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PSP DS News by Robert Purchese
Square Enix has plans to unleash its reinterpretations of Arkanoid and Space Invaders in Europe on 4th July.
Space Invaders Extreme for DS and PSP has snazzy backgrounds and funky music that matches the sounds you make when murdering aliens.
The DS version lets you play a friend over Wi-Fi, or by sharing from one cartridge locally. There are also high-score tables to top. And high-scores are amazing.
The PSP offering is limited to ad-hoc multiplayer, but takes the visual edge with its widescreen support and has music supplied by people we've never heard of before.
Arkanoid is the game where you move your paddle about at the bottom of the screen to bounce a ball into - and break - blocks above you.
The DS rethink has 140 levels to smash, extra modes to introduce stage-specific rules, plus customisable backgrounds, blocks and sound effects.
You can take on one or three of your friends over Wi-Fi, as well as share from a single cart locally. Also, high-score tables. Brilliant.
Head over to our Space Invaders Extreme (DS, PSP) and Arkanoid DS galleries to see what's what.
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When I first saw Square Enix's name attached to these, I thought we might be in line for a Puzzle Quest-stylee blend of classic Square RPG mechanics married to old-school shootiness or block breaking...
Sadly that doesn't seem to be the case after all. Ah well...
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Rev. Stuart Campbell
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SIE is absolutely superb, and anyone who ignores it thinking it's an old-style Space Invaders game is a chump who deserves to miss out on one of the best DS games yet. A Euro release is great news, although the Jap version is almost totally free of language issues. Arkanoid DS is belief-defyingly rubbish.
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I actually bought both Space Invaders Extreme on import for both DS and PSP, I then got the spinner for the DS so figured I might as well get Arkanoid as well!
To me, Arkanoid is a solid enough title (though not as good as the SNES version), but both Invaders titles are superb, with the levels being the same on both, but with better sound and resolution on the PSP (although I prefer the DS version for some reason). Imagine a cross-over between Rez and Space Invaders and that is what you are getting, it is truly excellent and both Edge and GamesTM rated it highly, around the 8 mark IIRC.
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cawley1 is bang-on there, SIE is exactly that: Space Invaders, but 'retro evolved' in the GOOD way, so that it plays like Rez, but is still space invaders. You can still riff on these old chords and make something new and excellent if you try. I'd recommend it to anyone who ever enjoyed a vertical shooting game of any kind.
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