Shadow20002
10-03-2003, 01:36 PM
If there's one area in which Xbox needed a bit of a boost, it's the platformer genre.
Platformers, so named for the platform-to-platform jumping action that is the basis of game play, make up one of the widest segments of video gaming. Mario, Sonic and Crash Bandicoot are all platformer veterans.
But with the exception of last year's Blinx, the time-warping cat, there haven't been too many good platformers for the Xbox.
Voodoo Vince, released this week, weaves a little magic into the genre and teaches even us old gamers a few new tricks.
Vince is a voodoo doll that springs to life when Kosmo the Inscrutable's thugs kidnap Madam Charmaine, Vince's owner. The thugs accidentally sprinkle zombie dust onto Vince, who then takes off to find his Madam Charmaine.
Source@ (http://www.tribnet.com/entertainment/story/4069435p-4087955c.html)
Platformers, so named for the platform-to-platform jumping action that is the basis of game play, make up one of the widest segments of video gaming. Mario, Sonic and Crash Bandicoot are all platformer veterans.
But with the exception of last year's Blinx, the time-warping cat, there haven't been too many good platformers for the Xbox.
Voodoo Vince, released this week, weaves a little magic into the genre and teaches even us old gamers a few new tricks.
Vince is a voodoo doll that springs to life when Kosmo the Inscrutable's thugs kidnap Madam Charmaine, Vince's owner. The thugs accidentally sprinkle zombie dust onto Vince, who then takes off to find his Madam Charmaine.
Source@ (http://www.tribnet.com/entertainment/story/4069435p-4087955c.html)