Ticket to Ride on XBLA tomorrow

By Tom Bramwell Published 24 June, 2008

Along with Happy Tree Friends.

As if Elements of Destruction, Sea Life Safari and Frogger 2 weren't enough for you, Microsoft is back with another Xbox Live Arcade duo tomorrow, 25th June.

As we already know, the first game is Happy Tree Friends: False Alarm - from SEGA and Stainless Games - which will cost 800 Microsoft Points (GBP 6.80 / EUR 9.60).

Based on Flash cartoons and soaked in blood and violence, the idea is to rescue trapped friends from locations like a mineshaft, sweet factory and museum.

Meanwhile, going up against it will be Ticket to Ride from Next Level Games, which is another board-game adaptation, which sees players trying to reach their destination by drawing cards and claiming routes.

It too will cost 800 Microsoft Points (GBP 6.80 / EUR 9.60) and include four-player local and six-player online play. Both games also promise the requisite leaderboards, 12 unlockable Achievements for a total of 200 gamerpoints, and a demo version.

Look out for our reviews of both in due course.

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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 (14) Latest comment 4 years ago

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  • Dizzy #1 4 years ago

    Oh yes!

    More boardgames please.

  • Moz #2 4 years ago

    Meh! Love ticket to ride, but much prefer playing it sat round a table with friends instead of on a screen anyday. For starters you can't keep your cards secret unless everyone closes their eyes when it's not their turn which given the average turn in T2R is about 5 seconds that's really not practicle.

  • bad09 #3 4 years ago

    I'm getting so fed up with the Acrade titles lately. PS3 may not have many good exclusive disk games for me ATM but PSN offers more of what I want over arcade lately so much so I rarely venture on to the MP for anything other than demos, fix up MS!

  • Dizzy #4 4 years ago

    >I'm getting so fed up with the Acrade titles lately

    You hate games?

    There are soooo many titles on XBLA. Would be very doubtful if you couldn't find 10 to play that you liked.
    Edited by 1 at 24/06/08 @ 10:57

  • bad09 #5 4 years ago

    @ Dizzy

    yeah but I already bought them ones! :)
    Edited by 1 at 24/06/08 @ 11:14

  • escapedape #6 4 years ago

    Love Ticket to Ride but have to agree - how would you keep your destination tickets secret on local play? That is crucial to the strategy of the game!

  • Monkey_Puncher #7 4 years ago

    Ticket to Ride's been getting a lot of really positive previews on 1up, I'll definetly check it out as I could do with a really good boardgame on Xbox again.

  • mikeck #8 4 years ago

    Any ideas on if Happy Tree Friends will be any good?

  • Dizzy #9 4 years ago

    "would you keep your destination tickets secret on local play? That is crucial to the strategy of the game! "

    Play online against us EG boardgame geeks?
    Edited by 1 at 24/06/08 @ 11:40

  • systems #10 4 years ago

    Where is Talisman?

  • escapedape #11 4 years ago

    Hey Dizzy, good plan but my Gold Live membership is currently out of action, and I simply don't play online enough at the moment to warrant upgrading it again. Almost tempted to for Civ Rev, although i'm so addicted to single player that I think holding out would be the best option!

  • TotalBB #12 4 years ago

    I thought this was another Beatles game. ;-)

  • Dizzy #13 4 years ago

    >Where is Talisman?

    End of the Year.

  • clockworkzombie #14 4 years ago

    Ticket to ride: Europe is a much better game. It has the same elements with more complexity giving it greater depth. I am about to give my TTR to a friend because I do not use it any more. TTR:E is my first choice now when playing this series.