Frogger - XBLA

[IanE]

The Achievements seem fairly well laid out, and the game plays the same as it ever did, but on a large screen it's way too small. Thankfully there's a way to make the image bigger, but ends up with me stretching it to the full length of the screen.

It's a fun little game for 400 points, although is let down by Xbox Live play - which is a laggy pile of rubbish. It really shouldn't affect the game though, since all it has to do is update the opponents screen, yet it makes my Frogger slow.

[Jebus]

I don't think the achievements will be too hard to get, you just need to concentrate on doing ONE at a time.

Nice little buy for 400 though, my wife might play this actually. Live play was laggy as hell, agreed. Same issues as you though.

The screen is TINY as you said, if you widen it to (near) full screen, you have to alter it again when you play a live game.

[EJG1980]

I got a couple of the achievements during my lunch break, despite being fairly **** I also spent half an hour trying to do the "Five frogs across the road in 45 secs" one, without any success Great fun, very addictive, haven't tried the online part yet though.

Shame about having to stretch the screen, although I guess there would be a lot of complaints if they didn't have the original aspect ratio.

[IanE]

Still don't have the five in 45 seconds yet either. No idea!

[toythatkills]

That's the first thing I did

I can't say I'm massively impressed with it tbh. As was said, it's really small, and I know it's silly moaning about graphics for a game like this but honestly, it looks like it's been drawn by a 4 year old.

Still, it's Frogger, and it'll be fun for a while!

[Jebus]

I'm finding this a lot tougher than I used to!

Got about half the achievements, the ones I'm finding hard are the "eat 3 bugs" and "save 15 frogs without dying once"...I managed 13! Agonising!

Addictive but annoying.

[Akira]

It's great to have this in live arcade.

[Applefiend]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frogger - Obvious but a good read, the popular culture section is terrific. Hadn't a clue about the Seinfeld episode, or indeed the sugarbabes.

[Strider]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frogger - Obvious but a good read, the popular culture section is terrific. Hadn't a clue about the Seinfeld episode, or indeed the sugarbabes.

Funny you mention the Sugarbabes quote, as my wife identified it straight away last night

[Paulos G]

...my wife might play this actually...

Funnily enough, I had a quick go on this last night while Mrs G was falling asleep beside me. I asked her if she'd like a go, expecting a negative response (as she's not into gaming), but to my surprise she said yes and proceeded to spend half-an-hour with it.

She will be assimilated - thankyou XBLA!

P

[Yoshimax]

Liked it - It's just frogger but it WILL show up the d-pads in some pads - I found the stick better eventually - didn't get to try online but lag will be either persons connection the net-code is pretty much shared across these games and smash tv et-al have been ok when I've played them.

Thought the achievements were very well thought out - couldn't get the "stay on road till timer goes red then make it across" one though.

[EJG1980]

I prefer the stick to the pad as well, although I still keep making idiotic mistakes all the time, like making my frog jump when he isn't exactly lined up with the home square

I mananged to get both the "stay on the road until the timer is red" achievements, but I'm still stuck on the "get five frogs across in 45 secs" one. Most of my time on it is spent trying to get that one at the mo!

[MikeRox]

yeah I found the D-Pad horrendous for it, feels wrong playing the game with an analogue stick though, we need a nice clicky microswitched joystick for it actually, a retro styled XBLA control stick would be quite nice...

[jimmbob]

actually, a retro styled XBLA control stick would be quite nice...

This, is the truth. I can't believe there isn't one already. I know you can get those horribly over priced DOA sticks, but a nice cheap arcade stick would be aceness, especially for Street Fighter.

[IanE]

Liked it - It's just frogger but it WILL show up the d-pads in some pads - I found the stick better eventually - didn't get to try online but lag will be either persons connection the net-code is pretty much shared across these games and smash tv et-al have been ok when I've played them.

Thought the achievements were very well thought out - couldn't get the "stay on road till timer goes red then make it across" one though.

My d-pad is awful, and the down on it is absolutely terrible.

The net-code is awful for this game, it's fine in Smash TV with loaddds of stuff going on, but this is horrendous when it shouldn't be in the slightest. My connection has 4Mb down and 512Kb up.