Teletext writes: "We first reviewed this game on its original PC release way back in 2005.
The trials suffered by UK developer Introversion Software in getting the game on Xbox Live Arcade are well documented but the result is worth it.
It may suffer from many of the usual problems of real-time strategy games on consoles, but it has personality enough to make you forget its many flaws."
Mark Morris, a co-founder of Introversion Software on the indie games scene, the impact of Minecraft, and how before Notch "we all had a dream, now we know the dream is achievable", on distribution platforms - how Steam is a priority for developers - and on how the best route in to games development is trying indie, before aspiring to work as part of a team at the 'old guard' (a big name studio).
AJ Lysiak: "2010 has been a phenomenal year for the Xbox Live Arcade. Disregarding the ridiculous price hike to $15.00 for the majority of games, I feel this is the best lineup we've ever seen. Microsoft's tendency to wait months to release games already complete puzzled me. Anyway, on to the list of what I feel are the 10 best games to release this year."
Darwinia + was a serious sleeper hit. Probably one of the more original games out there. Some big misses though.
Coplanet: Darwinia +, Introversion Software title for the Xbox 360, will be familiar to anyone: it is a collection of two computer games, and MultiWin Darwinia, released in 2005 and 2008 respectively, which were pumped for the occasion, revised and corrected .
