Archive for the ‘Xbox Live Arcade Demo’ Category


Bloodforge – Demo Review

Bloodforge is a Xbox Live Arcade exclusive action hack ‘n slash video game developed by Climax Group and published by Microsoft Game Studios. The game is currently available for 1200 msp. If you played God of War, Dante’s Inferno or Darksiders you shouldn’t have a problem in regards to gameplay. However you will have a [...]

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Deep Black: Episode 1 – Demo Review

Deep Black: Episode 1 is a sci-fi action arcade game published by Blart Company and developed by 505 Games Srl. Deep Black: Episode 1 cost 800 msp and is currently right now. I immediately noticed the Dead Space design of the protagonist and the underwater cover gameplay reminiscent of Hydrophobia. The question is, judging from the demo [...]

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Voltron: Defenders of the Universe – Demo Impressions

Early into my elementary school years Voltron: Defenders of the Universe was hands down my favorite before school cartoon to watch. Lets not even get into those other two Voltron cartoons from the “80′s”. The first was the best cause they were lions. Ok done with my kid flashback. Voltron: Defenders of the Universe was [...]

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Beyond Good & Evil HD – Demo Impressions

Beyond Good & Evil HD is the remastered high-def version of the popular last gen action adventure game. I was one of the few who never got around to playing Beyond Good & Evil  least gen. I however did play the HD downloadable PSN, Xbox Live demo of the remastered HD version. Developed and published by Ubisoft [...]

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Portal: Still Alive – Demo Impressions

Portal: Still Alive is a full fledged single player Portal experience that released a few years ago via Xbox Live Arcade. Having beaten Portal and Portal 2 (more recently) I was compelled to try out Portal: Still Alive’s demo. If anything i wanted to see if the puzzles were honestly anything special compared to the [...]

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Orcs Must Die! – Demo Impressions

  Orcs Must Die! is a action game that blends tower defense strategy with third person combat gameplay. Developed by Robot Entertainment and published by Microsoft Game Studios for the Xbox 360 and PC. Its a downloadable Arcade title which released last week October 5, 2011. The main aspect of Orcs Must Die! from my perspective is that [...]

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Radiant Silvergun – Demo Impressions

Radiant Silvergun is a old school top down shoot-’ em up that developed a cult following years ago in the arcades and on the Sega Saturn. Now its available as a downloadable arcade game for Xbox Live. Radiant Silvergun was developed by treasure and published by Microsoft Game Studios. I never actually played Radiant Silvergun [...]

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Toy Soldiers: Cold War – Demo Impressions

I recently learned about this game through lurking around various videogame forums. I noticed it’s been getting rave reviews as of late so i decided to give the demo for this XBL (Xbox Live) arcade game, Toy Soldiers: Cold War a try. Glad i did as this game was fun. Toy Soldiers: Cold War is [...]

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Xbox Live Arcade: Trial Game – Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet

  Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet is a Xbox Live Arcade shooter where exploration and fantastic art design are its key attributes. Developed by Shadow Planet Pros and published by FuelCell Games exclusively for Xbox Live Arcade. The game is currently available 1200 msp on XBL. If you played “Metroidvania” style games like Shadow Complex you [...]

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The Adventures of Shuggy – Xbox Live Arcade Demo Impressions

The Adventures of Shuggy is a platforming puzzle game for Xbox Live Arcade that has a few interesting twists regarding gameplay. Developed by SmudgedCat and published by Valcon Games. The Adventures of Shuggy starts off with Snuggy who is a bat (i have no idea what he is actually). Anyways, he inherited an old creepy castle from [...]

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