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Blacklight: Tango Down Hands-on

http://xboxlive.ign.com/articles/108/1085162p1.html

April 21, 2010 - Add Blacklight: Tango Down to the growing list of promising multiplayer shooters coming to downloadable game portals. The IGN editors spent some time killing each other on the battlefield today (and being totally murdered by the developers) and a great time was had by all. Blacklight: Tango Down is a futuristic FPS set in a rundown Eastern European city 25 years in the future. Up to 16 players will be able to join a game on 12 maps. The focus is on a customizable weapon system that doles out upgrades one at a time as players level up. This isn't a class-based shooter. Rather, Blacklight aims to show off the personal preferences of each player. Basically:

Thirteen scopes + nine stocks + twenty barrels + thirty magazines + over one hundred weapon tags = millions of weapon combinations.

You'll be able to make some pretty absurd guns, like shotguns with a super scope and two pistol grips. Those weapon tags we mentioned are like the charms you might hang from your cell phone and are apparently used by some real-world special forces members (Although they probably aren't Hello Kitty charms -- but that would be pretty cool!). There are 108 weapon tags in all and each one provides subtle upgrades to your weapon. Every time you level up, a new tag will be randomly selected and given to you. Note that all of this equipment, from scopes to magazines, upgrades your weaponry in some way.

Click here to watch the first gameplay footage of Blacklight: Tango Down.
Before you jump into a game, you'll select your load out. You've got your usual array of primary and secondary weapons (assault rifles, shotguns, sniper rifles, pistols, etc.), but you also have primary and secondary equipment. Primary equipment refers to your frag grenades and flash bangs -- pretty basic stuff. But you and your enemies are future soldiers, and these primitive tools might not affect you and your fancy pants face masks. The secondary equipment (like EMT Grenades and DigiGrenades) is more interesting and effective. We particularly liked the DigiGrenades, which create a digital bubble on the battlefield that will scramble the view from a player's mask, rendering anyone blind in its vicinity. Throwing a DigiGrenade at an enemy's feet and blasting them while they can't see is great fun.

Each player has a Hyper Reality Visor, or HRV, at their disposal. Turn it on and you can see through walls in order to pinpoint your enemy's and teammates' locations. However, you can only use it for a short time and it takes a bit to recharge. Also, you can't fire while your HRV is turned on. So it's a very useful tool, but its restrictions keep the game balanced. It's also a necessity because of the lack of a map.

Although we were playing the PC version we opted to use Xbox 360 controllers, which are more familiar to us, and Blacklight felt great this way. The controls are tight and responsive, and taking an enemy down only requires a few pops from your machine gun. We found the gunplay very satisfying.

The premise here is that the covert military group Blacklight is battling against its evil counterpart, The Order, which is actually made up of former Blacklight members. Both sides have the same abilities so they should be perfectly balanced. Again, the differences in teams will come from how individual players have chosen to customize their load out. There will be a loose storyline tying everything together, but Tango Down is really about jumping right into online multiplayer battles.

We took special note of the music. The glitchy drill and bass reminded us of Aphex Twin and Squarepusher, and one of the audio engineers is indeed a drum and bass producer. It definitely helps give the game a futuristic, distorted feel.

Fans of adversarial shooters should definitely keep an eye out for Blacklight: Tango Down this summer. If we had to guess, we'd say it should set you back $15.
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God the amount of crap vying for a Summer of Arcade spot is insane this year. A ton of shit is gonna get rejected with only 5 slots available and then leave devs scrambling for when they actually are gonna get their game released :lol
 
Ha, yeah, totally.

They should just make it a real Summer of Arcade; i.e. make the promotion run all summer long.
 
Hopefully this isn't in bad taste (I'll pull the link if it is), but here's a link to an interview with Twisted Pixel I just did. It's mostly Comic Jumper related and naturally they aren't going to tell me any amazing secrets, but insecurities aside, there are some interesting bits in there.

The whole deal was done in one long e-mail, otherwise I would've liked to have bounced some questions back and forth.

Anyways, figured some of you might be interested.
 
Achievements: Neo Geo Battle Coliseum

http://www.xbox360achievements.org/game/neo-geo-battle-coliseum/achievements/

There are 12 achievements with a total of 200 points.

Perfect Match 10
Get a Perfect (no damage win) in a match.

Champion 15
Finish the game (can continue).

Best NeoGeo Warrior 20
Finish the game (can't lose one round, can't continue).

Speed Hunter 15
Pass level within 30 timecounts（Story Mode, Default Setting only）.

Smash MIZUCHI 10
Defeat MIZUCHI（Story Mode, Default Setting only）.

Break KING LION 15
Defeat KING LION（Story Mode, Default Setting only）.

Defeat NEO-DIO 20
Defeat NEO-DIO（Story Mode, Default Setting only）.

Crush GOODMAN 25
Defeat GOODMAN（Story Mode, Default Setting only）.

