AG writes: "In the first of what I hope will be many mini-reviews for Australian Gamer, I will be reviewing small games in a small review. Partially because I don't have time to spend playing games that require 50 hours of play time to review them, and partially because I got so much crap for taking so long to review Boom Blox. So, for the next little while, I'm going to be pumping out these mini-reviews for mini-games. In case you're interested, they're called "Pint Sized Reviews", because the time taken to write them is the same as it takes me to drink a pint of beer during lunch.
Schizoid is a bizarre little beast to find on Xbox Live Arcade. Whilst a large percentage of titles don't feature a strong local co-op mode, Schizoid is almost entirely made for local co-op. For those who care, Schizoid is the first Live Arcade game built using Microsoft's XNA Game Studio Express... that may explain why it is a 122mb download!"
Warp Zoned writes:
"Jamie Fristrom is a name that you might not be familiar with, but you’ve certainly experienced his work. In 1996, Fristrom became part of the original team at Treyarch and had a hand in many of their earliest hits. But his biggest claim to fame is the creation of the webslinging engine found in Spider-Man 2 (and used in nearly every Spider-Man game since). In that dark period between GoldenEye 007 and Batman: Arkham Asylum, Fristrom’s work on Spider-Man 2 proved that licensed games could still be fun.
After his days at Treyarch ended, he went the indie route and created the acclaimed XBLA game Schizoid and founded his own one-man-studio, Happion Labs. His first game under the Happion Labs banner will be Energy Hook, a game that attempts to recapture the fun we all found in aimlessly webslinging around Manhattan.
Fristrom is readying a Kickstarter campaign to help fund the game, which will likely launch in a few weeks. In the meantime, I had a chance to talk to him about his career so far and where he plans to take it with Energy Hook."
Jamie Fristrom, Creator of Schizoid — and one of the lead developers of the critically acclaimed Spider-Man 2 — stopped by GamerCheese to give us an inside look into his exciting new project, the likelihood of Schizoid 2, and the thing he hated most about Spider-Man 2.
With over 250 games available and new ones every week, Xbox Live has a lot to offer. There’s so much content that you probably missed a few gems during multiplayer matches of Hydro Thunder Hurricane or solving puzzles in Limbo. That’s why we’re here to deliver the top five games you probably missed.
Robert Workman (RunDLC)
