Over the weekend, Happy Wars was released for everyone with Gold Membership to Xbox LIVE. If you had registered for the private dashboard beta, you could have been playing this game for a while now, which is where I got a chance to play it. Look forward for a full review coming!
Happy Wars is a 15v15 MOBA style game, and what makes it different than every other game out there on Xbox Live arcade is that this is FREE. But lets be honest, free + Microsoft is NEVER really free. Truth be told, this has micro-transactions all over it, from paying to win, to paying for cosmetics. We’ll take a look at this a bit more during the review, but for now, go download it, and check it out for yourself. Trailer after the press release.
Official Press Release
Happy Wars Heads to Xbox LIVE Arcade for Free on October 12
TOKYO – October 4, 2012 – Toylogic Inc., a leading developer of console titles based in Tokyo, Japan, today announced that Happy Wars, a new free-to-play game for Xbox LIVE® Arcade, will be available for all Xbox LIVE Gold Members to download for free on October 12.
Happy Wars is a large-scale multiplayer action game that can be enjoyed by up to 30 players at once in online cartoon combat. Free to any console owners with an Xbox LIVE Gold Membership, gamers from around the world will be able to join together in exciting castle sieges and spell slinging, madcap free-for-all battles in a variety of fantastic settings. Players will then be able to upgrade their characters’ looks, outfits, and equipment as they continue to play, either by using Happy Stars earned in battle or by buying Happy Tickets for the in-game item shop.
Visit the official Happy Wars website at http://playxbla.com/ee/happy-wars.
I played Happy Wars when I first got into the Dashboard Beta. It was pretty cool. There were some things I disliked about it, although it’s been a few weeks, I can’t remember exactly what those were. Time to play it and refresh this old mind of mine.