Xbox 360 News

“Extremely Limited Edition” Deus Ex Limited to Europe and Australia

We’re just a few months away from the highly anticipated release
of Deus Ex: Human Revolution, and publisher Square Enix is teasing fans with
the announcement of an “extremely limited” collector’s edition of the prequel,
so limited that it’s also exclusive to Europe and Australia.

Packed inside the “Collector’s Box” is a figurine of the
game’s main character, Adam Jensen, an exclusive mission with a special cameo
from an original Deus Ex character, five exclusive weapons, 10,000 in-game
credits that can be used for buying or upgrading weapons, a making of DVD, the
game’s soundtrack, a motion comic, an animated storyboard, and the obligatory
art book.

Xbox Live Releases for the Week of April 10, 2011

This week’s Xbox Live games feature a remake of an old Atari game and a HD version of a DS game.  This week we see the release of Might and Magic: Clash of Heroes which originally came out for the DS in 2009.  The other release is Yar’s Revenge which has the same name of the Atari 2600 game.

Might and Magic: Clash of Heroes is a strategy RPG puzzle game.  It looks similar to the Advance War games that also came out for the DS.  You start the game as an elvish girl named Anwen.  She has trained to be the leader of her people, when her friends and family have been attacked by demons.  You must uncover the demons plot and stop the things that are behind the demons.  The DS version uses both screens to play, so it should be interesting to see how they are able to translate it to an Xbox Live game.

Xotic Shooting for XBLA this Summer

Continuing in the same style as The Club and Bulletstorm, developer WXP Games announced a new title today for Xbox Live Arcade called Xotic.

What they call a “hybrid” of the first person shooter and arcade genres, the goal in Xotic isn’t a high kill count; it’s climbing your way up the leaderboards with a high score.

Two Worlds 2 Expansion Coming, Flying Fortresses

While Two Worlds 1 was mostly atrocious, Two Worlds 2 was fairly well received. It seemed to have its own little unique charm that people ate up. Apparently, that game sold around 2.5 million copies. Also apparently, Reality Pump (the developers) enjoy adding content to it as there will be a new expansion releasing this September entitled Pirates of the Flying Fortress.

“The story plunges the player headlong into an adventure that is more than astonishing! The good old “Two Worlds” atmosphere waits, which is yet quite different this time around. Exotic flair, new enemies, new settings and new weapons – all fans are in for a shocking surprise!” –Press Release

New Backbreaker Game Announced, Tackle Alley Returns

Yesterday I reported that Natural Motion and 505 Games had teased a new Backbreaker game. Today they made it official by announcing that the new Backbreaker game will be titled Backbreaker: Vengeance and will be exclulsive to Xbox Live Arcade.

“Backbreaker: Vengeance takes the intensity and AAA appeal of the originalBackbreaker Football console game and combines it with the pick-up-and-play nature of the multi-million selling iPhone games to create a whole new one-of-a-kind sports experience for digital download on Xbox LIVE Arcade for Xbox 360. It takes as its inspiration the wildly popular “Tackle Alley” mini-game in Backbreaker Football to deliver an all-new arcade slant on football.”

New Backbreaker Game Coming?

Backbreaker released last June with mostly negative reviews.
I played the game and I can vouch for the reviews; that game was not so good.
The tackling system was unique and unlike anything you’ll see in Madden, but
that was the only unique thing. As a matter of fact, that was the only good
thing. Something Backbreaker could have benefited from was more dev time, which
it will hopefully get as 505 Games has teased a sequel e with the image you can
find at the end of this news post.

Backbreaker may have been mostly terrible, but I’m excited
to hopefully see a sequel. If only the developers had worked more on the actual
“football” part of Backbreaker, it could have been much better. Maybe they’ll
take those criticisms to heart with whatever their next project will be.

A Quick Look at Mortal Kombat Legacy

If that little short film didn’t peek your interest for the upcoming web series based on a reimagining of the MK fiction, then maybe this will. The portrayed characters are confirmed as Jaxx and Kano, who have had somewhat of a documented rivalry in the game story. While the video doesn’t reveal a great deal about the series, it’s clear that any supernatural elements regarding the fighting are gone, which is a good thing as that can only really be pulled off well in the video games. With MK9 only a couple of weeks away from release and MK: Legacy debuting on the 12th of April, this month seems to be the month for MK fans. I for one am extremely excited about both of these — it’s been a long time since Mortal Kombat made an impact and hopefully the combination of these two should do the trick. Check out the clip below and mark your calendar!

NBA Jam is On Fire This Year

EA Sports may not be delivering a roster update to NBA Jam on consoles, but they are planning a sequel. The publisher announced recently that they’re working on a new installment called NBA Jam: On Fire Edition.

The new Jam will include better AI, a co-op “Road Trip” mode, where you and a friend go up against legends and current stars from every NBA team, and some enhancements based on fan feedback. The other interesting part to this story is that it will be a downloadable release only on Xbox Live Arcade and PlayStation Network.

MVC3 Shadow Pack 02 Impressions

Marvel Vs Capcom 3 has been steadily updating and getting new additions since its release back in February. New characters, costumes, and modes of play have been keeping things fresh and exciting for those who really want to invest in the game. Recently, however, there’s been some rather unpopular decisions made by Capcom regarding their newest fighting sensation.

“Shadow Mode” is a gametype where you select your team of heroes and battle against AI opponents programmed with the playstyles and patterns of developers and producers. The first pack had you fighting producer Ryota Niitsuma and associate producer Akihito Kadowaki, as well as an unnamed QA Tester. The second pack has you fighting…the computer again. This is where the problem begins.

Marvel and Activision Announce Spider-Man: Edge of Time

Beenox did a surprisingly good job on Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions and because of that, they’re doing the upcoming Spider-Man game, Spider-Man: Edge of Time. Edge of Time will be released this fall, no consoles have been announced but we can be almost sure on it coming to at least the PS3 and Xbox 360.

Edge of Time will “challenge the player to take on the roles of both classic Amazing Spider-Man and Spider-Man 2099 to correct a timestream gone awry and prevent a catastrophic future brought on by the early and untimely death of Peter Parker.” On top of that, the story is being written by co-creator of the comic book series Spider-Man 2099, Peter David. One of the more interesting things in the press release announcing the game is the mention of a Cause and Effect feature. Which means that whatever you do in Amazing Spider-Man’s timeline will simultaneously change the events taking place in Spider-Man 2099’s timeline.