It's Xbox Live Arcade Wednesday folks, and that means brand new gaming goodness to enjoy. This week under "New Arrivals" you will find the incredibly exciting and action packed Word Puzzle. What you will not find is Switchball. Don't fret though, Switchball is there, it's just not in new arrivals for some reason. We imagine Microsoft will fix this at some point, but for now you'll have to dig through the "Genres" or "All Arcade Downloads" section to find the game. You can find it under "Action Arcade" in the genres, or (more conveniently) under the letter "S" in all arcade downloads. We were upset before we discovered the games secret bunker, as it looks to be the more intriguing of this week's two titles (check out the video above if you don't believe us). Should you desire the full version of either game, they will run you 800 Microsoft bucks each.
It's also apparently surprisingly long for an arcade game, 4 to 6 hours to finish the main game. Not bad for $10 considering the PC one is $20. I purchased it.
Switchball does look nice from the video above.
My first thought was 'This could be Marble Blast Ultra 2' - which isn't a bad thing in my book. More of a thinking game than Marble Blast, again that's no bad thing in my opinion.
I look forward to trying this out when I get home from work.
@7 - Yeah, I noticed that too... although I got used to it eventually. I don't think I've seen that since Perfect Dark Zero, although PDZ was way worse for me lol.
Switchball is really cool - I'm playing on 480p, so not "really" HD, but have noticed no tearing at all. It gets a little watery on occasions, but not nearly to the point where the first Moto GP for 360 was. Anyway, great stuff.
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11-07-2007 @ 9:34AM
Tony said...
I liked the Switchball demo on PC, will be giving it a try.
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11-07-2007 @ 9:49AM
jjdoglegg said...
trailer looks nice, i'll try the demo, might be worth $10.
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11-07-2007 @ 10:08AM
Jonah Falcon said...
I like Switchball - it's a lot more "solve the puzzle" and strategy oriented than Marble Blast Ultra.
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11-07-2007 @ 10:14AM
Tony said...
It's also apparently surprisingly long for an arcade game, 4 to 6 hours to finish the main game. Not bad for $10 considering the PC one is $20. I purchased it.
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11-07-2007 @ 10:17AM
Boff said...
Switchball does look nice from the video above.
My first thought was 'This could be Marble Blast Ultra 2' - which isn't a bad thing in my book. More of a thinking game than Marble Blast, again that's no bad thing in my opinion.
I look forward to trying this out when I get home from work.
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11-07-2007 @ 10:18AM
Boff said...
Tony you may have just sold it for me.
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11-07-2007 @ 10:24AM
iRoy said...
Switchball is really nice except for the tearing, first game I've played that has constant tearing.
[1080i display, may try on 720p later]
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11-07-2007 @ 10:31AM
TORO said...
This game really that good?
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11-07-2007 @ 10:50AM
Tony said...
@7 - Yeah, I noticed that too... although I got used to it eventually. I don't think I've seen that since Perfect Dark Zero, although PDZ was way worse for me lol.
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11-07-2007 @ 11:09PM
Thomas Klovert said...
You haven't created it yet.
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11-08-2007 @ 4:41PM
E8 Foe said...
Switchball is really cool - I'm playing on 480p, so not "really" HD, but have noticed no tearing at all. It gets a little watery on occasions, but not nearly to the point where the first Moto GP for 360 was. Anyway, great stuff.
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