Mr Driller Online to be next week's XBLA release?

by Terrence Stasse { Mar 28th 2008 at 12:30PM }

In the exact same manner as happened with Ikaruga not twenty-four hours ago, an eagle-eyed forums poster discovered that the Japanese xbox.com site has been updated with new XBLA release data. This time the game is Mr Driller Online, and from the looks of it the release date is much closer this time as well. The Japanese page details the games four modes,

Multiplayer, Battle, 2-4 Players
Multiplayer, Tag Battle, 3-4 Players

Single Player, Standard Driller
Single Player, Quest Driller, 100 puzzles

as well as having a host of game screenshots. Now as long as someone from Microsoft doesn't take this info down for being posted early (like what happened with Ikaruga) and we'll be golden. If the data is accurate (and hey, it is on an official site) then we can expect to be getting into some online puzzler action by this time next week. Oh and the price appears to be 800pts.

Via NeoGAF

Tags: mr-driller-online, namco-bandai, xbla

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Magic Whiskey @ Mar 28th 2008 12:42PM

I played a Mr. Driller on the DS a long time ago and I'm not against it; I'd love to try a full arcade game.

Waiting for a few XBLA games right now, myself...including Castle Crashers and Dishwasher, if it comes as a full downloadable game.

Can you all list a few ANNOUNCED games you're looking forward to? (Not hypothetical ones, and sadly..not Goldeneye.)

Tony @ Mar 28th 2008 1:09PM

I'm extremely excited for this. Mr Driller is probably my favorite arcade game and this version should be great.

At the same time, I'm extremely disappointed by their graphical approach to it. The stuff surrounding the game looks great, the in-game graphics themselves look just outright horrible in every screen shot (more obvious in the full resolution ones, which are not on the Xbox site). The smoothing filter is just too damn strong.

Hopefully you can turn it off entirely because then I'll be completely happy.

VanIslePimp @ Mar 28th 2008 1:18PM

I'll wait until I see an English Xbox.com Game Detail Page on this game before I get too excited about this one. The Japanese page for Mr. Driller has been up for some time now, so this really isn't new news to anyone who can operate a search engine.

If it is next weeks game title though, I will definately be getting it.