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September 3, 2003
With more than 50 Xbox Live games on shelves this holiday, Microsoft today 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.
Xbox (http://www.xbox.com/) is Microsoft's future-generation video game system that delivers the most powerful games experiences ever. Xbox empowers game artists by giving them the technology to fulfill their creative visions as never before, creating games that blur the lines between fantasy and reality. Xbox is now available in North America, Japan, Europe and Australia.
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