Gamertell Review: Penny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain-Slick Precipice for Xbox Live
Title: Penny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain-Slick Precipice (Episode 1)
Price: 1,600 Microsoft Points ($19.95)
System(s): Xbox Live (PC, Mac, Linux)
Release Date: May 21, 2008
Publisher (Developer): Hothead Games (Hothead Games )
ESRB Rating: “Mature” for language and sexual humor
Pros: Signature Penny-Arcade art style and sense of humor, you can make your own Penny-Arcade style avatar and it at least tries to be more than your average arcade-style Xbox Live game.
Cons: Super small icons, poorly timed opponents, awkward controls, pace-cutting cuts and crappy camera angles. A bit too pricey.
Overall Score: One thumb sideways, one down; 63/100; D; * 1/2 out of five
The game is wrought with the limitations of an Xbox Live game (though it strives to be much more) made for an HD TV: Text is too small to read and be thoroughly soak in the humor, icons are too small to be helpful during combat, the camera angle/perspective is so wonky it’ll make you scream and the combination live-action/tune-based game play is poorly executed. The best game-related thing it has going for it is that…
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Penny Arcade makes leap from webcomic to game
Today (May 21, 2008) marks the release of the first episode of Penny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain Slick Precipice of Darkness. The episodic gaming series is available for download for Windows, Mac, and Linux from Greenhouse, or via Xbox Live Arcade on the Xbox 360.
The game follows the stars of Penny Arcade, Tycho Brahe and Jonathan Gabriel, who work as paranormal investigators for the Startling Developments detective agency. Set in the fictional 1920s town of New Arcadia, OTRSPOD merges point-and-click adventure sensibilities with the…
PAX 07 right around the calendar corner
The Penny Arcade Expo (PAX) is all about games and gamers. Lots of games. Lots of games and lots of gamers. Games of all types and gamers of all shapes and sizes. If you can play it, it will likely be there in some form for you to enjoy.
This year, PAX 07 has moved to downtown Seattle, WA, for the three-day event being held from 2 p.m., August 24, 2007 to 6 p.m., August 26, 2007, at the The Washington State Convention and Trade Center. The larger venue was necessary to accommodate the annually increasing size of the event. The first PAX. held in 2004 in Bellevue. WA, had 3,300 attendees and more than 30,000 are expected to attend this year. Tickets are $50 for the entire three-day event.
Penny Arcade Adventures screens and features
Screenshots and a video of the upcoming game, Penny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness, have finally been released.
The game, developed by Hothead Games and available later this year, will be the a series of downloadable, episodic games for PC (Windows, Mac OS X and Linux) and will feature characters from Penny Arcade including Gabe and Tycho.
Click through to get to more info and a few groovy screen shots…
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