Here's the most recent list of Xbox LIVE Marketplace content scheduled for release on Xbox 360 this September-October 2010. Please check each item individually on Xbox LIVE for local pricing and regional availability.
Xbox LIVE Deal of the Week
- Week of September 20: Left 4 Dead 2: The Passing - 320 Microsoft Points
- Week of September 27: Toy Soldiers - 800 Microsoft Points
Xbox Game Add-Ons
- September 21: Red Dead Redemption - Liars and Cheats, 800 Microsoft Points
- September 28: Borderlands - Clap Trap's New Robot Revolution , 800 Microsoft Points
- September 29: Toy Soldiers - Invasion! , 400 Microsoft Points
* Schedule subject to change. All content may not be available in all Xbox LIVE regions.
One of just a handful of titles to be released as a boxed game at traditional retail outlets and as a digital download via Microsoft’s online network, Eidos’ Tomb Raider: Anniversary has finally arrived on Xbox Live.
A remake of the seven million plus selling 1996 classic Tomb Raider, the game charts the exploits of tomb-raiding heroine Lara Croft as she jumps, swings and shoots her way through Peru, Greece, Egypt and Great Britain in search of a mythical object called the Scion.
Already available as a standalone title in stores, the game is now available via Xbox Live in the form of two downloadable packs. The packs cost 1200 Microsoft points each, and combined will take up 3GB of hard drive storage space.
Microsoft’s Xbox Arcade Collection and Bethesda’s Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion expansions are the only other titles to appear both as boxed games in stores and as digital downloads on Microsoft’s online network.
Rather than being a straightforward port of the original, developer Crystal Dynamics used an enhanced version of last year’s Tomb Raider Legend engine to optimize the experience. Additionally, protagonist Lara has a range of new moves - taken directly from Legend - not featured in the original game.
The Wii version of Tomb Raider: Anniversary, already in stores stateside, will hit European retail outlets on December 7.
Eidos have released information on plans to roll out a full retail game for xbox 360 utilizing the xbox 360 live marketplace..
Eidos will release Tomb Raider Anniversary for Xbox 360 via the Live Markeplace this autumn - the first time a full retail game has been rolled out via downloads.
The title will be avalable in four episodes; the first two will be released with a training mission in September, with the next two arriving shortly afterwards. A full retail version won't be released until later in the year.
"We have created this version of Anniversary specifically for digital distribution as episodic content," said SCi's chief executive Jane Cavanagh.
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