Band Of Bugs Thrusts Your Avatar Into Battle
Be a part of an elite insectoid military force next week, when NinjaBee introduces Xbox 360 avatar support for strategy title Band of Bugs, along with an entirely new game released as DLC.
Developer NinjaBee delivered one of the earliest avatar-supporting Xbox Live Arcade titles in A Kingdom for Keflings, and now they’re putting your digital representation in the line of fire in Band of Bugs. Starting July 8th players will have the ability to replace the single-player story mode’s main character with themselves, gaining Maal’s powers and abilities in the process. Instead of fighting for the pride of your colony, you’ll instead by the great human liberator, making the garden safe for innocent bugs everywhere.
Players can also bring their avatar online in the eight-player Spider Hunter mode, fighting with or against other avatars in order to survive waves of insect attackers.
Along with the free avatar support patch comes the Tales of Kaloki DLC. Based on NinjaBee’s first Xbox Live Arcade game, Outpost Kaloki, Tales takes the strategy game play from Band of Bugs and moves it into space, replacing bugs with spaceships and magical powers with lasers and rocket launchers.
“We’re giving you an entirely new game,” said Steve Taylor, president of NinjaBee. “The Tales of Kaloki DLC is Band of Bugs but with long-range combat using lasers, rocket launchers, OO rays and a ton of other sweet weapons to blow attacking space ships to smithereens. It’s all the wackiness from Outpost Kaloki X and tactics from Band of Bugs rolled into one, and we’re stoked to be releasing it.”
A brand new game within a game, and only priced at 240 Microsoft points. It’s heartwarming to see a downloadable title released more than two years ago see this level of continuing support, isn’t it?
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@Ashkihyena: As much as I hate Avatars, I wouldn't object to a little AvatarxAvatar abuse sometimes. All too often I want to slap my friends while in a party, with no way to do it :( I think I'll look into this :)
@Lucas Hamel: Not enough shades of brown.
No "Looks like a game for the Wii" comments? Dawww...
Its almost like... that amidst all the good games that the 360 has... IT HAS SOME CRAPPY ONES! :O
Looks terrible, imo. I'll look past it, and say "Do developers really think they'll make money off games like this?" And if you bought this, you're just supporting their making games that we don't really want, as that's what works. Blah, blah, blah, I don't like this damn 'modern' gaming, its mediocre... blah blah. Yeah... I don't care about this enough to put up a nice, well thought out comment.
Oh, and still looks like crap to me. :/
@jcb231:
Have you even tried bomberman's DLC? it is AWFUL. People who waste money on the DLC like my self, cannot use it with people who don't have the the DLC.
Biggest example of the awfulness = Costumes, If I pay money for costumes, and someone else doesn't I'm the only one that can see that costume online. What is the point of that... one of my biggest wastes of MS Points ever.
Fyro
Band of Bugs is a much older 360 game that Keflings and has no framerate issues. It has plenty of issues with shallow TB strategy, but that's another discussion.
Still not worth downloading this game. I think that I am leaning more towards the use of Avatar heads in the Madballs game.
@DaFron: The framerate is terrible. I don't see how you can miss how much it stutters, especially during the snow weather effect. You're right about it not being the team's first game, but the problems do exist. You can read about the programming issues here:
[forums.xbox.com]
@BubbleF**kingBuddy: And a damn shame that N64 games didn't really make their way to the N64.
Hey_Blinkon
@Kobun: My kids play Keflings a lot and I haven't noticed those issues. Also, it's not their first 360 game. Outpost Kaloki X, Cloning Clyde, and Band of Bugs were all out before Keflings.
DaFron
Anyone actually try this out yet? How's the framerate holding up? I recall Zeus on the Xbox forums saying how A Kingdom for Keflings suffered a bit by being Ninja Bee's first 360 game in regards to the framerate, texture, item limit, and other graphics problems.
@Cheroro: I see two...centipede...thing top right and some grasshopper...thing on the plinth bottom left. But I'm buggered if I can see any others. :D
ThursdayNext
@INTVGene: What, not enough guns for you?
Lucas Hamel
@INTVGene: Its actually a pretty good game.
Kamakazie
It is nice to see more support for "older" (two years is old? so sad.) XBLA titles. I hope Bomberman Live gets some more characters and levels someday.
jcb231
@INTVGene: Thank goodness this is a pretty cool game.
@BubbleF**kingBuddy: That 64-bit processor sure got the job done back then. Graphics are so good that I almost though it was a ps1 game.
@Cheroro: The bug is in your mind!
Avatar support + shit game still equals shit game.
It's nice to see more N64 games making their way to Xbox Live Arcade.
@supremesonic: I c wat u did thar.
Kazama Sogetsu ♥ BlazBlue
@Cheroro: Yeah, the lack of many insects on that screenshot was bugging me too.
supremesonic
I think my wife and in laws would go totally ape shit for this. They love the avatars.
innuendo
This is lame.
@Cheroro: Wait! I see one! I don't know if he actually does anything though >.>
I see no bugs in that screen!
Well, that explains that one picture of the avatar holding a fireball.