Triggerheart Exelica this week on XBLA

By Robert Purchese Published 25 February, 2008

Scrolling shooter from Dreamcast era.

Developer Warashi has slipped word that Triggerheart Exelica will arrive on Live Arcade this Wednesday.

It will cost 800 Points (GBP 6.80 / EUR 9.60), and is a vertical scrolling shooter that started life in arcades then waddled onto the lovely little Dreamcast.

You fly around as human-shaped spaceships and do flashy things like fire anchors to catch enemies and then throw them into other baddies.

Expect an Enhanced Graphics mode to boost everything into HD, as well as the requisite 200 Gamerscore points and leaderboards.

Old reviews suggest Triggerheart Exelica was far from essential, so you might want to wait for our thoughts, which should arrive promptly after release.

Microsoft was unavailable for comment at time of writing.

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About Robert Purchese

Bertie is Eurogamer's Senior Staff Writer. When he's not hunting down news stories he's often found playing with his kids or gabbling about fantasy games and strange online worlds. @Clert on Twitter.

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Comments (13) Latest comment 4 years ago

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  • Fodder #1 4 years ago

    I quite liked Trigger Heart Exelica. It was one of the better late Dreamcast releases, and had some interesting ideas with capturing enemies and chucking them around. It's not particularly old, either; the DC version came out last year.

  • GordonCaladan #2 4 years ago

    What a great month for XBLA with high quality games like Metal Slug 3, Rez, N+, and now Trigger Heart Exelica. Even Omega Five was pretty good.

    Would really like to know if and when Fez will be coming to XBLA.

  • convercide #3 4 years ago

    Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo HD please. And Doom 2. And Final Doom. And Ikaruga. And Radiant Silvergun. And Sonic 3 & Knuckles (C'mon SEGA you've done the first two...).

  • Xerx3s #4 4 years ago

    Fantastic! XBLA should port more PC/dreamcast classics instead of 2600 stuff that just doesn't hold up anymore. Don't care if games are new or old, if they are good they are worth it.

  • chub #5 4 years ago

    Ikaruga is coming to XBLA sometime too. Anybody know when?

  • NinjaWilliams #6 4 years ago

    Radiant Silvergun!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Jim.Jupiter #7 4 years ago

    Some of the better Saturn games would be great too

  • bloodflowers #8 4 years ago

    I like it. It's not a masterpiece, but it's pretty good. Of course I'm fully expecting some /really poor/ reviews across the board, because nobody who likes the genre seems to review them anymore. You can play 'shooter review bingo' - here's an example list to get you started:

    "impossible"
    "no unlimited continues"
    "dying is an outdated mechanic"
    "too short" (where credit feeding has been used)
    "archaic"
    "confusing"
    "radiant silvergun"
    "ikaruga"
    "r-type"
    "raiden"

    Always fun. Those last four are usually the only titles of reference. It's so depressing. Hopefully people will try the demo and make their own minds up, before the awful reviews start to roll in.

  • miiiguel #9 4 years ago

    Ikaruga now!
    ...

    Please ?

  • retr0gamer #10 4 years ago

    I love shmups but hated trigger heart excelica. I'll save my money for raiden fighters jet.

  • espibara #11 4 years ago

    Now how about:
    Under defeat
    Border down
    Espgaluda
    Ibara
    Dodonpachi
    Mushihimesama
    Radirgy
    GigaWIng 1 and 2
    Mars Matrix
    Gunbird 1 and 2
    Tiger Heli
    Thunderforce 2,3 4 and 5?

  • phl0w #12 4 years ago

    Those last four are usually the only titles of reference. It's so depressing. Hopefully people will try the demo and make their own minds up, before the awful reviews start to roll in.

    That's because the average gaming journalist can't be bothered playing shoot'em'ups. You have to have been around since the early days and really inhale those type of games to know what you're talking about. Unfortunately that's something reviewers nowadays don't know. Most of them review games for your average joe, splashing the occasional gaming reference to sound sophisticated. Most recently bad example: WO Pulse. God awful reviews, that missed like everything of relevance about the game, but instead focused on graphics, photo mode and other neglectibilities.
    Try http://shmups.classicgaming.gamespy.com/... for real shmup knowledge.

  • bloodflowers #13 4 years ago

    retr0gamer: Indeed the RF games will be fun, and you don't like Exelica, which is fine because you probably have a grasp of what it is, what it's trying to be, and where it fits within the genre. Most of the shmup reviews I see though on non-specialist sites (such as EG) are like me trying to review golf clubs. I can tell you if it's a club and if the dimply rubber handle was cool or not, but I can't tell you if it's any good.

    phl0w: I'm quite familiar with that site ;) I own the server that hosts the forum part of it.