Now that I’m not actively rushing to get Breath of Death VII done, I thought I’d go ahead and try to catch up on reviewing some XBox Live Indie Games that have been sent my way so here goes:
Attack of the Verbose Dinosaur – The backstory is amusing (about a dinosaur who gets fed up with leetspeak), but I’m not so sure about the actual game. You select letters on your dinosaur’s back, shoot them at buildings, connect them to form words, and then breathe fire to cause the words to explode, hopefully taking down a building or two in the process. Occasionally a plane will fly overhead with a power-up to be gained if you can complete an almost finished word. There are also periodic bonus levels where you just have to shoot planes down without having to worry about words. All in all, the game is mildly entertaining, but I’d rather play Word Soup.
Missile Escape – Fly around in a jet and dodge missiles. Doesn’t get much simpler than that. Strategy seems to consist mostly of getting the missiles together in a group and then flying around in circles while you wait for the time to run out with the occasional course correcting to take into account errant missiles. It’s not a bad game, but it feels like it’s missing something – like playing a game of Pac-Man where all the pellets have been removed and you just have to run away for a minute.
