Alien Spidy is like a bad relationship: It's that game that you obsess over for days at a time, eyes bleary from lack of sleep as you try to perfect your score but quietly, resentfully, wonder why you aren't quitting it at the same time. It's the kind of game that would have thrived on the NES: simple in concept and basic design, but at the same time obtusely difficult and uncompromising in gameplay and its objectives. It's a bit like getting slapped in the face with everything that's good and bad about independent platformers.
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Best bets this week include: Hotline Miami, a high-octane brutal action game; Alien Spidy, where you must escape home after meeting new enemies; Zombie Tycoon II: Brainhov’s Revenge, a zombie strategy game; Guacamelee!, where you play as a luchador trying to save the El Presidente's daughter; and Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams, a retro platformer where you play as two sisters.
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Kalypso Media Digital Ltd has today set a whole new challenge to all fans of action plat-former Alien Spidy with the release of the new Easy Breezy DLC for Xbox LIVE® Arcade for the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft (other formats will follow soon). Easy Breezy unlocks three new ‘special’ levels, one in each environment, and will see gamers’ web slinging skills really put to the test.
I wasn't expecting much, still might check out the demo though.
It really seems like the XBLA releases have been phoning it in lately. Last year's Summer of Arcade was so disappointing compared to the previous year.