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Steroids. Mm.

Microsoft has told us tomorrow's Live Arcade treat will be a double pack containing Asteroids and Asteroids Deluxe.

This rocky offering could be yours for 400 Points (GBP 3.40 / 4.65), and takes you back to the olden days of vector graphics as you blast your little spaceship around and break up enormous asteroids as they hurtle towards you.

Deluxe is the sequel to Asteroids, and both will come HD visuals with a high-speed "throttle monkey" mode to make things a bit trickier - plus the usual Leaderboards to climb and 200 Gamerpoints to earn.

Look out for our review of Asteroids soon.

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KingOfIceland #1 4 years ago

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Bleh, where's REZ?
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Rpt81 #2 4 years ago

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Seems kinda silly. Why not just release them together as a double pack and charge 800? Chances are people will only buy one or the other at this rate.
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Beano #3 4 years ago

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"Steroids. Mm. "

Asteroids on steroids is allready out... it's called Super Stardust HD
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asphaltcowboy #4 4 years ago

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It's 400 for both, not each!
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Rpt81 #5 4 years ago

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I do apologise. Didn't read that properly. When I first heard about this last night, I'd read that they were 400 each. My bad.
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asphaltcowboy #6 4 years ago

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Don't worry, even Major Nelson posted it wrong the first time!
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Britesparc Verified Creative, ITV #7 4 years ago

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Next week: Space War.

Where's SWOS?
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morriss #8 4 years ago

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SWOS confirmed as the 19th December. It's all over teh intarweb.
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Skeletor #9 4 years ago

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Where's Ikaruga and REZ?!
Btw, get a way better Asteroids here:
http://ww w.binaryzoo.com/games/echoes/in...
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Khanivor #10 4 years ago

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So, when's Pong coming out?
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Lexx87 #11 4 years ago

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Pong HD
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lennon #12 4 years ago

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I believe SWOS has been comfirmed as the 19th December. Im looking for a link now and will post it when i find it.

EDIT : Beaten to it!

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Darren #13 4 years ago

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After playing the wonderous and super-insanely addictive Super Stardust HD on the PS3 (which is 'inspired' by Asteroids), I can't imagine the Asteroids remake being anywhere near as slick or fun but at least the trial is free so I can find out.
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escapedape #14 4 years ago

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Is it just me or is Live Arcade stagnating? I used to buy stuff near enough every week - there always seemed to be something interesting to play, or something old but good - but the last few months have been absolutely dire!
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Steroyd #15 4 years ago

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Steroyds
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spookyzombie #16 4 years ago

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Wake me up when something good rears it head. Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
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Monkey_Puncher #17 4 years ago

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Have you actually been checking XBLA for the last few months?

There's been some of the best releases in its history over the last few months. Games like Exit, Undertow, Puzzle Quest, Speedball 2, Switchball etc etc

This is the weakest release and the first crappy retro release for a very long time

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Dermoth #18 4 years ago

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Asteroids is easily my favourite oldschool arcade game, so you lot whining about SWOS can shut it. (And I love SWOS more than you do). It's a genuwine classic, and pisses all over most stuff on XBLA. And the good news is, they've managed to get the tricky job of Mameporting the original down reasonably well.

Everything else, though? APPALLING. Really, really bad. If I'd shelled out 400 points looking for groovy updates on a great concept, I'd be absolutely livid right now. Fortunately, I only wanted a Mameport with a highscore table I can pwn, so it's merely extremely disappointing.
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