Band of Bugs Graces Us This Week!
Mon, 2007-06-18 16:50 — LunarDuality
I am personally beside myself with glee. It's official and I can finally talk about it.
Band of Bugs is coming this Wednesday (6/20/2007) and will be available for 800 pts.
Details after the break.
Game Features:
- Choose to play through a story-based campaign, stand-alone missions or skirmishes
- Story-based campaign: Action and adventure in a single-player campaign story. Follow the adventures of young Maal as he leads an elite team of bug warriors to protect the kingdom from evil insect enemies.
- Stand-alone missions: Try your hand at one of these unique single-level scenarios. These short battles include a background story, unique events and custom goals.
- Skirmish: Test your skills on a variety of individual maps, including custom maps designed by the player with the in-game editor. Select a game type (Elimination, Capture, or Escape) and choose to control any party in the battle to demonstrate your superior tactical skill.
- Four unique multiplayer modes for up to 4 players either locally or over Xbox LIVE, including:
- Elimination: The first team to lose all the bugs in one party loses the battle
- Capture: Capture (or defend) a strong point
- Escape: Reach an escape point, or stop the enemy from reaching it
- Mission: A unique scenario with custom story, events, and goals
- Challenge friends to Spider Hunter, a more relaxed game that allows up to 8 people to join and leave on the fly!
- Use the games’ built-in level editor to design your own custom scenarios for play against others over Xbox LIVE (a first for an Xbox LIVE Arcade game!)
- Xbox LIVE Vision camera support in all Xbox LIVE multiplayer modes
- Mystery leaderboard where players earn points for items they are not told about – Players can check the board and figure out what will help them get to the top of the leaderboard
- Earn up to 200 Gamerscore and 12 Achievements
- 800 MS Points
[via Major Nelson]
Comments
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greatest news all month
LunarDuality
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ImmortalWeapon7
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And to think, of all the weeks, I finally get a Wii and this happens.
I'll definately be picking this up...it's just a matter of when I get around to it.
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LunarDuality
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Ironically, I'm waiting for Space Station Tycoon before I get a Wii...and that's a Wahoo Studios (parent of NinjaBee) title.
LunarDuality -- "Indie is where it's at!"
You do realise, that if you don't buy this game, Lunar will never speak to you again ;)
That said, the buzz (ha ha) for the game seems quite positive on other sites, so hopefully it will do well. I'm going to get it, I enjoy turn based strategy, and it looks like good fun.
LunarDuality
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Yeah, if you're into turn-based strategy or tactics games, this game should definitely appeal to you.
It's also the first tactics game that I have played that rewards you for *surrounding* your enemy. Most of the time you only get a bonus for attackin from behind, but in this you can get a bonus if you sandwich an opponent (i.e. one of your bugs is directly behind the enemy and you attack the enemies front). That makes logic and practical sense to me. I wonder why I haven't seen it before.
And yeah...I won't ever talk to you if you don't get it.
In all seriousness though, I can understand why someone who doesn't like this kind of game could be turned off and not buy it. But I think it's a great intro into the tactics genre and will hopefully create new fans of the genre.
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