Anyone expecting a life/energy bar, power-ups, speed-ups or even continues can move quietly along (but the rest of us can acknowledge why adding such things was a godsend in terms of playability and excitement). Played with today's mindset, it feels sluggish to control and horribly unforgiving for the most part. With one-hit death still the norm back then, you get three lives, but apart from hidden bonuses (such as the infamous hidden flags) and score-based 1-ups, you couldn't afford to screw up at any point. It was - and is - a relentless test of your reflexes, not to mention forward planning and levels of resolve. Xevious features plenty of stages, but the nature of the scrolling terrain made it hard to discern where one ended and another began, and this alone made it feel like a very different proposition at the time. Both weapons had unlimited ammo, so it was one of those games you could simply hold down both fire buttons and focus on steering your ship (known as a Solvalou) across roughly half of the play field. In its day, the game was nothing short of revolutionary, being one of the very first vertical scrolling shooters to appear, complete with a dual firing system that enabled you to not only shoot aerial targets in front of you, but bomb ground based targets at the same time. It's worth repeating that retro re-reviews on Eurogamer aren't here to celebrate the cult of a game, but to tell you how it feels to play now, and whether it's worth buying if you never played it back in the day. Is it really "one of the greatest videogames of all time" or not? Firstly, if you really are one of those people who think it is is one of the very best games ever created, then perhaps it's best not to read a review written in 2007. Today we're here to tell you about Xevious and whether it's one you should add to your digital pile of old stuff. Fondly rememberedīut that's a discussion for another time. Then again, how many of these would you rush to play again? Not many, we'd wager. Bosconian doesn't get too many retro gamers weeping with nostalgia either, which means, finally, that some of Namco's later catalogue might finally get put further up the queue - Pac-Land, for example. For example, Pole Position might have been a seminal release back in 1982, but it's harrowing trying to play it these days. As a result, it hasn't got much left in the tank from the era that really works as a Live Arcade release. Pac-Man, Galaga, Rally-X, and Dig-Dug over the past year or so. Already it is onto its sixth XBLA release with this week's re-issue of 1982's Xevious, having already put out Pac-Man, Ms.
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It could be a win-win: the retro crowd get to pay for seminal games they've bought several times over, and we can finally move on and take another look at other eras of gaming's forgotten archive of hits.Ĭheck out Namco. If you think about it, the quicker publishers get around to offloading their best old stuff onto downloadable services such as this, the quicker they might get around to re-evaluating their more recent, and potentially more exciting releases for exhumation.
Remember folks, just because it's old, that doesn't make it a classic.
The best thing about publishers relentlessly vomiting up their ancient 'classic' back catalogue onto the Xbox Live Arcade is that there's only a finite amount of this stuff that can feasibly be bracketed as an arcade 'classic'.
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