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Sunday Comics: Dead Island Pac-Man and Galaga both get served three ways in the upcoming Pac-Man and Galaga Dimensions for the Nintendo 3DS. Two of those games are brand-new and unique to the 3DS, Pac-Man Tilt and Galaga 3D Impact, and this new Japanese trailer explains how they work.
Galaga goes completely batshit insane with the next re-imagining of Namco’s shoot ‘em up series, Galaga Legions DX. This is the next effort from the people who make the Pac-Man Championship Edition games, so we’d better pay attention.
The not-so-hot-looking Pac-Man & Galaga Dimensions for the Nintendo 3DS is more than originally meets the eye. The 3D game will also include versions of Pac-Man Championship Edition, Galaga Legions as well as the original Pac-Man and Galaga, both tweaked with stereoscopic visual tricks. [Andriasang]
It might be the end of July, but over at Xbox Live Arcade the summer is just starting! This week sees the official kick off of the Summer of Arcade, five weeks of blockbuster Xbox Live Arcade releases to help ease us into the traditional fall gaming explosion. They’ll be kicking things off with Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved 2 (800 MS points), the sequel to one of the best games on the Xbox 360 period.
Each week after this will feature a new huge title. Next week sees the release of Jonathan Blow’s innovative platformer Braid, followed by Bionic Commando: Rearmed (explaining the delay), and the reinvented classic Galaga Legions. Wrapping things up will be the August 27th release of the long-awaited Castle Crashers, from the creators of Alien Hominid. That’s right, a game we’ve been waiting years for is coming out after a game announced two weeks ago. Such is the magic of summer! Sound impressive? Wait, there’s more!
Microsoft and Namco Bandai are hoping that the future-retro success of the critically acclaimed Pac-Man Championship Edition can be repeated in another arcade classic, Galaga. The 27-year old vertical shooter is getting a proper update in Galaga Legions, a spectacular laser light show that blends “bullet hell” style gameplay with classic Galaga design.
It’s pretty simple stuff on the surface. Move your ship anywhere on the screen with the left analogue stick. With the right stick, you can place your ship’s two satellite guns. These two guns can be dropped anywhere on the fly, with a quick tap in the direction you want the guns to autofire.
Your ship will autofire by default too, but you can choose to call your own shots with the right trigger. The point? Higher scoring bonuses. The whole mechanic makes a lot of sense and you’ll need equal parts strategy, quick reflexes and pattern recognition to make it through all five areas.
The game that launched, captured, and recaptured a million ships is getting its first official sequel, 20 years after the original release. Microsoft has announced Galaga Legions for Xbox Live Arcade at their E3 2008 press conference. It looks to do for Galaga what Pac-Man Championship Edition did for Pac-Man. Considering that Pac-Man CE was on the tops of several different XBLA charts last year, we could be in for something special.
Or they could poop on a cherished childhood memory. I suppose we’ll have to wait and see.
