Atomic Gamer: Rocket Riot Review

Atomic Gamer writes: "Sometimes it’s not so easy jumping on Xbox Live Arcade to get the right kind of downloadable game you want. Many of the neo-retro games offer deceptively simple gameplay that never really has any depth, and many of the actual classic ports are fun for the first ten minutes but lose their luster quickly as your rose-colored sunglasses get a jolt of the awful truth: that many of those classic games you have such fond memories playing really aren’t as good as you remember. That’s why I enjoy seeing new games pulling in some of those classic memories, but helping you make new ones with a fresh take on the look and style and fun action that you can sink your teeth into.

Rocket Riot qualifies for that: at $10, this Xbox Live Arcade title from formerly all-portable developer Codeglue evokes the graphics of the early 80s with its big, chunky pixels, but then blows your mind when the rockets start to fly and hundreds of pixels showers away, each as a little 3D cube, when explosions start to go off. In Rocket Riot, you’ll play as various characters that have all lost their legs but have had a jetpack strapped to their backs and rocket launchers tossed into their hands to make up for it…"