Bomberman Act: Zero

Since Bomberman's new, more realistic look on the Xbox 360 was unveiled recently, there's been a mild furor rippling through the internet. Some fans weren't happy about the new storyline, either, which recasts the chirpy little sapper as an imprisoned test subject who's stuffed into some huge-handed body armor and forced to fight his (or her) fellow inmates. But after trying it ourselves, we can say that underneath that armored exoskeleton beats the heart of the same old Bomberman. It's true » Read Full Bomberman Act: Zero preview

While the Bomberman games have traditionally been cute, cheery exercises in blowing your friends to hell, the concept is actually pretty grim if you stop to think about it. A handful of combatants, armed only with time bombs, are dropped onto grids filled with destructible blocks and told to fight it out until only one is left alive. Perhaps that's what inspired the developers to take the series' tone in a radically new direction. In Bomberman Act: Zero, you're an inmate in a futuristic prison » Read Full Bomberman Act: Zero preview