E3 is upon us and with it comes some hands on gaming. Comic Jumper is a new platform title heading to XBLA from TwistedPixel, makers of Splosion Man, The Maw, and offers twelve levels of comic book mayhem featuring the somewhat inept, self-centered hero of comics, Captain Smiley (that’s you in the game of course)

The game is a sort of standard side-scrolling run-and-gun 3D game. It’s certainly not a final version as there are no power-ups or collectibles and the game play is sort of flat. It’s really just run, jump, shoot/fight. They do try to break it up with several types of levels where they flip from side-scrolling to a sort of third-person shooting mode.

The graphics are fairly decent and change depending on the type of comic book you are currently playing in. The Adventures of Captain Smiley take place in a very modern, heavy outline art style (think new Image or WildStorm comics), while the Nanoc the Obliviator levels take place in a more fantasy-type art style (old Conan the Barbarian), the Silver Age (old school comics from the 60’s like the beginning of the X-men) and finally Manga (oops, they didn’t announce that but it’s on display in the game, that’s Japanese comics).

The game will feature 200 unlockable items (concept art, videos, etC) including two Splosion man levels as well as some other extras.