We've known for a while that Sierra Online has been planning to bring a Battlestar Galactica game to Xbox Live Arcade but the company has now finally slapped it with an official announcement.
Reported on Team Xbox, the game's a top-down shooter featuring a single-player campaign and multiplayer human versus Cylon space battles that support up to eight players in Firefight, Skirmish and Domination modes.
A number of the game's single-player missions are based on action in the TV series, with four ships from both factions - including the Viper II and the Cylon raider - present and pilot-able.
It's expected to release this autumn.
Official confirmation on the Battlestar Galactica game has been accompanied by word on two further Xbox Live Arcade games from Sierra Online, Commanders: Attack! and Switchball.
Commanders: Attack! is a turn-based strategy game sporting a 1930s Art Deco visual style that finds players attempting to conquer territory with missile launchers, bombers and infantry. A 15-mission single-player campaign is joined by offline and online four-player multiplayer with Versus, Team Play, Player vs. CPU or same-system Skirmish modes. Out autumn, it's also set to release for PC.
Lastly, Switchball is due summer and is a puzzle game where you have to manoeuvre an "ever-changing ball along a narrow and challenging course suspended in midair." The idea is that you use the ball's four different states - standard Marbleball, feather-light Airball, electrically charged Powerball or dense and powerful Metalball - to overcome different obstacles.
Switchball sounds good, I have no knowledge of BG but I've been keen to see a decent top-down shooter, so that could be worthwhile. Microsoft should bring an RPG to XBLA, in the classic style.
Switchball sounds good, I have no knowledge of BG but I've been keen to see a decent top-down shooter, so that could be worthwhile. Microsoft should bring an RPG to XBLA, in the classic style.
There is a nice video of Switchball at the bottom of this page
I think it looks quite good, a nice little game to pass the time!
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