Crimson Alliance Preview

Game Revolution offers a brief preview for Certain Affinity’s XBLA hack’n’slash Crimson Alliance, which should serve as a good starting point for someone who hasn’t been following the game so far and wants to inform themselves about it before release. Here’s a sampling:

Crimson Alliance won’t limit you by what classes their co-op buddies are playing. If you all want to play the Wizard class, you’re more than welcome to. The first level we played pulled our party through a twisting campaign level, filled with loot, hidden areas, and tons and tons of enemies.

Three attacks are mapped to the X, Y, and B buttons while the A button allows you to dodge out of damage. Players can also find pick-ups that they can use with the Right Bumper. These typically consist of powered-up weapons like a one-use Battle Axe to throw or an auto-turret that literally fills enemies with arrows.

The wizard came equipped with a directional freeze spell, an area-of-damage lightning spell, and a long-range fireball attack. I found myself putting tons of enemies on ice, since my co-op buddies were doing a wealth of damage with their melee attacks. These kinds of tactics were a must in the challenge map we tried next.