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This week on XBLA: Ion Assault, The Warriors, and more photo

As Major Nelson informs us, three new Xbox LIVE Arcade games are arriving on Wednesday, all of which are priced at 800 Microsoft Points. Unusual, isn't it? There's The Warriors: Street Brawl, Zombie Apocalypse, and Ion Assault.

Based purely on screenshots, word of mouth, and my personal preference, Ion Assault looks to be the best of the bunch. Disclaimer: a lot of that has to do with me being extremely tired of anything that has to do with zombies outside of Dead Rising (and possibly Left 4 Dead 2) in addition to beat-'em'ups as a genre.

There have been plenty of bad shooters to end up on LIVE Arcade, so I could be completely wrong about this, but Ion Assault's "particles as ammo" system is interesting enough to have me looking in the first place. How about The Warriors or Zombie Apocalypse? Anyone feeling those?








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ZeroTolo's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/21/2009 16:43
ZeroTolo
First glance at Ion Assault is giving me flashbacks to Power-Up Forever.
AngelsDontBurn's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/21/2009 16:57
AngelsDontBurn
If it has zombies, I'll check it out. Cause I've always had insane love for zombies.
ZombiePlatypus's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/21/2009 17:01
ZombiePlatypus
I was just hinking about the new Warriors game earlier today. I'll definitely at least demo it, but to be honest I'll probably end up blind buying it. I'm such a Warriors fanboy, I don't care about the bad vibes some have been getting.

It's realease does throw a wrench into my plans for Zombie Apocalypse this week. I may be spending more points than I had planned on.
AFreindlyZombie's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/21/2009 17:07
AFreindlyZombie
ion assault kinda reminds me of super stardust on psn . But yeah ill probably end up getting all three. Iam a sucker for good arcade games
WarZombie's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/21/2009 17:40
WarZombie
ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE <333
Holyetheline's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/21/2009 17:48
Holyetheline
I want more zombies in my life, I'll probably get Zombie Apocolypse.
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