SWOS and Tempest gracing XBLA this Wednesday
No need to pinch yourselves, dear readers, as the title you just read is for real. This coming Wednesday will see the release of the hotly anticipated arcade football game, Sensible World of Soccer, at long last. For those not into football, another popular arcade title will make its way onto the Xbox Live Arcade for your gaming pleasure, and that is Atari’s shoot ‘em up Tempest. Head inside for all the juicy details.
Published by Codemasters, Sensible World of Soccer will come rolling onto the Arcade this Wednesday for 800 MSP, packed to the brim with enticing features. In the single-player component of the game, football fans will be able to test their skills in Career mode or have a go at managing a team over a full football season with an immersive tactics editor. Those unfortunate enough to know nothing about the most popular sport on the planet need not worry either, as the game will also include a noob-friendly tutorial mode. On top of all that, SWOS will also feature two-player online play over Xbox Live.
Features
- Online play: Take on your friends online in this fun, fast-paced soccer game.
- Updated for Xbox LIVE Arcade: Play a fully updated Arcade version of this classic game.
- Classic and Enhanced modes: Play online with the graphics you remember, or with the new enhanced HD visuals.
- Retro experience: Utilizing the original ‘96/’97 code, widely recognized to be the best incarnation of the SWOS series, we are able to deliver an authentic, retro playing experience.
- Influential game: SWOS is one of the ten most influential games of all time. Play the only version that lets you experience both classic SWOS and modern enhanced SWOS.
Coming in at 400 MSP, Atari’s well-known tube shooter Tempest will also come with a fresh coat of paint. Putting you in the cockpit of a claw-shaped spaceship that crawls along the near edge of the segmented playfield, your mission is to survive wave after wave of enemies for as long as possible. Aiding you in the battle will be your standard rapid-fire gun and the deadly Superzapper which destroys all enemies currently on the playfield.
Features
- Next-gen presentation: The game supports 4:3 and 16:9 aspect ratios, including HDTV, with full-screen anti-aliasing and Dolby Digital surround sound.
- Arcade integration: Check top scores on the Leaderboards and master 12 challenging Achievements.
What will you be downloading?
Thanks to Worms for submitting.
Please make it Tempest 2000!!
One of two reasons to buy the Atari Jaguar (AvP was the other)
I love football … I can’t wait to see play football with Brett Farve and the rest of my Green Bay Packers … oh wait … what’s that you say? This isn’t a football game? SOCCER? Freaking soccer? are you kidding me? You might as well call it fagball.
The kind of man who plays soccer is the same kind of man I would want to stand next to in the john …
Any sport where the elite athletes consider it a skill to intentionally pretend to get fouled … are a bunch of sissies in my book.
dental care ftw!
Yes, soccer. It says it in the title of the fucking game.
The day we had to start changing our language because Yanks are too dumb to come up with their own names was a sad day indeed.
I don’t think ignorance is the reason for the verbal disconnect … perhaps arrogance … perhaps we just realized how gay soccer is and that we should try to run it into the ground … first by stealing all its best players to be NFL kickers (because they want to make real money) … then second by stealing the name.
either way, toothbrushes ftw!
That poor excuse for a sport that you fags call football is one of the gayest spectacles around.
Men running around padded up to the hilt in skin tight trousers. Yeah that’s not gay!
Real football (soccer to the ignorant) is the greatest game in the world.
Is it just me… or is American ‘football’ a strange name for a game where the players use their hands (throwing, catching and carrying) for the majority of the game?
May as well call it arseball!
And whatev, may as well call you an arsehead!
How Ironic this is coming from a Packer fan cause in my book
Green Bay Packers=Sissies
I mean what else would you call a team where the defenders are so crappy that they had provide financial incentive to intentionally injury the greatest Running Back ever to play in the NFL?
Anyways
I look forward to being a goal scoring superstar hero on Wednesday. The wait and delay has been way too long.
Right right … they wagered with each other about keeping Adrian Peterson under 100 yards … get your story straight. Did they tackle a little harder because of a bet (and a relatively small one when you’re talking about the salary of an NFL starter)? Doubt it. The hit wasn’t dirty.
The fact that GB plays physical, smash mouth, punch you in the face football is why the injury prone Peterson went down that day. He gets hurt almost every season … look at what happened at Oklahoma.
GB is the only team that plays bump and run coverage at the CB position … because they are bad-ass enough to pull it off.
Poor Vikings fan :_(
btw, if you really are a Vikes fan, you should get used to Peterson getting hurt. he’s gonna do it a lot.
football is the most popular sport on the planet so ur abit out numbered on this one
Typical Packer so very, very guliable. And Mark Chmura had only good intentions when he went into that bathroom with that 17 year old girl.
Look if I was Packers and got caught intentionally trying to injure a player even offering up a reward for doing it I’d come up with a fake story too.
I think its hilarious how you call that Yank NFL stuff football when apart from the punt kicker and the field goal kicker… no-one else actually uses there foot.
So how can it be football ?
As for it being a gay man’s sport… I’d like to see you walk up to big Vinnie Jones and say that to his face. Might get your head slammed in a car door.
ok, point awarded for the Chimi blast. But that tackle was clean. If he was intentionally trying to hurt him he would have twisted his legs on the way down. That’s how you dirty hit someone.
