Aerosmith songs, with other songs from Joe Perry’s solo work or artists that have inspired or performed with Aerosmith, including Run D.M.C. Also in the works: Activision’s 2008 SEC filings cited that they plan to release Guitar Hero: Metallica by the first quarter of 2009.
By all expectations Guitar Hero will once again be the number one selling computer video game of the year in 2008. The Guitar Hero phenomenon lives on!
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Paul E. Steinberg is webmaster of Laptops And Computers. He has a degree in computer technology and over 20 years of field experience. His site has very helpful articles and user guides including Guide to Gaming, and Guide to Laptops.
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