Castle Crasher [XBOX 360 LIVE ARCADE - old beta demo]

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Southern California-based developer The Behemoth debuted the Xbox 360 version of its upcoming side-scrolling multiplayer brawler, newly dubbed Castle Crashers, at its booth at Comic-Con this week. The title is another ode to the golden age of old-school gaming that puts a modern twist on some classic gameplay much like the developer's first title, Alien Hominid. Whereas Alien Hominid offered an updated spin on classic 2D shooters like Metal Slug, Castle Crashers sets it sights on the Golden Axe/Guardian Heroes brand of 2D side-scrollers that were heavy on hacking, slashing, and spellcasting. We had the chance to try out a work-in-progress version of the game, which is currently targeted for release on the Xbox Live Arcade.

http://www.gamespot.com/xbox360/action/castlecrashers/news.html?sid=6154472

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[pwnmastr]

If they kept that style then I would not have paid a single penny for this game.

[firestormzq]

new style dominates this.

[thatpikminguy]

I like the new style, but you should of kept the arrow "go!" sign.

[danpaladin]

@moldyclay there are many gameplay and visual differences. a couple lesser obvious ones would be that magic and archery requires sheathing of your sword, which is slow and clunky. the characters have less room to move around while taking more space.

[danpaladin]

@ThatJewfroGuy classy.

[ThatJewfroGuy]

If i had to guess i'd say that they didn't use this style because of how many frames each individual character would need. This looks really fluid with great character skins. Though with Newgrounds being the lazy fucks that they are, they went with what they have now where everyone has the exact same animations and the enemies on every level only have a max of 2 character variations.

[moldyclay]

@pwnmastr ... it looks exactly the same except that the Knight is inbetween normal and beefy in the final version.

Not really sure what difference it would've made. Less 'cute'?

[moldyclay]

@halojames1 If by better you mean, the same, but with less enemies and the character is always beefy, then yes...

[halojames1]

this looks better then the shit they tryed to sell m on xbla

[jShazBOT]

That Castle Crasher should be released as DLC.

[drunkendead999]

@ArcticARMs Not necessarily. Old 256s can get it by beating game with pink knight I hear.

[ArcticARMs]

@allanmonteclaro The golden whale isn't out yet. The only way right now on how to get the golden whale is to mod the game.