![]() It can be quite a fun competition to see which one of you and your friends can kill the most enemies with the best accuracy. Aegis Wing keeps track of all your high scores and keeps a surprisingly nice amount of stats to look into. In Aegis Wing you have not one, not two, but three teammates to join in on the bullet hell fun.Your three teammates can be allotted to you either from Xbox Live, (Which still has a surprisingly nice community) or just your friends on the couch. If you are a close reader you may have noticed the pluralization of the word "teammate" in that last paragraph. The diversity among the games power ups allow you and your teammates to play a more defensive style as well as an offensive approach. Multiple power ups ranging from the more obvious homing missiles, to the ever so clever "distortion" ability that would stop incoming bullets, and make the closing in enemy ships obsolete as they lost functionality. So with that out of the way, what makes Aegis Wing so great? This game is everything you loved about retro space shooters. Aegis Wing is a short game, only a few 10-15 minute levels, and the replay ability comes from the joy of the core game mechanics, and the fun of sitting with some friends and taking down a game that has some pretty decent challenge. Also this isn't a lengthy open world exploration. The most you get is a small paragraph before each level filling in the gaps from what happened between you destroying the boss from the last level, to the start of the next. ![]() Aegis Wing is in no way, shape, or form concerned with story. So let me get out of the way what this game doesn't have for anyone that hasn't played this gem. It is a trimmed down experience that knows exactly what it wants to be. Fortunately enough Aegis Wing soars above those expectations with a sound, exciting, and fun re-imagining of classic arcade games like Galiga.Īegis Wing isn't a game that holds a lot of negatives. ![]() ![]() With that kind of development you would think this game would scream "indie" at you with not only quality, but with it's style. Aegis Wing was created by three interns working for Microsoft studios. It is also available forever as apposed to two weeks. Review of Aegis Wing for the Xbox Live ArcadeĪegis Wing is the rare game on Xbox Live Arcade that is free without you needing a gold membership. ![]()
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