Happy Tree Friends and Ticket to Ride hit the XBLA rails
by Richard Mitchell 
{ Jun 25th 2008 at 11:30AM }
Hey kids! It's Xbox Live Arcade Wednesday and that can only mean one thing. That's right, it's time for some new XBLA games. Huzzah! This week's releases are Happy Tree Friends False Alarm and Ticket to Ride. False Alarm has you guiding your favorite furry friends through various hazards, doing your best to keep them from being sliced, diced, burned, or otherwise mutilated. Ticket to Ride, on the other hand, is a board game in which you relive the spirit of expansion brought on by the advent of railroads. In other words, you build trains. It's more fun than it sounds. Both are available now for 800 MS Points each. Stay tuned for the next XBLA in Brief and we'll tell you whether or not they're worth the scratch.
Source - Happy Tree Friends False Alarm on Xbox.com
Source - Ticket to Ride on Xbox.com
Source - Happy Tree Friends False Alarm on Xbox.com
Source - Ticket to Ride on Xbox.com
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Outinthedark @ Jun 25th 2008 11:54AM
Pass on Happy Tree Friends pick up Ticket to Ride...never have played the board game but just playing one game this morning made it worth the purchase. Amazing game. Just hope they don't twist another 500 MS points out of the DLC.
ccc @ Jun 25th 2008 1:09PM
Well, I was really looking forward to Happy Tree Friends.
Upon downloading it and tring it out, I quickly became VERY discusted.
This game here is truly deservent, I believe, of the title worst game in the arcade.
Being a huge fan of the Tv series could not save this game for me or anyone for that matter.
It is a piss poor game that tries to be like Eets Chowdown but falls extremely short in delivering on anything that is actually good.
Wow this game sucks.
Ticket to Ride on the other hand, is pretty much the exact same game as Lost Cities. Which I didn't care for at all but I know some people do like this genre a bit so have at it.
For me this week was a complete loss and waste of time.
Except for the Release of Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo HD Remix Beta, which I was on within the first 2 minutes it became available whooping ass with my man KEN. My only complant about that game I am submitting to Capcom is that the 360 controllers Dpad sucks balls and ultimately ruins the game by no fault of Capcom.
My suggestion will be that they put in the marketplace a SSF2THDR option to buy and have shipped to you a nice Capcom made 6 button layout controller for 1200 to 1600 ms points. That price would also include shipping and handling.
Now thats a great Idea folks, and trust me, if Capcom is gonna make some SF controllers, there gonna be worth 12 or 1600 points easy.
Philip @ Jun 26th 2008 1:50PM
"This game here is truly deservent, I believe, of the title worst game in the arcade."
I disagree...YARIS
djbuhhda @ Jun 25th 2008 4:46PM
if i had money i'd pick up ticket to ride. i really love Carcassone and catan was alright didn't care for lost cities but Ticket to ride is probly the best of the board/card games on XBLA.
as for happy tree freinds it is kinda koo. dont really think i would ever buy it. but if i got it for free from somewhere i would probly have a fun time with it.
danotis @ Jun 27th 2008 11:16PM
Ticket to Ride is effed up. I'm playing on normal aspect (not widescreen) on my monitor (vga) and it kicks the rez down to what looks like 480... i set my xbox display settings to widescreen and poof! hi-rez
wtf. fix this plz thx.