New Warriors game coming to Xbox Live Arcade

07.02.2009
Earlier Friday, revealed a new Xbox Live Arcade game based on the 1979 gang-war cult classic The Warriors. Scheduled to come out later this summer, it will be a part of a large-scale celebration of the movie's 30th anniversary. Unlike the , which was a retail release from developer Rockstar Games, this new game will be released by seasoned , makers of Heavy Weapon.

While the game retains the beat-em-up style of the original, this new Warriors game will eschew the more open-world style of that game in favor of the old side-scrolling arcade style of Double Dragon, Final Fight, and Streets of Rage, and the humorous unlockable extra from the Rockstar Warriors game, . The official trailer--released on --features a comic-book style of narration, which was adapted into the .