Games media outlet Noclip has begun digitising a bunch of old press conference gameplay footage from years gone by, with the results now appearing on the outlet's YouTube archive channel. There are some super cool videos in here, including a full HD Xbox E3 press conference from the 360 days, and even never-before-seen footage from old Xbox titles like Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic!
We've had a browse through a bunch of these new videos and they're well worth a look if you're interested in seeing how these games were built, and what they once looked like years before launch. Sections of the Star Wars: KOTR video look completely different from the finished product, which finally launched more than two years on from the date of this gameplay demo being shown behind closed doors.
There's a really cool Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare studio tour from Infinity Ward tucked in here too, which peels back the curtain on one of the most influential Xbox games of the last two decades. This one is light on actual game footage, but we do get to see some early concepts and gameplay clips of the 2007 shooter, along with some interesting insights from the dev team.
Anyway, we'll drop a few of these newly-uploaded videos down below, and we definitely recommend browsing the channel for any other clips that might be of interest to you. Here's hoping more Xbox-related clips appear over the coming weeks and months - you can subscribe to Noclip's Patreon if you want to lend them some support!
Happy to see this stuff preserved online? Any distinct memories from these Xbox eras? Let us know your thoughts on the footage down below.
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Apparently it is 360 day for me or something. All these nostalgia inducing videos.
Then just set my 360 back up today so I can play the copy of Spider-Man Shattered Dimensions I picked up recently.
That KOTOR presentation is definitely worth a watch if you are a fan of the game.
There is an entire sequence there that didn't make it into the game. It is also interesting to see how the early UI looked.
@evan23 There's metric ton of cut content on the disc the community re-added via community patch for PC version.
@InterceptorAlpha Yes, but what was in that demo isn't part of any of the restored content I have seen.
360 was definitely an exciting era for video games and really the turning point into videogames becoming main-stream entertainment. The improvements in graphics meant you no longer needed to use your imagination to make video games realistic, rather they just were realistic. That and the rise of cinematic style, story telling and cut scenes, really got the ball going for gaming.
That 360 show is the height of E3 cringe and it's awesome. A bunch of randos covering the Beatles, a pro skater using tech industry buzz words off a teleprompter wondering why he's there at all. Squeenix presenting FF at an xbox show. Although, that was back when FF was an RPG, so you know...it's all so dated.
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