Boom Boom Rocket!
Apr. 12th, 2007 12:19 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
slycatI just thought I'd make a post about the Xbox 360's Live Arcade's latest offering. Other than DDR and now Guitar Hero 2, the 360 has sorely been lacking in rhythm games, and the ever impressive XBLA has now given us Boom Boom Rocket. It's effectively a very simple "push the button at the right time" style of rhythm game with only 4 possibilities (typically up, down, left and right as per DDR) and is played on a regular gamepad rather than a proprietary peripheral. It is however made by the guys behind Geometry Wars and so is oozing with polish.
The theme of the game is to blow up fireworks in time with the music, which is a great take on the genre while the music itself is jazzed up versions of classic music which is typically heard at real firework presentations. It all binds together rather satisfyingly, combining with the Live features such as world and friend leaderboards, giving you something to accomplish. I've only played a few of the songs so far, ensuring I get better scores than the others on my friends lists so far along the way. There's much of the game I've yet to even touch on so I look forward to having another go tomorrow when I don't need to be going to bed.
I'd certainly recommend this to any DDR/Bemani fans who have a 360, and if you have a 360 and this isn't your normal sort of game, you can still download the trial version. Needless to say, I bought it within seconds of playing the demo :P
This comes at a good time really as I had ordered Guitar Hero 2 for 360 for a decent price of £48 from Foxy.co.uk over the weekend, however they now say up to 4 weeks for delivery. No other retailers can get close to that price so I cancelled the order. Now I'm not so bothered about getting GH2 as it's quite a dent in my wallet and I have a game to satisfy my rhythm gaming urges until GH2 becomes a bit cheaper to buy. That said, I prefer the dancified classic tunes in BBR compared with the rock tunes of GH2, but at the same time, I do like a game with a nifty peripheral :P
Anyway, to bed with me. I'm sure I'll end up dreaming of coloured arrows exploding into pretty fireworks tonight...
The theme of the game is to blow up fireworks in time with the music, which is a great take on the genre while the music itself is jazzed up versions of classic music which is typically heard at real firework presentations. It all binds together rather satisfyingly, combining with the Live features such as world and friend leaderboards, giving you something to accomplish. I've only played a few of the songs so far, ensuring I get better scores than the others on my friends lists so far along the way. There's much of the game I've yet to even touch on so I look forward to having another go tomorrow when I don't need to be going to bed.
I'd certainly recommend this to any DDR/Bemani fans who have a 360, and if you have a 360 and this isn't your normal sort of game, you can still download the trial version. Needless to say, I bought it within seconds of playing the demo :P
This comes at a good time really as I had ordered Guitar Hero 2 for 360 for a decent price of £48 from Foxy.co.uk over the weekend, however they now say up to 4 weeks for delivery. No other retailers can get close to that price so I cancelled the order. Now I'm not so bothered about getting GH2 as it's quite a dent in my wallet and I have a game to satisfy my rhythm gaming urges until GH2 becomes a bit cheaper to buy. That said, I prefer the dancified classic tunes in BBR compared with the rock tunes of GH2, but at the same time, I do like a game with a nifty peripheral :P
Anyway, to bed with me. I'm sure I'll end up dreaming of coloured arrows exploding into pretty fireworks tonight...
