MARBLE BLAST ULTRA XBOX 360 PSP

Though this game doesnt have you mixing globs of colored goo like the aforementioned PSP game, Marble Blast Ultras huge levels and various power ups make this a puzzle game to remember. Like the PSP launch title Mercury, Marble Blast Ultra takes the Marble Madness concept and rolls with it. Having reached the top 5 on one level, I had to force myself to stop, and then entered the multiplayer arenas. Marble Blast Ultra is a fresh, new twist on a classic concept. So off I went again, merrily trying to get my name to the top. Thanks to hunting the Gamerscore, I was dangerously close to the top of the leaderboards per level. Eventually the achievements toppled and I had them, but then something else had me: Marble Blast Ultra had another of the features that Xbox was pushing at the time. That made Marble Blast Ultra a marathon time trial, and one that I could shave milliseconds off by improving on specific levels. It features 60 brand new levels, enhanced graphics, 2 new power-ups and a multiplayer mode. It was released on Janufor the Xbox 360 via Xbox Live Arcade. There were 60 levels, broken up into three difficulty levels, and you got achievements NOT for the individual times you managed to pull in, but the total time across multiple levels. Marble Blast Ultra (commonly abbreviated as MBU) is a 3D puzzle/action game involving a marble developed by GarageGames. The achievements in Marble Blast Ultra were mean, perhaps even classified as stingy. So why write a Looking Back article on it, if it wasnвЂ™t much more than shovelware? Well, itвЂ™s probably because I pumped dozens and dozens of hours into it.

MARBLE BLAST ULTRA XBOX 360 PC

It was as vanilla as they came, and that was the hallmark of the PC shareware days, where games felt like theyвЂ™d reversed rather than progressed. It really was barebones, with no character to speak of, and it felt like a stripping down of Super Monkey Ball, rather than an expansion on it. It combines simple fun and вЂњpick-up-and-playabilityвЂќ very well.Having вЂ“ just about вЂ“ been old enough to remember the days of shareware on PC, and the thousands of games you could get on the cheap, Marble Blast Ultra reminded a little of those halcyon days. Part puzzle game, part platformer, and part competitive. The multiplayer is probably the best part of this game. Marble Blast Ultra is one of the more entertaining Xbox Live Arcade games it stands alone in its genre. There are three different gems that are put on the map: Red, yellow and blue, which represent one, two and five points respectively. It seems like all of the timing just seems a bit off. The controls donвЂ™t feel tight and responsive and the camera can get a bit jerky in spots, causing you to fall off the edge and have to go back to the beginning or back to a checkpoint. The controls in the game tend to get really frustrating. You will just have the same techno song looping in the background for the whole game, and eventually it will have you reaching for the remote to mute your television. The visuals look fine for an Arcade title, but you see the same thing over and over again вЂ“ becoming extremely bland after seeing the same thing throughout the whole game. The game at the advanced levels can really come down to luck more than skill, and that just doesnвЂ™t make the game very addictive or compelling.ДЄnother thing that really disappoints in Marble Blast Ultra is in the visual and the sound department. Suitable for players of any age, the game takes place in a futuristic astrolab arena suspended high in the clouds where players. Marble Blast Ultra is an online multiplayer arcade action game, expanding on the original to take advantage of the Xbox 360 system. The advanced courses can be so difficult in a вЂњcheapвЂќ and contrived way, that if it wasnвЂ™t for me being an achievement point addict, I wouldnвЂ™t have even bothered to try and squeeze out every bit of value I could for my ten bucks. An Xbox Live Arcade title, playable only for the Xbox 360. After that the game can get really tough for some players, as the obstacles can be a little daunting. Normal players should be able to blast through the beginner courses, and then most of the intermediate courses. Marble Blast features sixty different levels: Twenty beginner courses, twenty intermediate courses and twenty advanced courses. You roll around various dangerous environments to collect gems and then to reach the end point to move on to the next level. You can buy it for 800 Marketplace points, ($10) but Marble BlastвЂ™s bland graphics and frustrating controls make this a pass for nearly every Xbox 360 owner. Marble Blast Ultra is an Xbox Live Arcade platformer from Garage Games.

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