Game developers cannot allow Xbox 360 Avatars to be decapitated, have sex, or shout vulgar things, but turning their heads into a giant, playable ball with a gun? Totally acceptable.
While we had previously been told that Avatars would be included in the Xbox LIVE Arcade game Madballs in...Babo: Invasion, this is the first we have seen of them in action. Thanks to GamerBytes, we've actually got a short video of the insanity after the break, and it's almost too strange to pass up.
Whether or not Madballs ends up being a hit or not, it won't matter; it will always be remembered as "the game that lets you roll giant Avatar heads around."
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12:40 PM on 06.23.2009
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Well, would you look at that. The ending title shot shows a couple of the balls (heh heh) that were out back then.
Kinda cool, in the nostalgic sense. Weird that they are digging up this franchise, though. Anyone else remember the cartoon? Awful stuff.
I dont remember madballs having guns when I was a kid. I remember finding one at school I must have been in 3-4th grade, the mummy head
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