Posts Tagged ‘Xbox LIVE Arcade’

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    Castle Crashers
    The Behemoth’s games are like Marmite. Some people instantly click with the flash-drawn quirky graphical style the studio adopt for their titles (remember tough but pleasing sideways combat platformer Alien Hominid by the same guys?) Others find it all a bit lacking and I feel slightly torn between the two camps, liking some of the little comic touches here and there but...
    by Neil Vaughan at June 14th, 2009 at 09:06 pm
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    Galaga Legions
    My biggest mistake when I first encountered Galaga Legions was to immediately compare it to its hallowed ancestry. I’ve spent rather a lot of 10p pieces mashing through level after level of the original Galaga (though strangely I’ve not been compelled to download the XBLA version yet). But the true benchmark for Galaga would have to be the peerless 88 and 90 versions,...
    by Neil Vaughan at June 14th, 2009 at 08:06 pm
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    Gaming for the Adrenalin Junkie
    Experience the rush of reaching a final table at a major poker tournament, where the prize money reaches 6 figures and you need nerves of steel to keep your cool. Certainly not for the faint-hearted when your own money is at stake.  Poker games for all kinds of players from experienced pros to beginners starting out on a new adventure.
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    Bionic Commando Rearmed
    Most gamers who grew up with the Nintendo Entertainment System are familiar with the classic title Bionic Commando. After approximately twenty years Capcom has decided to update this title and put it on Microsoft’s burgeoning Live Arcade service. As soon as you start playing this game you will immediately feel at home as Capcom has done a tremendous job of capturing the...
    by Brandon Hofer at June 14th, 2009 at 07:06 pm
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    Fable 2 Pub Games
    It’s a neat idea for a piece of pre-release promotion for a game. Knock up a set of mini-games that share a tenuous link with the full title, bung in some unlockable items and achievements and allow the player to link a character with the eventual game’s release. In theory what Lionhead have done here is sound enough, in practice what they’ve produced are three of the...
    by Neil Vaughan at June 14th, 2009 at 07:06 pm
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    Braid
    A couple of weeks ago, Microsoft unveiled their “Summer of Arcade” lineup for the month of August with some high profile titles that people have been waiting to play. One of the titles in that list, Braid, was released last week. Braid is one of those titles where you don’t really know what to expect before you play it, however, once you do play it you are immediately...
    by Brandon Hofer at June 14th, 2009 at 05:06 pm
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    Geometry Wars Retro Evolved 2
    When the Xbox 360 launched back in 2005, Geometry Wars was the breakout hit of Microsoft’s Xbox Live Arcade. Priced at just 400 Microsoft points there were a lot of people who got addicted to it in addition to the title launching the twin stick shooter genre into the spotlight. Well, almost three years later, the sequel has finally arrived. However, this time around there...
    by Brandon Hofer at June 14th, 2009 at 05:06 pm
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    Go Go Break Steady
    Marrying different game genres together is a risky business. For instance, no one would really want to play a Bemani-style game spliced with a “match three colours” puzzle fest would they? Developer Little Boy Games obviously think you do, because Go Go Break Steady does just that, dressing itself up in faux-cool street-style graphics, mixed together with first-year urban...
    by Neil Vaughan at June 14th, 2009 at 05:06 pm
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    1942 - Joint Strike
    1942: Joint Strike is a pretty faithful recreation of the arcade classic, although it is not a port. You can either choose to go through the campaign by yourself or hook up with a friend to try and fly through the campaign. The game runs seamlessly with no frame rate issues at all for both single as well as multiplayer. The game is also in a high definition widescreen...
    by Brandon Hofer at June 14th, 2009 at 05:06 pm
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    Double D Dodgeball
    Here in Blighty, ex-school kids of a certain age will remember two rituals from school. One so horrific that it barely should be mentioned in polite company – the Barn Dance / Country Dancing classes. This terrible travesty forced upon the pimply faced youth of Britain seemed to happen all too frequently at my school, and I remember someone actually breaking their own...
    by Neil Vaughan at June 14th, 2009 at 05:06 pm
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    Coffeetime Crosswords
    It seems like a bit of a tricky choice. Spend a quid on a paper-based crossword puzzle book from your local corner shop or newsagents, or 800 points on the electronic equivalent for your Xbox 360. Sheer economics might scream “fool” at you for choosing the latter, but you know something? Coffeetime Crosswords isn’t actually all that bad. It takes the well known word-puzzle...
    by Neil Vaughan at June 14th, 2009 at 05:06 pm
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