Xotic Critic Reviews

Essentially, Xotic is a fun distraction that has the potential to become a great franchise.

Not perfect, but decent gun-run fun.

The unique art style and combo based scoring can become addictive, if that's your thing, but if you're looking for something to blast a ton of bad guys and take on human opponents, you may want to look elsewhere.

While the combat side might not be stellar, it's not particularly tough to contend with. Simply clear out the enemies infesting each stage and then turn your focus on scoring points and you'll still get a kick out of it.

A fairly bland game.

First-person shooter Xotic sure lives up to its name with surreal, fast-flowing gameplay.

The concept behind Xotic is fun, but it isn't executed in a good way. The graphics, audio and overall production values just disappoint and never really seem to impress.

Xotic offers up a fairly mediocre FPS offering for the 800ms points you'll be dropping on it.

There is a good game somewhere in the hybrid FPS/arcade title Xotic, but it's buried beneath gameplay mechanics that don't go well together. Collecting points, going for high scores, and zipping through levels for the fastest time is both fun and challenging, but having to slow the pace down to hunt and kill every enemy in order to advance takes away from what could have been a great title. Overly complicated controls and confusing visuals don't help either.

There's a crude leveling system.

The fact that every cheap death forces you to start a mission over from scratch is just the final nail in Xotic's suffocating coffin.

Keep your hands off Xotic. These 800 MSP should rather be invested elsewhere.

A dissapointing game, based on a strange universe, without a decent story and lackluster gameplay.

I have had to concede it a good score in terms of value. Although it has much of the polish of a $100+ title, Xotic can be yours for only 800 Microsoft Points. I'm genuinely impressed by the production values for a game in this league. I just don't want to play it again.

To use an easy analogy crutch, the Xotic aesthetic is what I imagine would come from Terry Gilliam's seed and Tim Burton's egg. The worlds have a distinct, twisted, colorful look. Each space is so littered with warped objects and fluorescent lights, though, that it becomes difficult to separate enemies, point items, and multiplier and damage pickups from the environment.

Xotic is terrible in most respects and unremarkable or flat-out boring in all others.