Bangai-O HD: Missile Fury blowing up XBLA this fall

In the mood for explosive news about explosions? Treasure's multi-scrolling, fruit-collecting shooter series Bangai-O is heading to XBLA this fall, published by D3 Publisher and priced at 800 Microsoft Points. Bangai-O HD: Missile Fury features over 100 levels of omnidirectional blasting. Like its DS predecessor Bangai-O Spirits, it also features a level editor, though presumably the XBLA version won't require levels to be traded as sound files.

The game will be on display this weekend at PAX for attendees who feel like hitting giant soccer balls into ninja robots -- with a baseball bat, in exchange for giant fruit.

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D3Publisher Detonates Fast Paced Bangai-O HD™: Missile Fury This Fall on Xbox LIVE Arcade

LOS ANGELES – August 31, 2010 – D3Publisher (D3P), a publisher and developer of interactive entertainment software, today announced Bangai-O HD: Missile Fury, an innovative and insanely addicting arcade shooter combined with puzzle elements, that launches exclusively on Xbox LIVE® Arcade for the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft in North America this fall! True to the franchise, Bangai-O HD: Missile Fury features a sensory overload of thousands of missiles, more than 100 levels, and includes a Level Editor Tool which allows players to create and share levels with friends online over Xbox LIVE®. Bangai-O HD: Missile Fury is under development by renowned Japanese developer, TREASURE Co., Ltd., and is currently rated "RP" by the ESRB.

About Bangai-O HD: Missile Fury
Bangai-O HD: Missile Fury is the latest in the Bangai-O franchise, available for the first time on Xbox LIVE Arcade, and provides gamers with addictive shooter gameplay and a sensory overload of fireworks onscreen, with strategic and tactical elements and TREASURE's original design style that includes fruits for rewards. Priced at 800 Microsoft Points for Xbox LIVE Arcade, the game offers hours of addicting gameplay, at a great value, to satisfy shooter and puzzle game fans.

Reader Comments (16)

What's with all the Xbox news?

@ZayCube There appear to be many things going on right now that involve the Xbox.

I know I say this every year but

Damn! This autumn is looking expensive...

I seriously hope this means there's a chance that the Dreamcast version will hit XBLA. Bangai-O Spirits was good, but I really want to play the original.

@zonic505 I'd really like to see the DC version too. I enjoyed it when I had it for my DC, but I could never quite get used to playing it on the Dreamcast controller.

@zonic505 Agreed, although I was terrible at the DC version, I still loved playing it.

I ate up the DS game! This is good news.

I like the DC version, but not the DS version. Pass.

Hell. Yes.

Gentlemen, we have officially entered into the Territory of Awesome.

Read about the XBox Live price hike and "new" controller and start to consider holding off on buying a 360. Read this and I'm conflicted. Why must MS get exclusive rights to so many great games (TMNT Aracde, Smash TV, and now Bangai-O)?!?

@GumbyX

XBLA makes me miss my 360 all the time now. With so many articles I read lately, it seems to kick more and more PSN ass all the time in terms of selection. If they bundle the new controller with a slim in Nov, I'll probably jump back in.

Oh man, what do treasure have against Sony? :(

Please don't make it a dual analog shooter though. I want the one-analog controls!

The DS game was a lot of fun and you can currently pick it up for under 10$ on Amazon. Hopefully this ends up on PSN as well.

Reading back the comments for the DS version's sound technology gives me a case of 20/20 hindsight. What seemed like a gimmick ignoring the "Easy answer" of WiFi was actual a clever way to bypass Nintendo's inane WiFi requirements.

Because as Warioware DIY proves, you need to be some sort of post monolith starchild to share DS levels over WiFi.