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Category: Xbox 360

  • Review: Project Delta (Microsoft Xbox 360)

    Project Delta Developer: Danthekilla Publisher: Xbox Live Arcade Genre: Shooter Release Date: 04/04/2010 The rise of downloadable titles has allowed developers more and more room to innovate in game design and scope. Sometimes that innovation reaches back to mimic great games from history. Project Delta is one such game. Taking a top-down approach to interplanetary…

  • Review: Lewjmele (Microsoft Xbox 360 Indie)

    Lewjmele Developer: Prodigy Publisher: Microsoft Genre: Vertical Shmup Release Date: 04/01/2010 We’re known to not ignore the Xbox LIVE Indies service when we can and today’s quick look comes in the form of Prodigy’s Lewjmele, a vertical shmup that hit the service recently. The chosen genre pits Lewjmele against some classic shmup titles on Xbox…

  • First Look: nail’d (Xbox 360, Sony PS3, PC)

    A couple of weeks ago, Chris Bowen and I attended a conference with Southpeak, where we got a first look at a new TNA game (which Chris discussed here), as well as a previously unannounced ATV arcade racer called nail’d. All the locales in the game are based on real life locations, though some liberties…

  • Review: Samurai Shodown Sen (Micrososft Xbox 360)

    Samurai Shodown SEN Developer: K2 LLC Publisher: XSeed Games Genre: Fighting Release Date: 03/30/10 Before achieving ultimate fighting game fame and glory with the renowned King of Fighters series, SNK, who at the time seemed to operate solely for the purposes to get something, anything, over Capcom’s Street Fighter 2, had developed and released an…

  • Review: Final Fight: Double Impact (Xbox Live Arcade)

    Final Fight: Double Impact Publisher: Capcom Developer: Capcom Genre: Beat-‘Em-Up Release Date: 04/14/2010 Final Fight: Double Impact has a bit of a deceptive title. If you didn’t know any better, you would think that it was another name for Final Fight 4. It may even lead you to believe that it is a compilation of…

  • Review: Just Cause 2 (Microsoft Xbox 360)

    You know what every game needs? A main character with a grappling hook and infinite parachutes. You know how I know this? Because I played Just Cause 2 to it’s completion, and never once tired of the ability to create havoc using just those two simple tools.

  • Review: The Shadows of the Underworld (Microsoft Xbox 360)

    The Shadows of The Underworld Developer: Totabiento Publisher: Xbox Live Arcade Genre: Shooter Release Date: 03/30/10 Video games have long given tribute to the works of H.P. Lovecraft. Every tentacle-faced monster is, in its way, saluting his works of horror. Very few games have outright made non-Euclidean geometry and Cthonic fears the entire point of…

  • Review: Shoot 1UP (Microsoft Xbox 360)

    Shoot 1UP Publisher: Microsoft Game Studios Developer: Mommy’s Best Games Genre: Shooter Release Date: 02/25/2010 I am not, nor ever have been, a huge shoot ’em up (SHMUP) player. I used to mess with them back on the SNES, and have dabbled around with R-Type on Wii’s Virtual Console, but other than that, the genre…

  • Review: Dragon Age: Origins Awakening (Microsoft Xbox 360)

    Dragon Age: Origins Awakening Genre: RPG Developer: Bioware Publisher: Electronic Arts Release Date: 03/16/10 So, back in November, Bioware and Electronic Arts released Dragon Age: Origins to much critical acclaim. It received all sorts of year-end awards in 2009, including RPG of the Year and Story of the Year from Diehard GameFAN, and has sold…

  • Review: Metro 2033 (Microsoft Xbox 360)

    Metro 2033 Publisher: THQ Developer: 4A Games Genre: First-Person Shooter Release Date: 03/16/2010 While the FPS genre is thriving as a whole, we are seeing online shooters take precedence over single player, with games like Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 and Battlefield: Bad Company 2 being bought primarily for the multiplayer experience. THQ and…

