XBOX 360

Xotic Review

January 12, 2012 9:58 pm
Carl Armstrong
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Xotic is a FPS game available via XBox Live Arcade that doesn’t exactly reach much potential based on the $10 price tag and lack of depth to the game. Okay, if you remember going to the arcade back in the day, playing games where getting the highest score and going the farthest without dying was basically the focus in most games you might appreciate a game like Xotic. This is a title that caters to old school fans of gaming and tries to lure in new ones with modern modifications. That being said there’s more modern aspects that could have been added to make this game far more appealing to the masses as the asking price is $10 dollars on Xbox arcade may not break your wallet but I’m not sure you’ll feel satisfied at all after playing this.

Video Review

Gameplay

You take the form of a Tim Burton reject looking character from the movie 9, armed with a biological gun you can modify you must take out the Orb which is poisoning planets with other smaller orbs and your have to clear stages, earn as many points as possible while killing mobs and avoiding hazardous objects. Yes this is a shooter but, compared to other FPS like MW3, you can exhaust your trigger finger faster in one level in the game then maybe 2-3 straight hours of its counterparts. You use special skills to fly temporally or reach higher planes in each level but the mechanics are iffy and they are tough to use during fights. You can modify your weapon into a shotgun or rocket launcher in the form of shooting insects and firefly’s as well as your character to have more health and energy to use special weapons. My suggestion if you do play this title, upgrade your character first then weapons, you die fast and don’t get a whole lot of energy to use secondary weapons at the start. In the end though its about accumulating points and there’s plenty of combos to help you get the most out of each level but this didn’t motivate me to shoot for the highest score possible as there’s no real rewards to keep your interest.

Presentation

No multi-player, you compete against the highest score on the community leader boards. It took WXP games maybe a couple of hours to put the menus together. The levels themselves are quite forgettable bigger levels would have helped add to the experience.

Graphics

This would pass for an Xbox launch title back in the day but its the 360 and its 2012. Frame rates go down with multiple enemies enter screen which is unacceptable since most levels wont have more then a half dozen of them. Weapon animations don’t get you excited when your blowing through mobs either.

Sound

Other then the title screen nothing memorable here, the music soundtrack is nothing special. You can get paranoid when you hear gunfire from mobs and you have no clue where its coming from.

Overall

This game was made for cell phones, despite its lack of content, depth, and graphics I could see this succeeding on the iphone. On console though, therse less to be desired, if your a points guy though, finding hidden zones and a fan of Tim Burton movies try this out, otherwise, I say skip it.