WCA and Super Contra available on XBLA

by Dustin Burg { Jul 25th 2007 at 9:00AM }

Today's the day we cash in on our Wednesday XBLA twofer with two Arcade games available for download; Super Contra for 400 Microsoft points and Wing Commander Arena for 800 Microsoft points. Be sure to check out the games' official Xbox.com websites to get a little more info on each Arcade title and to take a look at what each has to offer. Also, remember that for the Wing Commander Arena community site tournament we can use your help by telling us any strategies you learn or simply by practicing with us. So, if you give WCA a purchase today and turn out to be somewhat of a prodigy, be sure to let us know your secrets. Anyway, it's a XBLA twofer today, so go give Super Contra and WCA some download love.

Tags: ea, konami, supercontra, wca, wingcommanderarena, xbla

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Neeko @ Jul 25th 2007 9:28AM

Great now i gotta buy some more points..

itsburnsie @ Jul 25th 2007 9:48AM

Wing Commander Arena could be pretty good, Super Contra looks like a pass for me... unless they've improved the horrid side-box graphics for people playing in letterbox. Damn those were ugly.

COMPLETELY OFF-TOPIC:
You guys should spread the word about the Shadowrun title update. I got it last night, and my party and I were finding games inside of 20 seconds. Which, you know, is kind of a big improvement over the FIVE MINUTES or more it used to take. Pretty great.

Thomas Newman @ Jul 25th 2007 9:57AM

Wing Commander is really fun. However, I can't seem to get the Live leaderboards to work yet. THey come up, but there are no names on it.

Those one on one duels are CRAZY

Boff @ Jul 25th 2007 11:23AM

Is WCA any good? I'm still in work :o(
Don't know if I can be arsed with Super Contra.

Project Ekim @ Jul 25th 2007 12:14PM

wing commander felt awkward to control for me is there like anyway to boost it just seems like everyone is always on the same lvl the same speed and all that matters is your turning and acuracy

ZeroCorpse @ Jul 25th 2007 2:11PM

Yuck. Wing Commander Arena is so completely untrue to the Wing Commander series. It sucks! It's more like Atari 2600 COMBAT than Wing Commander... Only COMBAT had better controls.

How could they screw up something as tried-and-true as Wing Commander? It's an in-the-cockpit dogfighting flying sim! Turning it into a top-down shooter was a colossally bone-headed move.

Avoid if you're looking for Wing Commander. Download if you're looking for yet another XBLA top-down shooter.

Clinton @ Jul 27th 2007 12:43PM

WC Arena is simply awful and a disgrace to the series. Even by XBLA original title standards, the graphics are lackluster and the gameplay stinks. There is only a single plane of movement, which totally defeats the concept of piloting a spacecraft.
Good-bye, classic Wing Commander games of yore. You will be missed.