Weekend Reviews: The Maw and Powerup Forever
February 22, 2009 by Jamie Davies
Filed under PSN, XBLA
This weeks reviews for your reading pleasure are:
The Maw – XBLA
There haven’t been many 3D adventure titles for the downloadable games scene to date, doubtless because of the size restrictions. Now that Microsoft’s platform is expanding its file size as well as its horizons, The Maw is a good example of just what can be squeezed on to the platform.
Playing as Frank, a yellow space suited alien, the game opens with him being bundled on to an alien vessel by his un-named captors. The ship crashes, marooning him on a planet along with the rest of the ships occupants.
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Powerup Forever – PSN
In our feature with the developer James Goddard, he highlighted the fact that he wouldn’t like to be in the position of pushing a twin-stick shooter onto the likes of PSN/XBLA due to a saturation of the genre. These comments have proved prescient, especially in the case of PowerUp Forever which was recently released for both the PlayStation Network and Xbox Live Arcade.
The player takes the helm of a ship with the aim of destroying enemies. Once a set amount has been destroyed, a Guardian appears to challenge you.
