Assault Heroes goes Live

By Tom Bramwell Published 13 December, 2006

Up there now.

As promised, Xbox Live Arcade fans can now get their mitty little grubs on this week's shoot-'em-up spectaculaaaar, Assault Heroes.

800 Microsoft points is what it will cost you, and it's a 47MB download for either the trial version of the full game.

Assault Heroes is billed as "the ultimate arcade shooter" (we'll see etc.), and supports one or two players working their way around and calling on vehicles like a heavily armed 4x4 and speedboat to dispense with choppers, tanks and so on.

Naturally the game supports online co-op play, as well as the usual array of leaderboards, and harbours the typical 12 achievements for a total of 200 gamerpoints.

Look out for a review in the coming days, then, and be sure to let everyone know what you make of it further down the page.

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About Tom Bramwell

Tom is Operations director of Eurogamer Network and Editor-at-Large of Eurogamer.net. He joined the company in February 2000.

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Comments (19) Latest comment 5 years ago

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  • dbeamish #1 5 years ago

    any good anyone? it looks tat..

  • Scurrminator #2 5 years ago

    it's awesome, best game on XBLA, been playing it for few months now.

  • glo #3 5 years ago

    well worth 800 points in my opinion and the best game on XBLA in a long while

  • djchump #4 5 years ago

    it's awesome - buy it now!

  • SBfistfun #5 5 years ago

    Assup Heroes more like

  • Benno #6 5 years ago

    scurrminator and djchump pipe it down a little please its getting a bit boring now

    downloading now, looks really sweet

  • schoozzzmmii #7 5 years ago

    Am looking forward to giving this a try when I get home but one comment I read somewhere said the frame rate was pretty poor. Anyone given it a try and able confirm or deny this?

  • Phattso #8 5 years ago

    Graphics are smooth, the game is fun to play - yeah, I think I'll buy the full version.

    There are a couple of niggly issues like the 'flamer' unit being basically a stick of flame that rotates rather than actually emitting flames where you're shooting. But that aside, it looks like a solid game.

    More like this, please. :)

  • crashVoodoo #9 5 years ago

    just watched a video of it .. looks a bit like swiv

  • Realtime #10 5 years ago

    The next best thing to Ikari Warriors

  • djchump #11 5 years ago

    Benno: "scurrminator and djchump pipe it down a little please its getting a bit boring now"

    Lol - yeah, stupid me for actually enjoying a game and posting about it on a games website.

    /rollseyes

    Some people...

  • Benno #12 5 years ago

    no its just everytime this game is mentioned you bone over it, nowt wrong with it, was just letting you know that it seems you clearly have some financial/employment links with the company

    i have just got back from playing it and your right its fucking awesome

  • LeD #13 5 years ago

    Just tried the demo and got killed by the first boss. I think I'll buy! It's fun, looks nice and crisp, top-down no nonsense action.

  • angstmann #14 5 years ago

    Yep. Just downloaded it... Ikari Warriors and Silkworm/SWIV were some of my fave games... I'll have a good old blast on the demo, but not sure I'd buy it... it plays just like Geometry Wars but with distinguishable (just) graphics!

  • Xerx3s #15 5 years ago

    Played, liked it a lot, bought it. It did cheat me out of my first achievement so I'm a bit miffed.

  • djchump #16 5 years ago

    Benno:"no its just everytime this game is mentioned you bone over it, nowt wrong with it, was just letting you know that it seems you clearly have some financial/employment links with the company"
    Well I don't.
    Like me and Scurrminator said before, we do work in the games industry, but not for those devs or anything. We just saw it go up on Partnernet ages ago, had a go and loved it; and as we hate most of the shite and tat on Xbox Live Arcade it really stood out as a very accomplished little game - and great fun!

    I've publically expressed my discontent with tired crappy old XBLA games like Frogger, Scramble etc. - so when I see stuff like Geometry Wars and Assault Heroes I like to tell other people that it's good. That way, the more people buy it, the more Microsoft will get the message that the public wants *good* new games instead of tired old shitty retro pap.

    Benno: "i have just got back from playing it and your right its fucking awesome"
    Exactly ;-)
    And playing it in 2 player co-op is even more fun :-D

  • Phattso #17 5 years ago

    @Xerx3s: if you keep playing then when you eventually die it unlocks the achievements at the end at the same time as totalling up your scores. Slightly unusual way of doing it, but it does award the achievement.

    If you powered down the console or exited to the dashboard without dying you wouldn't have necessarily seen that.

  • octo #18 5 years ago

    Liked it.

  • SwedBear #19 5 years ago

    Wonderfull. Takes me back to the C64 and amiga (hmm, maybe they should get Commando or gunsmoke to XBA ..). This is what I called pure gaming joy.

    Played it in Coop with a nice American and we had no lag. He had to leave jsut after we beat the third boss and switched to boats unfortunately.

    But it's really fun. well worth the 800 points.

    Oh, BTW. What's all this hate against the old classics? I actually enjoy small bouts of frogger or timepilot now and then. For the price I think they work well and as everyone are talking about how to get "non-gamers" to play these days (in reference to the Wii), the classics like Frogger, Galaga and Timepilot has actually gotten several older relatives to play whenever they come over. So be nice to them. It's not like you ahve to buy them and they do seem to ahve an audience.