Carcassonne tiles onto Arcade

by David Dreger { Jun 27th 2007 at 12:00PM }

As we announced on Monday, today's Xbox Live Arcade offering is Carcassonne. For 800 Microsoft Points you can get your hands on some castle building action. It's got 5 player live multiplayer and 4 player local MP, Live Vision camera support, and a nice range of balanced Achievements. It hopefully will bring a similar crowd as Catan did, allowing for a more laid back and social experience, so long as the camera support isn't abused. Hopefully we'll catch you online soon.

Tags: Arcade, Carcassonne, Live Arcade, LiveArcade, X B L A, XBLA, Xbox Live Arcade, XboxLiveArcade

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

James @ Jun 27th 2007 12:51PM

I actually did a little jig when I read "local multiplayer". ROCK! I'm still sore that Catan doesn't offer the same, but I'm going to have to head out now and find a good deal on a second controller -- this may finally give me a chance to get my wife playing.

Anybody got a good lead on really cheap 360 controllers? Wireless preferred, but not required.

Soyle Mycelf @ Jun 27th 2007 1:26PM

James, Stootsi (http://www.stootsi.com/) has the wireless controller for $34.99. Looks like that price will last until midnight eastern time.

Wizardly @ Jun 27th 2007 1:42PM

I know James, I was pretty sore when Texas Hold'em didn't have four player local myself...

Morgon @ Jun 27th 2007 2:37PM

Kind of hard to play local multiplayer when you have cards to hide. Carcassonne is a little more open than that.

.... Unless you meant local LAN, which is a little different, but it seemed like it meant local same-console multiplayer.

Jonah Falcon @ Jun 27th 2007 3:50PM

You can do a local LAN. You just can't do local single Xbox 360.

Xyzzy @ Jun 27th 2007 4:31PM

I think Catan should have the option to do local multiplayer. The cards aren't like poker; a player with a good memory COULD know exactly who has what cards if they paid attention (since you see every card that goes into and out of a player's possession). In addition, you can tell exactly how many of each resource are in play...

Development cards could be handled by just telling the other person to look away when you buy one. A minor inconvenience, but I'd love to play Catan with my wife and a couple of CPU players. :(

That said, I'll probably try this game out too. Never heard of it before (never heard of Catan either), but people seem to be complimenting it.

Clinton @ Jun 27th 2007 7:13PM

This is a really fun game. Simple rules, simple game elements and a short play time. Also seems to be a lot of strategic depth. Like Catan, the demo instantly makes me want to drop the 800pts. Unlike Catan, I might actually spend the money this time :)

GRT @ Jun 27th 2007 9:41PM

Did no one else find the demo was pretty cheap? I would've liked to be able to finish a basic game, but with the limit on the number of turns I guess that isn't possible (I'm new to the game so correct me if I'm wrong.)

Why not limit the demo to a basic game at a low AI setting, but at least allow players to complete a play through.