Friday, May 18, 2007

Aegis Wing: The free XBL arcade game


Newbcakes, Ruud, Prometheus and I were playing Aegis Wing last night. It is a side scrolling shooter reminiscent of R-Type or Gradius with some humping elements. In order to get super huge weapons, one has to press the X button to essentially hump your teammates. Once you do, your missiles are more plentiful, your lasers are wider, your EMP blasts cover the whole screen. Everything is super sweet until the driver realizes he can't maneuver as fast as he needs to in order to avoid the plethora of bullets and indestructible spheres in his way.

Also, if you have a douchebag like Prometheus playing with you, it makes it super hard to do anything. Assclowns like Prometheus will run you into obstacles and kill your fragile little space ship. It is so sad, and so funny at the same time.

More games need to be like this. Great Co Op and just plain fun. And free

I give it 7/10

4 comments:

Brooks said...

prometheus is such a douchebag, i guess it comes with being canadian

Anonymous said...

When I was playing co-op we found it easier to just all fly separate except when fighting bosses.

Ian said...

ya its definitely easier to fly in groups of 2.

Brooks said...

its easier to just make newbcakes do all the flying lol