Review of Xbox for
Windows Phone
Previously I
checked out the games that you can get for Windows Phone. The picture was bleak
with most of the games being ‘so-so’ at best.
Thank goodness for
Xbox for Window Phone. The games on Xbox for Windows phone are a step up from
the normal phone games. Not only are they of better quality, they integrate
into Xbox Live so you can play with friends and unlock achievements that go on
to your Xbox Live profile. I am a big achievement hunter so I took to the Xbox
games like a duck to water.
There are some nice
free Xbox games available so here is a quick overview of the free Xbox games.
I have never liked
playing Suduko on a cellphone. Suduko is something that works better on paper.
You can scratch with a pencil, make notes and erase wrong answers.
On the small screen
of a cellphone, playing Suduko is hard because you cannot write down the clues
you have, which is a crucial part of playing Suduko.
Suduko for Windows Phone changes
that. With a very funky interface and the ability to make notes, playing Suduko
on Xbox is a great experience.
To take things up
another step, Suduko on Xbox have implemented an Experience Points system. By
completing puzzles you receive Experience Points. With enough XP you level up
and unlock Special Items. These items can be used solve the harder puzzles.
If you like Suduko,
you should definitely get the Xbox version on your phone.
Breeze is a game
that works with your cellphone’s movement sensor. It is not a new concept,
other phones have had games like this for years, but none the less, it is a fun
little game.
You have to navigate
a flower drifting on a breeze through a maze without letting the flower touch any of the obstacles.
Breeze is a fun and adictive little game.
Another fun game,
Shuffle Party is a mix between the game Fingerboard and bowling. You give a
puck a push with your finger and it will slide down a board to the other end.
There are two modes
of game play. First game mode is just like bowling; you slide the puck down the
lane and see how many pins you can knock down. Beware - highly addictive.
Than there is the
trick shot section. The lane is filled with obstacles and the objective is to
get the puck around the obstacles and as close as possible to the red zone. The
closer to the red zone, the more points you score.
It is a lot of fun
but it quickly turns your screen into a smudgy piece of shit.
In a lame attempt
to make a game about flowers seem cool and edgy they named the game Flowerz. Flowers / Flowerz, it's still lame.
I played the game
for a while when I noticed there is a bug in the game, none of the achievements
I unlocked propagated to Xbox Live. To the rest of the world I might as well
never have played the game.
That taught me a
lesson; I should never have played a game called Flowerz in the first place.
Although Flowerz is
stupid, the rest of the free games on Xbox for Windows Phone are entertaining
and worth checking out.
