PC sports hit Super Slam Dunk Touchdown finally comes to Xbox One

Tremendous Slam Dunk Landing, Rick Felice’s empty-the-garage mashup of sporting items and athletes, ultimately launches on Xbox One on Friday. This model, teased as far back as GDC 2017, brings alongside a brand new Season Mode that helps native cooperative play with as much as three gamers.

“Now you and your folks can create a crew, construct a fan base, win trophies, and uncover secrets and techniques, a number of endings, and 100 achievements alongside the way in which,” Felice mentioned. An replace for the Home windows PC model is coming quickly; it can help cloud saves, distant play, and the 100 new achievements, too.

Tremendous Slam Dunk Landing started life in 2009, however first gained public discover as a PC title at PAX South in 2015. Felice’s studio, Tipping Goat, launched Tremendous Slam Dunk Landing by way of Steam Early Entry that yr, and adopted it with a “Pre-Season” model in 2017; “Extra coming quickly!” the studio mentioned on the time.

“‘Quickly’ is relative in galactic timescales,” Tipping Goat said in Monday’s announcement, “and a brief few years later [it] is prepared for launch on Xbox {hardware} with further seasoning!”

Season Mode pits the participant’s custom-built (and named) squad towards six distinctive CPU opponents. Gamers additionally get six “micro coaching video games” to assist them consider their performers and select a beginning lineup.

Tremendous Slam Dunk Landing assembles groups of three athletes from six sporty disciplines — baseball, curler derby, soccer, American soccer, ice hockey, basketball — and duties them with scoring on a mixed basketball/American soccer/soccer aim, which likewise could be set on ice, a soccer pitch, or a basketball court docket. Along with passing, kicking, and whacking the ball (or puck), gamers additionally deal with, test, and duke it out in a no-holds-barred contact sport.

In the event you’re nonetheless questioning what the hell this pan-sports symposium is all about, here’s a GIF:

I got a look at Super Slam Dunk Touchdown in 2017 and thought it was a riot. I nonetheless do, having fun with it on my gaming laptop computer since. However its homage to 8-bit side-scrolling sports activities titles (like Double Dribble) is supposed for couches and a TV, and Tremendous Slam Dunk Landing’s multiplayer is native solely. So the Xbox One model (appropriate with Xbox Sequence X, in fact) ought to faucet a wider viewers.