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[VVGtv] Avatar Legends XBLIG Review

From the independent XNA Development team Barkers Crest comes one of the most compelling Xbox Indie RPG adventures yet: Avatar Legends is a milestone in XBLIG's everywhere.

With extraordinary graphics that mirror graphics seen in some retail original Xbox games, Avatar Legends provides 10+ hours of gameplay content with expansive RPG features and more.

Players can also enjoy online multiplayer with up to six players over Xbox Live in a team deathmatch setup where players work as a team to slay hordes of monstrous enemies.

Avatar Legends is now available on the XBLIG Marketplace for 240 MSP ($3).

OC_MurphysLaw4740d ago

This is a nice little indie title. Its not perfect but its a very good use of Avatars in game, and has what appears to be some really great RPG trappings. All for $3 aint too bad.

wwm0nkey4740d ago

Great game, and you guys should totally look for me in the main Single Player story :D

romancer4739d ago

a rating of 5/5 is a bit on the high side -- even though this game is a welcome addition to the Indie game collection.

you might note that it offers no achievements (not sure why); and. for myself, despite my avatar playing the central character, i never felt that it was involving as a RPG: Sometimes I had to enhance a characteristic (say speech) whether i felt like it or not, simply to complete certain missions...

but given the price, it's good value (not in Torchlight or Limbo territory, though).

Emmo4738d ago

The only RGP maker on the Xbox, 5 out of 5 is fair

romancer4738d ago

Granted, I am not likely to use the RPG editing tools and perhaps not even Multiplayer. Remains to be seen. Perhaps I tended to underestimate the game in both of those respects.

However i disliked the repetitive combat play; never really felt like genuine combat at all; sometimes i would get skeletal archers shooting at me while they were positioned on top or on the side of hills that i could not climb. And i really disliked the Hatfield/McCoy portion with all that silly play on names and the to-and-fro mechanics of the mission. But I do like the Zeldaesque vibe of much of the rest. Haven't quite figured out how to cope with battles such as in Dead Town where a lot of respawning of enemies takes place. Such battles are hard to win and yet they don't really engage me. I'll upgrade my character and try again.....

Still the bottom line is indisputable: for the price there is a lot of game entertainment here.

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Rolling the Dice: Do Modern RPGs Miss the Point of Team-Based Play?

It seems it was long time ago. A bunch of friends spending hours on end playing RPG games, sitting around the table with the box of cold pizza. Excited about the story, listening to the Game Master, they were completely engaged in the worlds only visible to them and their imaginations.

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Takwin2654d ago

The GM is the programmer, and in MMOs and co-ops, you can play with others. If you want to ONLY use your imagination for the visuals, read a book.

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Record of Agarest War 2 announced for PS3

Scrawl: "Looks like we know how that new Compile Heart countdown is going to end. The latest issue of Famitsu has confirmed that Agarest Senki 2, known as Record of Agarest War 2 in the US, is Compile Heart’s newest title."

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Godmars2905099d ago

1) Hope they put it on disc this time.
2) Hope this is a positive for Neptune coming over as well.

Demons Souls5099d ago

If so, that's being developed & published by Idea Factory. Compile Heart has nothing to do with it (Thank God for that).

Godmars2905099d ago (Edited 5099d ago )

Thought Compile Heart was one of the companies lending characters.

Was also speaking in general as in regards to a US of Neptune. If these guys are offing a second game, NIS or Atlus, both of whom offer quirkier titles, will put that one out.

@kagon01:
My issue isn't - wholly - with the DL-only option, but the price. The first game should be $30. Maybe $40, and by that I mean $39.99. The only reason its $45 is the 360 disc version which has extras. Nevermind that by all rights its a PS2 game. Something that proabbly could have been done if the devs had the GOW2 engine or tools.

ClownBelt5099d ago

I approve of this god damn message.

Could have gotten my 60 bucks if they just put it on a disc.

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Tripl3seis5099d ago

Another exclusive damnn the ps3 keeps on rollin wit games awesome ;)

Jack-Pyro5099d ago

Is this a half decent SRPG, porn aside, cause if it is, i might just decide to go and buy it for the 360.

Anon73495099d ago

There's no porn just some sexual innuendos but that's it.

Also it is a great game by itself, maybe not graphically but everything else is top tier.

RedDevils5099d ago

so it had some kind of "top tier" porn story jk

ThanatosDMC5099d ago

Yup, it's a decent game. I just hate that a move has to go first before any attack options.

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Bless Online Korean MMORPG Gets Server Merge

This is not the first time that Bless Online receives a server merge in Korea. An announcement was made on the official Korean site.

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Bismarn2689d ago

Bless must be an amazing game to be on all these platforms (according to the tags): iPad iPhone Nintendo DS PC PS Vita PS2 PS3 PS4 PSP Wii Wii U Xbox Xbox 360 Xbox One