MS talks up future XBLA titles News
Xbox 360 News by Tom Bramwell
Microsoft has confirmed that Mutant Storm Empire will be released on Xbox Live Arcade tomorrow, priced 800 Microsoft points (GBP 6.80 / EUR 9.30), and has also highlighted some of the other XBLA titles due out in "the coming weeks".
First up on the alphabetical list is N+, from Slick Entertainment and Metanet, in which players control a tiny acrobatic ninja through tons of levels of puzzly platforming.
It will soon be joined by THQ's recently unveiled Screwjumper and SpongeBob SquarePants: Underpants Slam. The latter is in a very small minority of kids-focused XBLA titles, but the addition of Activision's Shrek-N-Roll puzzle game to the line-up potentially gives it a naptime companion.
Elsewhere, Sierra Online's Switchball, a physics puzzler about directing a ball along a course suspended in midair, brushes up against Chair Entertainment's Unreal Engine 3-powered Undertow, while InterServ's Word Puzzle - yes, pen and paper word-search brought to digital life - rounds out the list of seven games set to join XBLA soon.
Look out for our Mutant Storm Empire review very soon.
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Universal Hamster
30/10/07 @ 09:21
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Ooo, N is an evil bastard of a game. Cant wait, but what changes are going to be made to it that differs it to the free version?
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spookyzombie
30/10/07 @ 09:28
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Does anyone actually really play arcade titles a lot? I've paid for about six now and to be honest I rarely play them, especially recently with lots of decent full games out there.
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spookyzombie
30/10/07 @ 09:40
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@ Dan_LXIX
That's kind of my point. I don't get hours and hours to game, so I'd rather play a full title when I do the get the chance. |
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Mutant Storm looks good. Undertow could be nice as well as N (although I can see you'd definitely need a HDTV for that one. ). Nice that not all of them are that greta, it's costing me way too much money.
on the subject of actuallt playing them. Puzzle Quest get's enough time. As does Lumines. It's the bigger titles which offer the most. Then again, One nights of fun or reminiscing for 400-800 points isn't that bad. I would lose 8000 points in a bar:P |
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Wrestlevania
30/10/07 @ 10:31
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So where's SSF2T-HD then, and Rez HD, and Ikaruga -- not to mention Castle Crashers!
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BadBoyBonner
30/10/07 @ 11:18
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SpookyZombie
Jewel Quest is about the only arcade title I have completed - and spent hours on it as it is just about the only game the GF likes. Trying to get her into Puzzlequest on the DS but she is not convinved! lol SWOS would probably be my most played XBL title of all time - if it ever actually comes out. |
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Monkey_Puncher
30/10/07 @ 12:38
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I've played Worms, Lumines, Puzzle Quest and Bomberman more than I've played a lot of my full price games.
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I've bought a fair few XBLA games but actually end up playing them for perhaps an hour the same day I purchase them and never bother with them again! LOL
I think the longest I've played an XBLA game is seven hours over three days on Geometry Wars Evolved but that was back in December 2005! I don't think the XBLA has anything to match the quality of Super Stardust HD and Tekken 5 Dark Resurrection on the PS3, two games I *have* played as extensively as any full-priced disc-based game in fact. In my opinion, for every good game on XBLA there's 5 pieces of retro "dross" that gives the service a cheap, tacky feel not one brimming with high-quality games. |
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Corben Dallas
30/10/07 @ 13:04
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Where the feck is Sensi Soccer!!!!
:| Mircoshaft i'm looking at you ]:\ |
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Monkey_Puncher
30/10/07 @ 13:21
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Some nice looking games there, N+ should be good as I believe it'll be the same enhanced version that's coming out for DS and PSP. Switchball looks fun and that Undertow game looks interesting as well.
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If its not SWOS then not intersted, I don't understand why Ms or codemasters can't just be honest, granted it was penned in for August, If one of the above said, there was a small bug that needs to be ironed out, this has been done and should be available for download on xx/xx/xxxx. that is not asking much.
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Diomedes117
31/10/07 @ 18:18
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Is there any chance we'll see Perfect Dark and/or Banjo Kazooie? Never had a N64, but these Rare classics would be great...
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