Posted by WDesm on 01 27th, 2012

Posted by WDesm on Jan 27, 2012 “Some Real Effort, But A Seriously Lackluster Result…” An XboxHornet review by Xavier “Mercedes” Marchena. Parents know this best. Your kid comes home proudly offering you a drawing he or she had done that afternoon and they want to put it on your refrigerator. How dare they? Am I right? That drawing… you didn’t even know it was a...

Posted by WDesm on Jan 23, 2012 “An Awkward Attempt to Bring a New Gimmick to Shmups.” An XboxHornet Review By Liam Jugler. Ascension is a twin stick (sort of) vertical scrolling shooter that is kind of pap. Not much more I can say about it really but here at XboxHornet, we pride ourselves on our high wordcount and our hatred of Moles. Given that I just got done exterminating the moles in my yard,...

Posted by WDesm on Jan 20, 2012 “Three Genres At Once, All Elegantly Packaged in a Very High Quality Experience.” An XboxHornet Review By Liam Jugler. Not often is it I find a game I can not play, but love all the same. Lexiv manages that. Please excuse my own crippling ineptitude as I try to explain what is so great about this game. Lexiv is 3 games in one. It’s Scrabble, first and foremost, even...

Posted by WDesm on Jan 17, 2012 “A Very Solid Simulation F1 Racer For The Niche Fan.” An XboxHornet review by Xavier “Mercedes” Marchena. For those readers who do not enjoy realistic racers like Forza 3 and instead prefer racers like Split Second (If you haven’t played that game, wtf are you waiting for) then just close the browser; this game isn’t meant for you, but the...

Posted by WDesm on Jan 13, 2012 “An Incredibly Fun Title that Stands On Its Own.” An XboxHornet Review By WDesm. Let’s be honest for a moment – words like “reinvented” and “revived” don’t usually inspire confident first-impressions in the majority of us.  Usually, when things fall out of style and become passé, it is for a very good reason, and their time...

Posted by WDesm on Jan 8, 2012 “What Would Have Been a Fantastic Mobile App is a Little Awkward on the Full 360″ An XboxHornet review by Liam Jugler. Welcome back everyone, have a nice holidays? Great, settle in, we have a good game for you here! Ok, Rainbow Rapture (available separately on XBLIG and Windows Mobile 7) is kind of an iPad feeling thing where you play a cloud, being powered by a...

Posted by WDesm on Jan 4, 2012 “THE MOST BEAUTIFULESTEST GAME I HAVE EVERY PLAYED ON XBOX LIVE ARCADE.” An XboxHornet review by Xavier “Mercedes” Marchena. Please allow me to get this out of my system and please do not hate me for my unprofessionalism. Ahem. Ahem... ahem ahem. Cough ahem. *gasp* HOLY CRAP ATLUS THIS IS THE MOST BEAUTIFULESTEST GAME I HAVE EVER PLAYED ON XBOX LIVE...

Posted by WDesm on Dec 22, 2011 “A Fantastic, High Quality Pack of Tables!” An XboxHornet review by WDesm. For those who love pinball, Zen Studios has been  a saviour of the masses – from the humble beginnings of Pinball FX, the sequel evolved from a mere game into a hub of everything pinball, much in the same way that Rock Band evolved the “music making in video games” concept to...

Posted by WDesm on Dec 21, 2011 “This Game is Amazing Beyond Words. Get it.” An XboxHornet review by Xavier “Mercedes” Marchena. YES! Dear God yes! I couldn’t wait to stop playing this game so I could rush to my computer, slam out a review as fast as humanly possible so I can play this game some more. I, Zombie is a magnificent puzzle game where you, a newly formed zombie...

Posted by WDesm on Dec 14, 2011 “It’s Fun, It’s Cute, and It’s Sometimes Good Enough to Cover its own Flaws.” An XboxHornet review by Dewgstrom. Wabbits! Jumping for Fun is a quirky little multiplayer title in which up to four small adorable bunnies hop around on a single stage and attempt to squish each other into a small pile of red bunny chunks. The game features around a dozen...

Posted by WDesm on Dec 12, 2011 “Very Well Done Narrative, Art, Music, and a lot of Fun Platforming.” An XboxHornet review by Xavier “Mercedes” Marchena. Firstly, I have to inform everyone that Volchaos is not the kind of game I gravitate to. It’s simply not my cup of tea but I do know when a game is well done; and yes, this game is very well done. It pulls from the Super Nintendo...

Posted by WDesm on Dec 6, 2011 “Despite A Half-Dozen XBLIG Titles, This Feels Like a Weak First Try.” An XboxHornet Review by Liam Jugler. “Oh Christ the start screen is just the sprite sheet. Off to a good start I see. Ok let’s press A. Oh multiplayer, that sounds cool, backgrounds a bit funny, music isn’t anything special but oh well, push on. Options are just a volume control, that’s...

Posted by WDesm on Dec 3, 2011 “A Polished Platformer with Style, Unlocks, and Beautiful Levels.” An XboxHornet review by Liam Jugler. Oozi Ep 2 then. Eh? Sequel to the epoch making Oozi Ep 1 which in the interests of integrity I’ll admit to never playing nor even hearing about until I got this one to play. Well, I have to say I’m very impressed. This is one polished game. The artwork is pretty...

Posted by WDesm on Nov 30, 2011 “A ShovelWare Re-Enactment of a runaway XBLIG Hit.” An XboxHornet review by Xavier “Mercedes” Marchena. Something about this game strikes me in a weird deja vu.  Could it be the swarming undead mindlessly shambling towards you; arms outstretched in wanting?  Perhaps it is the way the grass grants me visions of something I’ve experienced before....

Posted by WDesm on Nov 21, 2011 “Good for the price, but not exactly a must buy.” An XboxHornet review by Dewgstrom. Avatar Chess is pretty much exactly what it sounds like. Chess with avatar support. Though it’s given a very barebones presentation, the game supports a few options for play. Online and local multiplayer support works pretty much exactly as expected which is nice, the single ...

Posted by WDesm on Nov 19, 2011 “Something that XBLIG Needs a Little More Of.” An XboxHornet Review By Liam Jugler. So I guess I’ve been pretty harsh on the games I’ve reviewed. That is because by and large they weren’t very fun, which by my edict is the single most important part of games. Luckily, The Gods that Be have sent me Growing Pains, a game filled with fun, a nifty...