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Assault Heroes assaults XBLA today

Just a reminder from your friendly neighborhood fanboys, Assault Heroes is now available for Xbox Live Arcade. We've downloaded the trial version and look forward to blasting baddies to bits. As soon as we get a little "me"-time with the game, we'll post some impressions. We do this as a service to those that are chained to desks (office or school) and cannot try the game themselves.

As for the rest of you -- the crazy ones who stay up past midnight just to download Arcade titles -- do you like it thus far?

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1. IGN gave it a 8.7! http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/750/750694p1.html

I was going to buy it regardless. An old school shootem up scroller that's basically paying homage to games from the 90's arcades? YES PLEASE!

Posted at 9:43AM on Dec 13th 2006 by Scott Strickland

2. well, since I don't have to be at work at a certain time I just downloaded it and played through the demo this morning. It's pretty fun, simple action, if not a little on the easy side. I beat it in a couple of minutes and not sure if I was fully awake. I like top down shooter games and though many are similar to one another, this one has great details, lighting, and animation that make is look pretty nice. At any rate, I would recommend this title and I look forward to trying the co-op specially over Live.

Posted at 9:46AM on Dec 13th 2006 by laserboyjc

3. I managed to play for about 20 minutes before work this morning and so far I'm pretty happy with it.

Posted at 9:47AM on Dec 13th 2006 by Wizardly

4. I played it quickly before heading off to work this morning. It looks like a simple & fun game, and the pricing of 800 points sounds about right. The one minor issue I found with it is that the camera seems to advance forward a little too slow. But other than that it looks like a great game.

Posted at 11:34AM on Dec 13th 2006 by BoilerJDawgg

5. I thought it was really very good. I can see why IGN gave it an 8.7. I'll buy it once i've played RoboBlitz to death and got all the Upgradium!
The gameplay is really fun, similar controls to Geometry Wars in that left stick is for movement and right stick is for shooting. It's really satisfying playing through and having your guns upgrade on the fly, making for some bad ass visual effects to go with. A very good Arcade title.

Posted at 11:46AM on Dec 13th 2006 by DannyOB@360insight

6. Can't swap the sticks - yet again! Only Geo Wars allows you to do this. So I'm not buying. I could do without another shooter any way.

Posted at 12:38PM on Dec 13th 2006 by Deano

7. This game is a heck of a lot of fun... amazing that they can pack all of these really cool graphics into less than 50 MB! I definitely recommend this game, especially if you like Geometry Wars.

Posted at 12:41PM on Dec 13th 2006 by Clayj

8. This game ROCKS! XBLA's best game to date. This reminds me of my pimple faced teenage days in the late 80's arcades. The game has so much variety of play: you can go fast and blast or slow and sneaky. Cant wait to try coop mode.

Posted at 11:49AM on Dec 20th 2006 by Happy_Rat

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