Precisely the extravagance makes some players but for a pure happiness. Child of Eden brings impressive with lots of energy and opens up to you the opportunity to fully immerse themselves in the game. A dark room, plenty of caffeine in the blood, with headphones on her ears, I stare at the screen. Before me unfolds a huge riot of color, relentlessly pounding music and I fly through the quivering constructions. Here I take all my enemies with crosshairs on the grain and try my lethal "missiles" fire in time to the music. Everything revolves, pulsates the environment and by playing with the music make it the developer to create an almost trance-like state.
I have thus, in theory, concept and game mechanics described adequately. In Child of Eden you yourselves the crosshairs and while the camera follows a fixed path, it marks the emerging enemies and then shoot them down automatically. It is not complicated at all, but then reveals his finesse in detail. Who really wants to score points, namely must take eight enemies at once to target and execute the attack at the right moment. The music will help you in this, and who knows the ropes, which is rewarded with a short "perfect". Light that is not, the level require, especially in the high degree of difficulty a lot of concentration and you have quite know what you're doing. The enemies are sometimes very defensive and hurl you receive shots, which you can only parry with the tracer. This is your secondary weapon, whose characteristic is the high activity against lilane enemies. Who inserting itself too many hits, who dies and needs - no matter how far he has come - start over. Especially when the final battle can ruin the mood perfectly. Can you manage, however, awaits you at the end of the level a valuation that considered various aspects, such as your hunting quota or how often an octa-lock you succeeded. Incidentally, this is one of those perfect firings of eight goals in the beat of the music.
Since Child of Eden has ended after just 120 minutes, it stands to reason that it's the high score that wants to seduce you. Selfsame one can drive by repeatedly playing in the air and improve its completion rate in the level. In addition, it switches as pictures and a few free bonuses. Although All this is nice but is not misleading about the unduly narrow scope of time. After only two days passed motivation and indeed one remembers like experienced at this, but did not necessarily desire to dive again into the colorful worlds. Five levels are easy enough and two more have the game done really well.
"Better with Kinect" emblazoned on my game case from the UK, but is only partly true. Certainly it has its charm, interactively with the enemies to "play" to move to the music. But I can not so intense dive as required by Child of Eden from me personal it. I need to the relaxed sitting position, above headphones and not the distraction of the interior of my living room. If you do not share these concerns, you can, in combination with Kinect have a lot of fun, the implementation is namely Ubisoft well done.
We dedicate ourselves in a few words nor the technical side of Child of Eden, which is optically a real gem. It does not have to act the claim in any way realistic, creating a colorful, vibrant and abstract world of tunnels, shapes, geometric shapes, pulsating to the rhythm structures and bizarre opponents. In places, minimalist, then imposing again, powerful and exciting. To put it even to the point: Child of Eden looks fantastic. To this fascinating optical presentation, a progressive electronic soundtrack joined. Not aggressive or excessively rapidly, but steadily, intense and at the right time with powerful bass and a track Acid. The focus is on the interplay between optics and acoustics that can suck you deep into the game. As unofficial successor of a true masterpiece, is Child of Eden must of course also make the comparison, which it unfortunately loses. REZ is the name of its predecessor, which acts a bit like the mechanical, evil brother. REZ is techno, hard and dirty, while Child of Eden celebrates the life and radiates a much more harmonious atmosphere. However, both complement each other perfectly and Xbox owners can download the HD version of the predecessor "Shooters" on the Xbox Live Marketplace. Shooter is actually a good point: Whoever Child of Eden which evil will, which probably sees this as a colorful Rail Shooter with Kackmusik who has no sense, is completed rapidly and offers little explosions. Yes, you have to be lovers ...
