XNA Game Review: In the Pit
Title: In The Pit
Creator: luvcraft
Genre: Action & Adventure
Price: 400 Points
Countries: Canada, France, Italy, Spain, United Kingdom, United States
languages: English
description
An “audio-only” stealth action game. Control a horrible monster who lives at the bottom of a dark pit and eats the people who fall in!
What We Think:
The graphics are absolutely unbelievable. Somehow the guys at luvcraft managed to perfectly capture the look of being a completely blind monster living in a pitch black pit. Somehow they even squeezed in uncompressed high polygon PC’s with no lag or frame rate issues. How they accomplished this on a small XNA release like this is completely mind-blowing.
Additionally, the idea of making a game using echo-location, that is – where movement and action is based primarily on directional sound – is the reason why the Xbox Live Community Games section is really so exciting. Finally people can innovate and not worry about massive budgets to hamper their creativity.
The only problem with this title is that unless you have headphones you can plug in to your amp, or surround speakers, it’s kind of impossible to play. It does however use force feedback as well.
Rating: 
Do you think there is a future in echo-location titles?
