XBLA: MS Spring '09 Preview: 0-D Beat Drop Melds Music With Drop Puzzle Action
Arc Systems and Jamsworks have revealed a new puzzle game in development for the Xbox Live Arcade - 0-D Beat Drop, pronounced Zero-To-D.
0-D Beat Drop is a block dropping game where you must match up 3 or more gems of the same color. Unlike Tetris the blocks all appear to come in corner blocks, and each block has three different gems, which is a little like Columns.
Going based on the pictures and some horrible translation, this is how the game works: you can stack up these corner blocks any way you like - even have more than 3 in a row, but they will not disappear. Once you want to actually blow a set of three up and cause a big chain reaction, you "drop the beat" with the X button, causing whatever set of 3 gems are a part of it to explode and everything else chains from that.
The game will include your standard play modes including , Time Attacks, Vs. CPU and completing set tacks. It will also allow for up to 4 players to battle against each other online.
The developer Jamworks have previously worked with Q? Entertainment with Every Extend Extra Extreme XBLA, Lumines Plus on PS2 and Meteos: Disney Magic on DS so you can certainly see their influence in 0-D. Arc System Works have previously only been on WiiWare titles including the Family Table Tennis and Family Slide Hockey games, so it's good to see that they're branching out to other platforms as well.
You can view more screenshots of 0-D Beat Drop here.
