14 DAY TRIAL // Microsoft has recently announced that this Wednesday (that's tomorrow for gamers staying up all night losing track of time), Aegis Wing will be available as a free download, via XBLA, for both Gold and Silver members. Aegis Wing has been developed 3 MS interns over the past summer, as Evil Avatar reports. To your left, there are some pretty impressive in-game screens.
Here are some of the game's features, as Microsoft themselves describe them:
- Amazing environmental art - Full symphonic soundtrack - Up to four-player simultaneous cooperative multiplayer gameplay, either locally on the same Xbox 360 console or over Xbox LIVE* - Ability to attach your ship to your wingmen's spacecraft to gain the "turret" ability and increase the firepower of the Super Weapons - Four Super Weapons: the Hades Beam (wreaks total destruction), the Gorgon Burst (wipes out incoming fire and disables enemy spacecraft with an electromagnetic pulse), the Arcus Missile (a heat-seeking missile) and the Lambda Shield (deflects incoming fire back at enemies) - Six epic missions and several memorable boss encounters to fight through
As the screens show, the game looks fairly decent for a free downloadable title via XBLA, for both Gold and Silver members, but it will be released only in North America and Europe and for a limited time frame.
This kindness coming from Microsoft and Carbonated Games (the developer) should be appreciated, no doubt, but could this be just a stalling for a more anticipated title, a next-gen title perhaps? Not that Xbox 360 gamers don't have enough titles to go around but it surely sounds like they're trying to fill up a gap during this hot summer.
No worries anyway, I repeat, the game looks fairly good and if it plays good too (that "four-player simultaneous cooperative multiplayer gameplay" sounds quite nifty), Xboxers are in for a full summer. So remember, Aegis Wing is free to download and play beginning tomorrow.