Xbox Live for Windows Phone 7

Written By Unknown on Thursday, October 14, 2010 | Thursday, October 14, 2010

We aloof spent some serious, and we beggarly austere time with Xbox Live for Windows Phone 7. Aloof like your Xbox, this is array of an amalgamation of "the abode you go to comedy games" and "the abode you go to ping and taunt your accompany who additionally comedy games." Unfortunately, it seems there's a bit of a abstract amid phone-based array and annal and Xbox achievements -- they all add up to the aforementioned gamerscore, but you can't calmly there are abstracted archive to cull up your best contempo Halo exploits to appearance off on your mobile, for instance. Luckily, that still puts Microsoft in a more acceptable position than any added adaptable amateur belvedere (until Apple can get Game Center to stop sucking, at least). Actuality able to bulletin and claiming accompany all from the aforementioned "hub" area you accumulate your amateur is great, and actuality able to appearance your avatar and the avatars of accompany (you can alike comedy dress-up with your own) is nice gravy on top.

Of course, what absolutely affairs is the games, right? Luckily, Microsoft has a appealing able barrage lineup, with some of the audience like EA's The Sims 3 and Need for Speed, forth with some exclusives like Rocket Riot and the hotly advancing The Harvest. The acceptable news? Amateur attending and comedy great, aloof like you ability apprehend from an iPhone or Android akin capacitive touchscreen platform, with The Harvest as an accessible and actual important standout in complication and polish. The bad news? Everything takes always to amount (our asperous appraisal is about three account to alpha arena in The Harvest), and back you don't accept any multitasking, that's a absolutely bad thing. Check out some of the Xbox Live hub and capabilities afterwards the break, forth with some games, and accomplish up your own mind.