Space Invaders plus two for XBLA

By Tom Bramwell Published 5 May, 2009

Tomorrow's trio also features zombies.

Microsoft has said to expect three new Xbox Live Arcade games tomorrow - Space Invaders Extreme and Arkanoid Live! from Square-owned Taito, and Zombie Wranglers from Activision. All three will cost 800 Microsoft Points (GBP 6.80 / EUR 9.60).

Already seen on PSP and DS, Space Invaders Extreme is a disco-dancing update to the classic eighties shoot-'em-up, featuring a new, in-depth scoring mechanic based on shooting certain enemy colour combinations. We thought it was great on handhelds.

We didn't think that about Arkanoid Live!, but everyone gets a second chance. It's a Breakout update, with 62 rounds, online play, and a difficult-to-read logo.

Finally there's Zombie Wranglers, a former Vivendi game developed by Frozen Codebase. We've already had one excellent zombie game this week - are we about to get another? Probably not, but we're only saying that because third-person action games are out of fashion in the office after, you know, Wolverine.

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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 (8) Latest comment 3 years ago

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  • bad09 #1 3 years ago

    impulse buy 800 points pricepoint yay!

    Arkanoid is so mine....on payday :(

  • menage #2 3 years ago

    I kinda reached the point where 10 euro XBLA games can't compete with a heavely discounted Viking or Farcry 2 at the moment, loads of fullprice games of last year are available at a steal. Just give me something truly original like Plants vs Zombies or Braid and I will buy but Space Invaders or other old stuff I'll give a pass. It would get tossed aside in 2 hours anyway.

  • muscleblade #3 3 years ago

    If you measure value in gameplay time you might be right menage. I do not. I rather have the new Space Invaders HD than two or more old retail games any day. If i didnt buy them when they where new i didnt want them anyway. Getting Space Invaders tomorrow no doubth. That and Wolverine should keep me busy until the end of the month when a few new exiting titles are coming to the shelves.

  • menage #4 3 years ago

    @Muscle

    I disagree about the part when not buying them new I wouldn't buy them anyway. I just didn't have the money to buy them last November cause I already bought 6 games then. Not being able to buy them at some point doesn't make them crap 2 weeks after. I'm actually really enjoying games like Dead Space and Farcry 2 now, and it also serves a double purpose in the fact that I can skip games like Riddick now and buy them for 20 bucks in 2 months time.

    Saves me buckets of money.

  • muscleblade #5 3 years ago

    @Menage

    I understand you of course. Im just not like that. If i want something i buy it when its new. Money is not an issue for me. Time is. I rather spend my time on the newest games. I actually have games i havent played and probably never will because newer games is more tempting. Too many games - too little time.

  • menage #6 3 years ago

    I agree on that, I'm really swamped with games at the moment. I never played this many games at once.

  • metallicorphan #7 3 years ago

    800 points for one of the oldest games ever(i think only Pong is older),with a bit of shine on....no thankyou
    bring back the 400 point price range!!

  • muscleblade #8 3 years ago

    @metallicorphan

    You are truly misinformed regarding Space Invaders. Its a new game based on the old one. Not the same old game with new graphics. Its like saying Pac Man CE is Pac Man with a bit of shine on. You couldnt be more mistaken.