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GameSpot has had a chance for a hands on first look at Third Wave Games developed, War World for XBLA, and the results are all positive.
War World looks to be one of the more polished games coming to Live Arcade, looking more like a retail game than the usual puzzle games or arcade ports. A third person mech-based shooter, you will have 10 battle-bots to choose from, which you can take through a series of 100 levels in single player, and 4 different multiplayer game modes - deathmatch, team deathmatch, capture the flag and bomb assault.
Combat in War World is self-explanatory, and anyone who's spent some time playing shooters the last few years will be instantly at home with the Halo-like controls. Each of the robots has different weapons, from standard machine guns to homing rockets and mortars (which you naturally fire in an arc). All of the bots will be able to use small booster rockets to dash and strafe, though, as well as an energy shield that will briefly guard against attacks. Each robot has a unique special ability, including jump jets that will let you get some decent lift off the ground, super speed that you can use to cross the map in seconds, or a stealth ability that turns you invisible and makes you disappear from your enemies' radar screens (at the cost of also blanking your own).
War World is being published by Ubisoft and is targeted a late summer release.