In handling terms, it’s very much like a traditional arcade racer. As a standalone game, these sections would be middling at best - as a diversion from the shooty-shooty business it’s as welcome as a steaming mug of Bovril on a bitter winter’s day. As well as the handy emergency break for swish 180 turns, flicking on monochromatic ‘Bourne Awareness’ also acts as a rather handy Need For Speed-style Speedbreaker, letting you s-l-o-w d-o-w-n time to nip through those tight spaces,Italian Job-stylee.
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OTHER OCEAN INTERACTIVE WINS XBOX LIVE(TM) ARCADE AWARDS FOR CASTLEVANIA: SYMPHONY OF THE NIGHTCHARLOTTETOWN, PEI, CANADA Other Ocean Interactive, the leading Prince Edward Island-based videogame development studio, announced today that Castlevania: Symphony of Night has won two Xbox Live Arcade Awards. The title developed by Other Ocean and published by Konami Digital Entertainment won awards for Best Classic Game, and Highest-Rated Game from Microsoft at this year’s Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. Read more
Developed by Petroglyph, this combat-intensive Real-Time-Strategy (RTS) game features unprecedented customization, innovative multiplayer features, and a near-future Earth under siege by aliens. Universe at War: Earth Assault for the Xbox 360 will employ a control scheme built from the ground up to ensure smooth gameplay and ease of command for console gamers. Great attention has been paid to implement a balanced gamescape for multiplayer games for console Read more
To think that a console first person shooter can survive in this day and age on multiplayer alone is a bit of a stretch. Sure, the prospects of a Huxley– at least when we first heard about it five or so E3’s ago– sound interesting, whereby a MMO turns from RPG to FPS. We aren’t there yet, however.
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If you are one of the many who have been waiting for Moonpod’s second game, following the 2003 Game of the Year Starscape, your wait is over. I recommend
immediately buying the game on CD as you’ll want to keep a copy of this one around indefinitely. Mr. Robot is a strange mix of a pseudo sokoban played isometric-ly and a super cool RPG that feels futuristic and retro all at the same time. Read more
Moonpod’s newest RPG adventure game has zapped up a lot of my computer gaming time. It’s as engaging as it is fun and it’s not often that PC gamers get that kind of combination from a 3D RPG that doesn’t cost an arm and a leg. There’s numerous platform puzzles and tons of classic JRPG battle encounters and leveling, which gives the game an air of multiple genres. Read more
