Sierra to offer three games for Xbox Live this summer

It looks like we may be seeing the ol’ Sierra logo via Xbox Live later this summer. Plans to release three games for the console’s arcade service joined the many other press releases for the E3 feeding frenzy this year (2007). Grizzled PC gamers will remember a little game called Kings Quest that they may have passed a rainy afternoon or thirty with. Since then Sierra has dabbled in games for just about every platform there is.

Switchball is already playable as a PC version. Fans of Archer Mclean’s Mercury will get the idea right away, the games are quite similar. There are four different ball types each with their own physics. Players must navigate the spheres safely through the levels. No puns about male reproductive organs, please.

Commanders: Attack! looks like a very stylish turn based strategy game. The building are reminiscent of something out of an Ayn Rand novel and the character animations look cartoonish, but not in a bad way. Commanders: Attack! will make a nice addition to the genre; the game joins Band of Bugs as the only two turn based strategy games currently available on Xbox Live Arcade. Personally I think they should have named the game Commanders: Attack but only if you’ve exhausted all other diplomatic options first! We have to set a postitive image, right?

Battlestar Galactica looks very, very promising. Faithful readers will have heard me griping about the lack of decent space simulators, a sore spot only recently soothed by the arrival of Project Sylpheed. It looks as if the publishers are springing them on us all at once, and Battlestar Galactica will be the space shooter that people play if Sylpheed proves too complicated for them. Based on the revamped Sci-fi show, the game features eight different ships, multiplayer compatibility, campaign missions from the television show and the ability to play as either the evil Cylons or the faithful Humans who defend Galactica. Keep your eyes out for this one, it should be a big seller.

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