Undertow Elects XBL expansion pack

If there's anything positive to be said about the widespread Xbox Live outages experienced during the busy 2007 holiday season, it's that Chair Entertainment's aquatic side-scrolling shoot-'em-up made its way into a good many gamers' homes. Undoubtedly hoping to capitalize on Microsoft gifting the game to all XBL users for a limited time, Chair Entertainment announced today it would be releasing Undertow's first expansion pack--Path of the Elect--this Wednesday.

Available for 400 Microsoft points ($5), Path of the Elect packs on an addition five levels to Undertow's original 15-stage single-player campaign, and introduces a new playable race, the Elect. Whereas Undertow's campaign primarily focused on the struggle between Atlanteans and marines, the new expansion provides a deeper glimpse at the conquest-driven alien race. The Elect will also be playable in the game's 16-player competitive multiplayer mode, which itself will be expanded with four new maps.

Undertow: Path of the Elect joins Capcom and A.C.R.O.N.Y.M. Games' overhead shooter Rocketmen: Axis of Evil on the Xbox Live Arcade this week. Rocketmen will be available on both XBL and the PlayStation Network for $10.