Two games this week: PinballFX and Eets

[Studley]

http://gamerscoreblog.com/team/archive/2007/04/23/EETsPinballFX.aspx

“Eets: Chowdown” Chomps Its Way Onto Xbox LIVE Arcade

Get your thinking cap on and your sweet tooth in shape, as “Eets: Chowdown” becomes available for download on Xbox LIVE Arcade for Xbox 360 beginning Wednesday, Apr. 25 at 0900 GMT (2:00 a.m. Pacific).

“Eets: Chowdown” from Klei Entertainment Inc. is a visual feast for the eyes and a treat for the brain, combining 2D puzzle game elements with a surreal sense of humor. Gamers must use colorful and wacky items like spouting Prankster Whales, vengeful Marshomechs, Radioactive Ginseng and more to manipulate Eets’ emotions and safely guide it through myriad hazards to each level's exit.

“Eets: Chowdown” offers a slew of new items, 120 levels and the exclusive debut of Marsho Madness, a high-adrenaline action game in which players must keep the impending evil marshmallows at bay.

“Eets: Chowdown” will be available worldwide for 800 Microsoft Points and is rated E for Everyone.

Game Features

* 120 new levels in gorgeous high definition graphics
* Tons of crazy characters, including Marshomechs, Radioactive Ginseng, and Exploding Superpigs.
* Marsho Madness: the crazy, adrenaline-rushing “Eets” action game, where players can play co-op to keep the impending evil marshmallows at bay
* Earn up to 12 Achievements and 200 Gamerscore points

Flip for “Pinball FX” on Xbox LIVE Arcade

Gamers will soon be able to bump and flip in high-definition, as “Pinball FX” will be available for download on Xbox LIVE Arcade for Xbox 360 beginning Wednesday, Apr. 25 at 0900 GMT (2:00 a.m. Pacific).

Zen Studios’ new “Pinball FX” offers a unique pinball experience for novice and expert gamers. It combines the arcade thrills of traditional pinball with enhanced gameplay and exciting, innovative features not found in any other pinball game. Gamers may control the flippers with their hand or arm motions using the Xbox LIVE Vision Camera or simply use the standard Xbox 360 controller. Pinball FX sets a new standard for realistic ball physics and graphical detail in pinball video games.

“Pinball FX” will be available worldwide for 800 Microsoft Points and is rated E for Everyone.

Game Features

* Real-time head-to-head mode for online multiplayer competition for up to 4 players
* Three vibrant, 3D pinball tables
* Tables start out simple, but new challenges open up as a player’s skill advances
* Gesture based controls and live chat via the Xbox 360 LIVE Vision Camera
* Earn up to 12 Achievements and 200 Gamerscore points
* Amazing realism that is an industry first for the genre

PinballFX website (http://www.pinballfx.com)
Eets: Chowdown website (http://eetsgame.com/news/chowdown)

Not exactly big-name titles, but both have potential. Eets sounds like the sort of game that EVERYONE should at least download the Trial, if only because I haven't got a clue what it's about :D Looks a bit like Lemmings.

Pinball... well, it's pinball, it's not everyone's taste but the graphics look pretty amazing for an Arcade title, and they've put a decent amount of time into multiplayer and Vision Cam support, could be a good one too.

[Curry]

For me it sounds like 2 mandatory downloads O+

[nofear360]

I sent a news submit on this an hour ago. Rival, I thought you were gonna be ready ... :P

[Studley]

OK, I checked out the Eets trailer on their website, and it looks BRILLIANT :D

It seems a little bit like a cross between Lemmings and Chu-Chu Rocket, in that you have to plan out a course for your little critter to follow, which seems to involve other animals - I saw a pig, and something called a "prankster whale" :D There's also a brilliant-looking multiplayer mini-game (at about 35secs in that video) where you have to blast invading hoardes of enemies by pressing the combination of buttons above their heads - I love that sort of thing.

Very cartoony, and the animations look a lot like Alien Hominid - very excited about this now

[Curry]

I sent a news submit on this an hour ago. Rival, I thought you were gonna be ready ... :P
STFU, he's working on it :+

[nofear360]

STFU, he's working on it :+

I don't wanna get "fired", that's all hahhah ;)

[Rival24]

I got distracted with you bitches on IRC! But anyway, enjoy (http://www.xboxic.com/news/2789).

[Thryon]

I do love a good pinball game. Eets sounds promissing. I shall test it out, and then decide if it's a game for me. For the record, I did not like Alien Hominid.

[Rival24]

Eets sounds like a cloning clyde ripoff.

[UKJAY]

Eets sounds like a cloning clyde ripoff.

Thats what I thought too and I didnt take much to cloning clyde. So Im getting the Pinball game for sure on Wednesday instead.

[SneakySnake]

eets is already a fabulous indie game for PC that has won numerous awards. its sort of similar to lemmings or mario: march of the mini’s because you basically have to setup the level to get eets from one point on the map to the other. entrance to exit. you have a series of tools at your disposal to do this. once you set up the level you click go and the rest is pretty automated, though some things require some clicking. that may sound boring, but its a pretty fun strategy/puzzle/platformer because it requires you to think ahead and set up things right, loosely similar to a rube goldberg type contraption. anyways, try the demo for PC to get an idea, or you can buy it.

http://www.eetsgame.com/news/index.php

looking at the site it describes it as a fun combination of the games Lemmings and The Incredible Machine (a game based on the contraptions of rube goldberg.)

[Gaz-DanaWalker]

PinballFX sounds quite promising to me.
Could see me being addicted to it i used to play pinball on the pc.
Not too sure about eets. I like cloning clyde but i cant be bothered with it if it rips it off.

[Studley]

It's nothing like Cloning Clyde, aside from the cartoon styling and the sideways scroll. It's a puzzle game rather than a platformer.

[Gaz-DanaWalker]

kl. il c what the demo has to offer then.

[MIT ACID]

just try Eets on pc download what a fun game am sure ill buy this tomorrow,
try this out !!

iam just hoping the create a level editor is for the xbox 360 aswell.

[DM2]

they are both out now.

[Stonie]

Pinball works fine, contains the best graphics and physics of a pinball game yet. I really enjoy pinball games.

Eeets, tried downloading this twice but the game will not launch, seems to be a bug with the file.

[Rossko_UK]

They are both now up it seems, but Eets doesn't work. Very helpful for the review!