This Week: Ticket to Ride and Happy Tree Friends
Hot off the presses! This week's pair of games will be Ticket to Ride and Happy Tree Friends: False Alarm. You would be hard pressed to come up with a more different set of games to pair up for an XBLA Wednesday.
Ticket to Ride (based on the board game of the same name) challenges you to travel the grand U.S. of A. by train and is the E-rated (and thus family friendly). On the other side, Happy Tree friends is about rescuing your cute cuddly woodland animal friends from almost certain gruesome death. If you hadn't guessed, it's rated M.
Which will it be my fine gentlemen and ladies -- click-clack click-clack or kaboom?
Press release after the break.
[via Gamerscoreblog]
Happy Tree Friends False Alarm! and Ticket to Ride Launching on Xbox LIVE Arcade This Wednesday!
The popular and twisted Web series, “Happy Tree Friends False Alarm!™” and the award-winning board game “Ticket to Ride” will debut on Xbox LIVE Arcade this Wednesday, June 25, 2008 at 9:00 a.m. GMT (1:00 a.m. PDT).
“Happy Tree Friends False Alarm!” incorporates the twisted humor and mayhem from the cartoon Web series as the cute and cuddly Happy Tree Friends face one gory, horrible disaster after another! Players assume the persona of Lumpy the moose, who must save his clumsy friends by blasting open areas when they are trapped or deep freezing them before they stumble into danger. “Happy Tree Friends False Alarm!” features 10 exclusive scenarios, ranging from a mine shaft to a candy factory, with three frantic levels and new cut-scenes. Just like the hit Web series, players must try to keep their pals safe, but with this accident-prone group, catastrophic mishaps are inevitable.
Developed by Stainless Games and published by SEGA, “Happy Tree Friends False Alarm!” will be available worldwide for 800 Microsoft Points and is rated M for Mature by the ESRB.
All aboard! Get your “Ticket to Ride” the rails from coast to coast on this exciting train adventure. Based on the award-winning board game, “Ticket to Ride” features simple rules and fast play, promising fun for the whole family on Xbox LIVE Arcade.
Plan your routes and connect your cities across the country to become the ultimate traveler, earning points as you claim your tracks and complete your Tickets for your chance at the big score. “Ticket to Ride” supports play with up to five people on Xbox LIVE or four people on the same Xbox 360 as you lay track from coast to coast. “Ticket to Ride” features Leaderboards, Achievements and multiple levels of AI players to keep the challenges coming. Who will win when the steam clears? Get your “Ticket to Ride” and see this Wednesday!
Created by Vancouver-based publisher, Playful Entertainment, “Ticket to Ride” will be available worldwide (except Hong Kong or Taiwan) for 800 Microsoft Points and is rated E for Everyone by the ESRB.
For more details on “Happy Tree Friends False Alarm!” and “Ticket to Ride,” please visit http://www.xbox.com/en-US/games/livearcadexbox360.
Comments
Measure76
23717
Wow, two interesting games... ticket to ride... I love when these board games hit the service because I can play a ton of multiplayer and explore advanced strategies to kill my real-life friends with. Instead of playing ticket to ride once every year or so, I can play it dozens of times.
Sadly, Settlers of cataan seems to resist any strategy. too much luck.
Happy Tree friends? looks interesting, but I don't know if I have time to play. I'm still working on that destruction game from last week, and GTA 4.
Hexxagonal
23061
I'm a fan of Ticket to Ride, so I'll probably pick that up. It's hard to justify though if you already own the board game version =D
etirmi
5262
Why is that? I own TTR: Europe, TTR: Switzerland, the computer game and I have the card game on order. I don't have the US version because there is only one strategy in playing it or Marklin because there were several copies owned by members of my game group. Since some of those members moved away or got pregnant, It doesn't come out hardly any more, so maybe its time to get Marklin. There would still be value of purchasing the XBLA version if its an improvement over the computer version and it would encourage more board games to be developed for XBLA.
Besides it looks like it will support the 1910 expansion at some point. That is something not supported by the computer game. It would be neat if they offered alternate maps that you could play with the Europe rules. for instance, a couple years ago, I saw a map of Great Britain posted on the internet.
SageClock
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I don't see why it would. It's only $10, plus you can play it whenever you want, not just whenever your friends are available AND in the mood for it.
I've bought (or been given) Chess at least 15 times over the course of my lifetime, in various different forms and versions (software and board), and I was never even a huge fan of chess (at least until recently).
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I'm curious about Happy Tree Friends, but I think MS is now required to IP-lock all M rated content, so I'm not sure I'll even be able to download it. I'll give it a try tomorrow, though.
Utako
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