Though you might be tempted to try out a music game on XBLA, this is not the one for you. Microsoft's Go! Go! Break Steady, while not brilliant, is far superior to this sorry offering. Beat'n Groovy is, in fact, not groovy at all. Awful songs, goofy visuals and poor design make this one of the worst games available on Xbox Live Arcade.
Presentation - 3.0
Graphics - 3.0
Sound - 3.0
Gameplay - 2.0
Lasting Appeal - 2.0
Overall -
Craig H writes: "The Xbox LIVE Arcade has done a lot of great things. Among the accomplishments of the download service was bringing downloadable games to the mainstream of this generation’s consoles. Of course, the year head start did help blaze the trail. Sadly the service suffers from the same type of bad games that every platform has to deal with. We’re looking at those games and listing all the reasons you should avoid ever picking them up. We might lose a couple friends in the PR departments of these title’s publishers, but we’re sure they’ll understand."
If you're trying to get at who made download games mainstream on consoles, it was on XBL, not the Dreamcast. Beyond VMU, the DC played Discs only.
That list needs to be 10 times longer at least. I love many games on XBLA but there's A LOT of junk out there.
Yaris might have been free, but it was so bad that it got removed from the lineup. That game was awful.
Yeah that game was terrrrrrrible, despite being free.
I have friends that, for whatever reason, just HAD to get the 200 gamerscore for that game. I didn't even bother :\
Fortunately the game is not available for download anymore. No more wasted resources...
Console Monster writes: "Quite surprisingly, three Xbox Live Arcade titles have been added to the Marketplace, rather than the one we expected. MLB Stickball is joined by Shadow Assault/Tenchu and Beat'n Groovy though there are a few availability issues. MLB Stickball is only available to gamers in Canada and the United States; Beat'n Groovy is available in all Xbox Live Regions with the exception of India and Shadow Assault/Tenchu is available in all regions..."
There are 12 achievements with a total of 200 points.
