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Ever Wondered what it would be like if Geometry Wars had Zombies in it? Check out my review and see what I thought about Zombie Apocalypse.









Zombie Apocalypse is a twin stick shooter for Xbox Live Arcade that incorporates the elements that we would expect from a twin stick shooter: Precision is key, racking up points is fun, and multiplayer is a nice addition to the game. Besides using the left and right analog sticks to move and shoot, Zombie Apocalypse also uses the triggers to control a chainsaw, and the bumpers throw zombie bait to attract the zombies to a location preferably away from you. Hilarity ensues when this occurs, because the bait is a talking teddy bear that says things like "I'm, Full of Love...and C4!" It only has a few lines, but every time I hear it, it always makes me laugh.




The Basic goal of the game is to last 55 days against the horde of zombies you will face, with some days being chainsaw only, or some where the lights are turned out except for your flashlight while you frantically move around the area. Don't expect a new location every day in the game either, because there are only about 10 environments that rotate with nothing changing in their layout. Each level has unique traps and hazards for you to utilize, but you'll mostly depend on your default assault rifle and random weapon pickups to get you through the game.




Nihilistic Software, who developed the game, must have played Left 4 Dead, because it's inspiration is all over this game in my opinion. There are 4 survivors to choose from: Three guys and One girl, and three of the four reminded me instantly of Bill, Zoey, and Louis. Plus there are special infected zombies that get introduced throughout the game. These zombies are different from the ones in Left 4 Dead, but a few have similar abilities that may remind you of Valve's undead shooter. This is not a bad thing, because just killing the typical zombie type for the in-game 55 days would get boring really fast.




800 Microsoft Points or 10 bucks is a good price for a full and simple game to me, and if you're unsure it is, check out the demo which does a good job of showing you what to expect. Overall It is a fun Arcade game, and Zombie and Twin Stick shooter fans should give it a look.

+Simple Controls and Online Play
+Nice Visuals and Sound Effects
+Variety of Zombie types to defeat

-Nothing too original here to add to the twin stick genre
-Wish they're were more environments to survive in
3/5

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"Bust-A-Move returns, with its original gameplay still intact: Fire bubbles at the bubble clusters on each stage to destroy them!"

Bust a Move will cost 800 Points

Link To Trial-Bust A Move Trial (60 MB)

Link To Full Game-Bust A Move Full Game (60 MB)






















"Are you a Football Genius? Test your football knowledge in the ultimate quiz! Features 6 questions packs covering International, English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish football with over 3500 questions about your favourite teams, players and tournaments!"

Football Genius will cost 800 points

Link To Trial-Football Genius Trial (158 MB)

Link To Full Game-Football Genius Full Game (158 MB)


























"The Military is back for a new generation of recruits! The classic turn-based strategy series Military Madness, aka Nectaris, returns with an all-new graphical barrage and a host of new features. In addition to the single-player campaign, you and your allies can wage war offline or online in 4-person multiplayer, either in teams or every man for himself. As you bask in the glow of victory or suffer crushing defeats, check the online leaderboards to compare your skills against those of other generals. There’s even an all-new multiplayer-only unit, the Commander, which has 20 unique abilities to turn the tide of battle. This is the maddest game in the series yet!"

Military Madness will cost 800 points

Link To Trial-Military Madness Trial (101 MB)

Link To Full Game-Military Madness Full Game (101 MB)

"Re-live the 2009 NBA Finals matchup with one of the most anticipated games releasing this fall, NBA 2K10. Download the demo today and get a quick look at the franchise that will again set the standard for basketball videogames by delivering an even better basketball experience this year via all-new gameplay components, out-of-this-world graphics, even more realistic Signature Style animations, all-new presentation elements and an unrivalled online system -- this season you won't just play the NBA, you'll TAKE OVER."

Link To Demo-NBA 2K10 (449 MB of Space)

In celebration of the upcoming release of Saw VI and the Official Saw Videogame, the achievements for the Saw game have been revealed. Here are 35 of the 46 achievements available since 11 are secret. with a total of 1000 points. I wonder how it will play since there haven't been many previews or a demo of the game.

Treasure! (10 points)
Unlock first container.

It Was An Accident (10 points)
Kill first minion.

Self-Defense (15 points)
Kill 10 minions.

Duress (20 points)
Kill 20 minions.

Just Experimenting (10 points)
Used Health Syringe for the first time

I Can Stop Anytime (20 points)
Used 20 Health Syringes.

You've Wasted Your Life (5 points)
Idle for five minutes.

Would You Like To Know More? (20 points)
Find your first Asylum File.

Who Is The Jigsaw Killer? (15 points)
Find your first Patient File.

Darwin Would Be Proud (20 points)
Died once.

Kill Or Be Killed (30 points)
Killed a Collared Minion with a collar detonation.

