Xbox Woot: Xbox 360 Games and News

Real Time Strategy games and consoles generally don’t mesh well together. There are always problems with control speed and not enough buttons on a controller to command everything you need in an RTS. A new game coming out for the Xbox 360 called Universe at War hopes to change all that. I haven’t had a chance to play this game, but the screenshots and video look absolutely amazing.

Here’s what IGN had to say about the game: “What Petroglyph has done is to take the basic framework and use it to create a game with three wildly unique but finely balanced factions that each offer a level of real-time customization that gives players a chance to really adapt to the changing circumstances on the battlefield. Unfortunately, the game’s campaign doesn’t do justice to the overall design while a number of sticky interface and performance problems add to the frustrations.”

Not a bad review, but it could have been better. A poor campaign mod might be countered by an awesome multiplayer experience on Xbox Live.

For those of you interested in trying this game out, you can download the demo of it on Gamespot or FileFront.