Chat With Ken Levine Wednesday on Kotaku Talk RadioJustify Your Game PAX Edition: Uncharted 2The News And Impressions Of The Final Fantasy XIII Premiere PartyTony Hawk Ride Impressions: Tony's WayThe Beatles: Rock Band Frankenreview Bedat & CO Defense Grid Micro Review: Mmmmm RaspberriesPAX Organizers Report "Confirmed Swine Flu Case" From ShowHow And Why Halo 3: ODST Was Made In 14 MonthsWe've got a guy A dog An art style I've never seen on an Xbox 360 A point and click adventure And side scrolling driving.
What Is It?At the Penny Arcade Expo, about halfway between where you could buy nachos or watch a comics artist sketch on his DS, there was a kiosk running two forthcoming Xbox Live Arcade games from Take Two Interactive's 2K Play level Axel & Pixel, an adventure game from Czech studio Silver Wish Games, is the first of those efforts. Blancpain What We SawI made Axel, an artist, and Pixel, a dog, venture through a few puzzling screens worth of mild clickable challenges, then drove them through an obstacle course of nearly vertical mounds of dirt and grass in a big wheeled truck.
How Far Along Is It?The game is set for release next month for download on the Xbox 360.What Needs Improvement?A Little Too Mixed: I was smitten by the imaginatively mixed art style but less excited by the mixed gameplay I enjoyed using the control stick to move a pointer across the screen, clicking at whatever made my cursor sparkle in order to Breguet perform some sort of interaction And I was fine with the side scrolling off roading that consisted of driving left to right, speeding up, tilting
