Feeding Frenzy on Arcade

By Tom Bramwell Published 17 March, 2006

As in, a new game on Live.

Yet another new game's popped up on Xbox Live Arcade overnight - this one's called Feeding Frenzy, and is a port of a dinky PC game about gobbling up fish.

Basically it works like this: you are an angel fish, you can move in any direction using the left analogue stick, and when you come into contact with a smaller fish than you mouth-first, you gobble it up. You can do a little pounce style short-sprint by hitting A. The idea is simply to eat lots of small fish until you grow in size. At which point, obviously, you can start tackling the bigger ones you've been avoiding up to then.

There's a sort of "FRENZY" meter you can build up, by the looks of the demo, high score rankings, time attacks and all sorts - most of which is unlockable by buying the full game, which costs 800 "Microsoft points", or about £6.80 in real money.

We'll bring you some thoughts on it in the near future. In the meantime, you can check out the freely downloadable demo (about 30MB) for a taster.

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Comments (14) Latest comment 6 years ago

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  • InfiniteFury #1 6 years ago

    £3-4 is so much easier to throw away - these games all need to be 400 points and they'll sell so many more.

    If they were, I swear I'd by one a week every weekend and they'd get so much more money out of me.

    In fact, I reckon I'd have every title by now and being the mug I am I'd feel I'd got a fecking bargain rather than just having the 6 I have now and thinking "Ooooh, £7 for an Arcade game, ouch". Price/value perception innit?
    Edited by 1 at 17/03/06 @ 11:12

  • espadachin #2 6 years ago

    i think its poop, but my girlfriend loves it, so its a reluctant purchase for me...

  • trevd72 #3 6 years ago

    InfiniteFury - that the drum i like to bang, 400 points please.

  • Darkedge #4 6 years ago

    800 points?
    RIPOFF. Stop being so money grabbing MS and you'll sell much more.

  • petebritish #5 6 years ago

    800 is a bit steep me and the missus have played the demo but no way is it worth 800 points. Bring on astropop MS please

  • bloke #6 6 years ago

    All of this stuff is $19.99 on PC on MSN, so $10 for an X360 version is far from a rip-off ffs.

  • InfiniteFury #7 6 years ago

    I think most people are making the argument that MS and the developers could sell more and we would give them more of our money Bloke.

    Sorry, FFS.
    Edited by 1 at 17/03/06 @ 12:20

  • linksdad #8 6 years ago

    When you can get crappy (and sometimes not so crappy) games on CD from a retailer for £5.00 it is a complete ripoff that these guys think that £8.00 is acceptable for this quickly knocked up type of game. Especially without any shipping, media or retailers cut to pay.
    I suppose it all boils down to being able to sell more than double for 1/2 the price.

    I have been underwhelmed with my 360 to date. The only game from the 3 that I bought with the machine that I have played for more than a couple of hours has been PGR3. It hasnt been worth subscribing to gold since my trial expired to listen to a bunch of retards trash talking while they are ramming me into corners.
    The only other game I am looking forward to being oblivian. If there isnt anything else on the horizon after that I'll be getting shut on ebay.

  • Mildew #9 6 years ago

    Too damn right...wouldn't be surprised in the future starting to see 1200 and 1600 point games - Street Fighter and sequel to Mutant Storm maybe?

  • gizmo #10 6 years ago

    Got bored before the demo even ran out on me. 800 points?. No.

    Agree with the comments about the 400 points level, I'd have bought quite a few more at that level. As it is, I have bought Geometry wars and Bejewelled 2.

  • InfiniteFury #11 6 years ago

    With Sony's announcements about free online play, I'm expecting MS to phase out the sub charge eventually and load the prices of Marketplace content.

  • bloke #12 6 years ago

    Sorry was a bit tetchy earlier.

    Agree totally that 400 points is a no-brainer impulse buy price for the right sort of game.

    As a business type, I'd like to see other price points accepted on Marketplace, as long as the game was good enough, as it's very difficult to make a very cool game (or for that matter a living) on the margin from 400 points.

  • bauhaus #13 6 years ago

    geo wars is worth every penny, I`ll check this fish thing out

  • Retroid #14 6 years ago

    /Worries about pricing for the inevitable follow-up to Geo Wars Evolved

    :S