We give nods to originality over age, and thrift over excessiveness. By Douglass C. Perry Updated: 14 Aug pm. As the year comes to a close, the wizened editors at IGN have surveyed the list of plus games on Xbox Live Marketplace with a mixed degree of satisfaction and frustration.
We've come to a conclusion: Xbox Live Arcade is a great idea that's rough around the edges. As we progress into the New Year and Sony and Nintendo offer competitive services, Microsoft's downloadable game service needs to beef up and deliver. By deliver, we mean deliver games that live up to the mini-arcade's potential.
The framework is that of a 2D action game, the type you might have enjoyed back on the Mega Drive or Super Nintendo back in the 90s. Yet theres so much more here. Bleed combines a brilliant slow-motion mechanic with a lightning-quick dodge to move through bullets like a neon-pink Neo, and an endless supply of ammo makes for a 2D platform shooter that is almost peerless in its action.
It only takes around an hour to plough through, but the real beauty is in replaying on higher difficulty. You play as Cthulhu - the slumbering, tentacled god dreamed up by horror writer H. Lovecraft - only this Cthulhu is a bit more snarky than in his source material and fights by strategically driving his enemies insane which is true to the source material. Cthulhu is looking for a way to reawaken his powers, and is set upon by a young woman, named Umi, who is smitten by his roughish charms.
Such a combination could have easily doomed this game to an endless parade of bad jokes and rudimentary gameplay. Thankfully, this game avoids such pitfalls and opens up into an expansive RPG with a great sense of humor. On the surface, this looks like a stupidly simple shooter. Pixel-art man uses a shotgun to blast pixel-art zombies. Eat, sleep, zombie, repeat. Except, its not actually that simple. Its no match for DayZ, but it is a proper survival game, where the ammo is short and the difficulty is high.
Yes, you do have to shoot zombies, but you also have to carefully manage resources. Loot a shop and find a bog roll? Well you can probably sell that for enough cash to buy another box of shotgun shells. Or do you keep hold of it in case you need food?
Worms 2: Armageddon Not one but two Worms games have made the top twenty list. We forget. Bomberman Live Just two games in the top 20 originate from Japan. This retro revamp and…. The beauty of Happy Wars is that although it supports micro-transactions, it can be enjoyed to its fullest without ever having to spend a penny. UNO We recall playing this soon after it launched and having no end of problems trying to get into games.
Battlefield War, what is it good for? Making EA lots of money, clearly. Pinball FX 2 Occasionally we see people excitedly post on forums and such that Pinball FX 2 is free to download, little knowing that it has always been free.
What you get though is simply the hub, in which you can download trails of tables and unlock full ones at an additional cost. Most tables are brilliantly designed, warranting its high placing.
Having seen how many times it has been downloaded, now we understand why. Hell no. Castle Crashers is genuinely badass. DeathSpank is the product of the brilliant mind of Ron Gilbert, best known for his work on Monkey Island, and the team over at Hothead Games. It looks like a giant pretzel. His equipment gets stolen along the way by Sergeant Orque and his goons and he uncovers a heinous plot to kidnap orphans, whom he takes it upon himself to rescue.
If you like collecting loot and playing a game with a great sense of humor, then DeathSpank is a game you need to play. Developed under a meagre budget, Limbo puts the player in control of a little boy who has to run through a series of obstacles in search of his sister in one of the bleakest environments ever imagined.
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