Undertow Free of Charge for Xbox Live Accounts
Looks like they finally decided what XBox Live Arcade they are going to be giving away for the outages that happened after Christmas(read more here and here). I was not really affected since I was playing Assassin’s Creed and Fusion Frenzy 2 with relatives most of that week. But Undertow is the game they are giving away. The game will only be free from Wednesday January 23rd, 2:00 a.m. PST through January 27th,Sunday, 11:59 p.m. PST for all Silver and Gold Xbox Live memberships.
The game is normally 800 MS Points ($10). I like the feature list of the game. It has a single player campaign, on and offline co-op, and multiplayer for 2-16 players over Xbox LIVE for Gold subscribers. The other nice thing that peaked my interest is the ability to setup an offline game against the computer by adding bots. I know bots usually have bad AI and are basically repetitive in movements but one of the best times I’ve had with gaming resulted from a impromptu LAN party playing Battlefield 1942 on the Normandy map against 60 Nazi bots! We played that level for hours. I say bring back the bots in multiplayer gaming :) Anyway here are some links to wet your appetite for the game:
IGN.Com Review’d it with a 8.7 out of 10
