Castle Crashers is the next big little thing from the people behind the frantic and colorful Alien Hominid. Sorry, but this game isn’t a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles game. However, it does share some similarities to the old arcade and NES turtles games. If you where a fan of the old arcade games where you and three of your buddies could drop quarter after quarter fighting armies of faceless minions, then this is for you, minus the quarters.

Castle Crashers is a high intensity, 4-player co-op, action hack and slash game. The game is all hand drawn and rendered in beautiful HD. The gameplay is very much like the old two and a half demensional side scrolling co-op fighting games like Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, X-Men, and The Simpsons arcade games. The Behemoth, the company making the game is still very much a indie developer, as they do everything in-house, from development, to marketing, to distribution. This game will be fairly easy for them to distribute, seeing as how it will be coming to the Xbox 360 via the Xbox Live Arcade. All the better for them and us. They make more actual profit and get to easily distribute a game, we get a great game at a much better price than full retail.

This isn’t the first game in this style the guys over at The Behemoth have done. Check out Dad ‘n Me over at New Grounds for a taste at what Castle Crashers will be like. While the games may bear similar mechanics, Castle Crashers boasts some semi-RPG type elements. Each character has a different set of moves, and special abilities. All said and done, this game is definitely something to watch for if you’re a fan of multiplayer mayhem. It should be out on Xbox Live sometime in the next few months.

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