SPOnG’s US team was quick off the mark to have a butchers at the freshly-installed Xbox 360 demonstration units currently being rolled out into WalMart and EB stores across the US.
Armed with a camera, our people aided the installation of one New York unit and snapped these images when the burly, neckless security staff were busying themselves with other things.
We also grabbed a few shakey-cam videos of the new demos in action. Both builds are new and specifically created for in-store use. They’re not the best quality, as our efforts to stand a tripod in front of one of Samsung’s rather sexy monitors was rumbled. So don’t complain.
We have one video of King Kong having a fight with a Tyrannosaurus Rex. This is taken from the King Kong Game from Ubisoft, in case you were wondering. The other is the new demo build of Rare’s Kameo in full elfin glory.
King KongMPEG4 Xvid 32Mb
Quicktime 8.1Mb
KameoMPEG4 Xvid 80Mb
Quicktime 32Mb
In related news, we’ll be having a closer look at a 360 when a WalMart store closes for the evening today, with the hot poop likely to go live tomorrow, if all goes to plan. An army of SPOnG reporters will descend upon a 360 unit and have a good old fiddle around with it, snap the evidence, and we’ll publish it for your approval, along with some high quality videos featuring ‘sound’.
Either that or the WalMart clerk we gave a copy of Advance Wars to to let us stay behind after closing time will get sacked and we’ll feel bad. For a bit. Whatever happens, it should be a gas.