As far as numbers Jamzy, which numbers? Yes more people in the world attend soccer games then NFL, but why? Because in the poor countries accross the world, all you need to play soccer is a ball, four rocks (two for each goal), and a penchant for being a pussy. Let’s talk numbers. Lets talk Bottom line (Must be the american in me)
Money. There’s way more of it in the NFL … in merch, in salaries, in video games, in revenue.
And at least there have never been riots over an NFL game.
Quit feeding the troll. You guys are just feeding into what whatev wants… attention. The NFL is run by the mob like every other major sport here in the US and they all suck.
Erm. Last time I checked Football (or soccer) was the most profitable sport on the planet and no one is interested in it American Football outside of the US and if you want to make a comparison of whether or not American football is full of sissies just take a look at rugby. Why aren’t they wearing lot’s of queer padding and stockings? They beat the shit out of each other! Yet another game that isn’t popular in the US.
It has always seemed to me the Americans tend not to enjoy a game that doesn’t have high scoring and so they describe them as ‘boring’. I think this comes down to attention span.
Oh yeah, and why is it that you guys only like to race in straight lines or on tracks where you only need to turn left?
Woohoo! That’s exciting.
Is it because you don/t generally have to turn left on a normal road and so when you see daytona it’s an exciting change?
nascar … or as most people not from the south in the US call it … neck-car … is garbage. Worse than soccer. Not a formula one fan either. racing is boring to watch no matter which way you look at it.
Umm … Rugby isn’t very popular in the US because of how freaking dangerous it is … people frown upon dying in sporting events here.
funny how soccer fan brings up rugby … even though NFL football makes “football” look like a game of slapjack.
Basketball is better than all of them anyways
so whatev you dont like soccer took ya long enough to say so lol
cant wait
It’s not Tempest 2000 but the graphical upgrades look nice. I will immediately buy this for $5 Wed morning. That’s the main old arcade game I was hoping would make its way to Live.
@whatev
I think that when you speak of the beatiful game, you should be cognisant of the fact that while most Americans may not enjoy the game (a great many DO, but thats not the point…) there are BILLIONS around the globe who do.
While diving is a problem with soccer, its quite less a problem than multi millionaire athelets who forget to leave their ‘hood lives behind them.
I love soccer. I love hockey.
I love betting, and only by default do I love the NFL.
And as nice as it is watching Demarcus Ware blitz in from the corner and sack the QB, its infinately more pleasing to watch Andrea Pirlo curl in a free kick from 65 yards out.
oh, SWOS….I never played it way back when. Will d/l the demo and give it a try, but 800 points? I doubt it’ll be worth it
ok…..maybe not 65 yards, but you know what I mean!!!
I agree that the “hood” mentality in the NFL has with some of its players is a problem, it’s not nearly as big of a problem as people rioting and destroying property and injury, and killing other innocent people over a game of soccer. Pretty sure no one has ever rioted after an NFL game.
And no NFL stadiums have ever collapsed killing 100s of people.
No … but wasn’t there riots in Denver Colorado or something when they lost in the Super Bowl.
ENGAGED
On SWOS finally coming to XBLA…
ABOUT… BLOODY… TIME !
How long after Tempest goes on sale until we have Jeff Minter ranting that a minor rehash of Tempest has outsold Space Giraffe after a day? hehe He should have not done SG and just released Tempest 2000 would have sold a lot more than SG.
I’m getting both! Can’t wait
What’s with all the hating, flame-baiting and trolling on Xboxic these days? It’s really getting out of hand.
i really should stop … but I’m really bored
yeah you should stop before you force Xboxic to go to a registration system for us to post comments because of trolls like you. Go play with yourself or something if you’re that bored.
ok. sorry. seriously.
funny to me
YAY!!!
I LOVE FOOTBALL!!! =D
And now to go fill my hunger for FOOTBALL by buying SWOS. =)
at last i will definetly be buying this
will you guys stop talking about American “football”….come on everybody knows that football is played with your feet and it happens to be the most popular sport in the world
anyway I don’t think I’ll buy either of these titles unless I prefer SWoS over real-life footie
taken from an interview with xabi alonso, which is on http://www.liverpoolfc.tv/
A: AMERICAN FOOTBALL
DID YOU WATCH THE NFL GAME AT WEMBLEY?
I didn’t see that particular match but when I was younger I used to watch it quite a bit. I was a big fan of the Dallas Cowboys and the San Francisco 49ers. That was a few years ago and I don’t really follow it as much now.
WOULD YOU FANCY BEING A KICKER?
Yeah, I’d love to try it. Of course the ball is quite different so it would be a real challenge. The fact that your only job is kicking doesn’t really appeal to me so that would certainly be a downside.
I’d prefer to have a go at playing rugby union because even when you’re the kicker you still have other jobs. I watched a lot of the recent World Cup, Johnny Wilkinson is brilliant and I’d love to try playing in his position.
I really think we need Tony Romo’s input on this topic…
Tony?
Sorry guys. I’m too busy with Jessica Simpson to give any of this bullshit a second thought.
Cowboys FTW in the NFC this year.
Hmmmmmmm…………. I always thought it was called Gridiron. A nice macho name to disguise the fact that those Yanks have enough protective equipment on while playing it to mistake them for the Pilsbury Dough-boy. GAAAAAAAAAAAAY!