Christopher Thurman

Every year Microsoft gives their Live subscribers a couple of major summer games. This summers weekly gaming has come to a ‘Sploison start with ‘Sploison Man. A must have puzzle game.

Before you start playing you must know that there is only one move that you can do it is sploide. Like I said people it is a puzzle game which you have to find your way around 50 levels blowing yourself up to reach ladders, platforms, dodging lasers,gun shots and fighting machines that come after you. The puzzles are really solid. They are well thought out and you have to use everything tht you have learned from the previous levels. Don’t worry though there is help for you. There are hint markers in the beginning of the level to tell you how to handle the different situations. If you still are stuck the game has a helpers. If you die a certain number of times in the level it lets you skip that level.

The character design in the game also has to be mentioned. The person does not say a word, but they gave him personality. He is even funny. The guy has about a hand full of idle animations that he will go though if you don’t touch the controller. However, why would you want to. You will be so busy trying to figure out the puzzles and once you figure it out there is a time trial mode seeing how fast you can go though each level and it will post your time on Xbox Live leaderboards.

Did I mention that this game has a co-op mode that is different then the single player? The co-op also has 50 levels for you and up to 4 players online or sitting right next to you. If you though that it would be easier with people then you thought wrong. The co-op is harder because not only will you have to use everything from the single player, but you can explode off of other players to reach ledges.

The game also has the other live features that lets live apart, leaderboards, custom soundtracks, multiplayer matches, custom downloades, and achivement. The best part is that it’s only 800 Microsoft Points($10).