Jetpac to be this week's XBLA Wednesday release

For those of you worried by Konami's Site and the listing of Gyruss as a March release date side-tracking the best month (with the exception of launch) ever for releases, worry no more. Rare's 1983 classic Jetpac will be hitting the service at the usual time on Wednesday March 28th.

From the press release:

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In Jetpac Refuelled players must clear a path through hordes of aliens to refuel their ship and amass a fortune over the course of 128 hi-definition levels, complete with achievements, leaderboards and simultaneous multiplayer action. Compared to the original Jetpac, which included 16 levels, Jetpac Refuelled provides players with everything they loved in the classic, and much more.

“Jetpac Refuelled” can be played alone, or against another player on the same console or over Xbox LIVE. The game will be available worldwide for 400 Microsoft Points and is rated “E” for Everyone.

Game Features

  • Includes two versions of the game
    • Retro – The classic 1980s version
    • Refuelled – Rare’s 2007 remake of the classic Jetpac comes complete with entirely new hi-def graphics, menacing enemies, new smartbombs that produce an electromagnetic pulse, modernized weapon upgrades and updated gameplay for modern gamers
  • Earn up to 12 Achievements and 200 Gamerscore points
  • Completely updated graphical look of the game gives Xbox LIVE Arcade gamers a truly hi-def and in-depth gaming experience

 

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Comments

400 points?

Those sneaky bastards. Changing the price at the last minute.

I hope that's not a typo!

When this game was 800 ms
When this game was 800 ms points, I wasn't planning on buying it. At 400 I'm totally on this though.
they had this guy on

they had this guy on Gamespot demo-ing JetPac and I have to admit it looked pretty sweet. I hope I'm not wrong. But either way there is so much shit to PLAY! Love it.

Sounds good. Finally they

Sounds good. Finally they really update an old title instead of just adding some lame "multiplayer".

 

The odd thing though is that the list we got a few weeks ago isn't correct. Wasn't they supposed to release all those titles in a row? Now we get this instead, and we got Turtles last week. (note that I'm not complaining here)

that's the 3/8 show of on
that's the 3/8 show of on the spot for anyone who is interested. it also had the behemoth on it.
I'll probably pick this up
I'll probably pick this up at 400 points. I wasn't planning on getting this game but 400 points is a good deal!

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