Microsoft Interns Take Flight With Aegis Wing
This Wednesday, Xbox 360 owners will be able to get an honest to goodness free game from Xbox Live Arcade. The game, Aegis Wing, was "conceived" by three Microsoft Corp. interns (Scott Brodie, Danny Dyer and Matt Monson) during a summer internship at Xbox LIVE Arcade. They developed the game alongside Carbonated Games, the people that brought UNO to XBLA. Both Silver and Gold members of XBL will be able to get the game for free for a limited time, but a deadline was not set. Curious about the game? Here's what the jazz is all about:
“Aegis Wing” is a 2-D side-scrolling space shooter that combines epic space combat with fantastic visuals, and is set to a rich symphonic soundtrack. It is set in the year 2105, when humanity must flee a dying Earth for the distant world Europa. But this new home is soon threatened by a powerful alien race, the Araxia. With stolen Araxian technology, the Europa fleet develops an experimental star fighter and assigns four ace pilots to test it. The Aegis Wing is born, and it becomes your mission to wield this new technology as humanity’s last hope for survival.
The game allows for four players to with each other (ooooo) either locally or over Xbox Live. To make that neat-o by a factor of ten, you can combine "spacecraft in two-, three- or four-ship formations to access powerful Super Weapons." Here's some more features for the game, one of which includes a symphonic soundtrack...mmmmm, symphonic.
Game Features:
- Amazing environmental art
- Full symphonic soundtrack
- Up to four-player simultaneous cooperative multiplayer gameplay, either locally on the same Xbox 360 console or over Xbox LIVE
- Ability to attach your ship to your wingmen’s spacecraft to gain the “turret” ability and increase the firepower of the Super Weapons
- Four Super Weapons: the Hades Beam (wreaks total destruction), the Gorgon Burst (wipes out incoming fire and disables enemy spacecraft with an electromagnetic pulse), the Arcus Missile (a heat-seeking missile) and the Lambda Shield (deflects incoming fire back at enemies)
- Six epic missions and several memorable boss encounters to fight through
Look for it on Wednesday, May 16th at 2 a.m. PDT. C'mon, it's free! Give it a shot! I love shooters. Pew pew! Gallery o' screenshots, after the jump!
Super Timsy
Posted to Video Games on 14 May 2007
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