Give Me Five! (10 points)
First kill with a Mannequin Arm.

Homerun (10 points)
First kill with a Bat.

Sometimes It Sticks (10 points)
First kill with a Nail Bat.

Cleaning Up (10 points)
First kill with a Mop Handle.

Pipe Dream (10 points)
First kill with a Pipe.

Surgeon (10 points)
First kill with a Scalpel.

Penetrated (10 points)
First kill with a Syringe.

You've Been Served (10 points)
First kill with a Table Leg.

You'll Need This Afterwards (10 points)
First kill with a Crutch.

Grave Digger (10 points)
First kill with a Shovel.

Lights Off (10 points)
First kill with a Table Lamp.

Hatchet Job (10 points)
First kill with a Hatchet.

Fire Hazard (10 points)
First kill with fire

Splitting Headache (10 points)
First kill with Scissors.

Say Hello To My Little Friend (10 points)
First kill with a Gun.

Wait For The Boom (10 points)
First kill with an Explosive Mine.

Whoops! (10 points)
First kill with a Stun Mine.

Choked Up (10 points)
First kill with a Gas Mine.

I'm In Charge (10 points)
Fought first NPC.

Curb Stomp (10 points)
Stomped first Minion to death.

Merciless (20 points)
Stomped five Minions to death.

Forced Entry (10 points)
Unlocked first door.

Locksmith (20 points)
Unlock 5 locked doors.

Professional (50 points)
Unlock 20 locked doors.

" SAW is a third-person perspective, survival horror game based on the SAW film franchise, which has grossed more than $665M worldwide and sold more than 28 million DVDs. The game features many of the deadly mechanical traps seen in the film, as well as terrifying new ones. Players will pit their wits against Jigsaw as they navigate his world in an attempt to evade and escape his gruesome traps, while also struggling against his minions in brutal combat by using weapons found within the environment.

SAW, the video game, is based on a treatment from Zombie Studios and the creators of the SAW franchise, Leigh Whannell and James Wan."

Source-Achievements.org
Image Sources-GiantBomb

Xbox 360 Top LIVE Titles
1- Halo 3
2- Halo 3: ODST
3- Call of Duty 4
4- Call of Duty: WaW
5- Gears of War 2
6- Forza 3 Demo
7- Madden NFL 10
8- GTA IV
9- FIFA Soccer 10 Demo
10-FIFA 09

Halo 3 is still king, although I wonder if it is the Halo 3 multiplayer Disc since it reads as Halo 3 when you play it. Halo 3: ODST takes a respectful #2 spot while the Forza 3 demo makes it on the list at number 6. Pretty impressive for a demo. Zombies still have a place in the home of Xbox live players as Zombie Apocalypse takes the number one spot this week. I hope to have a review for the game soon. How will the list change next week? Come back and find out!























Top Arcade Titles
1- Zombie Apocalypse
2- Pinball FX
3- Trials HD
4- Shadow Complex
5- Battlefield 1943
6- The Warriors: Street Brawl
7- NBA 2K10 Draft Combine
8- Castle Crashers
9- BUBBLE BOBBLE Neo!
10-Marvel vs. Capcom 2



Source-Major Nelson's Blog

Episode 1 of 5 for Fable II is now available and it'd free! Instead of downloading an entire Xbox 360 game, Fable II will be split up into 5 parts and will allow you to use your previous saves and will also allow for co-op once you purchase all 5 episodes.























"Download the first episode of Fable II, the best-selling action role-playing game, in which you take on the role of a Hero in the fully realised land of Albion. Play through an epic story, become the world’s greatest fighter, gunslinger or mage. Explore dozens of open, unique environments with your faithful dog. Make friends, fall in love and start a family. Meet hundreds of characters and face some very tough decisions. In Fable II, everything you do has a consequence. Episodes 2, 3, 4 and 5 can be purchased within the game. You will need to purchase further episodes to enable full LIVE functionalities and join other Heroes from around the world on your adventures."

Link To Episode I-Fable II Episode I (2 GB of Space)

Also now available is a new campaign for Left 4 Dead. Crash Course will cost 560 Microsoft Points






















"Left 4 Dead's Crash Course starts with our Survivors right after their rescue helicopter from the No Mercy campaign crash lands on the outskirts of town. This two chapter campaign includes Co-op, Survival and Versus action, and ten new achievements."

