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Xbox 360 News by Tom Bramwell
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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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. |
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bloodflowers
21/07/06 @ 10:01
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http://www.gametrailers.com/gamepage.php...
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. |
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kazuya69, you can see some screens (and a video) at http://www.castlecrashers.com/
Looks bloody good.. |
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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!* |
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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. |
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Kazzahdrane
24/07/06 @ 06:12
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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.
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