Seem people seem to have dismissed this game after 10 seconds of play which is rather foolish, and similar to buying a pack of cards and then saying "poker is rubbish" just after you've taken the cards out of the pack.
Anyhoo... Undertow is an underwater shooter and plays like a cross between a dual stick shooter, and an FPS where you have to capture bases (think BF2MC, Warhawk etc...). Controls, as mentioned are dual stick - move with one, direct your shots with the other. Pulling RT makes your character dash a short distance, and pulling LT drops a depth charge.
So. There is a thinly veiled plot about pirates or some such and you're treated to cut scenes between battles (rather nice, I thought, for an XBLA title). The winner of each battle is the first to capture all the bases, or remove all of the enemies characters.
I say characters because you're not limited to scuba guys. You can also get submarine type things that fire rockets. There's also other types of characters (12 in total, apparently) but I'll be damned if I could figure out how to change them, or rather, where you need to be to change. You can only change once every 5 seconds too (and it is only around by a base).
You can also level up which makes you stronger, faster etc... etc...
Single player can be played as Campaign, or as Versus modes. There is also a 16 player multiplayer mode (not had chance to play this yet)
I thoroughly enjoyed this and it's quite possibly one of the most polished XBLA games I've seen!
One other thing.. is this the first game, EVER, without any music in?
Anyhoo... Undertow is an underwater shooter and plays like a cross between a dual stick shooter, and an FPS where you have to capture bases (think BF2MC, Warhawk etc...). Controls, as mentioned are dual stick - move with one, direct your shots with the other. Pulling RT makes your character dash a short distance, and pulling LT drops a depth charge.
So. There is a thinly veiled plot about pirates or some such and you're treated to cut scenes between battles (rather nice, I thought, for an XBLA title). The winner of each battle is the first to capture all the bases, or remove all of the enemies characters.
I say characters because you're not limited to scuba guys. You can also get submarine type things that fire rockets. There's also other types of characters (12 in total, apparently) but I'll be damned if I could figure out how to change them, or rather, where you need to be to change. You can only change once every 5 seconds too (and it is only around by a base).
You can also level up which makes you stronger, faster etc... etc...
Single player can be played as Campaign, or as Versus modes. There is also a 16 player multiplayer mode (not had chance to play this yet)
I thoroughly enjoyed this and it's quite possibly one of the most polished XBLA games I've seen!
One other thing.. is this the first game, EVER, without any music in?
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