Trial of the Week is a new weekly feature that reviews Community Games from XBOX LIVE based ONLY on their trail segment. In the future there might even be a Trial of the Week for XBLA games and PSN games.
This is the first game I'm doing a Trial of the Week for. This will also be an unusual game for the Trial of the Week because it is not only based on the Trial but also on the full game. Which once I downloaded the trial I all most immediately bought the full game.
Aria is a dual stick shooter that is very similar to Geometry Wars. However, the big difference with Aria is that the enemies spawn using the MUSIC from your hard drive on your XBOX 360. I have to admit the very thought of this was enough for me to all most immediately download the trial and then the full game. You can battle with four other players either locally with Aria. It could be a really fun party game.
As you can see from the screen shots above the game isn't the most graphically intensive. However, the meat of the gameplay is SO MUCH fun that I think most people will want to play this game quite often. The only real problem with Aria is the trial itself.
The trial for the game only allows you to play one song and this is a randomly selected song from your hard drive. Rather than fooling with the features in the game, it probably would have been better to only allow the player to play up to a certain score or a specific time limit. By doing what they did with the trial the game is really not fully experienced by the trial player. Which if the game didn't cost ONLY 200 Microsoft Points it would be a deal breaker.
Aria is a wonderful concept that I would LOVE to see in a more graphically complex form. In fact, this could be an EXCELLENT full featured game on XBLA, if they just added some more complex enemies or perhaps that could drop this music feature into the next Geometry Wars.
So go and DOWNLOAD this trial and see what you think.
(this is only a taste of what is to come in further trials. If YOU have a Community Game that you think is AWESOME, drop me an email(devilsalias@gmail.com), or tweet, and let me know. Make sure the subject line says Good Community Trial).
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