This game does have a lot going for it. The levels are beautifully crafted to high production values, and the techno background music is in keeping with the trippy theme. Gameplay is simple at heart yet hard to master at the higher difficulty levels. Achievements on XBLA are reasonably interesting and somewhat challenging.
And there is a decent "risk-reward" cherry for proficient gamers - playing the game on the normal and hard difficulties enables a higher in-game multiplier (advanced by clearing levels within a set time limit) than the easy difficulty. On the other hand, some may find the gameplay repetitive, especially given the forced solo nature of the game.
Cubed3's Mike Mason recently got the chance to speak to Andrew and Philip Oliver - the Oliver Twins. The pair, creators of Dizzy the egg and co-founders of Blitz Games Studios, were happy to speak about their company's plans and divisions.
Ironically, they both seem to look like Dizzy as they got older on the header image.
A look at PowerUp Forever, an under-selling arcade shooter on Xbox Live Arcade and Playstation Network from Blitz Games Studios.
A look around tells me it was added in March this year on EU PSN...but I don't have access to it to check on a PS3 itself, unfortunately.
Hmm, I'll go check if so, must've been uploaded when I was busy and had no access to the internet. Sounds like an excellent concept!
EDIT: Yeah, it's there. Gonna go try a demo on my 360 though.
GiantBomb:
"OK, I'll stop harping on the name. It's not that big of a deal. PowerUp Forever is a pretty good dual-joystick shooter that stands out, even though there are now around a billion of these games available on various digital download services. If you felt that Flow was too soft, or that you wanted more guns in the first stage of Spore, you'll certainly dig it."
