Title: Who Did I Date Last Night
Creator: North West
Genre: Action & Adventure
Price: 80 Points
Countries: Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom, United States
Languages: English

Developer Summary:
She’s the girl of your dreams, but you can’t remember who she is.

What Our Reviewers Think:
To begin with WDIDLN is really more of a strategy/puzzle game rather than action and adventure as listed at Xbox.com.  I enjoyed playing through the demo one time through and had a few good laughs but even within that amount of time began to get bored by the one-note interaction. Though the idea shows promise, the developers could stand to take their idea a lot further.

Essentially, the game takes you through a variety of hints to help you figure out the girl whom you dated last night.  “She was a blonde,” “Her occupation was a model,” “She loved the beach,” “She posed like a model in her picture,” “You met her at the bar.”   By deductive processes you narrow down things down to the last few candidates to match up with the girl of your dreams.  It’s all up to you!   Unfortunately it does not constitute a game, it constitutes a chapter of a game or a puzzle within one at best.   Sad to say the demo doesn’t allow you to find out whether or not you were correct at picking your date.  I wouldn’t spend money on the full game versus playing the demo for free; it’s good for one round but I can’t envision a much richer experience beyond that.

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Title: Solar
Creator: Murudai
Genre: Action & Adventure

Price: 200 Points

Countries: Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom, United States
Languages: English

Publisher’s Description:
Solar, a space simulation/action game where you play as the sun itself. You can complete a myriad of challenges or simply mess around in an infinite, sandbox universe.

What We Think:
Solar is a really fun space simulation game with awesome graphics and a sophisticated design. Players are put in the role of the sun and they can collect other celestial bodies to complete different tasks. You can choose between two modes of game play: the first is called Sandbox and this mode allows you to explore and navigate freely throughout the universe.  Adding planets to your orbit and destroying stars for the fun of it makes this mode addicting.

The second mode is called Challenge and is comprised of eighteen levels in which you complete objectives to get more skills.  The purpose of each level is pretty straightforward and the overall appearance is very clean and modern.

Solar does not have a multi-player mode and it is suitable for all ages.  It isn’t extremely violent and is completely unique compared to other games out on the market.  The music is ethereal and really creates a sense of being in outer space.  This game is very relaxing and can be played for hours at a time.  There are no sound effects when the sun smashes into stars or planets. I think it would have taken away from the whimsical feeling of the game if there were loud crashing sounds.

I would highly recommend Solar to other Xbox Live users.  This game is so cool that you are almost sad when it is over.  I wish there were more levels to this game or added tasks available for purchase.  I really hope they release a sequel to this game.

Check out Solar at the XBOX 360 Marketplace

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Have you played Solar? What were your impressions?

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Title: Chalked
Creator: rece
Genre: Action & Adventure

Price: 400 Points

Countries: Canada, United Kingdom, United States
Languages: English

Publisher’s Description
Save the city… or destroy it! Play as the hero and save the city by calling in tips, surrounding suspect buildings, and running down the bad guys. Or choose to destroy the city by avoiding the patrolling heroes and setting bombs inside the buildings – leveling the city building by building.

What We Think:
Chalked succeeds where so many other game developing upstarts have failed – the basics.  With simple and intuitive controls, wonderfully inventive and beautifully realized black and white visuals (the characters look like faceless Gumbys) and an awesome soundtrack, this seemingly simple take on Simon – that is, matching button combinations, is rather more challenging and multi-layered than it seems at first glance.

The game actually combines a variety of games – the Simon element, a puzzle solving element involving figuring out what buildings to topple in strategic sequence, and then the classic Pac Man – run from the ghosts element.  You see – you play the role of a miscreant with an insatiable lust for bombing buildings to the ground.  When destroyed, a building dissolves into the ground leaving a space where once it stood.  Then the “good guys” come after you for your misdeed.  It’s not an easy game at first, but it’s easy enough to navigate and fun enough to look at that it holds interest long enough to figure out some basic strategies.

We wish all community games merited the 400 points like Chalked does.

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Have you played Chalked? What were your impressions?

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