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6 responses to “Week 50 Round Up”

  1. mark

    SFG Soccer is a decent effort. It has some issues but it is definitely playable.

    Guns Loaded is droll and very grey.

  2. juice

    Link Attack and Puzzle Defusion are both clones of the Neo Geo Pocket’s Puzzle Link. So neither gets any marks for originality.

    I actually liked Guns Loaded: it’s not great, but there is more gameplay there than in virtually any of the other horizontal shmups I’ve seen on XBIG to date.

    Beat Hazard is kinda funky, but the visual effects have a nasty habit of hiding enemy ships and shots. It’s also got a problem when it comes to reading music off your network: what you get is “PC Album 1, PC Album 2, PC Album 3…” and a 10-15 second pause as you pull back information on each individual album in an effort to find the song you like…

    1. 9572AD

      Aha, I was unaware of Puzzle Link.

      I didn’t get much of a pause with Beat Hazard reading from my PC, and the “PC Album 1″ would turn into the proper name upon selection. The order didn’t make any logical sense, though.

      1. juice

        I did get a significant pause – but then I have over a thousand “albums” sitting on my machine upstairs – I long ago archived all my music (including singles) to MP3, together with stuff from places like emusic.com. The only question is whether this is an artefact of the uPNP protocol or Beat Hazard doing something daft like re-reading the entire album list on each request.

        To answer the other point: the albums are sorted by name (A, B, C, etc) and while Beat Hazard does cache information, the cache will be wiped if your shared music is updated (e.g. adding a new album). I’m guessing this is because BH is doing a simple “PC Album 1 = ‘Elvis greatest hits’” mapping, which will be broken if albums are added or removed. Again, I don’t know if this is a uPNP limitation or some dodgy coding…

        1. 9572AD

          Well, regardless, it’s the best interface I’ve yet seen in an XBLIG that reads music from your PC HDD. :)

          1. juice

            Mmm. I guess that’s true, though it’s not saying much :)

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