Link To Crash Course-Left 4 Dead Crash Course (84 MB of Space)

This week is a Deal off several Guitar Hero World Tour Tracks. Normally priced at 160 Points, Gold Members can download the songs this week for 120 Points:

The Killers – Mr. Brightside
Travis Barker – Low
Blink 182 – What’s My Age Again
Rick Springfield – Jessie’s Girl
Queen – We Are The Champions
Ram Jam – Black Betty
Nickelback – Because of You
Smashing Pumpkins – 1979
Foreigner – Hot Blooded
Blind Melon – No Rain

Link To Guitar Hero World Tour Marketplace-World Tour Addons

Three New Xbox Live Arcade Games will hitting this Wednesday with Bust A Move, Football Genius, and Military Madness. Each game will cost 800 Points ($10.00) .Check out the Details:














"BUST-A-MOVE, sometimes known as PUZZLE BOBBLE, returns in BUST-A-MOVE ™ Live!, with all of its exciting pick-up-and-play gameplay intact. Dazzling graphics and a surreal soundtrack create a unique fantasy world enhancing the ultimate BUST-A-MOVE experience!"















"The Military is back for a new generation of recruits! The classic turn-based strategy series Military Madness: Nectaris is exploding onto Xbox LIVE® Arcade. With an all-new graphical barrage, an all-new commander unit, online team and vs. multiplayer, and a platoon of other new features, this is the maddest game in the series yet!"

















"Are you a Football Genius? Test your football knowledge in Football Genius — The Ultimate Quiz! The game features six questions packs covering International, English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish football with over 3500 questions about your favorite teams, players, and tournaments!"









Source-Major Nelson

The Time To Drop is now! Are you prepared?








Halo 3: ODST may have started out as simple expansion and something to tie us over until Halo Reach comes out, but it grew into something more and can easily share the spotlight with the Halo trilogy in terms of quality and presentation. You don't need me to tell that you're not Master Chief, the Spartan we all love and know, but from the start Bungie made tweaks to the gameplay to drill in the fact and by the end of the story, I almost forget about the Green Demon.

In ODST, the highly trained Marines known as Hell Jumpers take up the mantle to save humanity and you get to see their perspective on how the events from Halo 2 and Halo 3 went down. The time to drop is now, but are you ready?




You will spend most of your time in ODST's campaign as the Rookie, a new member of an elite ODST squad including Buck, Mickey, Romeo, Dutch, and Dare. These Troopers are getting ready to jump into New Mombasa in hopes of finding a way to defeat the covenant when a enemy ship jumps into space causing a effect that disrupts the teams landing and the rookie gets knocked out for 6 hours after the crash.

You wake up to find nothing but scattered groups of covenant aliens searching for survivors when finally wake up. You must search the city for your squad and along the way you receive a little help from the superintendent, an AI program that operated the cameras and security around city that points out a few locations to get you started. Instead of finding your ODST mates, you find items that show what happened when you were out cold. Upon interacting with these, you find yourself flashing back and viewing the events from their perspective.




The open world exploration of looking for items is cool and interesting, and the flashback missions resemble some of the high action mission that Bungie do best. These missions will have you do everything from driving around in Warthogs taking out tanks, to sniping enemies from high above the city and blowin stuff up. The cool thing about these missions is that they can be played in random orders, so your friends may start out doing things a little differently that yourself.



The story can take anywhere from 5-10 hours depending on difficulty and the amount of players, and has a little replayabilty with the option to find 30 audio logs that explain the events before the covenant invaded New Mombasa. This is a ton of fun to play with friends, but try playing the campaign alone a few times, and you will see that the moody music and felling of loneliness as the Rookie can be a nice immersive experience.




Gameplay and controls haven't changed much from Halo 3, but there a few differences that change the way you go into combat situations. ODSTs' have health and reduced speed and jump power, and it will take multiple melee hits to bring down the bigger foes that usual. There are even times when the grunts can be a little dangerous whereas before you would almost run past them as the Chief.




Aside from the great campaign is Firefight mode. Similar to the modes in Gears of War 2 and Left 4 Dead, Firefight mode expands upon those previous versions greatly. Using the skulls from Halo 3, Bungie has made a mode that gradually becomes more varied in the gameplay. The mode is never ending at players start out with 7 lives shared together and make their stand against the covenant.

The mode goes like this: There are Three Rounds with 5 waves each in a Set, and there are an infinite amount of sets with bonus rounds usually after 1 set has been complete. Skulls turn on after sets and depending on the difficulty, players will receive a different multiplier to help rack up more points. Currently there are 10 levels to play on, but the maps included are fun and varied.






The Second Disc included with ODST is Halo 3 multiplayer with all the maps, plus 3 new ones and a few more achievements to gain. This disc can be played with those that have the original Halo 3, so If you like the multiplayer and want to save some space on your hard drive, you'll be glad everything is on one disc.

Overall this is a great package and something great to hold us over until Reach comes out. So hold onto your Disc so you can play the Reach beta and see you online for some Firefight Action!











+ Great new story and characters
+ Music is top notch and some scores I enjoyed more than playing as the Chief
+ Firefight Mode, Halo 3 Multiplayer Disc, and Reach beta round out a nice package

- Wish there was more to do while playing as the Rookie
- Couldn't seem to make clips of saved films to share
-Could have been a bit longer

Play- Campaign by yourself a few times to feel the loneliness of the Rookie. Trust me, it's cool!

