Xotic Game Review

Xotic is published specially for FPS lovers. Why it’s so special? It has some unusual thing because you only haget 1 gun. Forget AK’s, RPG’s and Magnum’s now because you have a special gun called Macroterra. It’s unique, because instead of you holding it, the gun is actually attached to you. The best way to describe it is a fly that is attached to you and can shoot many different things, like poison, napalm, ect. That’s not all, it also has other features, like the ability to fly, and the ability to spawn shields.

Xotic Screenshot
The game starts off telling you that an Orb has decided to take over the world, and you must banish the Orb into outer space and reclaim lost territories that the corrupted Orb has control over. It’s not much of a story, but it isn’t trying to be. The gameplay consists of shooting as much scabs (infected plants) as you can, while killing all the enemies on the level to unlock the level’s finish point. Just like most arcade games, the replayability is endless. Unless you get a perfect 100%, there is always that few extra points you can score next time around, and being #1 on the leader board has felt good since the days of Pac-Man and Donkey Kong, and very little has changed since then it terms of glory.

In a game like this, with various difficulties, it is very hard to estimate the length of the game, because you could probably run through it in a couple hours if you speed run, and could take you 10-20 hours if you try to destroy every scab. Even so, once you beat the game, you are completely done with it, right? Wrong, because you have to fight for spots on the leader boards, and you can compare your position with your friends and strangers to motivate you to do better next time.

The audio is probably the weakest portion of it, but that’s not really a bad thing. The sound is nothing special, and it doesn’t do a great job at setting the mood. Although minor complaints, in a game as marvelous as this, you need to pick apart each little problem so the developers know what their weaknesses are.

If one were to write an argument stating that video games are, in fact, art, they would be a fool to exclude Xotic from the argument. Xotic has a vast variety of colors, that just add to the rich experience. From level to level, this game does a good job at differentiating each area with different colors, sometimes leading me to believe that it’s all in an evil scheme to distract us from keeping a high score and instead gazing upon the environments. The backgrounds also do a good job at making you feel like you’re just a small entity on a giant planet.

Everything in Xotic works the way it should. It’s obviously a gameplay heavy game, and the gameplay is unique, fast pace, and exciting. If this game is anything, it is creative. I can’t think of any First Person Shooter to compare this to, and that just proves how creative WXP Games is.

Overall, this is one of the best indie games I have ever played, and if you have Steam, you owe it to yourself to at the very least look into this game. Xotic releases for PC on September 16th, 2011, and is expected to be on Xbox Live in Q3 of 2011.