From the silhouetted backdrops to the funky jazz soundtrack, it’s just a brilliant world to explore. It’s not particularly hard, either, and it’s also not very long.īut it’s stylish and smart and packed with atmosphere. It doesn’t have an inventory system or conversation trees. OneClickDog’s flash adventure Little Wheel is a seriously cool point-and-click adventure. Get it on Xbox Indies if you can’t wait another second. Redmond’s big gaming hub has now taken the indie darling and is publishing it on Windows Phone 7. Gamers stood up and took notice, and evidently so did Microsoft. Carneyvale Showtimeīack when the Xbox Live Indies service (a series of home-made titles created by bedroom programmers for Xbox 360) was first launching, we pretty much wrote it off as a collection of buggy garbage, unplayable junk, and massage simulators.īut then Carneyvale Showtime - a clown-flinging puzzler - appeared: a game evidently made with such care and a serious attention to detail that you’d swear it was a professionally built XBLA title. It’s probably the most simple, basic and elementary idea in the world - here’s a banana, decimate it - but boy is it addictive. Fruit NinjaĪnother game that cut its teeth on iPhone, Fruit Ninja is addictive, joyously physical and juicy - so, so juicy.Īlready selling millions of copies on iPhone and iPad, this food-slicer from Halfbrick has you slashing up strawberries and coconuts in a dojo for high scores and unlockable extras. Whatever the case, the name ‘ Castlevania’ alone is enough for us to drop the rope-swinging, castle-exploring, Dracula-duking adventure series directly on this list of most anticipated games. It could be anything from retro NES debut Castlevania to cult classic PS1 epic Symphony of the Night. We haven’t got a clue which Castlevania game Konami is planning on bringing to the platform. Its carrot-on-a-stick mentality will have you relentlessly chasing the next upgrade and the next bundle of cash, even playing through the entire four-or-so hours it gives you to complete the task. Profits go to juicing up your fuel tank and kitting your digger out with sweet upgrades like higher quality drills, more storage space, and better coolants. The game has you drilling deep down into the earth, finding hidden loot, and selling it back on the surface. Is it worth the risk? I Dig ItĪ veritable classic over on iPhone, it’s great to see that other mobile-owners will be able to sample its super addictive flavour. They’ll fire loads more bullets, but will net you way more points where they’re downed. The game has you tapping enemies to unleash their manic modes. Same goes for frantic Windows Phone shooter OMG, which mixes neon lighting with ancient Vetrex machines for a psychedelic retro style. From Xbox Indies titles Jump and Pixel, DS fireworks shmup Big Bang Mini or iPhone time-sink Pix’n Love Rush, these guys just have a way with pixels. OMG (Our Manic Game)įrench developer Arkedo is responsible for some of the most awesome-looking games around. If you live in New Zealand or the Falkland Islands, hit me up. You can also team up with a couple of friends, making triangular patterns across the globe and nuking all the mutants inside your newly erected geometry. The backdrops, interestingly enough, are piped in from Bing Maps, so your back garden suddenly becomes the stage for some exciting tower defence. Instead, it focuses on the second game’s mutant infestation, and has you fending them off with turrets and other such defences. It’s not about agility orbs or hidden orbs or even renegade orbs. It isn’t about leaping between skyscrapers, or chucking cars at ambiguously-ethnic baddies. Project Sunburst isn’t quite what you expect. Offering up a collection of Xbox Live classics, indie favourites, smartly curated iPhone winners, and unique incarnations of the Xbox’s best franchises, this list is a winner.īut if we had to narrow it down a bit, and pick out some choice cuts, here’s a run-down of the ten most exciting and anticipated games from the super line-up. Truth be told, it was more of a meteoric tidal-wave-creating blast than a splash, if you ask all the mobile gamers now anxiously champing at the bit to get their thumbs on the new hardware. Microsoft truly made a splash last month, after announcing a massive 63 game line-up of killer titles promised to hit its upcoming smartphone platform, Windows Phone 7.
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