Xbox Live integration is the biggest weapon in the Windows Phone 7 armoury and Microsoft has pulled the covers off the first batch of games. The opening salvo features some seriously big names, including Halo, a pair of Star Wars titles, Assassin’s Creed and Guitar Hero plus some familiar iPhone games making the jump…
Microsoft is seriously talking up the Windows Phone 7 Xbox Live hub focusing on try-before-you-buy demos, Xbox Live Achievements and leader-boards. As we reported a few months back, Xbox Live Windows Phone 7 multiplayer will be turn-based rather than realtime which is still a bit of a bummer.
The 63 Xbox Live Windows Phone 7 titles include plenty of ultra-addictive casual games like Bejeweled but there’s also plenty of games to please more hardcore gamers. Assassin’s Creed and Splinter Cell: Conviction (both of which have previously popped up in iPhone and iPad incarnations) get a showing as well as Halo: Waypoint.
There’s some classics in the Xbox Live Windows Phone 7 games list too with Frogger and Castlevania making an appearance. Folk excited by the Star Wars Xbox Live avatars last week will no doubt welcome Star Wars: Battle of Hoth and Star Wars: Cantina while fans of Plants vs Zombies can satiate their undead fascination with the exclamation-mark-happy Zombie Attack! and Zombies!!!
Take a look at the full list of Xbox Live Windows Phone 7 launch titles below and let us know which ones take your fancy. Does the prospect of Xbox Live integration make you more likely to go for Windows Phone 7?
· “Age of Zombies” (Halfbrick)
· “Armor Valley” (Protégé Games)
· “Asphalt 5” (Gameloft)
· “Assassins Creed” (Gameloft)
· “Bejeweled™ LIVE” (PopCap)
· “Bloons TD” (Digital Goldfish)
· “Brain Challenge” (Gameloft)
· “Bubble Town 2” (i-Play)
· “Butterfly” (Press Start Studio)
· “CarneyVale Showtime” (MGS)
· “Castlevania” (Konami)
· “Crackdown 2: Project Sunburst” (MGS)
· “De Blob Revolution” (THQ)
· “Deal or No Deal 2010” (i-Play)
· “Earthworm Jim” (Gameloft)
· “Fast & Furious 7” (i-Play)
· “Fight Game Rivals” (Rough Cookie)
· “Finger Physics” (Mobliss Inc.)
· “Flight Control” (Namco Bandai)
· “Flowerz” (Carbonated Games)
· “Frogger” (Konami)
· “Fruit Ninja” (Halfbrick)
· “Game Chest-Board” (MGS)
· “Game Chest-Card” (MGS)
· “Game Chest-Logic” (MGS)
· “Game Chest-Solitaire” (MGS)
· “GeoDefense” (Critical Thought)
· “Ghostscape” (Psionic)
· “Glow Artisan” (Powerhead Games)
· “Glyder 2” (Glu Mobile)
· “Guitar Hero 5” (Glu Mobile)
· “Halo Waypoint” (MGS)
· “Hexic Rush” (Carbonated Games)
· “I Dig It” (InMotion)
· “iBlast Moki” (Godzilab)
· “ilomilo” (MGS)
· “Implode XL” (IUGO)
· “Iquarium” (Infinite Dreams)
· “Jet Car Stunts” (True Axis)
· “Let’s Golf 2” (Gameloft)
· “Little Wheel” (One click dog)
· “Loondon” (Flip N Tale)
· “Max and the Magic Marker” (PressPlay)
· “Mini Squadron” (Supermono Limited)
· “More Brain Exercise” (Namco Bandai)
· “O.M.G.” (Arkedo)
· “Puzzle Quest 2” (Namco Bandai)
· “Real Soccer 2” (Gameloft)
· “The Revenants” (Chaotic Moon)
· “Rise of Glory” (Revo Solutions)
· “Rocket Riot” (Codeglue)
· “Splinter Cell Conviction” (Gameloft)
· “Star Wars: Battle for Hoth” (THQ)
· “Star Wars: Cantina” (THQ)
· “The Harvest” (MGS)
· “The Oregon Trail” (Gameloft)
· “Tower Bloxx NY” (Digital Chocolate)
· “Twin Blades” (Press Start Studio)
· “UNO” (Gameloft)
· “Women’s Murder Club: Death in Scarlet” (i-Play)
· “Zombie Attack!” (IUGO)
· “Zombies!!!!” (Babaroga)
Due October | £TBC | Microsoft
