Available today on the Xbox Live Aracade is a brand new tower defense game set in the South Park universe, as well as Lucidity, a fascinating puzzle platformer from LucasArts. Each of the new games is selling for 800 Microsoft Points ($10) a piece. Here’s the blurb for each:
Play as Stan, Kyle, Kenny, Cartman, or any number of your favorite South Park characters in South Park Let’s Go Tower Defense Play! It’s the fast-paced action/strategy game, where you play to save the town of South Park. Combining snowball-throwing action with tower defense strategy, the game is designed for players of all skill levels. Unlock special content and new characters throughout the game for your in-game scrapbook. Play locally with up to four players or team up on Xbox LIVE in the story-based campaign or the extra-demanding Challenge levels.
- It’s South Park: Your favorite characters from the popular animated TV show come to Xbox LIVE in an exciting action/strategy tower defense game.
- Unlockable content: Unlock your favorite South Park character and unleash each of their special abilities. Continue to unlock more than 80 videos for your scrapbook.
- Strategy, South Park-style: Build snow mazes to outsmart your enemies, and use the town itself to destroy your foes.
- Multiplayer: Play locally with up to four players in intense cooperative levels, or team up on Xbox LIVE in either Challenge or Campaign mode.
- New achievements: Twelve new achievements for you to earn along with the South Park gang.
- Xbox LIVE Arcade exclusive: South Park Let’s Go Tower Defense Play! is available exclusively on Xbox LIVE Arcade.
From the team that re-imagined The Secret of Monkey Island™, comes Lucidity, an addictive puzzle platformer set in the surreal childlike dreamscapes of the little girl Sofi. In this challenging puzzler, keep Sofi safe as she drifts deeper into the strange new world of her dreams. Featuring stunning hand-illustrated visuals, a spellbinding original score and unique puzzle platformer gameplay, Lucidity challenges your wits, tests your reflexes, and mesmerizes your senses.
- A surreal fantasy: Take a trip into the surreal childlike dreamscapes of Sofi, a little girl filled with a persistent desire to explore new worlds and overcome all obstacles in her way. As she drifts into a vivid dream world where, beckoned by the kind words of her grandmother, she learns to overcome her fears, test your skills in this addictive puzzle platformer where through quick reactions and placement of unique puzzle pieces, you must create a path to help Sofi traverse safely through 27 visually stunning, hand-illustrated dreamscapes.
- Mesmerizing dreamscapes: Like a children’s storybook come to life, get lost in mesmerizing dreamscapes detailed with beautiful hand-drawn contemporary art.
- Addictive puzzle-platformer gameplay: Skillfully place unique puzzle pieces designed to propel Sofi to and from suspended platforms, or over and under obstacles, in an effort to maintain her state of perpetual motion.
- Spellbinding original score: The game features a lush original score drawing you into Sofi’s dream world.
- Unlockable achievements: Collect fireflies on your adventures to unlock additional bonus levels and achievements to make it to the top of the leaderboards.
