Posted by WDesm on 04 30th, 2012

Posted by WDesm on May 8, 2012 “The Stylish New MOBA on XBLA is a Must Have!” An XboxHornet review by Xavier “Mercedes” Marchena. What do you get when you have frog sporting an afro from House Party, a french chameleon with a ridiculous accent and a ridiculous french mustache and a cowboy with the best voice actor this side of the Mississippi? Awesomenauts. This game. Dis game!...

Posted by WDesm on Apr 30, 2012 “More of the Toy Soldiers series is a good thing, and these DLC packs really try to cram even MORE into More!” An XboxHornet review by WDesm. Toy Soldiers: Cold War was awesome.  Don’t get me wrong – Toy Soldiers 1 was amazing too, but the sequel has just more everything crammed into it.  More multiplayer options, more challenges, more abilities, more...

Posted by WDesm on Apr 27, 2012 “I cannot recommend this game in strong enough terms – BUY IT.” An XboxHornet review by Xavier “Mercedes” Marchena. BLOWN AWAY. This game. This freaking game. I honestly did not know what to expect going into The Walking Dead. Wait, that’s a lie. This is TellTale Games we’re talking about. Sam and Max creators. I should have...

Posted by WDesm on Apr 24, 2012 “A Very Intellectual Game With Some Neat Features and Horrible Music.” An XboxHornet review by Xavier “Mercedes” Marchena. One of two things happens when I encounter card and board games. I either become enamored with the game and I can’t wait until I play it again. This usually happens with game that have high amount of strategy, low amount of...

Posted by WDesm on Apr 21, 2012 “MegaCity is an Incredibly Polished Puzzleboard Adventure; a Great Casual Timesink!” An XboxHornet review by WDesm. Puzzleboard games have a high standard to achieve – the genre has been in the works for decades, if not centuries, and beautifully rendered XBLA titles like Catan and Carcassonne have set the gold standard for your Xbox gaming needs.  In the XBLIG...

Posted by WDesm on Apr 13, 2012 “The Main Problem With This Game Is That Its Pretty Awful.” An XboxHornet Review By Liam Jugler. Snakez Gunz and Ladderz, the first XBLIG release by DaddyPigGames, starts poorly. The title screen is a badly enlarged upside down picture of the ‘snake’s head, the menu system is flat pasted over this ugly image and asks you to press start. I’d suggest not doing that,...

Posted by WDesm on Apr 11, 2012 “A Decent Attempt at Minimalism.” An XboxHornet review by Xavier “Mercedes” Marchena. We Are Cubes takes a minimalist approach to gaming and does quite well in what appears to be a flying spaceship-block shooting other polygon-like spaceships in a corridor. What you are and what you are shooting can be left up to individual interpretation. This is not...

Posted by WDesm on Apr 4, 2012 “Fun, But With a Few Weird Physics Quirks.  Best Played With Friends.” An XboxHornet Review By Liam Jugler. Kart games are a pretty empty or otherwise lacking genre everywhere but the Xbox Indie games area. It’s a little strange to be honest, the kart genre came and died with Mario Kart (and Diddy Kong Racing which-was-way-better-no shut-up-it-was). And here we have...

Posted by WDesm on Apr 3, 2012 “The Only Night of Doom is a Night Playing This Game.” An XboxHornet Review By WDesm. Night of Doom 2 is a first person shooter survival horror, where the goal is to last as long as possible in the face of ever-increasing waves of monsters.  The game starts off with a rather pea-shooter pistol, but includes the option of gaining some rather high-end firepower,...

Posted by WDesm on Mar 30, 2012 “You Can’t Go Wrong With This Game!” An XboxHornet review by Xavier “Mercedes” Marchena. Shmups are in a strange place, I think. Good quality ones are rare, but you see many mediocre titles that offer nothing but nice visuals and so many damn bullets you can’t see where your ship is. There’s nothing new to offer to the player; just...

Posted by WDesm on Mar 28, 2012 “A Few Great Pieces And A Rock Bottom Price.” An XboxHornet Review By Liam Jugler. 20 Games is a wide collection of very small simple games, like the ones you first learn to program, all thrown together with some sweet graphics and sound to go with them. I was incredibly pensive about this one. I steer clear of big multipack games because usually what’s inside is...

Posted by WDesm on Mar 27, 2012 “Quality. A Bullet-Hell Mixed With Twin Stick Shooter. And Quality.” An XboxHornet review by Xavier “Mercedes” Marchena. I do love being surprised by quality. My boss dropped this game on my lap with a toothy smile and told me “You’re going to be surprised by this game’s quality I think.” and then I said “OooooOOO! You know I love ...

Posted by WDesm on Mar 24, 2012 Hot on the heels of February/March’s XBLA House Party, Microsoft is keeping the attention on hot-and-upcoming titles with “Arcade NEXT,” a promotion that not only features a slew of very impressive Microsoft-published titles, but a promotion that also boosts the maximum Gamerscore on XBLA titles to 400 Gamerpoints. ====<Press Release>==== (click the titles...

Posted by WDesm on Mar 24, 2012 “Looks Can Be Deceiving, and This One is WELL Worth The Look.” An XboxHornet Review By Liam Jugler. Flycatcher is basically the “Worms Ninja-Rope” in a full game and it rocks so hard that someone made a full game based on that awesome mechanic. This is what I’m talking about fellas. Everyone has played Worms, and everyone who played Worms knew the...

Posted by WDesm on Mar 21, 2012 “Multiplayer Game of the Year.” An XboxHornet review by Xavier “Mercedes” Marchena. Boom. Multiplayer Game of the Year. That’s right. I said it. Without a doubt in my mind, Shoot Many Robots is by far the most fun I had with a multiplayer game since Castle Crashers and Monday Night Combat. I say this without exaggeration: I will buy whatever...

Posted by WDesm on Mar 19, 2012 “A Decent Take on Competitive Tower Defense.” An XboxHornet review by WDesm. Don’t get me wrong – I’m a fan of Tower Defense games, and competitive ones fill a very special niche indeed.  A few years back, Monday Night Combat was easily my game of the summer, and while that particular gem’s multiplayer base has all-but-completely-dried up,...