[Available Now for 1200 MSP – Xbox Live Marketplace]
Drift around corners with guns blazing and take out legendary competitors in the fast-paced, top-down racing game Scrap Metal™. Fight your way through explosive, action-packed missions and defeat cunning bosses to add their vehicles to your garage. Customize your newly-acquired cars and then return to the track to blast through more enemies. Jump online with Xbox LIVE ® to race against your friends and crush their cars with the wheels of your monster truck in pulse-pounding online multiplayer matches.
- Racing action: It’s fast-paced, top-down racing action with beautiful HD graphics and fantastic racing physics.
- Story mode: Take on all the cunning villains and defeat the tricky bosses.
- Awesome, customizable vehicles: Drive everything from muscle cars to monster trucks to air boats and even tanks.
- Multiplayer: Try split-screen or Xbox LIVE multiplayer modes.
- 3-D support: Scrap Metal has full anaglyph 3-D support.
Time to take the soldiers out of the box, and they don’t require assembly and painting!
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With the Kaiser dealt with and the toy’s safely back in their box, it’s time to take a closer look at this XBLA game and see if the House Party has been kicked off in style. So with gun’s at the ready, we wait for the whistle to send us over the top, either to glory and victory or to certain death at the hands of the German guns. Even in a toy war there can be on only one winner, is Toy Soldiers a glorious success? Or a whimpering death rattle… |
Continue reading ‘Xg Game Review: Toy soldiers’
[Available Now for 1200 MSP – Xbox Live Marketplace]
Put your foot soldiers, snipers, cavalry, and fighter pilots to the test in Toy Soldiers. Poised to be a smash hit on Xbox LIVE® Arcade, Toy Soldiers is an action-packed strategy-based game in which players command antique WWI toy soldiers vying for control of the trench-filled battlefields of Europe. Deploy an exciting arsenal such as tanks, cavalry, biplanes, and flamethrowers in vintage WWI toy dioramas. Developed by Signal Studios exclusively for Xbox 360, Toy Soldiers allows you to take control of individual units or control the entire battlefield from a strategic view. Integrating multiple game genres and world-class visuals, Toy Soldiers is a unique and action-packed entertainment experience!
- Toy battles: Experience epic action-packed battles with more than 50 unique units across two distinct armies, across five unique maps with their own special characteristics and multiplayer options.
- Easy-to-pick-up controls: Soldiers can fight on their own, or be controlled from a third-person mode.
- An arsenal of weapons: Fly planes, zeppelins, and even drive tanks to help your unit succeed in protecting its base.
- Multiplayer: Split screen allows you to easily fight in head-to-head battles with friends over Xbox LIVE, or on the same console.
- Miniaturized mayhem: Unique game visuals and post-effects capture the imagination and provide real world historical events in a playful toy-like miniature world.
Mana Bomb Games announced today that Colony Defense, a space-based 360 degree planetary tower defence strategy game has been released. Beginning today, players may purchase Colony Defense via http://manabomb.com and XBLA Indie Games.
Colony Defense, is a real-time planetary defence strategy game. Using 10 unique, upgradeable defensive towers the player has to choose how best to defend his colonies’ population from the oncoming waves of Suona invaders. 34 planets to be defended provide the player hours of strategic enjoyment.
Colony Defense Features:
* Not your Mom’s tower defence! Defend each planets colonies from the alien onslaught in this high action / strategy title.
* Full 3D. Manage multiple strategies as you orbit above the surface of the planets. Rotate around the planet to keep an eye on the battles happening all over the planets surface.
* Multiple alien spawn points and multiple paths aliens can take to your helpless colonies, ensure frenzied, action-packed battles.
* Arcade style controls. Built from the ground up to be used with an XBOX 360 game pad. Works just as well with a mouse and keyboard support.
* 10 upgradable weapons to fight the good fight with. Ricochet laser cannons, flame throwers, stasis towers, artillery cannons, and many more, make for unique strategy each level.
* Real time Orbital Ion Cannon, when you need that extra punch!
* Thirty two unique levels to engage the enemy on.
You can download the PC demo right by clicking here
Continue reading ‘Colony Defense Released For XBLA & PC’
Finally Perfect Dark fans can rejoice! There will be partying on the streets of Chicago on March 17th! – Hopefully someone understood the Perfect Dark reference there!
You will be able to visit Carrington Institute on March 17th for a bargain price of 800 MSP! – In comparison to the 1200 point game which are coming weeks before hand, you should count yourself lucky.
“Agent Joanna Dark hit the ground running in Perfect Dark, an epic tale of galactic conspiracies in 2023 America. Now this classic shooter is coming to Xbox LIVE Arcade, rendered in greater definition and detail and sporting a silkier framerate than ever before. Fire up your Farsight and prepare for assignment”
Woo!
Major Nelson just dropped the bomb for the XBLA release this week; being Darwinia+
if your a fan of the PC phenomenon which is Darwinia, you will therefore be happy that you’ll be seeing all your pixel sized friends jumping around your XBLA marketplace this Wednesday!
The world of the peaceful Darwinians has been decimated by an evil virus and without your help they have no hope of survival. Play the full campaign or take control of a Multiwinian army and challenge your friends to some digital carnage in this IGF award winning action-strategy classic from Introversion Software. It’s a stick man slaughter where only the flattest survive.
Watch the trailer on Xg247 Youtube
It turns out that this ‘Project Needlemouse’ thing is Sonic 4. However, it’s got a sub-title of Episode 1 therefore meaning it’s going to be episodic!
You’ll be able to continue your thirst for Sonic games this Summer on XBLA, PSN and somehow on the Wii!
One of the most best selling games for the SEGA Dreamcast will be making it’s way to the Xbox Live Marketplace. Information of the game coming to the XBLA was leaked earlier this month by german blog site SEGAOnline but now the site has released another story about the game with screenshots from the XBLA version.
It’s revealed to be a port of the update to Sonic Adventure known as Sonic Adventure DX: Directors Cut released for the Gamecube (2003) and PC (2004), plus reveling an achievements list for all those achievement hunters to eye up on! Continue reading ‘Sonic Adventure is coming to XBLA’
Rare just ruined our Christmas!
The world just received news that we won’t be receiving the highly anticipated re-release of Perfect Dark this year. The XBLA release was expect to of dropped just before Christmas, but sadly Rare have had to push the release back slightly.
RareLtd just tweeted:
“can now confirm early 2010 release which is still ‘winter’, stop moaning.”
But we all wanted a perfect Christmas!
Hell yeah, although I better keep the shouting down as many protesters against the American sport might want me dead. Hopefully a bunch of men with rocks don’t turn up in a truck outside my house…
Yep 5v5 Madden Fun! 521.59mbs of it – At a whopping 1200 Points! I’m a little intrigued.
Feel the excitement of the NFL with a fun, fast-paced, 5-on-5 football experience. Madden NFL Arcade brings the 10 best players from each of the 32 NFL teams on offense and defense together to battle it out on the gridiron. No penalties, no clock, just pure adrenaline, as each team has four downs to march 60 yards downfield for the score. Catch your opponent off-guard with Game Changers that allow you to break the game wide open in a single play! Play with 1-4 players on a single console, or take your game online with ranked/unranked matches, lobbies, leaderboards, and more. Madden NFL Arcade takes everything you love about your favorite NFL stars and stadiums and brings them to life in a fun, high-scoring gridiron battle!
