Gamers Evolved

Xbox 360 players have grown accustomed to the many games that can be played in the Xbox Live Arcade. Now there is a new game, Geon: Emotions, that is about to be released. It is a pick-up and play game that is made up of evolving tactics, all while you play in eight different emotion. The emotions include Passion, Fear, Envy, Courage, Rapture, Bliss, Melancholy, and Rage. You must collect pellets, score goals, and use strengths geared directly towards your emotion to succeed.

The game works as easy player races to collect E-motes and the first to score 5 goals is the winner. The single-player mode will allow players to practice while the real fun will take place in multiplayer on Xbox Live with a team game for 4 players or head-to-head duels. Released through the publisher’s fast-growing New Media Division, Geon emotions is a clever mix of fast-paced futuresport and tactical play. Developed and co-published by Strawdog Studios Geon emotions invites gamers to play as one of eight feelings: Rage, Passion, Fear, Envy, Rapture, Courage, Bliss and Melancholy, each of which enters the game with varying strengths and weaknesses.

The action is set across a number of visually striking 3D play areas, broken up into grids that feature tight corners, sweeping loops and raised banks. Having selected an emotion, players race around the psychedelic play area attempting to gather special‘E-Mote’ pellets to increase their emotion’s strength or to weaken their opponents, thus allowing them to reach an end zone and score goals while their rivals are stricken.
Geon emotions enjoys six game modes, with single-players facing‘Time Attacks’ and‘Duels’ while up to four people can compete in split-screen competitions that allow them to work together or battle it out in‘Last Man Standing’ death-matches. Each game begins with players rushing to collect E-Motes before using their specific powers to debilitate the opposition.

The use of E-Motes allows players to exploit the weakness of the emotions the CPU or rival players control. Rage, for instance, can be sedated with a powered-up Bliss attack, while Passion can be similarly tempered with a blast of Melancholy. With the opposition in disarray, the player can then charge across the two-sided play area to score the five goals needed to win the match. With its clever premise and fast-paced gameplay, Geon emotions is a frenetic and entertaining experience and marks the perfect Xbox LIVE Arcade debut for Eidos New Media. Geon emotions will be released for Xbox LIVE Arcade on Wednesday, September 19th priced at 800 Microsoft Points.