Have you ever looked at a copy of your favorite game in your 5 year olds hands, after he has broken or scratched it and thought to yourself “3 hours, I had to work 3 hours to buy that game”? That is how I think. Sounds weird, I know, but for some reason I do that with just about everything. This is one of the reasons I enjoy Xbox live arcade so much. There is a great mix of classic, retooled, and new games for 20 bucks or less. XNA Creator Club games are even better. You can get some good games for $2.50 and support your fellow gamer.

            I was listening to Rebel Fm’s Nick Sutner talking about a XNA Creator Club game called Groov , so I downloaded the demo and check it out. Groov is a mixture of geo wars and a music creation game for 200 Microsoft points, which is a great deal. As you shoot the targets to stay alive each different target, and there are many of all colors and sizes, come at you franticly from all sides. So by playing the game you basically become a conductor controlling a funky bluesy jazz type band. Shooting with your right stick wile moving with the left provides a continuous barrage of fire that delivers the main beat of the song wile the enemys you killed off adds to the songs orchestra of instruments.  What’s cool about this game is that you can sit down and play when you have only a few minutes before work, and you get a good duel stick shooter with a music twist that gives you a challenge. The main draw back is the game play is nothing new or innovating execpt for the cool beat. Geo Wars did already do this game right, twice, but the song you are creating wile always has the same base beat becomes a new song each time you play because you never play the game the same way. Just a tip, intill you get to the guys that can fly outside the map/green box, it seems to work best, for me, when you defend a corner. Also doing that you can get combos by turning all the guys coming after you white ( witch happens when you kill them ) and having more targets that are white explode at the same time giving you a bigger score then just killing one guy and moving on.

The thing is I wish all games Xbox arcade games were in this price range. I would be able to buy more games. I do get the fact we are talking about a black back ground and some green lines, with some grooving music, but things don’t always have to be cutting edge! Anything can be fun. Most of my friends still play nes and ps1 games and talk about how great the game play is. I know we are not talking about Crono Cross hear! But the 1^st time I sat down to play the game 2 hours went by before I know it. And a big plus is my wife didn’t care I was buying yet another game because it was $2.50, sweet huh?!

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