Lost Cities for Live Arcade tomorrow

By Robert Purchese Published 22 April, 2008

Exploration card game.

Sierra Online will be dishing out Lost Cities as your Live Arcade treat tomorrow.

It costs 800 Points (GBP 6.80 / EUR 9.60) and is a an exploration card game designed by German puzzle legend Reiner Knizia.

There is a 60-card pack, and the idea is to mount a profitable expedition to one or more of five lost cities: the Himalayas, the Brazilian Rain Forest, the Desert Sands, the Ancient Volcanoes and Neptune's Realm.

Up-to three of you can traipse around in the Live Arcade version, and Wikipedia thinks each game lasts about 30 minutes.

As always, there will be 12 Achievements totalling 200 Gamerscore points up for grabs.

Look out for our thoughts on Lost Cities very soon.

Pop over to our Lost Cities gallery to see what it looks like.

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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 (15) Latest comment 4 years ago

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  • quantumsheep #1 4 years ago

    Hmmm.. interesting.

    Though I haven't played nearly enough of Ikaruga yet....

  • ccfb #2 4 years ago

    "Up-to"

    Lose that hyphen.

  • espibara #3 4 years ago

    Jesus this is whats wrong with xbox live arcade.


    With so many classic arcade games the UK and US have never played such as Dodonpachi and Espgaluda yet xbox live arcade keeps serving up fodder like this.

    Lets get some GENUINE arcade games on there for christs sake!

  • Fozzie_bear #4 4 years ago

    Jesus this is whats wrong with xbox live arcade.

    I reckon that this sort of thing is exactly when xbla is at it's best!

  • espibara #5 4 years ago

    @ Fozzie

    But wasnt xbox live arcde supposed to be about bringing Genuine Arcade games to the masses/home console not newly created obscure card games.

  • darkmuse #6 4 years ago

    Its not that newly created. It is a little obscure though. My missus loves it but I find it a little lacking and I certainly cannot see how they expect to win any fans by putting it out as an XBLA game; not at 800 points anyway! There are, however, some great board games out there crying out for XBLA treatment (many already playable at brettspielwelt or similar). Perhaps some sort of Knizia board game package would be more palatable. Especially since I already own plenty of the physical versions.

  • peterfll #7 4 years ago

    Could you apply an Aztec Amazom theme to any more of yor Live Arcade games Microsoft? Oh go on, Pinball FX is crying out for a Rainforest table.

  • Coughthulu #8 4 years ago

    @Fozzie:

    Agree entirely, these type of games are great. It has made me think though, a decent implementation of Magic The Gathering for XBLA could be truly wonderful, as long as they implemented multiplayer properly.

    (I like Ikaruga too, though!)

  • miiiguel #9 4 years ago

    espibara , the market expands towards user preferences. UNO sold > 1 million copies, which, imho, is crazy.
    Edited by 1 at 22/04/08 @ 17:40

  • beastmaster #10 4 years ago

    Come on Sierra...bring us some updates of old classics like Rise of the Dragon or Mean Streets. Not Lost Cities .

  • Fozzie_bear #11 4 years ago

    But wasnt xbox live arcde supposed to be about bringing Genuine Arcade games to the masses/home console not newly created obscure card games.

    I don't know about that - joined the 360 party a bit late.

    My most played games on the console have been Carcassonne and Catan and would prefer to see more of that sort of thing than old arcade games.

    Wouldn't mind more geo wars type stuff - new pick up and play blasters etc but not manky old MAME fodder!

    Anyway, when's Talisman out?

  • WinterSnowblind #12 4 years ago

    Xbox Live was never meant soley for classic Arcade games, infact I far prefer these smaller, indie games. A lot of them are very enjoyable and can be played regularly, where as I rarley touch the classic arcade games that I do own. If that's what you prefer then fine, but XBLA was never designed exclusively for that, not even back in the days of the original Xbox. And remember, it's up to the developers of those games to release them for the 360, not Microsoft. And that aside, Ikaruga was just released, we don't need the marketplace flooded with these silly shooters.

  • systems #13 4 years ago

    I'm waiting for Talisman too Fozzie_bear. Was meant to be out last November and then disappeared without a trace.

  • JedEvangelion #14 4 years ago

    This is arguably Knizia's finest 2 player game. Those of you who haven't played it before are in for a treat.

  • muscleblade #15 4 years ago

    I loved Carssasonne. One of the best XBLA games imo. I think i will get this when i actually get the time to play it.