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XBLA This Week: Bullwinkle and Battlezone

This week's Xbox Live Arcade offerings are brought to you by the letter B! Something old and something we hope you'll really like are coming your way, in the form of the arcade classic Battlezone (400 Microsoft points) and Rocky & Bullwinkle (800 Microsoft points). One is a fast-paced collection of microgames featuring classic cartoon characters from ages past, and the other is vector tank combat with redone graphics and all-new Deathmatch, Team Deathmatch, and Capture the Flag modes! Both utilize the Xbox Live Vision Camera for added functionality, so now it's up to you to figure out which is which. Good luck and godspeed!

This week on Arcade: Bullwinkle and Battlezone [Xbox Live's Major Nelson]

4:00 PM on Mon Apr 14 2008
By Mike Fahey
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Ken Hikari at 04:15 PM on 04/14/08
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Battle Zone with Death-match? Sounds awesome, but how will it work?
Pezdispenser at 04:17 PM on 04/14/08
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Now would probably be a good time to mention that I hated Rocky and Bulwinkle.

Battlezone, on the otherhand, I really enjoyed. What I'd really like, though, would be for the late 90's Battlezone to come back. Darn thing just dropped off the face of the earth.
ultraViolence at 04:19 PM on 04/14/08
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kewl. i remember sticking my face into the facial oil covered cabniet version when i was a kid.

i pick it for simply for nostalgias sake - and because i'm rich and spend money like it's made of water.
Double J at 04:20 PM on 04/14/08
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I could go for some Fractured Fairy Tales...
SolDieR at 04:22 PM on 04/14/08
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Their putting my childhood up on XBLA gradually.
Lanhoj at 04:23 PM on 04/14/08
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since both use the camera ... hmmm ... it'll be a hard choice this week.
Orionsaint at 04:26 PM on 04/14/08
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Wow these look pretty cool, can't wait!
Chuco at 04:27 PM on 04/14/08
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I'm actually pretty jealous now...I loved Rocky and Bullwinkle as a kid. Silly to say I might get a 360 just for this o.o;
kylenalepa at 04:34 PM on 04/14/08
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@Pezdispenser: Whaaaaaaaa? Hated, you say? Rocky and Bullwinkle? How dare you! :p

I'm particularly interested in Battlezone, though, although I, too, wish the remake with the first-person RTS feel would come back. I was too young to really "get it" the first time around, but thinking back, it actually seemed like a really cool concept. I mean, Americans and Soviets fighting a secret war on the Moon? With hover tanks? How much cooler can you get?
HawaiianActor at 04:42 PM on 04/14/08
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i love moose and squirrel!
arepeegee at 04:46 PM on 04/14/08
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I just has a hardcore flashback when i saw Battlezone. Hopefully it is half as fun as I remember it.

It probably will be considering that old games like that usually controlled like crap and were slow.
Mr. Mastodon Farm at 04:48 PM on 04/14/08
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@Pezdispenser:
I never knew it was humanly possible to hate Rocky and Bullwinkle. Burn him, he's a witch!
Highlander Wolf at 05:04 PM on 04/14/08
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Oh snap, Battlezone...!! That takes me back. Kinda want, but alas, no has Xbox...
Aethyr at 05:04 PM on 04/14/08
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Oh, SHIT. I just realized what Battlezone was. Damn, that was such a fun game. And now it's with added pretty ...too bad I don't have a 360.
Erwin at 05:08 PM on 04/14/08
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Sherman: Why is Xbox Live down, Mr. Peabody?
Peabody: Quiet you!
dubbfoolio at 05:17 PM on 04/14/08
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Rocky and Bullwinkle got a whopping 3.5 out of 10 from the official xbox magazine. ouch. I was excited until I saw that.
benmonkey at 05:28 PM on 04/14/08
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You guys seriously want a Rocky and Bullwinkle game in 2008?
TalKeaton: Game Design... at 05:38 PM on 04/14/08
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Rocky and Bullwinkle has Deathmatch mode?

...hmm. I may have to get this then.
Pinhead at 05:55 PM on 04/14/08
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Someone actually made Battlezone for XBLA?
They are seriously running out of ideas...
StupidDufus at 05:57 PM on 04/14/08
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I agree with the above commenter. I too can't stand Rocky & Bullwinkle.
Strangelove at 06:32 PM on 04/14/08
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It's pretty cool that Rocky & Bullwinkle looks exactly like the cartoon.
enigma89 at 06:38 PM on 04/14/08
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I don't know what would cause someone to make a Rocky & Bullwinkle video game. No offense to fans, but the show was pretty boring. Once you even felt a tinge of interest, they ended up leaving you at a cliffhanger to show some short cartoon which is just as boring.
JorgieX at 06:50 PM on 04/14/08
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Dang, I feel so old now because I grew up playing BattleXone in the Arcades as a kid and I loved the Rocky and Bulwinkle show. lol
I will try both before I take the plunge. lmao
flojomojo at 07:11 PM on 04/14/08
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@Strangelove: Get off my lawn!
i_lie_to_fit_in at 09:35 PM on 04/14/08
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battlezone is looking really, really sharp...
Bakachan at 09:57 PM on 04/14/08
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@i_lie_to_fit_in: It had better be, it was a vector-based game ;o
newtype2011 at 11:16 PM on 04/14/08
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Rocky and Bullwinkle!?

Finally, the good games are starting to trickle out on XBLA. In a few months, we may get Thomas the Tank Engine and Gumby.

-_-
munkah at 12:26 AM on 04/15/08
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Battlezone's looking sexy...
Chef at 01:27 AM on 04/15/08
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How many box tops is "800 Microsoft points"? I've been eating this cereal for weeks and I'd hate for it to just go to waist!