XBLA: Meteos Wars Announced For Xbox Live Arcade
Q? Entertainment have announced their next Xbox Live Arcade title - a new version of their DS puzzler Meteos, titled Meteos Wars.
The game will feature 22 planets of block dropping fun, as well as a bit of a new asthetic, and some more concentration on the multiplayer modes.
As with everything Q? Entertainment, James "Milkman" Mielke over at 1UP has gotten all buddy-buddy with Mizuguchi and grabbed himself an exclusive preview of the game.
"New to Meteos Wars is the Meteos "Planet Impact" attack, a supermove that can devastate your opponent once your special gauge is filled. In addition to the single-player mode, there's also time attack, versus mode, mission mode, and 100-Meteo Attack mode, with leaderboard rankings for each. Visually, the game features the usual colorful, fast-moving block shapes in the foreground, which appear even more "Lumines-y" than before. But in the background, the represented planets rotate and spin in beautiful, high-res 3D. If you want to get good at this game, regardless of your past experience with Meteos on DS, you've gotta pay attention to each planet's composition."
Looks good - though I certainly would have expected Gunpey before Meteos. I'd actually like to see what NEW stuff Q? have to offer, in or out of the puzzle genre.
Comments
I loved the original, so I'll gladly buy it again.
Posted by: MisterSmith | August 28, 2008 3:35 AM
Yeah, I'd pick this up too... but I do wonder when they'll do something new. It's been quite a while.
I wonder how this will translate from the DS. I know there was a PC version, so they've obviously figured it out... but I've never played that.
I didn't care for Gunpey, myself.
Posted by: Tony | August 28, 2008 3:42 AM
Gunpey's problem is that it's ridiculously hard and the controls suck on the PSP version, plus it only saved one top score, which is bizarre.
Considering these XBLA versions [E4, Meteos] have been quite different from their predecessors, it'd probably be made far better again. E4 was either or though. It was TOO extreme, heh.
Posted by: Rlan | August 28, 2008 6:11 AM