Sorry, Guitar Hero: We still love you, but we think it’s time we started seeing other franchises. Opting for a full band setup in Guitar Hero World Tour was a smart move and adding all those convenient features like Party Play to Guitar Hero 5 made all kinds of sense, but this time, it’s just not enough. Your ridiculous new story-driven career mode fails to hide the fact that Warriors of Rock is essentially just a dressed up version of the same game we’ve been playing for years.
Taking cues from the old spaghetti westerns, modern revenge tales, and marionette puppet shows comes a Kinect game that may surprise gamers. The Gunstringer provides a unique experience with immersive controls, a charming world, and a good sense of humor, but at the same time is hindered by the same laggy controls and short campaign that may leave some gamers feeling like there‘s a snake in their boots...
Cave is a developer who has been gaining more traction outside of its homeland of Japan as of late. It specializes in the niche of crazy “bullet-hell” shooting games – the sort of title where fire fills the screen and finding out how to just barely scrape by a bullet barrage is every bit as important – if not moreso – than returning fire. While we’ve only seen a handful of their more recent releases like Deathsmiles and ESPGaluda II in North America so far, they also have a large back catalog of Japan-exclusive arcade games that have never been transplanted to consoles. That’s beginning to change with Guwange, a 1999 arcade release seeing new life on Xbox Live Arcade...
The Bejeweled-meets-D&D smash Puzzle Quest proved serious RPGs and sparkly gem matching puzzle gameplay could tie the knot and keep from strangling one another. Gyromancer treads similar territory but adds in a few new twists… literally. When the leader of a rogue group of revolutionaries launches a surprise attack on a member of the royal family and slays a prominent count and countess, the kingdom’s nobility cries out.
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