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Mutant Storm Empire coming to XBLA next week
We admit to always feeling kind of bad for Mutant Storm, the sort-of-pretty-but-not-as-pretty friend to fellow twin-stick shooter Geometry Wars. While GW got squired around town by every game critic on this side of the Mississippi, Mutant Storm was at home, washing her hair and twiddling her twin sticks. But now, she's evolved with Mutant Storm Empire, an 800-point sequel that's coming to Xbox Live Arcade next Wednesday (Oct. 31) according to Eurogamer (and just a year after we first saw it!). She's stitched her rooms together into coherent levels, she's tweaked her weapons and added online co-op. Now it's her turn. You go ahead, girlfriend. You go ahead and shine.
Today's multi-directional videos: Everyday Shooter & Mutant Storm Empire
The multi-directional shooter hasn't enjoyed this much acceptance since we willingly blew hundreds of quarters on Smash TV back in the day. Of course, the shooters of today sport better (see: fair) design and we have Geometry Wars to hold up as the gold standard. Our waggling cohorts over at Wii Fanboy already took a stab at the bizarre trailer for Geometry Wars Galaxies, but there's so much more going on at the moment. Everyday Shooter is the indie wonder work of Jon Mak and is best described as the love child of Rez and Every Extend Extra: both of which were also musically inspired shooters by the Gooch. Where Everyday Shooter will be gracing the PlayStation Network, Mutant Storm Empire is a sequel to the XBLA launch title. The original was a fantastic, albeit, overlooked shooter and we're dying to get this sequel in our hands with its co-operative play and hugely expanded level design. Neither of these shooters have a solid release date at the moment and while we expected to be playing Mutant Storm Empire soon, it's suspiciously missing from Microsoft's latest release list.
ESRB rates Fatal Fury, Tempest, more for XBLA
We love the ESRB. With the group constantly rating titles that have yet to be announced, it's like getting birthday presents year round. XBLArcade breaks the news that the ESRB has rated 4 new games for Xbox Live Arcade, though not all of them are "new." The three we already know about are Tempest, Mutant Storm Empire, and Fatal Fury Special. We had nearly given up hope on Fatal Fury though. We hadn't heard a peep about it since last August after all. Finally, coming out of left field is SEGA's Streets of Rage 2, a classic beat-em-up from the Genesis era.We have to admit we've been impressed by Xbox Live Arcade lately. Here's hoping Microsoft can continue the stream of new titles unabated.
More videos from Digital Life
Gamertag Radio (with Godfree and friends) is starting to piss us off. First they get to go to Digital Life in NYC. Then they have the nerve to post a bunch of videos the first day. Now they go and do it again! To top it all off, Godfree got the sweet RoboBlitz shirt pictured above. It's like they just love to make us feel unwanted. But, that's just the way it goes. After the break you can check out videos of RoboBlitz (listen to its hip-hop theme song here), Mutant Storm Empire, Heavy Weapon (!), Street Trace NYC (?), and a quick tour of Microsoft's parental education bus.
Mutant Storm Empire screens
Live Arcade isn't exactly short on multi-directional shooters, but that didn't stop Xboxyde from posting new screens from PomPom's upcoming Mutant Storm Empire. Empire is the sequel to Mutant Storm Reloaded, one of Live Arcade's first available titles. Reloaded must have done fairly well, as the sequel is a 360 exclusive. Now if we could only start seeing some of the Arcade games promised at E3...
