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Bliss Island consists of a number of mini-games featuring forgettable characters doing unimportant things. Only a couple of the games are fun; the rest are mere exercises in futility.
Cyberball 2072 (Midway)
Downloading this game at 400 points, Cyberball 2072 might seem like a significant value. However, the game lacks any kind of online Xbox Live-supported play, and also gets weighed down with frustrating controls and unpolished visuals. Hardcore fans may appreciate it, but no one else will.
SpongeBob SquarePants: Underpants Slam! (THQ)
Okay, so tell us if this sounds fun to you. You race around with a bunch of other people on a multi-platform level, picking up as many underpants as possible while a talking fish announcer cheers you on. It's just not that entertaining, and we're SpongeBob fans.
Yaris (Microsoft)
Yes, we know -- Yaris is a free game, and outside of the superior Aegis Wing, really good free games are pretty hard to come by on Xbox Live Arcade. However, even with a zero price tag, this game runs out of gas. Lame-brained gameplay and uninspired level design coupled with over-promotion for Toyota's Yaris automobile makes this crash of a game a total loss.
Street Trace: NYC (Gaia Industries)
In the right hands, Street Trace: NYC could've been a great game, a wondrous hybrid of SSX-style tricks and Twisted Metal-esque combat. In the wrong hands, it's an unplayable mess, with little reason to see the fight all the way to the finish. Skip it.
Novadrome (Buena Vista Games)
Novadrome is a futuristic car combat game with lots of potential, at least on paper. The super-charged artificial intelligence, lack of personalized weaponry and somewhat stunted presentation keep its wheels from spinning.
Screwjumper! (THQ)
OK, so let's get this straight. You jump into a tunnel roughly three miles deep to disable a bomb, and then have to jet back out before something goes off. Yeah, that makes sense. Inoperable camera angles and boring gameplay makes Screwjumper best suited for a shorter jump, followed by a flush.
Rocketmen: Axis of Evil (Capcom)
Finally, Capcom's multiplayer blasting game packs in tons of bosses and enemies to tear apart with sweet weaponry. However, it moves at a crawl instead of a rapid pace. The visuals don't look that great either, despite the '50s kitsch. The Axis of Evil tilts heavily against this one.
Are we wrong? Sound off. What Xbox Live games do you despise?
Robert Workman
