Microsoft has confirmed another outing for spring promotion Xbox Live House Party, featuring the pick of Ubisoft, Remedy and EA's downloadable line-ups.
Beginning 15th February, you'll get one new game a week for four weeks. Here's what's in store, care of friendly neighbourhood marketing documents.
Alan Wake's American Nightmare
In this brand-new stand-alone experience, Alan Wake fights the herald of darkness, the evil Mr. Scratch. A thrilling new storyline, hordes of creepy enemies, serious firepower and beautiful Arizona locations, combined with a fun and challenging new game mode, make this a must for Alan Wake veterans, and the perfect jumping-on point for new players. Can you survive until sunrise?
One year after a worldwide cataclysmic event has wiped out most of human civilisation, a man struggles for survival. Faced with an insecure, decaying and hazardous world, he scours a desolated city, searching for his long-lost wife and daughter. Survive the suffocating, murky streets covered in dust. Climb the teetering remains of last-standing skyscrapers to reach breathable air and find untouched resources. Explore the crumbling ruins of a once-thriving metropolis. Discover a changed human condition, punctuated by distrustful survivors, dangerous armed gangs and victims in need.
Nexuiz
For centuries, the Kavussari and the Forsellians have waged war. They have a fragile truce but, because of their seething disgust of each other, still pit warriors against each other in arenas rather than on the fields of war. These episodes of lethal combat are broadcast throughout the galaxy as entertainment - a spectacle known as The Nexuiz Competition - an arena-based first-person shooter where you can alter the rules of the match and the laws of physics while dominating opponents in ever-changing hostile environments.
Warp
"Warp" is a puzzle-based stealth action game where you play as Zero, a lovable-yet-lethal orange alien with a big score to settle! Captured by the villainous Commander and imprisoned in his underwater facility, Zero must plan his ultimate escape using his arsenal of alien abilities - warp, frag, echo, swap and launch.
9 comments so far...
danb95 on 10 Jan '12 said:
I Am Alive is looking very promising at the moment.Not to sure about alan wake though hopefully its story is a bit more clearer this time around.
CunningSmile on 11 Jan '12 said:
Heresy!!! If Alan Wake made sense it wouldn't be Alan Wake.
comabob on 11 Jan '12 said:
Yeh - it would be better!
CunningSmile on 11 Jan '12 said:
@'bob
comabob on 11 Jan '12 said:
fair enough mate - i did like he shooting mechanics and general gameplay though and out of this promotion - its the only one id bother considering...
Currently downloading Amy - had to do a bing search to find it - genuinely excited. its been a while since i played a s good survival horror and 800points is temping.
CunningSmile on 11 Jan '12 said:
Let us know what you think. I really like the concept, and very reasonably priced, but been hearing some very mixed reviews about how it plays.
Bezza89 on 11 Jan '12 said:
Yeah cvgs review was quality. 'Upsetting: For the wrong reasons'. Think it got 4 from them
comabob on 11 Jan '12 said:
It looks waaaay too dark for a sar - had to turn the brightness right up just to see where i was going.
he camera is horrible to use - i found myself getting stick in corners and narrow corridors - the camera would spasm out and id lose which way i was facing. Combined with it being waaaay too dark and it makes for a bad combo.
The combat is shit frankly. Im talking the first Saw Game levels of shit.
Came across a locked door - found a NPC who gave me a decrypter thing. Asked me to find the DNA to unlock it by going round to different areas of the map. ENded up needing to go back to the start of he map (which took longer than it needed to to figure out - purely cos the level was so dark and had debris cluttering everywhere).
Git the DNA, unlocked the door. Switched off power. Ran to door that was previously electrified - go stuck in a corner with an enemy attacking me (the attacks were slow but the "taking damage" animation combined with he spastic camera and the level being so dark made it horrible) - DIed.
Reload from Checkpoint.
Takes me back to before i unlocked the door - so faced with the prospec of finding the dna for the door or turning the game off - i turned it off.
heres 800 points saved.
CunningSmile on 11 Jan '12 said:
That sounds pretty much the same as CVG's glowing 4.7 review. That guy struggled to find a redeeming feature other than the concept to put in the notes at the bottom but I was hoping it was just one person's bad opinion.
Real pity, because you just know that the bad execution of this game will be interpreted as "No-one likes new IPs, so we'll just stick to rehashing the same half a dozen franchises," by the people who make the decisions