Madballs – Bouncing Back And Invading With A Vengeance

Twenty three years after they rolled onto the world stage, the ‘Madballs’ are bouncing back in the upcoming PC/Xbox LIVE Arcade title Madballs in…Babo:Invasion.

Featuring characters such as the delectably named Oculus Orbus and the possibly NSFW Horn Head, Madballs was a marketing phenomenon in the eighties. Absolutely anything they could possibly exploit was exploited - action figures, t-shirts, comic books and even animated entertainment! Now those two strange, grotesque, monstrous bouncers return this summer on the Xbox LIVE Arcade platform with some absolutely insane arena based gameplay.

Developer of the title, Playbrains, state that players are able to design their own combat maps almost instantaneously by placing a combination of map tiles to create a never-before-seen map before gameplay starts – that sounds like fun and a bit like how Worms kept players coming back for more, more and well more. This is the interesting part though – players are able to incorporate their Xbox LIVE Avatar into multiplayer combat via the ‘Avatar Attack’ mode with support for up to 16-players at once. I totally want to beat other Avatars around the face with a couple of balls…wait! Here’s a trailer, along with some concept art of the title to tide you over until we get a release date.