Well reading around various sites and forums it looks like this downloadable content is finally live and available. (Except in Austria, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, Switzerland and Taiwan). I would love to know what the hold up was. Go rock out as 4 new heroes for 500 points, or 4 new villians if you prefer also for 500 points. Or if you like to play both sides of the fence (or just an achievement junkie) get both for 800 points.
So with the recent change in Microsoft’s policy allowing for a retail game to have a total of 1,250 points (1,000 to start, 250 available as an add on via downloadable content), I start to wonder if this is just to get more of you achievement junkies to pay for downloadable content that you might not have purchased previously.
Two games come to mind when I think about this topic. Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, and Marvel: Ultimate Alliance. Let’s start with Oblivion first. For about $30.00, and is supposed to give you about 30 hours worth of new content in the game, and of course an additional 250 points of gamerscore. Not to bad of a value I suppose, considering its comparable to an entire expansion pack (which is how its selling on other systems).
But now we look at Marvel: Ultimate Alliance. In a few days there are 2 downloadable contents coming (or you can buy them both for a special rate). Let’s go with the special rate which calculates out to about $8.00. With this you get 4 new playable characters (4 of which are villians), and the ability to unlock another 250 gamerscore points. There is no new game content (except some dialog changes based on using these new characters). I do like the ability to add to my list of super heroes, but I am somewhat reserved in purchasing it simply because there is nothing new added to the game except a new character model - and I would be willing to bet that the sales of this content would be lower if they didnt include the upgrade in gamerscore, because there are plenty of people out there, which will spend the $8.00 just to get another 250 points.
Thoughts?
On April 10th two character packs will be available for download. 4 new heros, and now the ability to have villians on your alliance team.
The hero pack includes: The Incredible Hulk, Cyclops, Nightcrawler and Hawkeye
The Villian Pack includes: Venom, Dr. Doom, Magneto, and Sabretooth
There are going to be some new gamer pics, and themes also available, and the rumor is they are adding another 250 points worth of achievements. I have read these downloads will not include any new content in game - so these 250 points must be based on the current game content, it should be interesting to see what they come up with.
from xbox.com
Set, the Egyptian god of chaos, again threatens the Two Lands, and you must save Ancient Egypt from his terrible wrath in Luxor 2. Wielding the powers of Isis, battle your way across Egypt. Use your mystical winged scarab to shoot magical spheres and destroy encroaching colored spheres by making matches of three or more. Stop them all before they can reach the pyramids.
Unleash the powers of Isis by catching falling power-ups. Collect gems and jewelry for bonus points, or Golden Ankh coins to earn extra lives. Defeat Set in his temple stronghold or Egypt is doomed!
Levels: Play through 88 explosive levels with 13 new bonus rounds.
Difficulty: Choose from four levels of difficulty, including the mind-bending Challenge of Horus.
Modes: Experience four awesome modes of play— Adventure, Practice, Survival, and Pharaoh’s Challenge.
Power-ups: Collect 13 exciting power-ups including the new Lightning Storm and Pharaoh’s Dagger.
Rankings: The player ranking system has 100 levels from Farm Hand to Pharaoh of the Two Lands.
I am a bit behind on arcade games I want to try out, but here is yet another arcade release coming to the arcade. Rumor has it that its going to run you 800 MPs.
It’s officiall the crackdown demo is on the marketplace. Unfortunately I only downloaded about 50% before I had to leave for work, so I can’t provide any input on the actual demo yet.
