This Wednesday, team up with up to three of your friends and prepare
yourselves for intense side-scrolling, sci-fi shooting action in “Aegis Wing.”
Originally conceived by three Microsoft Corp. interns over the course of a
summer, “Aegis Wing” will be available for free to all Xbox LIVE Silver and Gold
members in North America for a limited time. “Aegis Wing” will be available for
download on Xbox LIVE Arcade for Xbox 360 beginning Wednesday, May 16, at 2 a.m.
PDT.
“Aegis Wing” is a 2-D side-scrolling space shooter that combines epic space
combat with fantastic visuals, and is set to a rich symphonic soundtrack. It is
set in the year 2105, when humanity must flee a dying Earth for the distant
world Europa. But this new home is soon threatened by a powerful alien race, the
Araxia. With stolen Araxian technology, the Europa fleet develops an
experimental star fighter and assigns four ace pilots to test it. The Aegis Wing
is born, and it becomes your mission to wield this new technology as humanity’s
last hope for survival.
Up to four players can play together either locally or over Xbox LIVE to
defeat waves of nefarious Araxian ships and bosses, and can even combine
spacecraft in two-, three- or four-ship formations to access powerful Super
Weapons.
“Aegis Wing” was originally conceived by three students – Scott Brodie, Danny
Dyer and Matt Monson – during a summer internship at Xbox LIVE Arcade. The
students worked in tandem with Carbonated Games – the creators of fan-favorite,
UNO – to bring the game to the Xbox LIVE Arcade community. The full version of
“Aegis Wing” is being released on Xbox LIVE Arcade free of charge and will be
available for a limited time.
Game Features
- Amazing environmental art
- Full symphonic soundtrack
- Up to four-player simultaneous cooperative multiplayer gameplay, either
locally on the same Xbox 360 console or over Xbox LIVE*
- Ability to attach your ship to your wingmen’s spacecraft to gain the
“turret” ability and increase the firepower of the Super Weapons
- Four Super Weapons: the Hades Beam (wreaks total destruction), the
Gorgon Burst (wipes out incoming fire and disables enemy spacecraft with an
electromagnetic pulse), the Arcus Missile (a heat-seeking missile) and the
Lambda Shield (deflects incoming fire back at enemies)
- Six epic missions and several memorable boss encounters to fight through
Where Can I Get It?
You can download “Aegis Wing” beginning Wednesday, May 16, at 2 a.m. PDT on
Xbox LIVE Arcade. “Aegis Wing” will be available for download in North America
only. “Aegis Wing” is rated E for Everyone, with Mild Fantasy Violence. More
information is available at
www.xbox.com/games/livearcade.
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