Hands-on Preview: The Eternal Cylinder
You begin The Eternal Cylinder as a newborn Trebhum. As soon as you gain awareness, you have a sudden urge to run – the music, sound and narrator provide a great sense or urgency, so you pet it forward. As you run, you…
Hands-On Preview: BattleCakes
Look at the menu screen above. You have now experienced everything I could from the BattleCakes demo. I can only presume that the demo is trying to use a mouse input instead of a controller, as no buttons do anything.
Hands-On Preview: Faraday Protocol
In Faraday Protocol, you progress through test chambers while a computer instructs you on what you do. In order to complete the tests, you must utilise a special gun which is vital to the puzzles of the game. Yes, this is a Portal-style…
Hands-On Preview: Strings Theory
Strings Theory is a puzzle game that is loosely based on the idea of subatomic particle physics. The objective is simple: collect the energy clouds dotted throughout the level and get all the characters to the goal. Each of the three characters have…
Hands-On Preview: Justice Sucks Recharged
Justice Sucks Rechaged isn’t a “remaster”, but rather a sequel to a game called Roombo: First Blood. You play as a roomba-like vacuum cleaner, who at first has the task of hoovering up a family’s house and keeping it clean. However, one night…
Hands-On Preview: Teacup
Teacup is a point and click adventure game about a young Frog called Teacup. A few days before she’s due to be hosting a tea party, she discovers that the worst thing imaginable has happened: she has ran out of tea. Using her…
Hands-On Preview: Lawn Mowing Simulator
A lawn mowing simulator sounds like it would be so dull that it must be a parody simulator – similar to the likes of Surgeon Simulator or Goat Simulator. However, Lawn Mowing Simulator doesn’t take the easy route and keeps things completely serious,…
Hands-On Preview: Paint The Town Red
Interestingly, the first three Xbox Summer Fest demos I played were devoid of combat. Then this comes along with its pure, mindless violence. Paint The Town Red doesn’t bother with unimportant things like story, it prefers to jump straight into the action. The…
Hands-On Preview: Catlateral Damage: Remeowstered
Catlateral Damage: Remeowstered is game where you’re a cat that is upset with their human servants, and feel the need to punish them by ruining the house by doing what cats love: pushing objects onto the floor. After a brief tutorial explaining basic…
Hands-On Preview: Sable
Sable is an exploration game, set in a vast desert area where small tribes reside, travelling around on hoverbikes built from technology from crashed ships. And it looks absolutely stunning. Pictures don’t do Sable justice, the line drawing style of the game creates…