Mutant Storm Empire For XBLA: Anticipation... Rising!
So, XBLArcade.com has been checking out ESRB ratings again for Xbox 360 Live Arcade games - the existence of which tends to mean that games are forthcoming for North American release - and it's noted:
"Continuing in a trend that must be giving Microsoft PR ulcers, they have rated [four] more XBLA titles... [that] were already known about, but the fact that they are now rated means the titles should be released "soon"-ish."
Among those are SNK's Fatal Fury Special (interesting because at one point, Greg Canessa was claiming that it was going to be an Asia-only title, for some odd reason) and Atari's Tempest (the original vector version, presumably without too much Minter-esque psychedelia) - but the big deal is Mutant Storm Empire, a title I've been drooling about in public for a year now.
As I noted wayback: "The pictures clearly show scrolling levels (as opposed to the single-screen mayhem of Mutant Storm Reloaded), as well as simultaneous multiplayer (likely/hopefully across Xbox Live!), and there are all kinds of weird beasties such as octopi, fish, and gigantic spaceship turret madness crazies sprawled all over the place - yay!" I'm speculating that making Bliss Island slowed down the PomPom folks, but I really do hope that Empire dawns soon.
Comments
I don't know if it's changed in design since E3, but there the game was more like Smash TV, where you'd be in a room that would get flooded with enemies, kill the enemies, the doors would open, and now you could go to the next level, getting locked in again to kill off the next flood. Though the rooms themselves were larger than the screen, and had some scrolling to them as well, now that I think about it. Lot of fun though, surprised it took this long.
Posted by: Aaron | May 29, 2007 9:17 PM
I am more excited about this than almost any other game I can think of.
Posted by: Rossignol | May 30, 2007 2:19 AM