XBLA Hydrophobia dated, priced

By Robert Purchese Published 1 September, 2010

First of four Game Feast titles.

Dark Energy Digital has announced a 29th September release date for Xbox Live Arcade exclusive, Hydrophobia.

This will be the first of four Xbox Live Arcade games offered in Microsoft's Game Feast promotion. We heard yesterday that Super Meat Boy - due 20th October - would be another.

Hydrophobia will be a trilogy. The first instalment will cost 1200 Microsoft Points (£10.20/€14.40). All three episodes should be out within 12 months - that's the plan.

Hydrophobia - the first of the trilogy - packs several hours of single-player action on board a sinking ship attacked by terrorists [Dark Energy Digital contacted us this morning to tell us there would be "lots of reyplayability" through challenge rooms, leaderboards and collectibles -Ed]. The water will be central to combat and exploration and, Dark Energy Digital hopes, make Hydrophobia stand out in a flooded environment.

Hydrophobia will also appear on PC and PS3 further down the line. A boxed release is possible.

Hardly Arachnophobia, is it?

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About Robert Purchese

Bertie is Eurogamer's Senior Staff Writer. When he's not hunting down news stories he's often found playing with his kids or gabbling about fantasy games and strange online worlds.

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Comments (7) Latest comment 1 year ago

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  • Tinrib72 #1 1 year ago

    Boxed only on PC and PS3....arse!

    I would have given this a look if it was boxed for X360, now i'll be giving a swerve. 1200pts per episode!! Ha ha ha etc...

  • darkmorgado #2 1 year ago

    hydrophobia will have a boxed release

    That's good then - I'll buy it boxed. Saves me money, means I won't have to wait to play the full game, plus I will probably get all the DLC (plus a full 1000G instead of the 200G per episode restriction of the XBLA release).

  • darkmorgado #3 1 year ago

    @Tinrib72

    Not on Xbox?

    *checks article again*

    Damn. Oh well, PC it is!

  • andywilkie35 #4 1 year ago

    Looks good, but I'll wait until all three are out.

  • kinky_mong #5 1 year ago

    Was looking interesting until I saw the pricing per episode. Just release a boxed version for the 360 as well.

  • citizenHUNTER #6 1 year ago

    Right, first gripe... why is there 'wobble-o-vision' under the water.... Underwater you can see things just as clearly and wobble free as you can see things when you are above water... you only see things wobble when you're looking either into the water or out of the water and lights refracts through the surface.... I had this same annoyance with the opening movie in MGS1 on that submarine shot :p

    Grrr....

  • Lukus #7 1 year ago

    @citizenHUNTER, you can't see as clearly underwater, not without goggles anyway. Even then everything is blurred. Yes, no wobble, but definitely lots of blur.