On Xbox Live Arcade today: The Dishwasher: Dead Samurai

1 April 2009

Posted by:Ferry

From today, at 9AM GMT (2AM PDT), you can play Ska Studios’ The Dishwasher: Dead Samurai on Xbox Live Arcade for Xbox 360. The Dishwasher: Dead Samurai will be available worldwide for 800 Microsoft Points (that’s US$10 / €9.60 / £6.80 / CAN$12.40 / AU$13.20).

The Dishwasher: Dead Samurai lets you experience 14 levels of story, the ranked story track, guitar and shadow story co-op, 50 arcade challenges, local, System Link and LIVE arcade co-op, and more weapons, bosses, and intense, stylistic action!

This game requires the Xbox 360 hard drive or the 512MB Memory Unit for storage.

Game features include:
* Fresh take on gameplay: Gameplay in The Dishwasher is a fresh take on popular stylistic action combat, taking combo- and timing-intensive combat into a 2-D, blood-soaked environment emphasizing speed, vertical movement, and maneuverability, and player-driven pacing to create a truly unique, fluid and visceral experience, with an appealingly psychotic art style.
* New game modes with guitar peripheral: The Dishwasher has arcade co-op, drop-in solo campaign co-op, and drop-in solo phantom guitar co-op using the guitar peripheral. Phantom guitar players can unload electric death by playing wicked solos, perform basic movement, and use the guitar’s motion control to rip through enemies with a razor-sharp headstock.
* The power of XNA: The Dishwasher is a testament to the power of XNA. The game was created by one guy with no professional game development experience (and a self-described lousy programmer) in about a year and a half.