Wing Commander Arena was released on Wednesday this week. I wrote a review on it yesterday, giving it 7/10. The game lacks a real single player mode, and it is apparent that the game's focus is to be a simple pick-up-and-play multiplayer experience, but only for those who can play online, as there is no offline multiplayer for this game. The game is the first Arcade title to support 16 players simultaneously, making for some pretty hectic space battles. WCA gives you more play value for your points than most Arcade titles on the Marketplace.

Wing Commander Arena was released upon the Xbox Live Arcade yesterday, but is it worth your ten bucks? The most touted aspect of this game is the fact that it’s the first Arcade title to feature up to 16 players in a game simultaneously, and due to this focus on multiplayer, it seems the single player suffered. Unless you can play online and enjoy frantic space shooter battles in which your rewards are achievements, unlocked ships, and bragging rights on the Leaderboard, then don‘t bother. But if that is your kind of thing, then this game provides a fun action-packed multiplayer experience not before seen from an Arcade game. More thought could have been put into the single player mode, and it would have been nice to not be forced online for your multiplayer fix, but one mustn’t forget that this is a $10 title and not one that costs sixty bucks. And as far as $10 Arcade titles go, Wing Commander Arena provides more play value than a lot of them do. My score is 7 out of 10, but for those wanting more details before considering a purchase, read on.

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