Battlemouth

Yesterday I drank too much coffee, so when I decided to go to bed at 3 am it wasn’t happening. I tossed and turned for a bit then accepted defeat and turned on the 360. After poking around the marketplace for a bit I downloaded the Space Invaders Extreme demo to try out. Five minutes later I was purchasing the whole game.

Space Invaders Extreme captures all the elements of the original game then completely douses them with the elements that make a modern arcade game successful. What we’re left with is a hyper paced action arcade shooter that’ll appeal to people even remotely interested in the genre. You can either just shoot your way through levels or clear invaders by rows columns shapes or colors which will up your points significantly. This will get the high score junkies all sorts of excited, combined with combo multipliers and a Break mode that ups your multiplier even more the scores will most certainly be high.

Invaders are tossed at you in varying patterns and you’re tasked with clearing them. This is initially easy until they start firing back, shielding themselves, or being behemoths that can take a bit of damage before they’re dispatched. Fever mode ups the action significantly as well, if you can snipe a blinking UFO from the back of the screen you’ll be sent to a challenge stage where you have to shoot a certain number of invaders within a time limit. If you can complete the challenge stage you’ll enter fever mode where you pretty much wreck everything in your way and crank out some serious points with some crazy psychedelic graphics to make it that much more exciting.

All of this plus a co op mode and different types of weapons (lasers!!!) make this a great purchase for anyone looking for some over the top arcade shooting on the xbox 360 and for only $10 its a wise purchase any way you look at it. Not to mention it’ll help you waste some time until you’re tired enough to fall asleep around 5 am.