Every now and again I am pleasantly surprised by unassuming titles that come to life and draw you into their world. Whilst reflecting on the creativity and effort that goes into making these moments possible, I feel a great sense of responsibility reviewing games given the blood, sweat and tears that the developers put into their art. This sense of responsibility to accurately reflect the games essence is even more prevalent in the "smaller" downloadable titles like MadBalls in Babo: Invasion. They are not the epic games with amazingly rendered cut scenes yet, through sheer determination and ingenuity, they manage to deliver compelling gaming experiences.
Now comedy is an absolute necessity if you are going to have to save the Galaxy…yet again. Fortunately MadBalls in Babo: Invasion has done a super job of evoking comedic moments through their classic campaign dialogue and zany art style. The character names of Oculus Orbus and Horn Head alone are worth plenty of chuckles and when placed into a ridiculous plot with all the visual shenanigans to support them, you have just enough lightheartedness to get on with the serious job of blowing everything to smithereens.
Carlos writes "It’s been a while since we last had any new Xbox One backwards compatible titles to cast our nostalgic minds back to once more, and in the few weeks since the last arrivals, releases in general have been a lot quieter than usual. But that all looks set to change with several new games hitting the store all in one go, and today seeing some fresh faces to the backwards compatible library too.
The thing is, are they worth the return or should they simply remain as nothing more than a memory forever more?"
Microsoft has announced the latest additions to the Xbox One's backwards compatibility catalog. Arriving today are four Xbox 360 games: Street Fighter IV, Luxor 2, Madballs in Babo: Invasion, and Poker Smash.
Dealspwn rounds up ten brilliant XBLA games that you probably haven't heard of.
Dealspwn: "The Xbox Live Marketplace has gone from strength to strength over the last few years, becoming nothing less than the Xbox 360's unique selling point. It's the ultimate equaliser and a source of innovation that frequently puts retail releases to shame - but the only flaw is that it's easy for XBLA games to go unnoticed without even making a splash.
So here are ten of the games that fell through the media cracks, that languish near the bottom of the best selling lists yet provide plenty of bang for your buck."