Developed by Overclocked Games
Released for Xbox Live Indie Games (5/2010)
Uprising is yet another entry into the crowded twin-stick shooter genre. I liked the overall presentation on this one; the menus and game interface all look good. In Uprising you play as a person rather than a ship, however it looks pretty silly as there's no animation to your player so they just kind of hover around. Enemies tend to consist of round hockey-puck looking things, and it didn't take more than a few rounds of shooting them before boredom began to settle in. There is an attempt to add a little enemy diversity, but nothing really stands out and I couldn't even tell what most of them were supposed to resemble. There are some squares thrown into the otherwise barren stages to add some cover potential. This is one of those twin-sticks where the left stick moves, right stick aims and you use the trigger to fire. You also have to reload in this game, which is done by hitting RB. There is a story which consists of something about fighting a CPU virus, presented by cheesy digitized character pics before your missions. Uprising is competently designed and playable, but in an ocean of twin-stick shooter games it gets swallowed up by bigger, badder fish. It does get points for the level that takes place on your computer desktop, that was a pretty cool idea I will admit.
Final Verdict: Uprising is by no means really a bad game, but there are better twin-stick shooters on XBLIG to invest your time into. If you feel like you've tried them all and still want more then give this one a go.
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