Behemoth duo for Live Arcade

By Tom Bramwell Published 21 July, 2006

Alien Hominid, Castle Crashers.

The Behemoth's quirky 2D shooter Alien Hominid will appear on Xbox Live Arcade later this year, while the developer's other game, another side-scroller called Castle Crashers, will join the XBLA line-up in early 2007.

Alien Hominid began life as a Flash game before it made its way to PS2, GameCube and Xbox. The 360 version will of course be in high-definition and widescreen, and we're also told to expect a few bonuses for people familiar with the original.

Castle Crashers looks almost as manic as Alien Hominid, but adds a bit of into-the-screen depth to the side-scrolling so that the four little block-headed player-characters can deal death in different ways - with all sorts of sword-lashing combination attacks and fireball-chucking.

For more on Alien Hominid, check out our review from last June.

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Comments (14) Latest comment 6 years ago

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  • #1 6 years ago

    I was going to make a comment that Alien Hominid could just be made backwards compatible and the problem is solved.

    However, the chance to play it in hi-def and widescreen sounds pretty neat.

    I hope to goodness the price is right and they don't take the piss.

  • Darkedge #2 6 years ago

    hope Alien Hominid will be cheap - 600 points should do it :)
    Then I'll def buy this for a quick laugh

  • Normski #3 6 years ago

    Mapster, they're still slightly taking the piss - they could have made the original backwardly compatible as well so people who had already bought the game would at least have the choice.

    As it is, there's little incentive for MS to work on backwards compatability if people are going to pay for the old games again, thus legitimising their slightly questionable strategy.

  • Xerx3s #4 6 years ago

    I was going to make a comment that Alien Hominid could just be made backwards compatible and the problem is solved.

    Arn't all BC auto HD like halo (I thought they updated the textures and such as well)?

  • kazuya69 #5 6 years ago

    Any more info around on castle crashers? Or screens even??

  • bloodflowers #6 6 years ago

    [link url=http://www.gametrailers.com/gamepage.php?fs=1&id=3041 ]http://ww w.gametrailers.com/gamepage.php...[/link]

    Video of Castle Crashers above.

    As for Alien Hominid - can't say I really want to see that one again. It's a Metal Slug clone, but not even half as good. Looks great in screenshots and vids, but when playing is a confusing mess of animation that hides critical things like, oh, bullets.

  • Dean #7 6 years ago

    kazuya69, you can see some screens (and a video) at [link url=http://www.castlecrash ers.com/
    ]http://www.castlecrash ers.com/
    [/link]

    Looks bloody good..

  • absolutezero #8 6 years ago

    I want a full Dad & Me game dammit!

  • peterfll #9 6 years ago

    They both look good. I don't have the orginal AH - so what's wrong with it being offered to me at a reduced price (assuming it will be)?

    "You can only please some of the people all of the time"

    ........ no, that's not right.

    "You can only please people some of the time"

    ... nope, that doesn't sound write either.

    *dammit!*

  • Retroid #10 6 years ago

    AH sold like shite, though, didn't it? Very limited release and sales.

    I'd love for it to gain a wider audience & more success, this seems the perfect way to go about it!

  • Tomo #11 6 years ago

    Dad And Me was rubbish :/

  • Xerx3s #12 6 years ago

    They both look great. That CC game looks very interesting, 4p coop ftw! \0/

    If XBLa can make more of these games, they might have stumbled on a goldpot here.

  • Normski #13 6 years ago

    I'm not suggesting it shouldn't be available as downloadable, not at all, it seems an ideal way to utilise the platform - and good luck to Behemoth they deserve every penny they make by releasing it again and giving other people a chance to try the game for the first time.

    I just think that it plays into Microsoft's hands, it's clear that their commitment to backwards compatibility is limited (they've even said so themselve, even if they then backtracked) and if they're making extra cash selling the same games again on Live Arcade as well, why would they care?

    It's a matter of choice - by offering the original as a supported BC title then they give that opportunity to people who've already bought the game - at the moment they don't have that choice, which is a shame.

  • Beano #14 6 years ago

    "Arn't all BC auto HD like halo (I thought they updated the textures and such as well)? "

    Yes... the BC emulator is running games in HD, but the game assets (videoes, music, textures, etc) are loaded from the original Xbox DVD.
    BC games are not being reworked or changed.

  • Kazzahdrane #15 6 years ago

    Halo and Halo 2 are the only BC games (AFAIK) which look better on the 360. In fact it might just be Halo, but thought they'd improved the sequel slightly too.