Survivor 20
Get 15 wins or more in Survival Mode.

A/D Assault Maniac 25
Use all A/D Assault attacks（Story Mode, Default Setting only）.

NeoGeo Lover 10
Achieve 10 wins in Xbox LIVE fight（Only in RANKED MATCH）

Mr.NeoGeo 15
Achieve 25 wins in Xbox LIVE fight（Only in RANKED MATCH）
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yay ?
 
Crazy Taxi, JSR, Sonic Adventure. Ill soon be buying my Dreamcast collection again. But you know what ill love every seccond of it.
 
Sega publish games on the Dreamcast that is left:

18 Wheeler American Pro Trucker
Alien Front Online
Chu Chu Rocket
Confidential Mission
D2
Daytona USA 2001
Dyanmite Cop
Ecco the Dolphin
F355 Challenge Passione Rossa
Floigan Bros
Jet Grind Radio
Metropolis Street Racer
Ooga Booga
Outtrigger
Phantasy Star Online
Phantasy Star Online V2
Sega GT
Sega Rally 2
Sega Swirl
Shenmue
Skies of Arcadia
Sonic Adventure
Sonic Adventure 2
Soul Calibur
Space Channel 5
The House of the Dead 2
Toy Commander
Virtua Fighter 3TB
Zombie Revenge
Fighting Vipers 2
Shenmue 2 UK
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Am I missing anything?
 
When you look at all the other miscellaneous ports that popped up from third parties (MvC2, Ikaruga, Garou, etc), then add in all of the first party Sega DC ports we've had leak so far, it really does seem like XBLA is going to basically replace the thing.

Plus, Capcom has no excuses for not releasing CvS2 now.
 
Dark Octave said:
They should devote a whole month to the Dreamcast and release three titles a week.
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On 10/10/10 we will see Dreamcast day, all dreamcast games out by then will go on sale. All 50 of them including Powerstone, to celebrate release of shenmue 3 ep1.
 
Awwwwwwwwwww shit!

Gonna hold in the excitement till I know that screen is real, but I already know that Crazy Taxi XBLA is the real deal so I'll at least celebrate that first! :D

Let the Dreamcast days continue to roll on XBLA baby - it just can't be stopped! :D
 
FlyinJ said:
Puzzle Chronicles by the Puzzle Quest developers is out today. Anyone give it a try?
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Yup.

bathala said:
the art looks so amateur. pass
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besiktas1 said:
Never the one to complain about art, but there's a 1st time for everything, when even I can draw better than what they have in the game.
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I thought that too. The cartoon parts are basic, but are used in the cut scenes so I think it's deliberate. The 3D models are actually not too shabby for a puzzle game and dynamically change based on gear you wear. Looking at most of the online shots it's improved a lot since its first public showing too.

I think it's geared at the younger audience too. (Official Page)

LocoMrPollock said:
Meh, the game is a bit of a turd sandwich anyway. Maybe you can judge this one by its cover.
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Actually I'm quite liking it. As I did the 2100 points for £4 deals via Woolworths UK I had the Allards to spare so due to my PQ addiction figured it was worth a shot.

The first Act is really basic, I wasn't that into it. Now I have more custom items and moves and have had a say in how the guy develops it's actually good fun. It's very linear and is totally aimed at a younger audience in terms of difficulty and pacing, but once you crank up the settings you get enough cash to train to take on the harder bad guys.

I just got to Act III and I'm enjoying it way more than I thought I would. Treat it as a more action packed, but more basic in terms of customisation game - like Puzzle Quest Junior, but go for one of the top 2 difficulty levels and it's a very distracting little title.

I'd recommend Puzzle fans try the demo at least.

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The multiplayer set up still is as bad as Puzzle Quest 1 so don't buy it for that unless you want a lot of waiting around.
 
Since I didn't want to create a new thread I thought I'd ask here: What are your must-own XBLA Games?

I've played tons of retail games on the 360 before but got my own one just a few days ago. I've only bought "Shadow Complex" so far. What games should I buy next?
 
snap0212 said:
Since I didn't want to create a new thread I thought I'd ask here: What are your must-own XBLA Games?

I've played tons of retail games on the 360 before but got my own one just a few days ago. I've only bought "Shadow Complex" so far. What games should I buy now?
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There's a lot of excellent games. To the point that the next 15 replies will each recommend 10+ games and all in all you'll have 80 games to look at. So we're going to be useless for you.

The good news is that every XBLA game has a demo. All of them. So my best advice is to browse alphabetically, and download every demo that doesn't seem actively offensive to you. You're not going to buy Shrek. You're not going to buy a crossword game unless you like crosswords. You're not going to buy Minesweeper. So skip stuff like that. But for everything else, whether you've heard of it or not, download the demo.

