MicroBot Preview: Inner Conflict

The initial thing that struck me about MicroBot -- a top-down Xbox Live Arcade and PlayStation Network shooter from EA and Naked Sky Entertainment -- was the splendid graphics engine, a exclusive answer from the dev team. Sure, you're determining a MicroBot on a 2D plane, but height of margin cunning shows off assorted happenings in the body in the forefront and background, giving the mood a grander scale notwithstanding its 2D perspective. And the game's procedurally combined world assures that no two playthroughs of any mood will be identical.

The second thing that struck me was the game's clarity of momentum. As a drudge buoyant around inside a human body, careening in any specific citation as well swift can lead to an accidental death. It moreover gives the mood a more dangerous presence. Our worry? Who knows what happens to a human when drudge tools are left to dispersed via the inner organs.

The action itself isn't anything groundbreaking or brand new. In fact, it's a lot similar to PixelJunk Shooter , usually with the stress on environment-based gameplay transposed with a apparently low customization system. As you may imagine, it controls similar to other top-down 2D shooters -- a analog hang is used to drive and the other for shooting. Navigating the human body with a commune associate (couch commune only, we was told) adds an engaging dimension to the gameplay, primarily when contracting your bot's grappling hook. Outside of grabbing enemies with the offshoot and overhanging them in to other baddies, you can supply a buddy's bot with all transformation or illness upgrades and fasten it to your ship, hence winning all in your path.

MicroBot might not be a diversion changer, but it's got all the correct mixture for an beguiling digital diversion. With a entrance scheduled for Winter 2011, we're anticipating it has a luck to mount out amongst the Q1 flood.