THQ brings SpongeBob and three others to XBLA
THQ is making four new games for Xbox Live Arcade, including the horribly named (for those with dirty minds) SpongeBob SquarePants: Underpants Slam! The other games are Screwjumper, Elements of Destruction and Rocket Riot. SpongeBob and Screwjumper will release sometime in November.
To be honest, we know next to nothing about any of these games. We dug up an interview with the Screwjumper developers on XBLArcade. They describe the game as a "vertical action/racing game" which tasks the player "with destroying alien mining equipment and architecture while plummeting downward in continual, rapid, free-fall descent." They go on to say, "The objective of the game is to maximize score by crashing into and dynamiting as many alien structures as possible on the way down the mineshaft, then to initiate a detonation and race back to safety on the planet's surface." Well, if it's coming out in November, we don't have to wait too long to find out what that means -- thank goodness for XBLA demos.
To be honest, we know next to nothing about any of these games. We dug up an interview with the Screwjumper developers on XBLArcade. They describe the game as a "vertical action/racing game" which tasks the player "with destroying alien mining equipment and architecture while plummeting downward in continual, rapid, free-fall descent." They go on to say, "The objective of the game is to maximize score by crashing into and dynamiting as many alien structures as possible on the way down the mineshaft, then to initiate a detonation and race back to safety on the planet's surface." Well, if it's coming out in November, we don't have to wait too long to find out what that means -- thank goodness for XBLA demos.













Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
mr nimblewick (SegaDF - Jogurt Ring) @ Oct 24th 2007 5:44PM
SpongeBob, you rascal.
gonk @ Oct 24th 2007 6:03PM
they should make a spongebob game where you switch pants on the fly for different tasks, kind of like the morphs in ape escape 3. spongebob lawyerpants, spongebob scardeypants, etc are already in the episodes :)
and i agree with that last sentence, the required demos for arcade games are AWESOME, i really love that feature
gonk @ Oct 24th 2007 6:05PM
haha i'm in arcade now, the subtitle description for EXIT is "Pazzle Action"
Rob @ Oct 24th 2007 6:13PM
Mmmm, love me some EXIT. That game rocks. Though it means I now have one less reason to buy a poospe.
Word of the street(IDF-Digital Ruler). @ Oct 24th 2007 6:11PM
Yes I want to play spongebob..with applejuice.
Matt B @ Oct 24th 2007 6:54PM
Gary the snail says "Meow".
Matt @ Oct 24th 2007 7:01PM
SpongeBob? The guy who lives in a pineapple under the sea?
Vexorg @ Oct 24th 2007 8:27PM
This is just one of the many depravations that achievement point addicts will have to face in the coming months...