04-03-2010, 07:35 AM
The Xbox 360 and Facebook are linking up to fight a virtual re-enactment of World War I.The battle begins with Match Defense: Toy Soldiers, a Microsoft Games Studios title launched on Facebook a couple of weeks ago. The 11,000 users currently playing this 2D gem-matching game are waged in a war against Xbox users who will play the soon-to-be-released Toy Soldiers, a 3D real-time strategy that comes out for XBLA this Both games contribute to a massive virtual war effort, linked between the two platforms. Facebook and Xbox 360 players choose their side of the war, Central forces or Allied, and score points for their selected team. Those points then decide which countries either side conquers.
Microsoft will add a feature to Facebook’s Match Defense, allowing people to connect to their Xbox Live accounts. Users who own the XBLA title, Toy Soldiers, will score triple the points when playing the Facebook version. In other words, players with this duel connectivity will have a much bigger say in which side wins World War I.
The 360-Facebook link is about “game experiences that are screen-relevant” and connecting them, the game’s Microsoft producer Justin Robey told Kotaku. He said gamers can except more of this platform linking from Microsoft in the future.
Microsoft will add a feature to Facebook’s Match Defense, allowing people to connect to their Xbox Live accounts. Users who own the XBLA title, Toy Soldiers, will score triple the points when playing the Facebook version. In other words, players with this duel connectivity will have a much bigger say in which side wins World War I.
The 360-Facebook link is about “game experiences that are screen-relevant” and connecting them, the game’s Microsoft producer Justin Robey told Kotaku. He said gamers can except more of this platform linking from Microsoft in the future.