Blacklight: Tango Down is $15, filled with ads, frustration
- Monday, 12 July 2010 16:51
Blacklight: Tango Down is a $15 first-person shooter released on Xbox Live Arcade last week. It seems like a good deal: heavy on the game types, decent-looking graphics, co-op missions... In practice, though, the game proves much more frustrating than fun.
It takes an uncomfortably long time to find a game to actually play. There is no server browser, so you're stuck looking at a loading screen until the computer finds a place to put you. A five-minute wait is common, and over the weekend I finally ended one session after waiting a stupefying 15 minutes before being put into a game. The co-op missions can only be played with others if you invite them in, since they don't even use the match-making system. Disappointing.
