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

Game of the Day:

B-A-Maze’d – 80 points – Download

3D maze game where you must tilt the maze to guide a blob through. Really nice presentation and solid gameplay.

 

Other Games:

Immunogen – 80 points – Download

Memorize certain colour combinations then try to match viruses using them. It is supposed to help your memory but I just found it frustrating.

 

Air Forte – 400 points – Download

Educational game that teaches you maths and geography, among other things, whilst you fly your plane through the answers. The menus and cutscenes have really nice presentation but the actual gameplay of guiding the plane is dull. Overpriced too.

 

Crazy Wizard in Creepy Castle – 80 points – Download

I love 2D platformers but unfortunately there isn’t much to like here. The platform mechanics are awful (especially the jumping), the collision detection barely works and it looks horrible.

 

This Way That Way – 80 points – Download

Puzzle game in which you must guide your character across a grid to the goal. The twist is that once you go in a certain direction you must use every other direction before you can go that way again. Seems interesting.

 

The Quest For Freshness – 80 points – Download

Average tower defence game. There are a lot better ones on XBLIG. Horn Swaggle Islands and Sol Survivor are two i’d really recommend.

 

StarField Battle 2 – 80 points – Download

Dual-stick shooter. With so many of these types of games on XBLIGs, this would have to do something special to stand out. Sadly it doesn’t. It’s not bad, there are just much better games at the same price point.

 

Ballern2D – 80 points – Download

The menus in this game made me feel sick. It’s a pretty poor vertical shooter. If you are looking for a good vertical shmup I’d recommend Vampire Rage (review coming next week).