Personally, I like board games a lot. Carcassonne, Catan, and Ticket to Ride are all awesome adaptations of awesome board games. Both Worms and Worms 2 are great and cheap. Braid and PB Winterbottom are gorgeous looking puzzle platformers. Axel & Pixel is a fun adventure game that looks kinda like the animated portions of Monty Python. Castle Crashers and Turtles in Time are both great co-op beat-em-ups. Ikaruga is a classic shmup. Castlevania: Symphony of the Night is one of the greatest games of all time ported faithfully for $10.

That being said, I have maybe 50 XBLA games and I'm satisfied with maybe 75% of them, so asking me to narrow it down is pretty hard.
 
snap0212 said:
Since I didn't want to create a new thread I thought I'd ask here: What are your must-own XBLA Games?

I've played tons of retail games on the 360 before but got my own one just a few days ago. I've only bought "Shadow Complex" so far. What games should I buy next?
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What are your tastes? giving there are a lot of very good XBLA games on a lot of different genres.

I'll say at least that if you never played Symphony of the Night, buy it now.
 
PepsimanVsJoe said:
Whoa now why isn't Out Trigger or Alien Front Online PSN/XBLA bound?

Seems obvious I think. Online MP and all that good stuff.
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Alien Front never made it to the UK or europe so I would be interested in it, I heard it was a good time online.

Of course back then I was a PSO whore and nothing stopped me playing just that, apart from other sega titles :P
 
snap0212 said:
Since I didn't want to create a new thread I thought I'd ask here: What are your must-own XBLA Games?

I've played tons of retail games on the 360 before but got my own one just a few days ago. I've only bought "Shadow Complex" so far. What games should I buy next?
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I don't want to overwhelm you with a bunch of games you may not even be interested in, so therefore, in my opinion, Geometry Wars 2 is the single best XBLA title. It's a great value, has almost infinite replayability, has modes suited for less hardcore players (a big problem with the first game) is easy to pick up and play for a five minute session, etc. It should be in every 360 owner's library.
 
snap0212 said:
Since I didn't want to create a new thread I thought I'd ask here: What are your must-own XBLA Games?

I've played tons of retail games on the 360 before but got my own one just a few days ago. I've only bought "Shadow Complex" so far. What games should I buy next?
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Probably been said but the way I'd do it is download the demo for every game. Should take a week or two to play through them all. Don't rush it. Enjoy them. Make a short list. Delete others. Play remaining again. Buy ones you are sure you want.

I think I have around 50+ of them. All depends on your tastes; for me off the top of my head the hidden gems; Switchball, Maw, South Park, 3on3 NHL, Gin Rummy, etc. etc. then of coarse there's the obvious great ones; Sonics, Uno, GeoWars etc. etc.

Enjoy the awesomeness :D just remember to save some of those points, there's a LOT of good shit coming too...
 
Achievements: Zeno Clash: Ultimate Edition

http://www.xbox360achievements.org/game/zeno-clash-ultimate-edition/achievements/

There are 12 achievements with a total of 200 points.

Tower Champion 1 20
Complete Tower Challenge Number 1.

Tower Champion 2 20
Complete Tower Challenge Number 2.

Tower Champion 3 20
Complete Tower Challenge Number 3.

Tower Champion 4 20
Complete Tower Challenge Number 4.

Tower Champion 5 20
Complete Tower Challenge Number 5.

Pit Champion 1 20
Complete Pit Challenge Number 1.

Pit Champion 2 20
Complete Pit Challenge Number 2.

Pit Champion 3 20
Complete Pit Challenge Number 3.

Body Launcher 10
Throw an enemy into another 30 times.

Almost Number One 10
Bring the Hunter down to 1 healthpoint in melee combat at the coast.

Easter Egg 10
Find the secret easter egg.

Flame Master 10
Capture 30 fireballs with the torch.
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vatstep said:
I don't want to overwhelm you with a bunch of games you may not even be interested in, so therefore, in my opinion, Geometry Wars 2 is the single best XBLA title. It's a great value, has almost infinite replayability, has modes suited for less hardcore players (a big problem with the first game) is easy to pick up and play for a five minute session, etc. It should be in every 360 owner's library.
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Yeah I didn't think much of the first Geometry Wars but the sequel is just absolute class. Amazing game
 
Apologies if posted (didn't see it), but this super-awesome PR hit my email box this morning:

Today LucasArts is proud to announce that the in-game audio commentary for Monkey Island 2 Special Edition: LeChuck’s Revenge will feature the talents of original Monkey Island creators Ron Gilbert, Tim Schafer and Dave Grossman.

Ron, Tim, Dave will be lending their trademark wit and humor to select areas in the game. When playing, players will be able to hear the three’s insights into key areas of the game and get insight into making the original game as well as their thoughts on the new Special Edition treatment.
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sparky2112 said:
Just curious as to why this is out so close to PQ2 - or why it exists at all, given PQ2.
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This is targeted at a younger audience with a more friendly story and simplified amount of depth to the levelling up.
 
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