pinata242

Filed under "No shit" is the news the PopCap has comfirmed Plants vs. Zombies is headed towards XBLA in the future. No other news.

xmiyux

The new Lucasarts screen shot looks pretty cool.

Also, i have heard good things about the Plants vs. Zombies game on several podcasts. I look forward to checking out the demo.

Liver&Onions

Please keep us updated as you hear things in the game delay crap thread.

fumanstan

Plants vs Zombies is an awesome game. I'm curious how well it will translate to XBLA, as it would undoubtedly be slower to plant and pick up sunshine then the PC version.

Spicollidriver1

rofl

More seriously stop bringing more games over and get me some dlc for Peggle

TheBigDave

Here's a XBLA In Brief review of 'Splosion Man:

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pinata242

Played a few levels of 'Splosion Man with a local friend last night. Sometimes his ping drops down into the yellow. The lag when we were playing made it impossible.

We were seeing each other in different locations than we actually were and it made dual-sploding impossible. Serious problems with game synching due to lag, that needs to be addressed immediately.

Hopefully if some of us get together, we won't experience that.

Schloob1

Decker, did you try using the coupon on the shower gel. And if so did it work or did you end up having to get shampoo?

pinata242

TMNT: Turtles in Time achievement list:

pinata242

South Park footage:

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Decker

It worked for me, but it was manually entered, so it might be a YMMV type of thing about whether they consider shower gel a shampoo.

Decker

Just to reiterate : Splosion Man is all sorts of awesome. It's hard as hell, yet always possible if things go just right. Normally if I'm frustrated, I'll just move on; here I keep trying and trying. I'm on stage 2-2 now. I had originally chosen to take The Way of the Coward on 1-10 (a total biyatch of a level) after struggling with it for over a half hour, but once I defeated the Stage 1 boss and didn't get an Achievement, I went back and beat it after many, MANY more failures. Only then did I discover that there's no Achievement for beating Stage 1 or the first boss. Any other game I'd be really pissed at that point, but here I don't mind. This is just a superb game -- easily in the top five on the Arcade.

mhg83

I just finished that level. Damn that was hard. My completion time was 15:06. I did get the achievment "Lay off the caffeine" so it wasn't all bad.

RichC2

I love it too, I'm on level 3-2 now. Level 2-9 was absolute hell though, I almost threw my controller due to that damn puzzle (??) but was driven to finish it and did... in 21 minutes. (1:15 par time)

But yeah, HATE YOU, level 2-9.

Otherwise, it really is a superb game, it's like a 3d overhaul of a 16-bit gem that never was.

mhg83

I'm stuck on 1-11. It's the one with all the flying enemies that shoot lasers at you. I keep killing them but more and more keep coming. Is there an exit to the level or do you just keep killing them?

The Dude

Is that the level with the 'tetris blocks'? If so, you can kill/dodge the flying machines and then keep going up and to the right/left.

Spicollidriver1

I passed that level without killing any of them just dodge them and hide behind the blocks.

mhg83

Yeah I thought it was some kind of miniboss so I kept staying in that one are. I finally got through it.

at the doughnut song

RichC2

Everybody loooooves doughnuts, I know I sure dooooo...

Liver&Onions

i've been playing the hell out of the demo, and it's good stuff. I think I'll be getting this here Splosion Man.

The Dude

For any of you interested:

Twisted Pixel (or whomever) have all of the music from Splosion Man (yes, including the doughnut song) on their website for download:

Donuts, go nuts!

MoviePage

Thanks!

Krayzie

two more days!! damn sf4 dropping to $20 tomorrow and mvc2 on wed. I really should have bought an arcade stick.

slop101

I did get an arcade stick... for the PS3, which for some retarded reason won't be getting MvC2 until 2 weeks after XBLA.

Decker

360voice.com has been down/sub-functional for a while. Now we can finally see those recent XBLA numbers. For me, the big surprise was the big discrepancy between Monkey Island SE and Splosion Man. Both were big sellers, but I was pretty surprised that Monkey Island outsold Splosion by more than 1000 among users on the site (2836 to 1826). While I love both games and think both are bargains at 800 points each, I really thought that Splosion Man had by far the better demo. Also, since Monkey Island had no new game content, I thought many would pass on this version. I guess the familiarity of the franchise helped it sell. It's the first good selling point & click adventure, far outselling the two other recent titles (W&G sold 292, Sam & Max sold 390).

In less successful news, Madballs in Babo : Invasion only had 137 copies on day one (at 800 points; imagine if it were 1200 points as originally planned). Tour de France 2009 sold a miserable 75. Honestly, I'm surprised it sold even that well; that game was awful and looked like ass. I honestly didn't think Madballs was that bad a demo. I think it might have been hurt coming out when it did : one week after Battlefield 1943, the same day as Monkey Island and one week before the Summer of the Arcade. If it had come out the same day as that robot badminton game, I bet it would have done at least a little better.