Aria Game Review–When Playing Your Playlist Isn’t Enough
Aria is one of those great Xbox Live community games that isn’t great because of what it does, but rather what it is.
Yes, when you start playing Aria, you’ll notice that it plays a lot like other games like Powerup Forever, Geometry Wars, and a host of others. But this one is different–see, what it’ll do is take your music library, assuming you have one, and send out its steadily growing flood of enemies in time with the music, while playing it. This is actually a really exciting feature, if not necessarily a real game-changer.
If just listening to music has grown tiresome, then you’ll probably get a kick out of playing your playlist. As in playing AGAINST your playlist. The thought of my music turning on me is actually a cheerful one, and makes a nifty game. Sure, the gameplay’s a little on the soft side, and frankly, they definitely could’ve done a lot more with it but they’ve broken some interesting ground and hopefully paved the way for refinement.
And at the low price of four hundred Microsoft points, well, it’s worth the cost.
April 27th, 2009 at 6:48 pm
You may want to check the cost again, I was sure it was 200msp. Anyway, the author is a friend of mine. I’m glad you enjoyed it. I’ll pass along the good review. It was actually his first game, and with this experience under his belt he is hoping to release a far more polished sequel some time in the future.