Everything to do with our favourite pastime! Reviews, recommendations, sells/swaps, problems etc. Whether they are on the latest consoles, arcade or retro classics. It's not the winning or losing, we came to play!
Mark wrote:Rocket Riot is out on XBLA next week apparently. This has been on PartnerNet for absolutely ages - and is as mad as a box of frogs. Kind of a real-time Worms-like game, but everyone has a rocket launcher and a jetpack. Well worth a look.
I've been catching up with the recent XBLA releases I've missed, and ended up buying Rocket Riot. I think it's a great laugh, and yeah it is a kind of cross between Jetpac and Worms. I really like the 2D style made of 3D pixels, a bit Super Paper Mario in a way. Oh, and the loads of particles which you get after blowing chunks out of the scenery and enemies.
It's good, but it could have been really really good if only the controls were better. The firing method is horrible if you play for any length of time and why use A for activating the powerup when it means taking your hands off the analogue?
The graphics are great and I love the presentation, but how those controls ever passed playtesting is mystifying to me.
I posted this in the Ghostbusters thread, but I'll stick it here too ...
I popped into my local CEX store in Lincoln today & they are selling the 360 version of Ghostbusters & Tiger Woods 10 (both of which aren't released yet!).
I bought Ghostbusters for £45.
I may have no control over the length of my life, but the depth & width is entirely up to me.
Well, my 360 just got the E74 error today. Looks like I'm going to be without one for a while. If I didn't have so much Rock Band download content I would probably just say forget it as this is my 4th one.
Yep -just got mine back from MS. The thing is, it really is the best platform out there. Hope you get it back quickly - mine atually only took about a week.
I've just realised I have a free code for Powerup Forever going spare. It should still be valid - I doubt they go stale or anything. Free to the first person to respond.*
*who promises to post how marvellous they think it is afterwards.
Played it for about an hour for a first session and must say I really enjoyed it.
It feels like a Kenta Cho game and that's the best compliment I can give it.
It's kind of Kenta Fl0w. LOL
I think I managed to pick it up and know what's happening pretty easily - shoot the virus thingies to make the boss appear and then kick it's butt. Very satisfiying.
I hope I manage to get into the zone and get better - I've only managed about 1.5 million (on normal) so far. Need more practice.
Yeah the gist of it is simply shooting the parasites (virus thingies) to lure out the Guardian - but they can be elusive little bastards on a couple of levels. If you really can't find any (level 3, I'm looking at you) then simply waiting around until one flies on screen should help (which they will do at regular intervals) - follow it (or shoot it and head where it was going) and it'll often lead you to more.
Oh, and getting to grips with the plasma arc is dead handy. Use your normal gun to aim, and double tap the left bumper to fire a single shot of plasma goodness. Gets very useful later on, because its large splash damage will kill parasites on the other side of scenery, as well as stunning half the enemies on screen for a while.
Ads on Live is such a brilliant idea. Exactly what I pay my yearly subscription fee for. It's good to know time is being spent on this rather than fixing all the existing problems with NXE.
I’ve seen quite a bit of discussion today about how we’re bringing Silverlight ads to LIVE in the future.
I need to let you know that you don’t need to worry about a huge influx of ads across the dashboard. One of our core principles is to enhance, not interfere with the gaming experience, and we work directly with our partners to only deliver experiences that are relevant to the LIVE community. Silverlight will help make those ads a more organic part of the dashboard, like we’ve done with some of the NXE slots in the past. No one on the team wants to turn the dashboard into something that looks like like Shibuya Crossing. That’s just not good for anyone.
If they only appeared on Silver (and silver got the multiplayer of gold) then I wouldn't have any objections. But paying AND ads? Fuck right off. The NXE right now is dog slow - merely going into an item and downloading it is painful.
