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WP7 Release Trailer!
For those that don't know ilomilo is an XBLA title coming to the 360 that also got made for MS new W7P. It was announced as an AT&T exclusive ( a weird announcement) and for now it's free. It's also one of the full XBLA titles with all the hooks and features that XBLA brings. It's this cute little puzzle/platformer from Southend Interactive in conjunction with MS Studios to make it a premier WP7 title.
Wow as someone who's never been that into phone gaming wow this was sort of a watershed moment for me. First off the game looks fuck'n GORGEOUS. Shit is fully 3d with a great art style that really shines through coupled with extremely catchy music. Oh yeah, and the game runs at least on my phone flawlessly. I haven't seen or experienced any slow down yet. Check out some of the screens!
Now I'm personally running this on the Samsung Focus which has the same screen as the Samsung Galaxy S line with is Samsungs "Super" AMOLED screen. Graphics just frick'n pop on this damn screen. Plus since the platform is new and MS has certain specs like all games it's running in native 800x480 which is awesome. Compared to all my time spent with my DS (as well as some PSP time and some iphone time on the older screens) it looks ridiculously good. It's also fully 3d. You can swipe left or right to change the perspective around to the 4 faces of the characters. Oh yeah and the game sound great too. Granted I haven't tried my grados or anything yet, but it sounded fantastic with the stock earbuds that came with the phone. Sound track is also very catchy ( everything reminds me of LBP in a way).
The key here is the fact that it's an XBLA game so it has all of the official XBLA hooks. I loaded the game up the XBL game app and load times were fast. Then you get the normal XBLA like menu setup. I swear it was just like playing an XBLA game such as Geometry Wars 2 or Shadow Complex. That also means you get XBLA leader boards as well as achievements.
Fuck I'm not even a gamerscore whore, but after I beat the intro level I got a little notification at the top of my phone like I would for a text. Instead of a text though it was like here's 10G cause you just unlocked an achievement! I was like oh shit this is pimp as hell! lol Couple that with the fact that everything uploads to legit leader boards as well, and I'm like woah now this is cool. When I backed out of the game to the Live App I was like hey w00t my gamerscore just updated while staring at my goofy ass avatar.
It also helped that the gameplay was great. The levels themselves are puzzles, but it's got a progression and unlocks. So it feels like a normal xbla game while allowing you to just try and level then dip out if you have to cause you're just playing on your phone. The only downside the game had was the fact that it IS a battery drainer.
Still it makes me want more high quality XBLA tired games on the phone. I hope MS really tries to leverage this fact. It also makes me thing hey Sony I know your not sure what to do with the PSP2, but after seeing how pimp it is to have my live shit on my phone having my psn shit on my PSP2 would be extremely compelling to me personally. It also makes me think this type of thing is definitely something I'd miss on the 3DS. I wasn't sure if it would be a big deal or not, but I was pretty much like wow.
Now I've played other cell phone stuff before and had fun with stuff like flight control, angry birds, and canabalt. Hell I play the flash version of canabalt on my PC from time to time if I just have to kill a few seconds. Plus admittedly though I helped my mom get an iphone 4 I've yet to play any iOS4 games with game center functionality. This totally felt fuck'n next gen compared to any of the previous gaming stuff I've ever done on a phone before. If MS can give me more of experience that match this sort of quality and functionality you can count me as hooked! :lol
WP7 Release Trailer!
For those that don't know ilomilo is an XBLA title coming to the 360 that also got made for MS new W7P. It was announced as an AT&T exclusive ( a weird announcement) and for now it's free. It's also one of the full XBLA titles with all the hooks and features that XBLA brings. It's this cute little puzzle/platformer from Southend Interactive in conjunction with MS Studios to make it a premier WP7 title.
Wow as someone who's never been that into phone gaming wow this was sort of a watershed moment for me. First off the game looks fuck'n GORGEOUS. Shit is fully 3d with a great art style that really shines through coupled with extremely catchy music. Oh yeah, and the game runs at least on my phone flawlessly. I haven't seen or experienced any slow down yet. Check out some of the screens!
Now I'm personally running this on the Samsung Focus which has the same screen as the Samsung Galaxy S line with is Samsungs "Super" AMOLED screen. Graphics just frick'n pop on this damn screen. Plus since the platform is new and MS has certain specs like all games it's running in native 800x480 which is awesome. Compared to all my time spent with my DS (as well as some PSP time and some iphone time on the older screens) it looks ridiculously good. It's also fully 3d. You can swipe left or right to change the perspective around to the 4 faces of the characters. Oh yeah and the game sound great too. Granted I haven't tried my grados or anything yet, but it sounded fantastic with the stock earbuds that came with the phone. Sound track is also very catchy ( everything reminds me of LBP in a way).
The key here is the fact that it's an XBLA game so it has all of the official XBLA hooks. I loaded the game up the XBL game app and load times were fast. Then you get the normal XBLA like menu setup. I swear it was just like playing an XBLA game such as Geometry Wars 2 or Shadow Complex. That also means you get XBLA leader boards as well as achievements.
Fuck I'm not even a gamerscore whore, but after I beat the intro level I got a little notification at the top of my phone like I would for a text. Instead of a text though it was like here's 10G cause you just unlocked an achievement! I was like oh shit this is pimp as hell! lol Couple that with the fact that everything uploads to legit leader boards as well, and I'm like woah now this is cool. When I backed out of the game to the Live App I was like hey w00t my gamerscore just updated while staring at my goofy ass avatar.
It also helped that the gameplay was great. The levels themselves are puzzles, but it's got a progression and unlocks. So it feels like a normal xbla game while allowing you to just try and level then dip out if you have to cause you're just playing on your phone. The only downside the game had was the fact that it IS a battery drainer.
Still it makes me want more high quality XBLA tired games on the phone. I hope MS really tries to leverage this fact. It also makes me thing hey Sony I know your not sure what to do with the PSP2, but after seeing how pimp it is to have my live shit on my phone having my psn shit on my PSP2 would be extremely compelling to me personally. It also makes me think this type of thing is definitely something I'd miss on the 3DS. I wasn't sure if it would be a big deal or not, but I was pretty much like wow.
Now I've played other cell phone stuff before and had fun with stuff like flight control, angry birds, and canabalt. Hell I play the flash version of canabalt on my PC from time to time if I just have to kill a few seconds. Plus admittedly though I helped my mom get an iphone 4 I've yet to play any iOS4 games with game center functionality. This totally felt fuck'n next gen compared to any of the previous gaming stuff I've ever done on a phone before. If MS can give me more of experience that match this sort of quality and functionality you can count me as hooked! :lol
