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Hello everyone.
So today I'm taking a look at Max The Curse of Brotherhood
on Xbox One. Now this has just been released to the Xbox store
and in essence it's a fantastic puzzle platform game.
Now the characters as it were might be familiar if you've ever played the Wii title
Max and the Magic Marker and it's very much using the same characters and concept but now an
exclusive Xbox One title.
It will be coming to Xbox 360 later in the Max The Curse of Brotherhood
year but as a launch title as it were on Xbox One
following just around a month after the console was released and it is an
absolute stunner.
It really does scale wonderfully well and it does show off
what the XboxOne is going to be capable of. The basic principle is this.
It's a puzzle platform game so you're going to have to scale the environment using various
objects within the environment like vines and stones and everything like that
but you also have a magic marker pen and this magic marker
can be used to interact with key points around the environment, for instance
building bridges, raising platforms up to help you reach various areas and
get past certain monsters as well. Now
there was one slightly strange thing. In the cut scenes we did see
a bit of a drop in the frame rate almost like a stutter going on Max The Curse of Brotherhood
but at no point did we ever see that during actual gameplay.
So there's nothing here that would make me think this game requires more
time in the oven as it were. Some of the cut scenes like I say
slight drops in frame rate but during the actual gameplay itself the frame rate is
solid throughout.
So here you can see the magic marker being used to raise some platforms. And
again here swinging on a vine and I've got to just time things just right to get past
that monster.
Now the monsters in the game are really nicely done
they tend to be quite aggressive with you so they're trying to kill you
basically Max The Curse of Brotherhood
to try to stop you from rescuing your brother and so timing becomes quite
important.
For instance you'll have to set off monsters then get to the other end of a
section, drop a trap on them and then move on
and there's lots of little elements like this throughout the game which are just
really good fun and some of the puzzles are fiendish.
For instance this one where I had to effectively balance a branch on some stone to then
create a bridge for myself
and it's just wonderfully well done. The game's retailing for £11.99 on the Xbox store
and honestly this is a title to pick up for Christmas
without a shadow of a doubt. Kid-friendly, wonderful graphics
and really fun gameplay in Max The Curse of Brotherhood.