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The final type is an orb hunt, where youВ’re given a random number and asked to find that many orbs in time. Another is a checkpoint race, and is similar. One gives you a line to follow and youВ’re graded on your accuracy. There are three types of events in all three modes.

Each time you accept a new event in Arcade, your time is extended slightly, and so if youВ’re good you can go on and on, itВ’s easily the most compelling of the three games and the one where youВ’ll spend the most time. The gameplay in each is similar and while the timed modes just tick down, Arcade is where the Crazy Taxi style gameplay comes in. There are three main modes in Rotor, Arcade, 3 minute, and 10 minute. And some are just so clever, and use the basic mechanics in such awesome ways, that itВ’s impossible not to love the game for its sneakiness.

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You can watch videos of a few levels at the start and I guarantee youВ’ll think: В“wow, IВ’d never have thought to do that.В” Also, if you achieve a silver medal it unlocks a video demonstration of how to achieve gold. ItВ’s almost a puzzle trying to get gold medals, because the times are so difficult to achieve that youВ’ve gotta really think outside the box to achieve them. The big addictive hook comes from trying to earn better times, which are rewarded with medals. You can sometimes exploit this for faster times. If you fall off and die, you donВ’t lose, you just go back to the start or a checkpoint, with your collected coins still collected. When youВ’re jumping, the level is stationary and you can take advantage of this to get better times or mess up and fall off.

When youВ’re standing on the level, it rotates with you as you move, Mario Galaxy-style. YouВ’re on a small level and have to collect all the coins to finish it.

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If youВ’re outside those countries you can still play these games by setting up a Gamertag for free for one of those countries. (Xbox LIVE Indie Games are available in Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom and the United States. Tell us what you think! Tell all your friends! Get them to tell all their friends

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Even if you donВ’t buy any of these games, at least trial them, tell people what you think, get more people trying them. Indie Game trials last eight minutes, which is often enough to establish what you think about it. Simply enter the marketplace and scroll up to Indie Games, where you can check the top rated titles, the games that have just come out, or В“browseВ” to find the games mentioned in this thread. You can buy any of these games via by clicking the link associated with each game, or on the Games Marketplace on your Xbox 360. On the plus side, that means thereВ’s more time to play some of the excellent games that came out this month! As it turns out, many of those games still await release and it wasnВ’t really any busier than it would have been anyway. With not far off 100 games in peer-review at one point, I was expecting a mass of releases. February turned out much slower than IВ’d expected it to.

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