Assault Heroes and Doom go half price this Wed

by Dustin Burg { Mar 17th 2008 at 12:30PM }

This Xbox Live Arcade Wednesday, we will sadly not be treated to any new Arcade releases. And we agree, that's a stinker. But there is a bright spot this week when, this Wednesday, March 19th, both the previously released XBLA games Assault Heroes and Doom will graduate to Xbox Live Arcade Hits status. And, as everyone knows, when an XBLA game becomes an Arcade Hit it means that its price gets slashed and in this case, in half to 400 Microsoft points each. No new releases is a bummer, but we haven't seen any new Arcade Hits since the program's launch in December so how could we not be thrilled for discounted XBLA fun? Remember, there's always next week.

Tags: assault-heroes, assaultheroes, doom, xbla, xbla-hits

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Dr Ecksack 3000 @ Mar 17th 2008 12:36PM

swell, I already purchased both games for the full price..

nerrrrrrd @ Mar 17th 2008 12:36PM

I heard DOOM is like Halo but you're in hell.

Jonah Falcon @ Mar 17th 2008 12:41PM

DOOM is one of the first FPSs (Wolfenstein is basically the first.)

Eye of the Beholder is the very first true 3D game, tho.

commander32 @ Mar 17th 2008 12:49PM

great, now maybe they could patch assault heroes so i could play online with a friend.

mike @ Mar 17th 2008 12:50PM

I was on the button for purchasing doom for quite some time when it was released. Maybe ill go and buy it now. Assult heroes was fun too, but I still wont buy it for more then 200 ms points.

Which reminds me, if games were 200 ms points, I would own at least 40 more XBLA titles.

Neuromancer @ Mar 17th 2008 12:58PM

Assault Heroes is not a bad game for $5, also I never had any problems playing co-op over Live.

I'd have been more interested in Doom if they'd made any type of effort to make it look or play better. Adding looking up or down with the right stick would have been a good start. There are a couple of PC mods that improved on the original game, like Doom Legacy.

Chem242 @ Mar 17th 2008 1:20PM

May have to pickup Doom at this price. My wife never played it in the old days.

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Scott @ Mar 17th 2008 1:34PM

Of course I already have Doom, but I am very happy to see they are continuing with this. I think they should up the turn-around a bit more, but I'll be excited each time they lower prices.

ccc @ Mar 17th 2008 2:17PM

Funny this happens now after recent discussions.
Too bad I'll be burned on these already have them both. But if you don't have them yet this is the perfect oppertunity.

Vcize @ Mar 17th 2008 2:52PM

@Neuromancer

Agreed. I played through Doom again recently on my PC with Doomsday, and expected the XBLA port to be at least as improved as that one was. When I tried the demo though I thought I had accidentally turned on my Wii and was getting one of those shitty VC direct ports.

Shame they didn't put ANY effort into this one..

AoE @ Mar 17th 2008 3:45PM

@Jonah Falcon, If you want to get technical... Eye of the Beholder's not true 3D and neither is Doom; they're both 2.5D (I kid you not, google them) And as far as 2.5D games go... you're still about a decade too late with Eye of the Beholder... check out a game called "Battlezone" ;)