  • Review: Scrap Metal (Microsoft Xbox 360)

    Scrap Metal Publisher: Xbox Live Arcade Developer: Slick Entertainment Genre: Arcade Racing Release Date: 03/10/2010 There is something buried deep in the gamer’s psyche. A love of racing games and a love of shooters overlaps in most of us, with an equation that I imagine looks something like this: Cars equal cool, Guns equal cool,…

  • Review: Darwinia+ (Microsoft Xbox 360)

    Darwinia+ Developer: Introversion Software Publisher: Introversion Software Genre: Tactical/Real-Time Strategy Release date: 02/11/2010 If you’re a PC gamer, then you’ve probably heard of Introversion Software’s 2005 cult classic Darwinia, but if you’ve not you’re probably looking at the screenshots and wondering why on earth a five year old PC game would interest the average Xbox…

  • Review: Tropico 3 (Microsoft Xbox 360)

    Tropico 3 Developer: Haemimont Publisher: Kalypso Media Genre: City Building Release Date: 2/16/10 Has winter got you down? Well, spring has almost sprung. But if you can’t wait, you can dive into the city simulation, Tropico 3. City sims are not as common on consoles as they are on PC. There are very few offerings…

  • Review: Borderlands: The Secret Armory of General Knoxx (Microsoft Xbox 360)

    Borderlands: The Secret Armory of General Knoxx Publisher: 2K Games Developer: Gearbox Software Genre:First Person Shooter/Role-Playing Game Release Date: 02/23/2010 Once again we are being brought back to Diehard GameFAN’s pick for best first-person shooter for 2009, Borderlands, with another DLC. So you tackled the vault? You shot a bunch of zombies in the head…

  • Review: Resident Evil 5: Desperate Escape (Microsoft Xbox 360)

    Resident Evil 5: Desperate Escape Genre: Action/Survival Horror Developer: Capcom Publisher: Capcom Release Date: 03/03/10 As we mentioned last month, I’m a huge fan of Resident Evil 5, and I’ve been eagerly anticipating the release of the two expansion packs announced by Capcom for the game. Though both of these expansion packs, as well as…

  • Review: Risen (Microsoft Xbox 360)

    Risen Genre: Action RPG Developer: Piranha Bytes Publisher: Deep Silver Release Date: 02/22/10 Risen has a lot working against it as an Xbox 360 game. For one thing, it started its life as a PC game, and while some genres convert from PC to console easily (FPS titles for instance), action RPG’s can be rather…

  • Review: The Misadventures of P.B. Winterbottom (Microsoft Xbox 360)

    The Misadventures of P.B. Winterbottom Genre: Puzzle/Platforming Developer: The Odd Gentlemen Publisher: 2K Play Release Date: 02/17/2010 Since Paul Bellezza from The Odd Gentlemen filled us in on the details of The Misadventures of P.B. Winterbottom with our recent interview, I had grown even more interested in exploring the black-and-white, pastry-filled world crafted in the…

  • Review: Resident Evil 5: Lost in Nightmares (Microsoft Xbox 360)

    Resident Evil 5: Lost in Nightmares Genre: Action/Survival Horror Developer: Capcom Publisher: Capcom Release Date: 02/17/10 To say that I’m a fan of Resident Evil 5 would be an understatement. When the game came out, I played it like crazy. I blew through The Mercenaries until I had unlocked every level and character, then ran…

  • Review: Aliens vs Predator (Microsoft Xbox 360)

    Aliens vs Predator Publisher: Sega Developer: Rebellion Genre: First Person Shooter Release Date: 02/16/2010 Ever since that fateful day when a prop designer stuck an Alien skull on a Predator trophy wall, the idea of a species war between these two classic sci-fi icons has been nailed deep into the psyche of fans. Since then,…

  • Review: Bioshock 2 (Microsoft Xbox 360)

    Bioshock 2 Genre: First-Person Shooter Developer: 2K Marin Publisher: 2K Games Release Date: 02/09/10