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Geon: Emotions (XBLA) Impressions

Geon Emotions ScreenI sat down and ran through the demo of Geon: Emotions for the Xbox Live Arcade this week. The game has a cool premise, but just doesn’t deliver, in my opinion.Geon plays like Pac-Man on crack. You go through all kinds of 3D maps with loops and different levels picking up dots. Yeah, you move around picking up dots. Once you collect enough dots, you hit the X button to flip to your opponent’s side of the map and race to the middle to score a goal. This goes on until one of you gets to 5 goals to win the match.There are various power-ups in each game, with each having a distinct effect. One allows you take away dots from your opponent, others allow you to attach an opponent through the map. Each one has a different effect depending on which Emotion you choose to begin the game. There are pros and cons to each Emotion, so you have to choose which works best for your playing style. I couldn’t figure out a playing style other than move around and get dots, so it just matters which power-ups you like best.I can’t see spending $10 on this game. It doesn’t offer enough depth, even for an arcade game, to keep me coming back. I think I’ll pass.

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  1. Fragloser
    Posted October 1, 2007 at 6:06 pm | Permalink
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    Hmm. I’m not going to pick this up. If it was maybe 2.50/5.00 I MAY buy it. However, I have purchased a few arcade games, and the fun just seems to die down way to quickly, but some of them do bring back good times (Streets of Rage II)

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