You can blast away at gruesome aliens, whack fellow motorists with giant mallets and run roughshod over the Green Bay Packers with the Xbox. But it's anybody's guess at this point whether that will be enough for Microsoft to succeed in the game console business.
Game players, industry figures and analysts agree that Microsoft has assembled a fairly strong roster of titles to accompany the Xbox's Thursday launch, beating the limited software lineup that accompanied the American arrival of Sony's market-leading PlayStation 2.
Initial Xbox titles include shoot-'em-up game "Halo," fighting game "Dead or Alive III" and street racing simulation "Project Gotham Racing," all visually impressive genre titles likely to generate strong interest from hard-core game enthusiasts, and all exclusive to the Xbox.
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