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1337 Ship Deathmatch is an up to four player space battle deathmatch game. If you can stay alive long enough you may find this passable to play, all that happened to me was I got killed shortly after spawning as the enemy has perfect aiming and timing. The game may be more fun with some friends but at 400 :MSPoints: I do not think many will buy it. You can download the trial here.
Arbor Vitae is a kind of arcade game in which you must grow and protect a tree from swarms of bees and flying beetles. The tree starts from a shoot and you must water it using your nanobots which helps the tree grow. You can defend the tree against enemies by shooting them. The game seems interesting and is worth checking out, it costs 240 :MSPoints: and the trial can be found here.
Atomhex is a strategic arcade shooter in which you must destroy Atoms and Hexes and their enemy offspring that are created when Atoms and Hexes join. The game uses a Geometry Wars style design but you can only destroy enemies of the same bullet colour that they are, so a red enemy requires red bullets. Bullets are changed by destroying coloured Atoms. This adds a really good strategy element to the game. At 80 :MSPoints: this is definitely one to check out! Try the trial here.
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Ninja Train is an auto scrolling platform game where you control a ninja who must collect coins for some reason or another. The game has some retro looking graphics which kind of work but the major issuse is a great big %&^*! bar in the middle of the play area which does nothing apart from totally spoil the game. Also I think there may only be three levels in the game which I completed in the trial so this looks like one to avoid. Ninja Trian costs 80 :MSPoints: and the trial can be found here.
Shardscape Assault is a top down action game in which you control a tank who must complete missions to receive new upgrades for your tank. For some reason I found the tank controls a bit weird, not sure why but it did annoy me a bit. The game however does look interesting enough to check out, especially for 80 :MSPoints:, the trial can be found here.
Wacky Karts is a Mario Kart (SNES version) style game. The game supports up to four players and has 16 tracks with four different play modes. Graphics are fairly good but I found the enemy AI to do too much formation driving and not do much else, also it can very hard to catch up if you fall behind. I will be reviewing Wacky Karts but I have a backlog of reviews so it wont be for around two weeks. Wacky Karts costs 400 :MSPoints: and the trial can be found here.
My suggestion of games to check out in this round up are Arbor Vitae, Atomhex, Shardscape Assault and Wacky Karts. Actually it would have been faster to say what to avoid, stay clear of 1337 Ship Deathmatch and Ninja Train!
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