The story of Wik is a sad tale, you see, filled with sorrow and loss and grim tragedy.  We begin with a family cruelly taken…  A loss that has left poor Wik’s heart forsaken. Our hero, now seeking the souls of these lost, has yet to fathom the immeasurable cost.  Wik is quite clever with his long, sticky tongue, from rocks and from mushrooms our hero has swung.  Adventure through more than ten dozen levels, with goodies and baddies and all sorts of perils.  Accompany Wik down countless dark roads, as you venture through seven enchanting play modes.

The Xbox 360 version of the game has a number of new features not available on the PC version.  One of the most obvious of which is support for widescreen modes on a high definition TV.  Rather than take the existing 4 by 3 video format which the PC version used and try to stretch it to fit, or add unsightly bars around the edge, we decided to extend the width of the gameplay reigon Wik can move around in, so that HDTV users get more room for Wik to perform his wild acrobatic feats and really make the most of their sweet hardware.

• Support for wide screen gameplay.
• Live leaderboards.
• 125+ single player game levels.
• Up to 4 players in same console multiplayer.
• 7 different modes of play.
• Unique play mechanic, winner of 2005 IGF award for Innovation in Game Design.
• Rich presence.
• 12 Achievements.
• Beautifully rendered award-winning graphics, winner of 2005 IGF award for Visual Arts.
• 2005 IGF winner of Seumas McNally Award for Independent Game of the Year.

Several new play modes have been introduced in the Xbox 360 version of the game, including single player modes called Loopnastics and Fire Pit, as well as same console multiplayer modes called Virus, Tag (my personal favourite!) and a multiplayer version of Fire Pit.

Here's a great poem written by Microsofts Marketing department for the upcoming launch of Wik: Fable of Souls on the Xbox 360.  It's great to see that they are not only enthusiastic about the product, but they clearl took the time to develop a thorough understand of what the game is really all about, the text they wrote is very much in keeping with the poetic writing style used throughout the game.