Battle Islands, Kaiju Panic, and Three Fourths Home: Extended Edition are out now on Xbox One. Battle Islands is a free-to-play game that is only around 400 MB. Kaiju Panic costs $16 and is around 1 GB. Three Fourths Home costs $5 and is only 635 MB. All of these titles look very interesting so be sure to check them out.
Battle Islands
It’s 1942, and deep in the South Pacific your platoon of crack troops lands on a tropical island, but can you defeat enemy forces and hold your ground to fight another day? You’ll need to act quickly in this action-packed, World War II-themed battle strategy game. Control air, sea, and land forces, build your garrison, battle against friends and create powerful allegiances! Control troops, jeeps, tanks, boats and warplanes over air, sea, and land as you vie for superiority deep in the South Pacific. Build and improve your military might, and use it to raid and pillage enemy islands and capture their resources. Exciting real-time strategy and combat gameplay. Battle against friends in the fight for supremacy.
Xbox Exclusives:
• Commando mode: Jump into the action and take direct control of your units with your very own commando to fight alongside your troops.
• New units only on Xbox: Escort fighter, motorbike with sidecar, heavy gunboat. Compete amongst similarly-ranked players to be top of your Division, and earn bonuses Create or join an Alliance, and chat with other Alliance members. Or choose to go it alone! However you play, it’s time for battle, soldier!
Kaiju Panic
Kaiju Panic is an Action-Strategy game with a bright and unique art style where you have to rescue survivors and guide them to the safety while defending against the giant monster Kaiju. Take control of the field commander. Build, fight and rescue your way through a wide variety of locations around the world. A massive meteorite has struck the Earth causing devastation and panic in the streets, you scramble to the impact zone to search the area for survivors and survey the extent of the damage caused. But as if a meteorite wasn’t enough, giant monsters called Kaiju start appearing around the world and begin rampaging in densely populated cities! Jet across the globe as you respond to Kaiju attacks and bizarre natural disasters and unusual weather phenomenon. Rescue every civilian to unlock their ID cards which you can view along with a monster bestiary and tech tree. Progress through a full story campaign to discover the true origin of the Kaiju.
Three Fourths Home: Extended Edition
In her mid-20s, Kelly has been forced to move back to Nebraska. Back to that flat expanse, that seemingly endless sea of rustling cornstalks peppered by rusty silos and rustier towns. A typically intense Midwestern storm is approaching while Kelly is out; she has to get home. In the 20 miles between her grandparents’ crumbling barn and her parents’ house, she receives a phone call from her mother. Assume the role of Kelly during her drive through the storm in Three Fourths Home: Extended Edition. While driving through a stylized representation of rural Nebraska, players navigate an extended conversation between Kelly and her parents and younger brother. Through dialogue choice and simple driving mechanics, this critically-acclaimed visual short story explores a specific moment of these characters’ lives and their relationships with one another. The Extended Edition of Three Fourths Home includes an epilogue that expands on the story of the main game. Set at a bus stop in snowy Minnesota, this epilogue examines Kelly’s past as well as the effects that the events of the main story have had on her.
Xian was a regular ICXM contributor between 2015–2017, publishing 162 articles across game reviews, Windows and PC, and Xbox news. Their work focused on hands-on reviews, platform commentary, and breaking-news reporting during the Xbox One X launch year and Microsoft’s wider Play Anywhere / UWP gaming initiative.