bapenguin
10-12-2005, 12:35 PM
Usually, you save the best for last. But today, we'll start out with my personal favorite (next go Geometry Wars (http://www.bizarreonline.net/page.php?p=about&f=gwre)) on the XBox 360. Kameo was the most impressive original title I got my hands on yesterday. It could just be the "sleeper hit" on the XBox 360.
Kameo may look cartoonish, but the game is quite violent. In fact, the game rewards you with for more violent kills. This score can then be uploaded to a global leaderboard on Live. For instance, with Chilla (the snow guy with huge spikes), I had picked up 3 Orcs and slammed them onto the spikes on my back. I picked up another and started using him as a baseball bat beating off hordes of other Orcs. Once the baseball bat Orc served his purpose (died) I picked the Orcs off my back and tossed them around. I tossed one into a group of enemies and watched them all fall down like bowling pins. Everything has underlying physics on it, and behaves appropriately. The more carnage you can cause the better, and if you do well enough you enter a “warrior focus” mode in which time slows down allowing you to really combo up things fast between elemental forms.
You can find the full preview in our forums. (http://www.evilavatar.com/forums/showthread.php?p=112572)
This game really shocked me. I've never been a huge fan of the action adventure genre. I've played my fair share of titles, but very few grab me the way Kameo did.
Kameo may look cartoonish, but the game is quite violent. In fact, the game rewards you with for more violent kills. This score can then be uploaded to a global leaderboard on Live. For instance, with Chilla (the snow guy with huge spikes), I had picked up 3 Orcs and slammed them onto the spikes on my back. I picked up another and started using him as a baseball bat beating off hordes of other Orcs. Once the baseball bat Orc served his purpose (died) I picked the Orcs off my back and tossed them around. I tossed one into a group of enemies and watched them all fall down like bowling pins. Everything has underlying physics on it, and behaves appropriately. The more carnage you can cause the better, and if you do well enough you enter a “warrior focus” mode in which time slows down allowing you to really combo up things fast between elemental forms.
You can find the full preview in our forums. (http://www.evilavatar.com/forums/showthread.php?p=112572)
This game really shocked me. I've never been a huge fan of the action adventure genre. I've played my fair share of titles, but very few grab me the way Kameo did.