Filed in archive
XBLA
by Richard on November 8, 2007
Switchball:
In Switchball you take control of a heroic marble, rolling your way across floating stages, battling that ever-present menace: the wooden box. Think Monkey Ball without the monkeys. Or the bananas. It's pleasant enough to roll your marble around the colorful world of Switchball - pushing crates off the edges and bouncing off cloth sheets being the gameplay highlights - but I don't see myself paying $10 for the privilege.
Word Puzzle
What's missing from word-finder puzzles today, you ask? Well, you can't solve them with an Xbox 360 controller, for one thing. And what about a digital scoring system? Your newspaper can't do that! It's a good thing we now have Word Puzzle on the Live Arcade to fill this attention-starved genre. I guess. As a writer I'm contractually obligated to love words and even I am not excited by Word Puzzle. Save your ten bucks.
In Switchball you take control of a heroic marble, rolling your way across floating stages, battling that ever-present menace: the wooden box. Think Monkey Ball without the monkeys. Or the bananas. It's pleasant enough to roll your marble around the colorful world of Switchball - pushing crates off the edges and bouncing off cloth sheets being the gameplay highlights - but I don't see myself paying $10 for the privilege.
Word Puzzle
What's missing from word-finder puzzles today, you ask? Well, you can't solve them with an Xbox 360 controller, for one thing. And what about a digital scoring system? Your newspaper can't do that! It's a good thing we now have Word Puzzle on the Live Arcade to fill this attention-starved genre. I guess. As a writer I'm contractually obligated to love words and even I am not excited by Word Puzzle. Save your ten bucks.
Permalink: XBLA Wednesday: Word Ball
Trackback: http://publish.creative-weblogging.com/publish/mt-tb.pl/101147
Addthis
Ask
Blinklist
del.icio.us
Digg
Fark
Facebook
Google
Lycos
Ma.gnolia
Mr Wong
Netscape
Netvousz
Newsvine
Reddit
StumbleUpon
Slashdot
Tailrank
Technorati
Wink
Yahoo
Vote for XBLA Wednesday: Word Ball:
|
Rating: 10.00 out of 2 vote(s) cast.
|
Subscribe
Use the search to look for other interesting posts
| RSS |  See all blog subscribe options |
 What is RSS? | |
| Yahoo! |
|
| Addthis |
|
| Bloglines |
|
| Newsletter | |
| Follow us on Twitter! |
