Assault Heroes goes Live News
Xbox 360 News by Tom Bramwell
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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Scurrminator
13/12/06 @ 12:27
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it's awesome, best game on XBLA, been playing it for few months now.
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schoozzzmmii
13/12/06 @ 13:16
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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?
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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. :) |
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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 |
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@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. |
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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. |
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