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Marble Blast Ultra reaches new heights

Name:	Benjamin Bradley
Date Posted:	Feb 13, 2006
Rating:	3.0 out of 5
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Over the past two weeks, I've been following the craziness that is the Xbox360 Marble Blast Ultra forums. It's been really cool to see people posting hints, videos, walkthroughs, challenges and more. It's because of this active community that Marble Blast Ultra has risen to one of the top played games on the Xbox. (According to the logins to Xbox Live)

Over the weekend a really cool thing happened in the forums. J. Allard who plays as HiroProtagonist was posting about what his goals for the coming week. "...Finish UMB advanced levels..." How cool is that, that one of the top guys over at the Xbox/Xbox360 division of Microsoft has as one of his goals is to play Marble Blast Ultra. Plus if you look at his Gamercard, you'll see that Marble Blast Ultra is the latest game he's been playing.

For those of you who haven't checked out Marble Blast Ultra on the Xbox360, you should grab the demo and try it out. You won't be disappointed by getting this great game for only 800 credits.

Marble Blast Ultra Screenshots

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08/22/06 - A good day to be in the Garage
08/02/06 - China and Singapore are powered by Torque
07/06/06 - China, Puzzle Poker, and Meth Addicts
06/20/06 - TGB ships and the crowd goes wild.
02/13/06 - Marble Blast Ultra reaches new heights
01/20/06 - Podcasting from iTunes and More
09/30/05 - INELIGIBLE to judge for IGF
09/30/05 - ThinkTanks and MarbleBlast finally make it to the Official Xbox Magazine

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Keith Killilea (Feb 13, 2006 at 18:53 GMT)

It's already in the bag Ben and its a great title :D
I have not been a fan of Marble Blast until it appeared on the Xbox 360 Live! Best wishes with it for the future.

Keith

Mark McCoy (Feb 13, 2006 at 20:06 GMT)

Looks like it might be time to MARBLE IT UP!

Peter Simard (Feb 13, 2006 at 20:19 GMT)

Id love to play.. if Microsoft would ship some more damn 360s!

Matt Vitelli (Feb 13, 2006 at 22:39 GMT)

This is such an amazing game! I like how you can change the marbles as well. Very nice and the enhancements with TSE really make it incredible. :)

bigbob (Feb 14, 2006 at 01:56 GMT)

Benjamin, does "top played game" include people trying the demo, or unlocked/paid versions? Just curious.

Benjamin Bradley (Feb 14, 2006 at 04:27 GMT)

BigBob... I think it means only the unlocked/paid versions.

James Laker (BurNinG) (Feb 14, 2006 at 06:14 GMT)

South Africa will never see the Xbox360... :-(

Alex Resendes (Feb 14, 2006 at 08:26 GMT)

Great job on the game guys. It really is a 'blast' to play. hehe ;) I finished the game today. Some of the levels tested my patience though. Level 60 in particular with those crazy bumpers. I just found it so frustrating having to do the same bits over and over just trying to get the last 2 gems in the area with the pinball things. Frustrating bits aside.... I really did enjoy the game. Now I am going to start playing the multiplayer. :)
Edited on Feb 14, 2006 08:34 GMT

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