Assault Heroes 2 confirmed for Wednesday

By Tom Bramwell Published 12 May, 2008

On XBLA. In case you'd forgotten.

Assault Heroes 2 is due out on Xbox Live Arcade this Wednesday and Sierra Online has confirmed a price tag of 800 Microsoft Points. You knew all this, of course, but it never hurts to remind yourself.

Developed by Wanako Studios (still funny), it's a two-stick shooter in the same vein as the first game, but with a bigger campaign, more destructible environments, more exotic vehicles and an extra edge to the on-foot gunplay.

It also has fancier bosses, as you'll know if you've watched our Assault Heroes 2 bosses trailer, which should put up more of a fight during the two-player co-operative mode, which was a "pleasurable romp" good enough to rescue the first game from relative mediocrity.

At least that's what some idiot wrote when the first one game out in late 2006. Whether the sequel will achieve this much will be a question of how it copes with tougher competition from the likes of Heavy Weapon (well, Kristan liked it) and also Mutant Storm Empire.

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Comments (16) Latest comment 4 years ago

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  • imamazed #1 4 years ago

    #1 comment. WOOT

    First one was good, but XBLA games are over priced as whole. Not as bad as wii VC games of course, but it's still bad.
    Edited by 1 at 12/05/08 @ 17:20

  • McBradders #2 4 years ago

    800 points, if the game is good (like Assault Heroes was), is a bargain.

  • NickD7 #3 4 years ago

    Still waiting for a decent Xbox live arcade game , and I've played over 20 so far including the original Assault heroes, Synphony of the night was good but that hardly counts as there has been about 40 versions of that game. all the games feel like stocking fillers so far and are not worth 800 points.

    at least VC has real games, and Super Metroid > Xbox live arcade.

  • Fwing #4 4 years ago

    If you don't think Band of Bugs, Catan and Bomberman Live are worth 800 points you're dead inside.

  • miiiguel #5 4 years ago

    NickD7, Rez? Ikaruga?

  • McBradders #6 4 years ago

    NickD7: questionable taste confirmed.

  • woodnotes #7 4 years ago

    NickD7: Shut up.

    310 out of your paltry 1315 gamerscore points are from Viva Pinata: Party Animals ffs. The same game that got 3/10 right here on EG. The same game that sucks ass but costs more than a XBLA game. You haven't got a bloody clue, not a clue about games.
    Edited by 1 at 12/05/08 @ 17:46

  • Psychotext #8 4 years ago

    I just looked for NickD7's post as you're all replying to him....

    ...mmm, the comfort of a well padded ignore list.

  • DAN.E.B #9 4 years ago

    good news but im skint

    and ninja gaidens in a few weeks!

  • penhalion #10 4 years ago

    May have to get this as it looks decent

  • WinterSnowblind #11 4 years ago

    The virtual console is not only far more expensive, but because we're Europeans we get the botched 50hrz versions of the games, which run at half speed. I haven't bought a single game on the VC, and I doubt I ever will. Almost all of the really good games on there have already been ported to numerous other versions and run at FULL SPEED.

    The original Assault Heroes was a lot of fun and I'm definitely looking forward to the sequel, but I do agree that a lot of the games that go up are slightly overpriced. 800 points has become the standard, which is simply too much for a lot of what goes up. For something like Assault Heroes though, it should definitely be worth it.

  • convercide #12 4 years ago

    @NickD7

    There are 4 versions of Symphony of the Night. You went over by a factor of 10.

    Also, Dear Microsoft,

    Where the fuck are games like Duke Nukem 3D, Doom 2, Final Doom and SSFII:HD Remix?

  • cornishflipper #13 4 years ago

    i loved the first game! cant wait! wicked! :) not at all excited lol.

  • muscleblade #14 4 years ago

    This is about as good as the original according to Team Xbox. Im skipping this. Im waiting for Bionic commando, SSF2THDR and Soul Calibur.

  • Xerx3s #15 4 years ago

    Good news, I loved the first! \0/

  • Xerx3s #16 4 years ago

    NickD7: Wait so full games like Castlevania, dukenukem 3d, doom, etc. in a HD remake are shit but overpriced exact ports that don't work so well are win?
    I know some brown stuff and you're full of it.

  • Xerx3s #17 4 years ago

    convercide: Duke 3d is planned for august.