This Wednesday: Zombie Wranglers, Arkanoid and Space Invaders
by Richard Mitchell 
{ May 4th 2009 at 12:01PM } 
($10) each.If you'd rather nab Zombie Wranglers for free, developer Frozen Codebase is giving away five download codes on the official Zombie Wranglers Facebook page. Just leave a zombie survival tip on the wall to enter.
Gallery: Arkanoid Live (XBLA)
Gallery: Space Invaders Extreme (XBLA)
Gallery: Zombie Wranglers (XBLA)
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Markez @ May 4th 2009 12:06PM
A title with such promise, yet apparently so little lasting value. You can throw zombies into just about anything though and get decent hype/sales it seems nowadays. If they ever need to revitalize the Mama series, they could just sub in 'Zombie' instead of 'Mama'.
http://www.metacritic.com/games/platforms/xbox360/zombiewranglers?q=zombie%20wrangler
Maverick Saturn @ May 4th 2009 12:47PM
X360 Magazine UK:
Zombie Wranglers sucks. Especially the 'comedy' names they've given each level. They really suck.
Well thats a really..... 'mature' viewpoint :D
Saying that, I find it difficult to disagree :O
Blue_Falcon @ May 4th 2009 12:48PM
What would happen in case of Zombie Mama?
Manly Mcbeefington (Mr. ESC) @ May 4th 2009 1:28PM
So this game sucks who would've guessed that? I mean in the trailer it looks like such Fantastic game.
(Sorry If I broke your sarcasm detectors beyond repair)
Markez @ May 4th 2009 1:33PM
The video is crazy, looks like some Ratchet & Clank wannabe crapfest.
Although you have to admit the Katamari-ish zombie ball was cool.
Kenny Powers Fastball (PSN johnnynumber5) @ May 4th 2009 2:32PM
It looks like an awful rip off of Burn Zombie Burn for the PS3. Burn Zombie Burn isn't a fantastic downloadable game in the first place (it is good not great) so I would expect the knockoff to be even worse.
mech @ May 4th 2009 3:21PM
This is when Zombie Wranglers was announced (April 2008)
http://xbox360.ign.com/objects/142/14250150.html
About half a year later, they announced Burn Zombie Burn (October 2008)
ps3.ign.com/articles/922/922965p1.html
Zombie Wranglers was slotted with a September 17th release date, it was even part of the Schoktober fest run on XBLA in October of 2008. Two days before it's launch (9/17/08) it was pulled from the service forcibly due to the merger of Vivendi and Activision.
mech @ May 4th 2009 12:32PM
Your post has no lasting value, try harder.
baby sea tuna @ May 4th 2009 12:46PM
I suppose the same could be said for your ability to correcly reply to a particular comment.
Maverick Saturn @ May 4th 2009 12:47PM
Crash and burn >.< Ouch
mech @ May 4th 2009 12:51PM
OK now my feelings are hurt, and I mean truly hurt. I am going to go on some forum and bitch about some random video games to make me feel better.
Markez @ May 4th 2009 12:52PM
I'll try harder but something tells me I'll never truly win your approval :*(
mech @ May 4th 2009 12:58PM
Correct!
Maverick Saturn @ May 4th 2009 2:04PM
...Not that meeting Mech's approval is worth anything :O
343 Guilty Fart @ May 4th 2009 12:35PM
Arkanoid for $10? Isn't that just a little ridiculous?
waves @ May 4th 2009 12:50PM
Word. At what point does $10 become a ridiculous price for a game that came out 23 years ago. Even older if you count Breakout, designed by Steve Jobs and Wozniak in 1976. A full 33 years old!
Vidikron @ May 4th 2009 12:53PM
Yes. I don't like how 800 is the new 400. I'd likely buy both SIE and AL if they were each 400, but at 800 a pop I'm going to think about it. At best I'll likely try both and get one.
baby sea tuna @ May 4th 2009 12:45PM
If I hadn't already spent $20 on the DS version of SIE, I'd definitely pick it up for XBLA. GREAT game.
I DeX I @ May 4th 2009 1:03PM
I would love to play me some Arkanoid and Space Invaders X, if it weren't for the fact that my FIFTH XboX360 died on me yesterday. I went to play an online game of OutRun and my box froze up and the screen filled with graphical glitches. I knew what had happened, yet again. I turned the power off and back on again, and WHOOOOP! THERE IT IS!!! RROD! Honest to God Microsoft! I have my 360 and PS3 sitting nicely on glass shelves, open on all sides of the consoles.
...of the short list of systems that I have owned (NES, Sega Master System, SNES, Sega GENESIS (w/32x), Sega Saturn, Atari Jaguar, 3DO (that was a whole summer of washing dishes well spent), Sega Dreamcast, PS1, PS2, PS3, Nintendo Wii and numerous hand-helds), NONE of those systems EVAR crapped out on me!
I nearly snapped on the kind gentleman helping on the phone when he suggested that I send in my 360 with my own box.
robotoid @ May 4th 2009 1:28PM
Just curious: did the xbox have the latest chip or was it like first gen with multiple repairs?
Maverick Saturn @ May 4th 2009 2:33PM
First gens just get first gen replacements :(
I DeX I @ May 4th 2009 11:52PM
The unit that I have now is a refurb with the extra heat-sinks and it still RROD. Manufacture date is 2007.
revnorb @ May 4th 2009 1:21PM
>>X360 Magazine UK:
>>Zombie Wranglers sucks. Especially the 'comedy' names they've given each level. They >>really suck.
1) Eat a bowl of fuck.
2) OK...let me get this straight. This guy writes for a magazine called "X360 Magazine UK," presumably because "Official Xbox Magazine UK" was already taken, and he's criticizing the names that OTHER people give to things? One assumes level names this dope would have found more appealing would have included titles like "Xbox Game Level 1 USA" "Xbox Game Level 2 USA" and other highly imaginative variants. Please stop -- we can't compete with your blistering levels of innovation and wit!!!
3) This guy lives in a country that built a tunnel under the English Channel so it would be easier to drive to a country where Jerry Lewis is considered a comedic genius.
4) See #1
Kenny Powers Fastball (PSN johnnynumber5) @ May 4th 2009 2:38PM
Don't shoot the messenger. I'm sure the guy that wrote the review wasn't the founder of the magazine so it's not a fair criticism. Same goes for the English channel remark. In the end the mose iinsightful commentary in the entire post you made was "Eat a bowl of Fuck." I don't understand why you are so upset to begin with.
Avada Kadavra 9 @ May 4th 2009 1:37PM
Yes I have been waiting for that zombie game. There is another game that I have been waiting for but of course I have memory like an elephant and I forget what it was. But YES zombies! Gotta kill em' all.
Avada Kadavra 9 @ May 4th 2009 1:38PM
If I would have thought for 2 minutes more I would have remembered. The Battlefield XBLA game that is coming out 1942. Can't wait for that.
revnorb @ May 4th 2009 2:57PM
I'm upset because not enough people are eating bowls of fuck.