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. Continued abuse of our services will cause your IP address to be blocked indefinitely.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'. Please fill out the CAPTCHA below and then click the button to indicate that you agree to these terms.
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