Alien Homonid and Castle Crashers announced for Xbox Live Arcade

20 July 2006

Posted by:Ferry

Add #51 on the counter for Xbox Live Arcade games to be out this year, because on the Comic-Con show floor the Behemoth gameplay designer/programmer Tom Fulp and lead artist Dan Paladin spoke about their two latest projects: Alien Homonid 360 (widescreen remake due 2006) and Castle Crashers (new game due first quarter 2007) for Xbox Live Arcade.

Alien Homonid 360 will have 2-player online co-op. Castle Crashers will have 4-player online co-op, gameplay trailer:

They decided to shun traditional retail distribution, the possibility of online multiplayer and episodic content on Xbox 360 was very appealing to them. Especially considering a small developer like the Behemoth wouldn’t have to search for a retail publisher and thus lose income. Game pricing is a lot cheaper too, so itâ€™s really like a win, win, win situation for everyone thanks to direct download.

From GameInformer‘s interview: Whatâ€™s the overall plot for the game?

Answer: They take your idol from your town and they take your princesses. And youâ€™re more out to just destroy everything and find out where it is. You donâ€™t really have any idea where youâ€™re going. The guys are kind of like anti-heroes. You still root for them, but theyâ€™re not really being very straightforward about it.

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This game looks awesome! I love these kind of classic beat-em’ up games. And I just love the visual style and the special moves of this game. The chacters are cool looking as well. It’s a little bit too chaotic, kind of confusing, but once you pay attention to each special move it gets easier to tell what’s going on. I definitely want Live for these kind of games. I think MS is very smart to do allow developers to do this kind of thing on Live Arcade.
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I hope these come to Nintendo Wii’s Virtual Console as downloads as well.