Geon cheers up XBLA

By Tom Bramwell Published 19 September, 2007

Today's new release.

Eidos's strange-looking Xbox Live Arcade puzzle game Geon: Emotions is due out today and will set you back 800 Microsoft points (GBP 6.80 / EUR 10.30).

Billed as an "abstract sports game", working out happens in Geon is almost impossible through traditional means.

"Will you choose to spread fear among the other players, or unleash a wave of bliss over them with the aim of subverting their cause?" says Gamerscoreblog, teeing it up.

"Play to your emotional strengths. Allow your dark side to dominate, or win through speed, courage, and style. You can be the master of Geon, but you must learn to use your emotions to your advantage."

We'd start by downloading a demo to see what on earth it actually is. Which is what we'd be doing if we weren't in Japan trying not to fall asleep.

For more on Geon, including some colourful screenshots, check out our previous coverage.

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About Tom Bramwell

Tom is Operations director of Eurogamer Network and Editor-at-Large of Eurogamer.net. He joined the company in February 2000.

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  • menage #1 4 years ago

    Mmm. interested how this one turns out.

  • L42yB #2 4 years ago

    "working out happens in Geon is almost impossible through traditional means"

    Ummm.... do u maybe mean "working out *what* happens..." :) Sounds like u have to run on a treadmill or summin the way its phrased at the moment ;)

  • DDevil #3 4 years ago

    It's no Space Giraffe... That's for sure.

  • barnard666 #4 4 years ago

    Its fairly dull, maybe I havent given it enough time, but on first play its not much fun at all.

    heres my description of it - imagine pacman as a board game, imagine its made of glass, an oponent is playing on the underside, you on the top, when you have collected enough pellets you can press a button to go to the oponents side of the board where you can drop these pellets off and "score". You can collect power ups/weapons that you can use to hinder your oponent through the glass, e.g. drop them a trap, or do a big jump that makes them drop some of their pellets.

    the rounds are set so that to win you have to be the first to get all the dots...

    thats it really...

    oh the emotions...well depending on what emotion you choose (emotion selection is a jazzed up word for chracter selection) different poerups will be more effective. I wanted this to be fun, it isnt...
    Edited by 1 at 19/09/07 @ 10:30

  • crazyhorse174 #5 4 years ago

    It's no Space Giraffe... That's for sure.

    Thank God for small mercies...

  • optimusprym8 #6 4 years ago

    where's SWOS dammit

  • Kiigan #7 4 years ago

    Fun little game. I dislike the "emotions" theme though.

  • Lebowski #8 4 years ago

    It's a pretty good game when you get going. No SWOS though - which I personally think has been pushed back until after FIFA 08 now. :-(

  • Twincoil #9 4 years ago

    They're still making XBLA games? How quaint.

  • Monkey_Puncher #10 4 years ago

    I'm guessing Sensi's got bugs in it as Codies are now saying that it'll be out before the end of year....hopefully that means next week!

  • klixman #11 4 years ago

    Hurry up with SWOS already!

  • BlueMeanie1 #12 4 years ago

    Downloaded this on Auto download this morning... ok, I was expecting SWOS... But I found the whole thing rather interesting... At first it was like ok... collect the pellets but when you really start playing it it has some really cool things to do.

    Been playing some guys in the states for ages and it was a really good match, Last Man Standing is crazy.

    Being a fan of anything out of the ordinary, I found it pretty good fun.

    If anyone here tries to compare it to Space Giraffe your so much mistaken.

  • BBIAJ #13 4 years ago

    bugger... considering this week has no boxed releases

    Are you forgetting Oblivion GOTY, NHL 08, and Orochi Warriors then?

  • quickshot69 #14 4 years ago

    hmmm.....I wasn't expecting this game at all when I checked the XBLA last night....Was expecting SWOS instead:(

    But I've been playing this game on and off for the last few hours and have really got into it...cool graphics and good gameplay...it's what the XBLA should be about...multiplayer/head to head action.....it's as colourful as Space Giraffe but without the headaches!

    What's on XBLA next week?