A Night at the Arcade
It was 10 o’clock pm. I was bored. What is there to do? Xbox Live Arcade of course. I recently downloaded Aegis Wing (free!) and Uno, and I had yet to try them out online.
Aegis Wing is a free side scrolling shooter that some interns at Microsoft made. M$ decided to put it up for free (how kind of them). Hopefully this happens more often as it is very good. The single player is like any run of the mill shooter. You hold down the A-button while looking for powerups. The multiplayer however is a completely different beast. With four players, you can link ships together. One player moves while the others become turrents on one massive super ship. The powerups become more and more powerful as more players are added on. Watching the entire screen fill with missiles going in every direction is a simply beautiful sight.
I think I said this before but it needs repeating. Once you leave Halo 2, people you meet on Xbox Live are actually really nice. I got in a group that was a Rainbow Six: Vegas clan located in friendly Alabama. I learned important facts like when nursing homes open and how skilled are the Fragdolls. I earned some achievements, beat the game on normal, added some gamertags as friends, and went off to Uno.
Uno has been out on the arcade scene for a long time. It has kept its age on Live though because it’s.. well.. Uno. It’s extraordinarily popular and made it cool to play boardgames and card games over the arcade. I’ll be the first one to admit the fact that I have some mad skillz in real life Uno. I wasn’t sure how well these skillz would translate onto the Xbox. I need not worry. I played four games and won an incredible three of them. The n00bs could only watch as I made stunning comebacks and stole the game away. pwned joo, lol.
By the way, I’m going to stick with Evilbanana417 as my gamertag. I recently discovered the DRM on arcade content and I don’t feel like messing with it if I have to switch to a different console so I’ll just sacrifice. Game on!
