Kicking off the first part of Microsoft's 'exclusive only' portion of their press conference, Cliff Bleszinski and Donald Mustard announced Shadow Complex, a new Metroidvania style game coming for XBLA. While we found out the existence of this title earlier today from the leak on MS's website, we know have a lot more details about the gameplay.
Aside from regular staples of the genre like double and triple jumping and hookshots, they also mentioned a kind of 'foam gun' that you can use to create platforms and staircases to access previously unreachable areas. Definitely has a strong sci-fi feel to it, and it sounds pretty neat.
Boasting a huge map, a 10+ hour main game, and over one hundred hidden items to find, this appears to be an XBLA game that'll give you a pretty decent chunk of gameplay, and if it's like all the other Metroidvania games, there will be a ton of replayability as well. Since I'm a huge Metroid and Castlevania whore, this'll be a game I'll be watching pretty closely.
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Jonathan Ross is an Associate Editor in Los Angeles who is obsessed with capybaras. Like, seriously, obsessed. If he's not playing Team Fortress 2 or getting into arguments about why PC gaming is superior, he's either off having a fancy dinner with lots of expensive wine, or sitting on the Destructoid IRC complaining that's he's not off having a fancy dinner.
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1:26 PM on 06.01.2009
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The foam gun, though? Concrete Man from Mega Man 9 would like to have a word.
A Metroid type game? Count me interested.
Count me in sir.