Microsoft's Xbox division has announced an impressive $5,000 Project Gotham Racing 2 tournament, scheduled to take place on the game's Princes Street East track.
To get involved, just turn up and play online, and register any lap time you are particularly proud of. The top two times from the US, Canada and the top three from Europe will reward the players with an all-expenses trip to Charlotte, NC for a final showdown against the rock group Autopilot Off - a rather obscure celebrity endorsement for those of us not related to any members of the band.
The winner gets five grand in dead presidents, as well as a whole year of Xbox Live access for free.
To get involved, just turn up and play online, and register any lap time you are particularly proud of. The top two times from the US, Canada and the top three from Europe will reward the players with an all-expenses trip to Charlotte, NC for a final showdown against the rock group Autopilot Off - a rather obscure celebrity endorsement for those of us not related to any members of the band.
The winner gets five grand in dead presidents, as well as a whole year of Xbox Live access for free.
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Falien 14 Apr 2004 08:56
1/6
"The top three [times] from Europe" sounds great and all, but aren't you forgetting that almost half of Europe doesn't have access to Xbox Live?...
Deviluck 14 Apr 2004 10:05
2/6
Your right barely many people in europe have live, and i don't even have an xbox anyway. So its kinda silly. Especially with a band no one has heard of over here.
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GeoffreyBa 14 Apr 2004 10:34
3/6
Deviluck wrote:
>Your right barely many people in europe have
>live, and i don't even have an xbox anyway. So
>its kinda silly. Especially with a band no one
>has heard of over here.
Well I don't know about the Xbox Live problem in Europe or anything about how many people have it but I can tell you being from America, autopilot off is relativly new I haven't even heard of them until I saw a music magazine last month and then I started hearing about all this stuff there doing with xbox and other companies its dumb if you ask me.
>Your right barely many people in europe have
>live, and i don't even have an xbox anyway. So
>its kinda silly. Especially with a band no one
>has heard of over here.
Well I don't know about the Xbox Live problem in Europe or anything about how many people have it but I can tell you being from America, autopilot off is relativly new I haven't even heard of them until I saw a music magazine last month and then I started hearing about all this stuff there doing with xbox and other companies its dumb if you ask me.
davidholliss 14 Apr 2004 12:42
4/6
I've registered but not got any confirmation email etc, think the info in the news article here is wrong, the contest doesn't start until the 18th April so you can't race and submit a time straight away ... (I raced on Princes St East last night and there was nothing in relation to submitting my time)
almondVanHelsing 14 Apr 2004 17:39
5/6
So now Microsoft must pay people to play their silly racing game?
Hee hee.
Hee hee.
SPInGSPOnG 14 Apr 2004 18:23
6/6
GeoffreyBa wrote:
> autopilot
>off is relativly new I haven't even heard of them
>until I saw a music magazine last month and then
>I started hearing about all this stuff there
>doing with xbox and other companies its dumb if
>you ask me.
Autopilot Off have been around for about 8 years. Their first record came out in 1999. But they were going nowhere fast (slowly in fact - but the cliche shall have its way!) until they sold their soul to Microsoft.
Of course, in the olden days, musicians wishing to achieve mega success had to sell their soul to the devil... but now Bill Gates has suplanted the devil as the non plus ultra of evil.
Did anyone notice that certain bands become succcesful enough to buy their souls back from the Devil/Bill. The Rolling Stones, for instance, who achieved a level of popularity that can only be explained by a soul/fame trade. But by the time they released "Some Girls" in 1978 they were so rich that they bought their souls back from the devil, and have never released a good album since.
David Bowie did the same just after Lodger, but the subsequent lack of quality material (Never Let Me Down, Tin Machine, a song about living Underground, and duets with A newly besouled Mick Jagger, and Freddy Mercury - who bought his soul back after News of the World was released!) meant he had to re-sell his soul in 1998, and has released three great albums in a row recently.
Robbie Williams has a soul-sharing arrangement that sees the Devil have unrestricted use of his soul for two months each summer, in return for him being massively popular in the UK, yet unheard of in the US... and all without having to release any remotely decent records.
> autopilot
>off is relativly new I haven't even heard of them
>until I saw a music magazine last month and then
>I started hearing about all this stuff there
>doing with xbox and other companies its dumb if
>you ask me.
Autopilot Off have been around for about 8 years. Their first record came out in 1999. But they were going nowhere fast (slowly in fact - but the cliche shall have its way!) until they sold their soul to Microsoft.
Of course, in the olden days, musicians wishing to achieve mega success had to sell their soul to the devil... but now Bill Gates has suplanted the devil as the non plus ultra of evil.
Did anyone notice that certain bands become succcesful enough to buy their souls back from the Devil/Bill. The Rolling Stones, for instance, who achieved a level of popularity that can only be explained by a soul/fame trade. But by the time they released "Some Girls" in 1978 they were so rich that they bought their souls back from the devil, and have never released a good album since.
David Bowie did the same just after Lodger, but the subsequent lack of quality material (Never Let Me Down, Tin Machine, a song about living Underground, and duets with A newly besouled Mick Jagger, and Freddy Mercury - who bought his soul back after News of the World was released!) meant he had to re-sell his soul in 1998, and has released three great albums in a row recently.
Robbie Williams has a soul-sharing arrangement that sees the Devil have unrestricted use of his soul for two months each summer, in return for him being massively popular in the UK, yet unheard of in the US... and all without having to release any remotely decent records.