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Dead Rising is still one of my favorite Xbox 360 games and so far Dead Rising 2 details have been slim. With TGS this week, Capcom has showed more of the game including some great some clips. Check out a few screen-shots of the main character in action:



































Link To New Trailer-Queue up for download

Screen-shot Source-Kotaku

Three new demos are out now to check out. The preorder only demo of Brutal Legend is now available for all to enjoy, plus we get demo for Wolfenstein, and a sneak peek at Forza 3. Check them out!






















"Brütal Legend is an action game from the mind of Tim Schafer. Eddie Riggs, a roadie chosen by the Rock Gods and played by Jack Black, must battle through a heavy metal fantasy world to save humanity and slay demons — using only a broad axe, his guitar Clementine, and an army of metal heads."

Link To Demo-Brutal Legend Demo-2 GB of Space























"In Forza Motorsport 3, live the most realistic racing experience available as you take the wheel of more than 400 of the most-beloved cars on over 100 renowned real-world tracks and exotic road courses from around the globe. With breathtaking HD graphics and advanced vehicle simulation, Forza Motorsport 3 includes a host of driving assists and adjustable skill levels to make the game a gripping pick-up-and-play experience for audiences of all ages and skill levels. Forza Motorsport 3 is where dreams are driven."

Link To Demo-Forza 3 Demo-1 GB of Space






















"Unleash the Nazis own dark powers against them as you battle unimaginable evil and unexpected foes. Download the demo."

Link To Demo-Wolfenstein Demo-578 MB of Space

Each of these three games seem to have something different to offer and each can be yours for 800 points if you choose to purchase them. Check out their trials first so you can get a little taste of what to expect. Check them out!
























"Experience Ion Assault, an action-packed arcade-style space adventure with an unprecedented particle physics engine. Fight alone or cooperatively through four different modes and more than 20 exciting levels."

Ion Assault will cost 800 points and will take up 159 MB of Space

Link To Trial-Ion Assault Demo

Link To Full Game-Ion Assault Full Game























"They are coming for your brains...time to Lock and Load. This game requires the Xbox 360 hard drive or the 512MB Memory Unit for storage."

ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE will cost 800 points and will take up 341 MB of space

Link To Trial-ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE Demo

Link To Full Game-ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE Full Game




























"Wreck enemy gangs with your friends over Xbox LIVE - Survive arena combat in Boss Mode and challenge friends in Versus Mode - Lead The Warriors home to Coney Island for the final showdown with Luther and the Rogues - Vie for the top slot on the leaderboards - Unlock two other Warriors, each with moves of their own - Rock it old school in Arcade Mode - Unleash The Warriors now!"

The Warriors: SB will cost 800 points and will take up 428 MB of space

Link To Trial-The Warriors SB Demo

Link To Full Game-The Warriors SB Full Game

To celebrate today's release of Halo 3: ODST, Microsoft has released a free premium theme for gold members. It's apparently a limited time offer, so go ahead and queue it up!























"ODSTs aren’t the only ones getting their hands on upgraded gear to prepare for the upcoming Firefight. Available only for a limited time and free of charge for Xbox LIVE Gold Subscribers, this expertly crafted Halo 3: ODST Premium Theme will get your Xbox 360 ready for a combat drop into the city of New Mombasa."

Link To Content-Prepare to Drop Premium Theme

Xbox 360 Top LIVE Titles

1- Halo 3
2- Call of Duty: WaW
3- Call of Duty 4
4- Gears of War 2
5- Madden NFL 10
6- GTA IV
7- FIFA Soccer 10 Demo
8- FIFA 09
9- Left 4 Dead
10- Batman: Arkham Asylum

Halo is back on top once again and so is Trials HD for Xbox Live arcade. The arcade games had a slight shift, while the retail 360 games barely moved. Batman holds on with the number 10 spot staying on the list again this week. Will ODST be number 1 next week? Come back and find out!






















Top Arcade Titles

1- Trials HD
2- Shadow Complex
3- Battlefield 1943
4- BUBBLE BOBBLE Neo!
5- Castle Crashers
6- Command & Conquer Red Alert 3 Commander's Challenge
7- Sonic & Knuckles
8- Defense Grid: The Awakening
9- Marvel vs. Capcom 2
10- Turtles in Time Re-Shelled




Source-Major Nelson's Blog

The Midnight Launch of Halo 3: ODST will begin in about 11 hours and 20 minutes. The Game is almost here!! I hope to have a review sometime this week or the next. Make sure to check out your Bungie.Net profile when you get ODST to see you progress on the Road to Recon. Good Luck scoring the armor and see you online!