Tilt the table in Alien Crush Returns

By Spencer . August 4, 2008 . 1:38pm

Space Invaders: Get Even isn’t the only awesome looking WiiWare title coming to Japan this month. Alien Crush Returns is scheduled to come out in August too. I already love how Hudson implemented motion control to mimic tilting a real pinball machine. You can deal extra damage by shaking the remote towards a target, but it’s risky. Shaking too much can cause the table to freeze with a tilt error.

Speaking of the pinball there are different kinds of pinballs you can get access too. The Burst Ball dishes out bonus damage depending on its speed and the split ball can phase into two balls for a limited amount of time. Hudson plans on distributing additional action balls as downloadable content. Extra stages will be available too, but Hudson hasn’t announced how much they will cost. The base pack, with online multiplayer, costs 800 Wii Points ($8) in Japan.

Images courtesy of Hudson.

TAGS: Hudson, Wii, WiiWare

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John H.

Dear Clueless Game Companies,

Customers do not consider downloadable content to be acceptable unless there's some rights situation that, more or less, requires the extra fee (like extra songs in a music game) or it is an expansion feature substantial enough to be sold in its own box in the store. In all other cases, it looks exactly like you're trying to fleece your customers. This feeling is doubled if the features are exceptionally minor (like extra ball types in a pinball game), and trebled if the "downloadable content" is just an unlock code for data already on the media/original download. (Yes, we know when you do this. We know.)

It's true that we'll pay it if there's an extremely good feature for sale, but we are never happy about it. WE ARE NEVER HAPPY ABOUT IT. If you care at all what your customers think about you, as all entertainment companies should, then weigh carefully whether to make that extra feature added in during development DLC.

Sincerely,
Us

seiya19

@John H.

Agreed. I donÂ´t like at all this tendency of being charged for every little bonus or extra stage/character/etc that could have appeared in the game from the beginning...

IÂ´m hoping to see a retail version of games that do this, which includes all the extras and itÂ´s priced accordingly. I prefer that to spend money on all the extras separately.

Aside from that, this game looks great, as Get Even does. I should try the original Alien Crush sometime...