New Small Arms DLC now available on Live Marketplace

by Ludwig Kietzmann on Jun 7th 2007 1:58AM

Remember when some of us thought Small Arms was destined to be "Smash Bros. with guns?" Oh, we can all alternate between the "L" and "O" keys about that now, but to be fair, it did have guns. And after downloading today's new Xbox Live content, it'll have two additional (and surely wacky) characters and two more combat arenas. The add-on will set you back 250 MS Points, which converts to a very awkward $3 and 12 and a half cents.

Those still playing Gastronaut Studios' frantic XBLA fighter will also receive a free update that sets right some of the game's weapon balancing, framerate hiccups and other issues that really shouldn't have taken six months to repair. And sadly enough, we're still getting better treatment here than we are with Assault Heroes and Sierra's shockingly overdue multiplayer patch.

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Tags: DLC, Small Arms, SmallArms, XBLA, Xbox Live Arcade, Xbox-360, XboxLiveArcade

Reader Comments (7)

Why didn't they take the time to actually give the new characters their own weapons.....major screw up....

@1 Lol maybe they thought that new weapons would throw off the "balance"

"Alternate between the L and the O keys." You, my man, are a genius. I actually laughed out loud. (No pun intended)

I'll be picking this up. I love Small Arms. I don't really care much about the characters, but extra levels will be great. Whenever I have 15min to game, this is the only way to go.

I'm actually impressed with the weapon balancing and clean-up issues that they finally released. As for the new characters, they have weapons that are similar to other characters, but have their differences. Example, the elephant has a Crossbow (like the knight) but the heavy attack launches a napalm attack instead of jsut an explosion. Similarly, the tiger has a sword like the ninja, but has the ability to lock it in place at the end of it's attack and have it hover there inflicting damage.
It looks like they patched in weapon charges lasting longer, so the game is less a "Shoot twice and look for a battery" and more like a shoot-em-up game. They also added other minor tweaks like you can't set off your own landmines and you have seeminghly larger health bars. All in all, it's a pretty good update. I'm not sure the DLC is fully worth it, but if you own it, patch it and see if it's moer the game you expected it to be.