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Guardian Heroes, Joy Ride Turbo and more for $5 on XBLA next week
Major Nelson has revealed next week's Deal of the Week on Xbox Live. Four seemingly unrelated games will be available for half price. Said games include Guardian Heroes, Shoot Many Robots, All Zombies Must Die and Joy Ride Turbo (i.e. not the Kinect one), all of which will be available for five bucks each.The promotion runs from November 6 through November 11. Guardian Heroes, a classic Saturn beat 'em up from Treasure, is definitely worth some consideration. That's assuming you have some money left after digging into this week's Bethesda discounts, of course.
XBLA in Brief: Real Steel, Guardian Heroes
We've got two cheap games on Xbox Live Arcade this week. First we have the surprisingly entertaining movie tie-in, Real Steel, followed by Treasure's resurrected Sega Saturn classic, Guardian Heroes. There are new Xbox Live Arcade games released every week. We realize that our readers are busy, attractive people, and may not have time to download and examine each and every new XBLA game. You've got busy, attractive person stuff to do, after all. Not to worry though, because we've done the work for you, downloading every single trial game and giving you a taste of what to expect. Watch XBLA in Brief every week to see which games deserve a closer look. When you have the time, of course.
Guardian Heroes dated on XBLA -- for real this time
We've already reported a Guardian Heroes XBLA release date once, which turned out to have been an error on the part of Microsoft's Major Nelson. Sega announced a new October 12 release date for the updated Saturn brawler today, and we hope it sticks this time. Guardian Heroes will be available on XBLA for 800 Microsoft Points ($10). For those of you who got into Treasure games post-Saturn -- or, gasp, have yet to discover the rewards of the Treasure fanatic lifestyle -- you can get a glimpse of what you've been missing in the above trailer. And that trailer doesn't mention the 12-player online play.
Hidden Treasure: Guardian Heroes out this week on XBLA [update: no it isn't!]
Hey, remember earlier today, when we said you'd have time to get through Radiant Silvergun on XBLA before Guardian Heroes came out? Well, we were mistaken -- it'll be impossible to finish Radiant Silvergun before then. Major Nelson just announced the release date for Guardian Heroes, and it's ... tomorrow. The questionably (and optionally) remastered Saturn brawler shares a release date with Rock of Ages, The Baconing, Mortal Kombat Arcade Kollection, and the Ugly Americans game. It's like another Summer of Arcade in one single day. Update: Major Nelson just tweeted that the listing was a mistake, and Guardian Heroes won't actually be out tomorrow.
Guardian Heroes gameplay trailer is too short
It ain't much, but when it comes to Guardian Heroes, we'll take what we can get. Sega has released the first gameplay footage of the XBLA remaster and it's ... well, it's brief. At the very least, it appears that the updated graphics look better in motion than they did in those screenshots.
Guardian Heroes' XBLA updates detailed
When we heard Sega was releasing Guardian Heroes on XBLA, we were like :D And then when we saw the first screenshots, we were like :/ And then we heard that you could turn the aggressively smooth filters off, and we were like :D again. Now, in a post on the Sega blog, the company detailed the changes being made for the XBLA version. Even with the visual filters turned off, it's not just the Saturn version emulated. Developer Treasure has changed the AI, rebalanced the versus mode, changed the fonts, and, of course, altered the aspect ratio. In addition, some voice work has been re-recorded. We don't really have an emoticon for "cautiously optimistic." Whatever it is, that's what we're like.
Guardian Heroes XBLA has online multiplayer, $10 price tag
Sega of Japan has launched a teaser site for the recently announced Guardian Heroes re-release on Xbox Live Arcade. The game will run for 800 MS points ($10) and will incude several different modes. Guardian Heroes has been rebalanced for the Xbox, though players can choose to play with the original Saturn settings as well. Up to two players can play the story mode online, while the versus mode (which has forty-five selectable characters) will allow up to twelve players online and four players offline. Check out some new screens in the gallery below. Oh, and about those "remastered" graphics? Sega of America did confirm last week that you can turn them off and opt for the original, pixelated goodness. You can stop hugging your knees and rocking back and forth uncontrollably now.%Gallery-123533%
Guardian Heroes remastered for XBLA this fall
If you've been intensely monitoring eBay, hoping to nab a factory-sealed copy of Treasure's rare Sega Saturn beat-'em-up, Guardian Heroes, it's time to relax. Sega revealed this morning that it intends to release the game for Xbox Live Arcade sometime "this fall," with flashier 2D visuals (HD!) and online play (both co-op and battle modes). And it won't cost upwards of $50 to get it, unlike that eBay auction you've been eying. (Our condolences to the sellers, though!) "Players have been clamoring for this treasured favorite from the Saturn days, and we cannot wait to show them what we have got for them," Sega VP of digital business Haruki Satomi noted in the announcement, calling the fan response to previous Dreamcast re-releases "overwhelming." So overwhelming, in fact, that Sega had to step back to an older console.
