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The Drinking Game is as the name suggests, a Drinking Game. You press the button on a one arm bandit and drink whatever appears. It comes with warnings to drink responsibly and yet you are playing a game where you must drink irresponsibly? The Drinking Game costs 80 :MSPoints: and you can download the trial here.
Livelayer Prototype is a action maze game where you must travel between light and dark worlds via a mirror. Keys found in the dark world unlock doors in the light world. Graphics are fairly good with nice relaxing music, gameplay is interesting enough to warrant a download of the trial, the full game costs 80 :MSPoints:.
The Power Hour is a drinki… wait didn’t I just review this? It is another drinking game where you must drink irresponsibly after a period of time throughout an hour. One cool thing is it can access your Media Device to play music from, it happened to pick Snoop Dogg when I tried it. I didn’t feel the urge to drink but I did want to smoke 🙂 The Power Hour costs 80 :MSPoints: and the trial can be downloaded here.
I MAED A GAM3 W1TH Z0MB1ES!!!1 up next. I have to be honest I was not looking forward to trying this, with a name like that it sounded like trouble. It is a top down view zombie shooter which I later found out is made by the author of Dishwasher. The aim of the game is to survive for as long as possible by shooting the zombies with the variety of weapons which spawn. It is a simple game but very addictive and the background changes to what I think is one of the funniest in game music tracks I have ever heard. You honestly have to play this game! It costs 80 :MSPoints: and the trial can be downloaded here.
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Gogs is a puzzle game where you must connect Gogs of the same type together by using your controllable Gog to bounce them around the screen. A good idea but this game is let down by the very poor collision detection resulting in a failed level very often . This should never have passed Peer Review, avoid until the collision detection is fixed. Gogs costs 80 :MSPoints: and the trial can be downloaded here.
Horse Race Starter was not released in UK so I am unable to try it at the moment. Going by the description you press a button and the race starts. I am not sure if you can place bets on who will win, I would hope so or it is pretty pointless. Horse Race Starter costs 80 :MSPoints: and the trial can be downloaded here.
Johnnys Minefield is a game where you must reach the exit by navigating a minefield. Sounds easy but the mines disappear from view after five seconds so you have to memorise where they are before you start your journey. There is nothing wrong with the game but it is rather basic, a few more features could have been added like an highscore table, two player race to the exit etc. It costs 80 :MSPoints: and the trial can be downloaded here.
Zens 360 is a application that displays 100 unique zens from Buddha to Yasutani Roshi. You can pick the Zen of the Day or browse through all of them. My Zen for the day, “Save your 80 :MSPoints: and spend it on I MAED A GAM3 W1TH Z0MB1ES!!!1. You will feel much better for doing so”. You can download the trial here.
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Draw is an etch-a-sketch style drawing program. It seems to do exactly what it aims to do so no complaints. The kids should enjoy it and it is probably more safer than bashing your younger brother over the head with a real etch-a-sketch (sorry Chris!). Draw costs 80 :MSPoints: and the trial can be downloaded here.
Goldens is an up to four player multiplayer game where you can use bots if you have nobody to play with. The aim of the game is to dig for gold, hoover it and then place it on the mine carts which earns you a point. I had a bit of trouble getting the gold on the mine cart but other than that it seems a good game and is worth checking out. Goldens costs 240 :MSPoints: and the trial can be found here.
Gamefinder is an application that lets you browse the Indie Games on Marketplace. What is different to using the NXE is that this can be done in 3D and allows you to share and read reviews with other users. It is not a bad idea but I feel like if this was released a few months ago it may have been better as the rating system is now in the NXE. GameFinder costs 80 :MSPoints: and the trial can be found here.
My suggestions for this round up of Indie Games to try are I MAED A GAM3 W1TH Z0MB1ES!!!1, Goldens and Livelayer Prototype.
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