As of right now, metacritic has 72 recorded reviews of Killzone 2 and only two reviews of Exit 2, which was released two full days before Killzone. Now obviously Killzone 2 should have more reviews, but I personally feel it's kinda pathetic that XBLA games recieve such little coverage and so few reviews, unless they're a giant title from a big publisher.

Even worse is looking for coverage or reviews of community games, as both seemingly don't even exist. It really seems to me that there should be a site devoted to this sort of stuff by now, rather than being the 134th site to review the latest AAA blockbuster retail title. Is there something I'm missing, or does such a site still not exist?

Other than wishing I could read a few more Exit 2 reviews before perhaps picking up that title, the other thing that made me interested in this subject is a community game I've been playing called bricks4ever. It's been announced that Arkanoid is coming to XBLA, but when you can buy brick4ever for just 200 points, I think the Arkanoid developers are going to have a hard time finding people to buy their game for what will probably be four times the cost of bricks4ever. Well, at least I think that would be the case if many people even KNEW about bricks4ever, but I'm guessing that many don't, and I'm guessing lots of people will buy Arkanoid without ever knowing about the community games alternative.

It's a sad situation, and I hope someone does something about it soon.



bricks4ever: 200 points, available now.



Arkanoid (video is from the original, not the XBLA remake): likely 800 points, available goodness knows when.


I have no idea why these videos pasted twice, but I'm not about to try and fix them, only to screw things up more.  Oh well.