Embarassment of Riches: Sierra Stacks the XBLA Deck
Sierra Online (a division of Vivendi Games) has been a strong supporter of the XBLA platform. Go figure, since their leader, Ross Erickson, comes straight from the XBLA mothership. Even so, this has become an embarrassment of riches.
Adding to their list of four previously announced XBLA games (Arkadian Warriors, Battlestar Galactica, Commanders: Attack!, and Switchball), Sierra has just announced an on-rails shooter titled Aces of the Galaxy and a Bust-A-Move-style puzzle game, Boogie Bunnies.
Previews of all of their games have gone up on IGN and can be found through this single handy-dandy page.
Thankfully (for my wallet), Boogie Bunnies is slated for Q1 2008 and Aces of the Galaxy has a vague "winter" release scheduled (meaning sometime before February of 2008).
Add to the revelations above the fact that Commanders: Attack! has lost its emphasis and added some words to become simply (or not so simply), Commanders: Attack of the Genos. I guess Sierra lost that little game of chicken with Screwjumper!.
After the break, a list of the remaining horribly vague release dates stated by IGN.
[via IGN, thanks Blue_Falcon]
Switchball is "nearing release".
Commanders: Attack of the Genos "releases in the near future".
Arkadian Warriors is coming "later this year".
Battlestar Galactica is anyone's guess.
Comments
Xebec Prime
79485
After watching the videos I'm excited about Aces of the Galaxy, Arkadian Warriors and Battlestar Galactica. I have a feeling Battlestar will be released along side the new Season or TV move (Razor). Also some feedback for Sierra folks that are out there. How come you have all these great games but didn't show a single one at Comic-Con? Your booth made me very sad :(.
PS: How many players can play Arkadian Warriors online? Is it just 2?
LunarDuality
36370
Sorry about not having an appropriate tag on the previous story (making it difficult to find) but here's the Arkadian Warriors story.
http://www.xblarcade.com/node/1015
In that we state 2-players on or offline. Hope that helps.
Tawse and Turn
11849
Looks like a solid set of games coming up from Sierra. Well, except for Battlestar Galactica which looks slightly better than Wing Commander Arena, but not much.
Boogie Bunnies kinda has a surreal acid trippy feeling. They are weirdly coloured bunnies which are spontaneously popping into existance filling up a space with a population explosion. The player then gets to decide which are blipped out of existance.
Hmm..may have to buy the bunny game...
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