Stupidity in Disk Form
HIGH The music is fairly catchy.
LOW Playing the game.
WTF How exactly was this inspired by Gradius?
Tag: Piloting
Ace Combat: Assault Horizon Review
Jets!
HIGH The greatest quick time event of 2011. It's fantastic. There's no better way to end a game.
LOW The bombing run mode repeatedly failing to activate.
WTF Jets with regenerating health? What?
Insanely Twisted Shadow Hunters Hands-On Preview
A small group organized by @PNWJournos was invited to the Fuelcell Games studios for a sneak peek at upcoming DLC for one of the 2011's best titles, Xbox Live Arcade's Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet.
Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet Review
Insane? No… it's Genius
HIGH The variety (and quality) in puzzle design.
LOW Having 100% map completion while still missing three Artifacts.
WTF the Shield power-up feels woefully underused.
Snoopy Flying Ace Review
Laughing Past the Graveyard
HIGH Scoring a tenth consecutive kill and being upgraded from biplane to flying doghouse.
LOW The glut of one-hit kill weapons.
WTF Linus is an officer in the Austro-Hungarian air force?
DarkStar One: Broken Alliance Review
To Middlingly go Where no one (on 360) has Gone Before…
HIGH A huge universe to explore.
LOW Each star system is nearly identical to the next.
WTF Have these developers never seen a good menu system?
After Burner Climax Review
Zebra has Acquired a Nuclear Missile
HIGH Completing that damned stealth bomber mission.
LOW Being unable to pick apart the visual chaos for my first X attempts at the game.
WTF The constant pilot chatter. "Next time I'm here on vacation!"
Dark Void Review
We were Promised Jetpacks
HIGH The first thirty seconds of flight.
LOW The massive gulf between production value and actual quality gaming.
WTF The aliens are robots and slugs and shape-shifting human-creators?
The Sky Crawlers: Innocent Aces Review
Crawling? More like Physics-defying Dog-fighting…
HIGH The Tactical Maneuver Commands are a literal game-changer.
LOW Being forced to use the Senryu for a mission.
WTF "Cheetah" sounds tougher than "Lynx"?
Mercenaries 2: World in Flames Review
Playground of Tedium
HIGH Blowing up people and vehicles from inside the safety of a helicopter never gets old, does it?
LOW Actually, it does. And surprisingly quickly, at that.
WTF For some reason EA refused to include any licensed characters as a fun secondary skin. Sure, they don't have access to Lucasfilm characters the way the first game did, but aren't they making a James Bond game right now? Meanwhile, the Sean Connery skin is just lying around in a mainframe somewhere, gathering dust.
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