Mattrian

Loved the game. I feel 79 is not doing justice to this one. There is awesome feeling of super powers, the city feels alive and wast and the battle mechanics work well. The tech behind the game is amazing and graphics are good. Enjoyed and played through.

Badland is a side-scrolling adventure / puzzle game with lots of content, awesome graphics and excellent level design. It took me about 9 hours to play through the first 80 levels (out of 100). If you go after the achievements and missions, I suspect it may take multiple times that. I thought the difficulty progression was good. Later levels can be challenging but not too much for my taste. All the more satisfying to pass them. The co-op and versus multiplayer modes are surprisingly fun with friends. We ended up playing a few hours in a single session and had plenty of laughs. The gameplay is simple yet challenging. And the level design is really good. You may tend to think that you have seen what the game has to offer within the first 15 minutes and I came close to thinking that too. But each level brings something new keeping the gameplay fresh and enjoyable. There are plenty of checkpoint but also a few levels completely without. Some of those can be a bit too difficult but man it feels awesome once you manage to ace them. The art design and atmosphere are excellent and the uniquely challenging puzzles creative. Was definitely worth it for me.

I liked the Duke Nukem way back when and have been waiting for this one. Yeah, too many years in the making has to have some negatives but I didn't feel as disappointed as I expected reading the reviews. Its not that bad. Its quite true to the spirit of the original and the graphics were good enough for me. Not the most innovative but ok gameplay. And enjoy the additional content like being able to interact with every object. Even the flipper you can find on the corridors is actually quite ok and you can play it (game inside game). This one was ok for me. Not great but not bad.

I played this game for several levels on a festival in Germany. It was surprisingly great fun and very unique. Its like Street Fighter or Mortal Combat (a bit of comics style retro look, which I think fits the mood well) but instead of an avatar the game scans your image inside and you fight inside the levels with real kicks and punches. You can even move quite a bit by punching with two hands and by making somersaults (a mix of jumping and throwing your hands up). It felt more reactive than anything I have tried on Kinect before. I felt no delay. And landing that kick on the face of your enemy is very satisfying . There were also special powers like shooting electricity from your hands with a certain pose in the Star Wars style. And loved the story telling that takes pictures of you and inserts them inside a comic strip. The guy demonstrating the game showed how any item you take (he had wooden axes) scans right into the game with you and you can use them in game to beat down the enemies. Very cool and very different than anything currently out there. I'll definitely be getting this.