XG Blast!
XG Blast! is an arcade shooter delivered in a bright and colorful retro style. Players control the spaceship Aknathen, which wandered into hostile territory during a secret experimental journey to test the…
XG Blast! is a shooter developed by Next Wave Team, released 6 February 2009 on Nintendo DS.
What XG Blast! is
XG Blast! is a shooter game developed by Next Wave Team and released in 2009. It was published by Rising Star Games. It is available on Nintendo DS only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
XG Blast! is an arcade shooter delivered in a bright and colorful retro style. Players control the spaceship Aknathen, which wandered into hostile territory during a secret experimental journey to test the spaceship's capabilities and advanced devices. Utilize the unique powers of your ship as you fight countless squadrons of enemy ships. It is up to you to get your crew back in one piece and save your people from annihilation!
How it was received
XG Blast! holds a critic score of 80 out of 100. That places it above 68% of the 3,305 rated shooter games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2009 averaged 67, so it scored 13 points above the year average.
What it launched against
XG Blast! launched on 6 February 2009, within three weeks of Demon's Souls, Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story, Grand Theft Auto IV: The Lost and Damned and Killzone 2. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Demon's Souls, Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story, Grand Theft Auto IV: The Lost and Damned, Killzone 2.
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