Note: These impressions are based off 8 minutes of gameplay and are not an accurate assessment of the full product.

Asphalt Jungle – 80 points – Download

Rotate road pieces to keep the car moving along. Dull presentation but suprisingly fun to play.

 

Rubble Muddle – 80 points – Download

Nice little puzzle game where you must blow up adjacent blocks and collect gems. The presentation could be better.

 

Hoyle Texas Hold ‘em – 400 points  – Download

This is from the same developer as the XBLA Texas Hold ‘em game. If features Avatar support and online multiplayer for up to 10 players. Great fun.

 

Xmas Defender – 240 points  – Download

This obviously was meant to come out last month. With the seasonal theme no longer relevant you are left with a pretty average tower defence game and there are much better on XBLIGs.

 

Princess Baker Palace – 240 points – Download

Build machines that can create different recipes. A pretty fun little puzzle game with some unique ideas.

 

Football League Simulator – 80 points – Download

Simulate an English football league season. I love the Sky Sports News inspired interface but there is little point to it all.

 

Synth Jam – 400 points – Download

Another sysnthesizer program. As i’ve said before, anyone who is skilled enough to make something decent with this will find many better programs on their PC.

 

Musicus2 – 400 points – Download

Intresting musical puzzle game with great presentation. The actual puzzle aspect seemed a little complicated to me though.

 

Canno-Blast – 240 points – Download

A mix between a shooter and air hockey. It gets dull very quickly.

 

 

Merry Inc. – 80 points – Download

A Christmas-themed board game with Avatars. It’s come out at the wrong time and the mini games aren’t fun.

One Response to “Trial Impressions – 20th January 2010”

1. Jigsaw hc says:

   January 20, 2010 at 10:44 am

   What is up with all these Christmas games coming out a month later?