It’s Sonic’s 19th Birthday and to celebrate we’ve got four classic Sonic games on sale on the Xbox LIVE Marketplace. If you love 2D sidescrolling hyperspeed platforming you’ll enjoy these. Recast in HD, and with both Local and XBL mutliplayer (in Sonic 2 and 3) these games will provide hours of fun for 240MSP each.
Jun 242010
Jun 222010
The Crackdown 2 demo went live today and brought with it a Facebook connected game that’s tied to your Xbox LIVE profile. The game promises something interesting in Crackdown 2 if you complete it: a daily supply of the explosive Quakers in the demo.
Chuck’s Ducks 2 consists of two stages: the first is a balloon popping game where you’ll attempt to match up two different balloons of the same colour to clear the board. Doing so will earn you ducks that you’ll need to protect from hunters in the second Duck-Hunt esque stage. The second stage adds a twist as you’re not aiming at the ducks, but at the hunters.
On top of having access to Quackers in the demo, gamers that earn them will have access to them in multiplayer when the game launches in July.
If you liked our First Look at the Crackdown 2 Demo you can now get in on the action by downloading it from the Xbox Live Market Place. So add it to your queue and get playing as soon as you can!
Don’t forget that there are demo achievements you can earn – up to 100GP – that will unlock when you purchase the first game. You’ll need to be logged into Xbox LIVE in order for the achievements to record.
If you’ve picked up a Future Shop flyer this week you’ll notice that fans of the Halo universe can get a massive break on titles they don’t already own. Both Halo Wars and Halo 3 ODST are on for $19.99. If you haven’t played Halo 3 yet you’ll find that it, too, is $19.99.
So why is Halo 3 ODST the best value in gaming? In short you’re getting a brand new Halo 3 campaign (which is, in my opinion, an excellent campaign) as well as $30 worth of Halo 3 Multiplayer DLC on top of access to Halo 3 Multiplayer for free.
What’s that, you say? How can it be worth that much? Continue reading »
Jun 192010
Crackdown was a sleeper hit. Bundled with the Halo 3 beta, many gamers assumed that it wouldn’t be very good and passed it by. If you’re one of those gamers, go dig it out and get back to me in a week when you’re finally able to put it down for a few minutes.
The premise of both Crackdown and Crackdown 2 is that you’re a super-powered Agent of (predictably) The Agency. In the second game you’re up against two major forces: The Cell, a terrorist group bent on anarchy, and The Freaks, mutated zombie-like things that are out to convert or kill anything that isn’t like them.
Crackdown 2 has an exclusive invite-only window on the demo for this weekend, so we at 360 Arcadians got a first look at what the new game has in-store. The demo has a 30-minute time limit that we ran down several times in succession. You’ll have to start again after each clock reset, but it’s worth it just to get a look at the world of Crackdown 2. Continue reading »