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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Title: UAV Wars
Creator: Some Call Me Tim

Genre: Action & Adventure

Countries: Canada, France, Italy, Spain, United Kingdom, United States

Price: 200 Microsoft Points

UAV Wars is a 3D action arcade game where you remotely pilot your Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) and destroy the competing UAVs to win a military defense contract.

What we think: The problem we will most frequently face with the XNA games being made avaialble for sale at the XBox Live Community Games market is the glut of showings that feel far more like demos and development stage releases than finished titles.  UAV Wars is precisely one of those.  The graphics look like a rush job in this 360-degree Zaxxon update.  Although a nice idea, the scenery could deeply benefit from some advanced texturizing, ambient sound effects and perhaps even NPC animations that would boost this game up to a whole other level.

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