This week on Arcade: Secret of Monkey Island & Madballs in….Babo Invasion

re: This week on Arcade: Secret of Monkey Island & Madballs in….Babo Invasion

Fingleberries — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 07:32:21 GMT

Wahay! ... Like every one else I was expecting Monkey Island to be 1,200 points. At that price I was humming and hawwing about picking it up, and was probably still going to do it. But at 800 points, I'm getting it for sure.

Great decision by MS and LucasArts (or Lucasfilm Games as it once was :))

re: This week on Arcade: Secret of Monkey Island & Madballs in….Babo Invasion

Ronan Berthelot — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 07:31:51 GMT

Tour de France is also coming today on Xbox Live Arcade !

"Tour de France 2009 - The Official Game will be released tomorrow for XBLA for 800 MS points. ESRB: E (Everyone).

about 4 hours ago from web"

re: This week on Arcade: Secret of Monkey Island & Madballs in….Babo Invasion

Maniac3000 — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 03:34:23 GMT

Played a couple games of Madballs. It wasn't bad, especially with four players.

The maps seem like they'd be cramped with 16 players, do they have bigger ones?

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Maniac3000 — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 02:11:12 GMT

Hm, should I get this for the 360 or PC?

I've kind of been wanting a good multiplayer game though. Madballs is out as it only has online multiplayer, not single console. Seriously game devs, the 360 can use four controllers for a reason. I was disappointed that Ghostbusters is only one player per Xbox as well.

And I'm not sure about Worms 2 Armageddon. I liked the PC interface a lot better than the one for Worms 1 on the 360. Unfortunately neither Worms Armageddon or World Party work on Vista with the integrated graphics card I'm using. :(

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BryceS — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 23:54:25 GMT

Just finished playing the first episode of the new 'Tales of Monkey Island' series and really enjoyed it. Yes I can play my old copy of Monkey Island, Day of the Tentacle, etc. etc. on pretty much any platform under the sun using ScummVM, but I'll be buying this because I really want to see all those games updated and modernised - Grim Fandango would work superbly with the XBox controller. You never know, if they sell well enough, then Lucasarts might sanction some more episodes of other properties. Lucasarts making good games again? Thought I would never see the day! (Wonder if they'll remake X Wing and TIE Fighter for XBLA?)

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Exu — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 22:58:48 GMT

@DJ Deathstar Oh I'm still going to trial it don't get me wrong, just saying that from observations it looks absolutely terrible. Maybe I'll be pleasantly surprised.

And on that note, NEWS FROM THE FRONT LINE.

*ahem*

"RT: @dennya: Heads up! Madballs will be 800 points, not 1,200. Be sure to check out the demo Weds. It's crazy fun, particularly multiplayer."

Now all it has to contend with it being released alongside Monkey Island.

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PriusGuy2004 — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 22:32:21 GMT

800 MS pts sounds like a really good deal for a remake of Monkey Island! I will have to check this out tomorrow evening for sure! Now, if that "remake theory" could have been applied to "TMNT: Turtles in Time"...now that would have been somethin' special.

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Sneeches — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 18:49:05 GMT

day 1 buy for me... now how about MANIAC MANSION!!! That would be a day 1 buy for me and a call in sick to work day!!!

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Ark Hunter — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:48:36 GMT

Awesome! 800pts FTW!

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LubMo — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 16:38:31 GMT

Going to have to agree with DJ Deathstar on this one...just watched the trailer for the Madballs game and it looks like hectic, intense fun. 1200 points hurts, but this might be great fun for multiplayer, so I am definitely going to download the demo and give it a shot before I judge. Also, buying M.I. fo' sho!

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DJ Deathstar — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 14:08:54 GMT

@Exu

How do you know Madballs is horrid? Have you played it cause im pretty sure you haven't!

It hasn't faired to badly in the reviews i've seen on Teamxbox and Ign so i'll give it a go with the trial and see how it is.

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Serblander — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 13:13:15 GMT

Can't wait to download Monkey Island! Instant purchase for me, even though i still have the complete game on Atari ST - at least i won't be disc swapping all those floppies! lol

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KaDix — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 12:53:23 GMT

800 MP's!! I was expecting 1600!...well done!

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MeS FEAR — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 11:25:47 GMT

@metallicorphan

Yes i know that there are more episodes of monkey island but the 4th and 5th episode have already better graphics so i just thought that they should do a remake of the second and third episode. Indiana Jones has been a great adventure too.So LucasArts u know what to do! ;-D

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CheekyLeeth — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 10:40:33 GMT

Still having the original Monkey Island, I wasn't going to buy it. However, 800 points has turned my head. Someone, somewhere, made an EXCELLENT decision.

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Sneltje — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 10:19:35 GMT

Ofcourse I meant value, aarrrgggggg I flipp'n hate french keyboards!!!!!

Chop!