Xbox Live Arcade

[thorns]

now that it is going to be standard in all xbox 360s, has anyone tried it?
How is it possible to get it in europe for the current xbox?

[tonyk100]

There a demo on this months Official magazine once you use LIVE to logon theres 12 games to play in demo mode. Not tried them all, Mutant Storm a nice little shopter was cool but another was a graphically snazzly version of Windows Mine Sweeper

The buy prices were a surprise approx. ?7.50 to ?11.50 !!

I thought they would be ?5 tops especially as there only downloads and are in some cases 'mum' games / Gamejam/Sky style stuff

Having said that a few look snazzy and a couple support HD.

But I probalbly wont be buying any at that price - I'll just buy play the demos a few times

[charlesr]

Had a quick go on the demos last night. I guess it's really a beta for the 360 version. Cos it's rubbish
Nothing I'd pay ?2 for, let alone ?7.50 or ?12.50.
There's a really poor version of monkey ball which didn't even have the camera auto position - you had to use the right-stick for the camera, so there was no way of getting any decent speed up. Dreadful.
However, most of the sections are empty - the retro section might have been interesting had it had anything in it. Well, possibly. But I doubt it come to think of it.

Anyone else got their money's worth from this?

[in5ane]

I enjoyed some of the simple little games. I would have paid a fiver for a couple of games, but definitely no more.

[TheForce]

I got it by post from microsoft. It's not bad , but also nothing special.
I did buy one game though... mutant storm is hugely addictive so I've bought it for 12.95 (euro).
I think it's a very good idea from microsoft, there can be some really nice little games in the future to play for a nice little price. You can try them all out before you buy them so you can be quite sure you're money will be well spend.

[Walrus]

Mutant Storm is an ace shooter that's worth ?12.50 of anyone's money.

Bar PGR3, the update is currently my most anticipated 360 game.