Exclusive: Shuffle Party coming to Xbox Live in the US November 30 - Free!

Shuffle Party

Remember Minesweeper and Sudoku, the free Xbox Live titles from Babaroga and Microsoft Studios? Soon they volition be joined past Shuffle Party, another free game from the aforementioned developer and publisher squad.

Shuffle Political party is a shuffleboard game that players can enjoy fifty-fifty if they're never been on a cruise ship. Microsoft'due south Windows Phone team proposed the initial concept, with the folks at Babaroga developing and calculation to the blueprint.

MS and Babaroga's latest collaboration boasts stylish 3D graphics prepare confronting a Chicago skyline (home of Babaroga's main role) and realistic physics. The unproblematic affect-screen controls let players to shift the puck horizontally and set its angle earlier launching. Swipe forrard and off it goes!

Shuffle Political party has several ways to play:

Bowling: Slide a puck (chosen a biscuit in shuffleboard lingo) down the lane, picking up spares and strikes as the pins come tumbling down.
Challenge: Slide the pick around obstacles, collecting coins, and landing in the Goal Zone. Think Legend Money Golf, but more than realistic.
Shuffleboard: The traditional vacationers' game. Send the biscuit downwards the lane into a triangular scoring zone, with some spots offering more points than others. Sort of like a combination of darts and air hockey.
Laissez passer n Play: Local multiplayer built around the master shuffleboard game (not bowling). Not only do you endeavour to country in goals, you get the satisfaction of knocking your friends' pucks off the tabular array – and vice versa.

Coin earned in the diverse game modes tin be spent in the Pro Store, tying the whole feel together. The shop sells unique pucks, pins, and frames. Naturally, ownership every single item nets you an Achievement.

Shuffle Party

Speaking of which, Shuffle Party includes 50 GamerScore worth of Achievements, merely like its two free predecessors. And similar those games, banner advertisements run across the top of the screen during gameplay. There won't be any waiting through ads between menus or anything obtrusive like that, thankfully.

Shuffle Political party comes to Xbox Live in the The states on Wednesday, November 30 – the same day Ghostscape is scheduled to emerge. It volition crave the Windows Phone Mango update. No word on release dates outside of the US, only it will come up to other regions somewhen.

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