Q Entertainment: Meteos Wars showers XBLA this Wednesday
by Christopher Grant 
{ Dec 8th 2008 at 10:14AM }
We're not saying Q Entertainment's Xbox Live Arcade release of Meteos Wars isn't coming out on Wednesday – after all, the website right here assures us that it is – but we are saying this: It's not official until Microsoft says so. (The more astute amongst you may recall that Q told us back in August to expect the block puzzler in October and look where that got us.)
If the stars align, expect Meteos Wars to cleave the heavens this Wednesday for 800
(that's $10 Earth bucks).[Update: Microsoft has officially announced Meteos Wars as part of this week's XBLA release lineup.]
Gallery: Meteos Wars
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deaftly @ Dec 8th 2008 10:23AM
My first DS game!
John Z @ Dec 8th 2008 10:32AM
I don't know, I think the stylus control made it much more fun. I'll still give the demo a shot, but I'm probably more likely to pull out the original and go with that.
Anyone who doesn't already have a DS should check this out, though.
343 Guilty Fart @ Dec 8th 2008 12:28PM
What John said.
Misframed @ Dec 8th 2008 10:37AM
I wonder if we will have to buy all the different options like Lumines...
"Thanks for buying the game but if you want to play it, that's another $10!"
Oshi @ Dec 8th 2008 10:57AM
Hoo boy... This is going to be quite a bit more difficult without stylus control...
Vidikron @ Dec 8th 2008 11:36AM
Yeah, I'm wondering how they have adjusted the game for a standard controller Meteos was just so fast on the DS.
bkmulder @ Dec 8th 2008 11:35AM
I don't think control will be a problem if they use the same dual-analog controls that were in Poker Smash. Those controls worked very well for the same kind of block manipulation that's in Meteos.
If they use a single stick with A to select though, yeah, it'll be rough.
Vidikron @ Dec 8th 2008 11:37AM
How did that work again? I played the game, but it's been quite a while. I don't remember the controls.
John Z @ Dec 8th 2008 11:58AM
Left stick controlled the cursor, while the right stick controlled where the selected block/card moves. A simple control scheme, but as has been said, Meteos moved fast enough that a controller-based setup might run into a problem on certain levels.
Aero @ Dec 8th 2008 2:38PM
I read somewhere that Meteos does use the 'Cursor with one stick movement with the other' control scheme.
Plus if you watch the videos, the blocks move too fast for someone to be selecting them.
PeterBeck @ Dec 8th 2008 12:21PM
Man, I love me some Meteos. On the bus, on my lunch break, while taking a lengthy griffin ride in WoW...
But on the 360? I dunno, it sounds a little hard to image the gameplay on an analogue pad.
Nap @ Dec 8th 2008 2:51PM
I thought this was Pokémon Puzzle League for a second