Freeverse reveals Airburst screens
The folks at Freeverse, developers behind the XBLA port of Marathon 2: Durandal, shot over two screens of their upcoming revamp of the classic title Airburst.
Announced as an XBLA exclusive in October, Freeverse hopes to bring back the excitement of the 2001 Mac OS release. Developed by partner studio, Strange Flavour (who created the original), gamers can expect HD inverted pong-action, injected with insane color.
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Blue_Falcon @ Mar 12th 2008 2:13PM
Will this game make me queasy within 5 minutes, too?
Xav de Matos @ Mar 12th 2008 3:43PM
I'm a huge fan of Marathon 2: Durandal and the XBLA port. So anything Freeverse is working on I need to at least check it out. Airburst looks crazy!
Jonah Falcon @ Mar 12th 2008 4:31PM
Basically, this is Warlords with moving castles.
Phillip Ryu @ Mar 13th 2008 10:24AM
Definitely won't make you queasy. This was the first game I bought (the original Airburst when I was in middle school) for a generous "pay what you can" price. (StrangeFlavour did it before Radiohead.)
If you can't try this out on a Mac, it's a breakout type game against other players, where you defend and attack each other's floating platforms, ringed with poppable bubbles. Add a bunch of powerups, character specific special moves, and tons of unlockables and game modes, and you have highly refined game crack. I would say this stands with Super Smash Brothers and Bomberman with its ridiculously awesome, non split screen multiplayer action.
Unfortunately it hasn't been updated for the newest Intel Macs, so for now I'm looking forward to some bubble popping on the Xbox.
Pop pop pop!