Xbox Live Aware Opens the
Doors Between Online and Offline Games
Imagine this scenario: You get home from work,
school, band camp… whatever, and you feel like playing a little Ghost
Recon. So you pop the Ghost DVD into your Xbox and look around
for a game. Only none of your clan members are online. This annoys you. How
dare they? So you have two choices: You could go do your homework, mow the
lawn, or practice playing the trumpet, OR you could pop in an Xbox Live
Aware title and play a fun offline game while you wait for your buddies to
get their butts on Xbox Live.
Xbox Music Mixer and other Xbox Live
Aware titles will hit the shelves in time for the holiday season, which will
make for incredible post-holiday gaming online AND offline.
Here's how it's going to work. You pop an
offline game (or super-fun title like Xbox Music Mixer) into your
Xbox and it automatically searches for an Xbox Live account. If
you're an Xbox Live subscriber, you'll be logged into the service.
Unfortunately, this doesn't make your offline game magically Xbox Live
enabled (sorry, Halo fans), but it DOES give you the ability
to keep track of what's happening on Xbox Live. You can quickly
check your Friends List to see if any of those slackers have logged on.
Plus, your friends will be able to see that you're online and send you game
invites that will pop up in the game you're playing—just like a cross-game
invite between two Xbox Live enabled games. So when your clan
members start to log on to Xbox Live, they'll send you a Ghost
Recon game invite, you'll pop in the Ghost disc, and away
you'll go!
Xbox Live Aware opens the doors that
once separated online and offline games. As Xbox Live Aware program
manager Andrew Murphy said, "It's the icing on the cake. Once a lot of games
use Xbox Live Aware, you'll wonder what you ever did without it."
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