Death By Cube

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  • Summary: [Xbox Live Arcade] Developed by Premium Agency, DEATH BY CUBE is a strategic twin-stick shooter in which players attempt to defeat cube shaped enemy robots of all sizes. With simple yet challenging game play, DEATH BY CUBE allows players to destroy an army of oil covered enemies in[Xbox Live Arcade] Developed by Premium Agency, DEATH BY CUBE is a strategic twin-stick shooter in which players attempt to defeat cube shaped enemy robots of all sizes. With simple yet challenging game play, DEATH BY CUBE allows players to destroy an army of oil covered enemies in addictive and map-specific combat. Take on missions in single player mode or enjoy heated battles in online and offline multiplayer modes. LEO is a robot, one who awakes to find that he has lost his memory. All he knows is that he must reboot the heroine robot SELSIE, so he sets forth on a mission hoping to regain his memory. To his surprise, he finds the world is now filled with battalions of enemy robots, drenched in bright red oil, and shooting bullets every direction. What will LEO find beyond the barrage of enemy robots, bullets and red oil? [Square Enix]… Expand

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 24
  2. Mixed: 14 out of 24
  3. Negative: 6 out of 24
  1. XboxAddict
    82
    It's an interesting take on the Twin-stick shooter genre and while the story really isn't anything special or engrossing, at least it has one unlike the majority of others.
  2. The A.V. Club
    75
    Players with the ultra-competitive wiring to endure Cube's frustrations will find a satisfying level of strategy beneath its berserk facade.
  3. X-ONE Magazine UK
    70
    Highly recommended for those new to the twin-stick shooter. [Issue#56, p.105]
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  4. Edge Magazine
    60
    It shows that this most predictable of genres is still capable of throwing out interesting surprises. [Mar 2010, p.97]
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  5. GameFocus
    55
    The folks at Premium Agency were clearly inspired by Geometry Wars, and just added some blood and cubes. But, in the end there is a dead online multiplayer community, with little hope of attracting players from the single player campaign. Anybody looking for a less frustrating Shooter/Strategy should take a pass on this one.
  6. IGN
    49
    Death By Cube looks, plays, and feels like a community game, which makes the $10 price tag all the more upsetting. It's generic, frustrating, and not really fun. I don't see why you'd pick this up over Geometry Wars or any of the other twin-stick shooters out there.
  7. 1UP
    25
    DBC's trouble goes deeper than simple poor design; there's no vision here, no sense of what the "point" of the game is.

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  1. TomaszT.
    Feb 3, 2010
    1
    A robot who have lost memory is shooting cubes/robots which die in a very bloody way. Very poor graphics, repetitive/boring gameplay, weird A robot who have lost memory is shooting cubes/robots which die in a very bloody way. Very poor graphics, repetitive/boring gameplay, weird game concept.… Expand