The Dishwasher: Dead SamuraiPublisher:Microsoft Game Studios
Developer:Ska Studios
System: Xbox 360
Released: 1st of April 2009
Price: 800 MSP
StoryThe Dishwasher - The violent, unnamed protagonist; captured by the cyborgs in hope of making him one of their own, The Dishwasher was saved by Chef - his mentor - and was donated "Alien Blood" reserecting him from death and giving him incredible powers. The Dishwasher reminicies through a series of comic-strips of his life and hatred for the Cyborgs and their master "AI Synthesis" but more importantly of his sister, Yuki, who gave herself willingly to the Cyborgs. His quest is simple: destroy the head of the Cyborg army so that the world may be saved.
Sound 12/15
The music fits the tone of the game perfectly and the sound effects are pretty cool too but there could have been a wider range of them.
Graphics 16/20
They're handrawn so don't expect it to be like any of those photo realistic games that are continually being released, even though they are handrawn they still look great.
Appeal 20/25
This game is tons of fun while it lasts, beating the game can take from 1 hour up to 200 hours depending on your skill level, but once you've beaten the game on Normal or Ninja theres the next difficulty Samurai for those who dare to try it you can play the game co-op with a friend once you find a special item in one of the levels. There's also an arcade mode in which theres 50 levels which require you to beat a certain amount of enemies sometimes with addtions like bullet time and can be played online or in local co-op and then there's the Dishwasher Challenge which is the same concept of the rest of the game, you're just beating the crap out of wave after wave of enemies racking up a high score for the XBL leaderboards.
Gameplay 36/40
The gameplay is very simple. It's 2D sidescrolling beat 'em-up game, you're a Samurai fighting tons of strange enemies ranging from FBI agents to Zombies. The controls are also really simple although you can expand and do complicated combos if you wish theres also a magic system called "Dish magic" complicated combos, uprgraded weapons and good use of Dish magic are going to be needed to beat this game on Samurai which is going to cause any gamer a huge frustration and maybe even cost you a controllor or two but at the end but it's worth it, you get an achievement worth 40G and a cool in game hat.-.-
Theres also a small guitar minigame which can be played using the Guitar controllors from Rock Band and Guitar Hero.
Overall 84/100
I enjoyed this game a lot and had trouble putting the controllor down for a few days.I've only beaten it on normal and I'm not quite done with arcade mode yet, if you even played Ninja Gaiden 2 this is it's 2D brother, it's insanly hard. If you've beaten it on Samurai diffifculty you are a gaming god, apart from that its a very enjoyable game, a must buy for any 360 owner.
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