Toy Soldiers: Cold War unveiled for XBLA

By Fred Dutton Published 9 March, 2011

Plus, original finally gets PC release.

A follow-up to Xbox Live Arcade action strategy hit Toy Soldiers is in the works, developer Signal Studios has announced.

Toy Soldiers: Cold War will be officially unveiled at the PAX East event in Boston this weekend, but Signal's official website has thrown up a few gameplay details.

"The Cold War is decided when '80s era action toys come alive and wage war! Toy Soldiers: Cold War blends intense first person combat with addictive action strategy, whether you're scrapping solo or jumping into the fray with friends," it reads

A new co-op mode is promised, along with new units, more upgrades, improved physics and revamped AI. Signal has also included a batch of fresh mini-games to break up the action, expanded unit trees and new secondary turret features.

Sounds good to us. The first game, which has now sold over 500,000 copies, was a blast. Eurogamer's Dan Pearson awarded it 8/10, insisting "It's certainly the best tower defence game on Live, and for my money it's up there with the best games on XBLA in general."

Signal hasn't revealed a release window for the sequel as of yet but did confirm that the original will finally get a PC release in "late Spring/Summer 2011."

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Comments (9) Latest comment 1 year ago

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  • glaeken #1 1 year ago

    Sounds good. I thought the first one was great. I would like them to do away wirh the fixed positions though as it would really improve the game to be able to place weapons anywhere. I guess that might cause some design issues though.

  • Mark1412 #2 1 year ago

    This and the Vampire Smile release date announcement. What a day.

  • Dizzy #3 1 year ago

    Tasty!

  • miiiguel #4 1 year ago

    One of my favourite 360 games, though they must come up with something more interesting than UFO's..., didn't like that last DLC much.

  • Eraysor #5 1 year ago

    My favourite XBLA game of 2010 gets a sequel? YYYYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH

  • metalangel #6 1 year ago

    Hehe! I hope it's dark green vs. tan vs. grey. With some badly moulded planes that are much smaller than the tanks! And some barbed wire/sandbag walls that tip over!

  • Tryhard #7 1 year ago

    Sounds great.

  • Der_tolle_Emil #8 1 year ago

    Sold! Toy Soldiers was fantastic although some missions relied a bit too much on me taking over planes, tanks or certain buildings to defend properly. It was a nice addition and a welcome change of pace being able to take direct control but I enjoy strategically placing builinds and then seeing what will happen; The missions where you really had to constantly switch between buildings or even attack weren't really my cup of tea. Also, the loading times were horrible.

    Still looking forward to the sequel because it really is a very well made tower defense game.

  • Raconteur #9 1 year ago

    The first one was great. The new one has been added to my 'must have' list.