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Silent_Buddha
Legend
OK that looks abso-freaking-lutely awesome.
Pure 2D sidescroller platform game. Oh man, that just made my 2nd or 3rd most exciting game from this E3...
ME WANT NOW...
Regarrds,
SB
Pure 2D sidescroller platform game. Oh man, that just made my 2nd or 3rd most exciting game from this E3...
ME WANT NOW...
Regarrds,
SB
Looks great, a hidden gem of the MS conference.
I cant help but think of Carmacks lamenting how production values/costs keep rising though, even on Cell phone games and the like. This has easily got to be the most expensive XBLA game yet, and will make it harder for little guys to compete.
I cant help but think of Carmacks lamenting how production values/costs keep rising though, even on Cell phone games and the like. This has easily got to be the most expensive XBLA game yet, and will make it harder for little guys to compete.
RenegadeRocks
Legend
http://www.gamersyde.com/stream_12102_hq_en.html
Some HQ gameplay from Shadow Complex !
I had earlier thought that Shadow Complex was just a cheap stunt by MS to just say that we have another exclusive from EPIC, but this gameplay is really GOOD ! It might turn out to be a reallt good game
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Some HQ gameplay from Shadow Complex !
I had earlier thought that Shadow Complex was just a cheap stunt by MS to just say that we have another exclusive from EPIC, but this gameplay is really GOOD ! It might turn out to be a reallt good game
!http://xboxlive.ign.com/articles/101/1014164p1.html
update on Proving Grounds mode
releases this Wednesday
update on Proving Grounds mode
releases this Wednesday
Another winner for Xbox Live. Great game. The controls are done very well, though jumping feels a bit weird for some reason. The "2.5D" shooting is pretty cool. Melee attacks are fun. Bosses are good from what I've seen so far. There are some pretty nice visuals, though sometimes some crappy looking textures. The game is less than a gig, so that isn't a surprise. There is one sequence of dark rooms, where the background is lit with red light. The silhouette view is very dramatic. Overall the lighting seems pretty cool. The flashlight is well done.
I'd say this is a must buy for fans of castlevania/metroid style platformers. It isn't an action title like contra. It's slower paced. You can sneak a little bit, and you can use cover.
Played it for maybe three hours. Eventually I hit a room with a door I could figure out how to open, so I started backtracking to check out some map tiles I never investigated.
I'd say this is a must buy for fans of castlevania/metroid style platformers. It isn't an action title like contra. It's slower paced. You can sneak a little bit, and you can use cover.
Played it for maybe three hours. Eventually I hit a room with a door I could figure out how to open, so I started backtracking to check out some map tiles I never investigated.
I'm actually stuck. I got to a door I couldn't open, and was wondering if I'd missed something and progressed too far through the map. So I started backtracking, trying to get to some question marks that were shown on my map, but there was a certain spot I'd fallen down that I'm unable to climb up. Not sure what to do. If I start a new game, do I lose all of my experience and everything? Not that it wouldn't be enjoyable to play through again. I think I could get to where I was fairly quickly.
DuckThor Evil
Legend
Where are you exactly at?
edit: there have been few places where it took a while for me to get trough, so maybe you have missed something.
DuckThor Evil
Legend
(currently in search for cheap Ms points
http://www.gamesbite.com/xbox-live-4200-points-card-digital-delivery-44-p.asp
Those are the cheapest 4200 points I've seen. Their 2100 points seems to be exactly 20€, which is not bad.
Edge gave a seven to the game. I clearly will buy the game the demo sold me, I replayed it already about ten times... (currently in search for cheap Ms points
To clarify this, this would be a 7 out of 8, as 8 is the maximum score for a perfect game that doesn't significantly innovate. It's summary echoes most other reviews:
I'm not saying this because I want to defend the game. I'll try it some more later, but so far I don't like it at all. The presentation and story is a complete mess, the gameplay is boring me to tears, and the art and sound are a letdown so far too. I'm guessing things will pick up, but so far, this is not for me. Now mind you, I think that I just don't like Metroidvania style games in the first-place. The closest to something like that I actually liked was much closer to a platformer, like Gods on the Atari ST.
The sound effects and music are awesome imo especially for a XBLA game. Anyway this games is kinda like a 2D mixture of MGS, Uncharted, Metroid, and Contra...just awesome. I played the demo, then immediately bought it...that doesn't happen very often.
Sigfried1977
Legend
I'm done with my first run through the game now (with 100% items) and while I certainly enjoyed it a lot I also think it suffers from some pretty severe flaws: the layout of the whole map is insanely confusing and almost seems random. Metroid and the Castlevania games always fitted big chunks of their labyrinthean levels with very distinctive visual themes (Library, Clock Tower, Phazon Mines etc.). Not only did it make them memorable, it also helped a great deal with orientation as you always had a good idea where you actually were at any given time. SC sadly doesn't have any of that, and it makes late game navigation a real pain in the rear because you have to pop up the map screen once every 3 quadrants. Unlike in CV there aren't any warp points and very few shortcuts either. If you missed something at the beginning you basically have to backtrack through every single location you already visited.
Boss battles are piss-easy by the way (just hide behind a crate and hold down the fire button) and you fight the same three mech variants multiple times all the way to the finish line.
My biggest gripe is with the controls. Aiming is extremely finicky and whether advanced maneuvers like the wall jump work properly or not seems more based on chance than player skill. Sometimes the guy will jump from the wall and another time he'll just slide to his death for no apparent reason. Compared to the tight 60 fps gameplay of Castlevania, Metroid or Bionic Commando Rearmed, Shadow Complexes 30 fps gameplay (which actually suffers from quite a few hick-ups as well, probably due to streaming) also feels downright sluggish: I have fallen to my death a lot of times simply because button presses didn't register at all.
The game is still a lot of fun, especially thanks to it's neat armor upgrades, but it lacks the depth, finesse and great level and art design of the classics it draws it's inspiration from. For 15 bucks it's quite a steal regardless.
Bionic Commando Rearmed remains my favorite downloadable side scroller for now.
Boss battles are piss-easy by the way (just hide behind a crate and hold down the fire button) and you fight the same three mech variants multiple times all the way to the finish line.
My biggest gripe is with the controls. Aiming is extremely finicky and whether advanced maneuvers like the wall jump work properly or not seems more based on chance than player skill. Sometimes the guy will jump from the wall and another time he'll just slide to his death for no apparent reason. Compared to the tight 60 fps gameplay of Castlevania, Metroid or Bionic Commando Rearmed, Shadow Complexes 30 fps gameplay (which actually suffers from quite a few hick-ups as well, probably due to streaming) also feels downright sluggish: I have fallen to my death a lot of times simply because button presses didn't register at all.
The game is still a lot of fun, especially thanks to it's neat armor upgrades, but it lacks the depth, finesse and great level and art design of the classics it draws it's inspiration from. For 15 bucks it's quite a steal regardless.
Bionic Commando Rearmed remains my favorite downloadable side scroller for now.
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I'm enjoying the game a lot. I find using the right stick to aim into the background can be a bit of a pain. Sometimes it's just easier to press fire and let the guy do it himself. But I try for a lot of headshots. I'm a melee machine. I have 80 melee kills already, and I've only uncovered 34% of the map. So far I've had a few spots where I should have used the blue line on the map and ended up back tracking past the point I was supposed to go. I've been very happy with the game so far. It seems to be a good length for a $15 game.
