XNA has a ton of offerings and like just every console, there’s plenty of good and bad. But like my personal hero Vanilla Ice used to say, “the cream always rises to the top”. Say hello to Angry Berry.

Angry Barry is a 2D side-scrolling beat’em up along the lines of Final Fight and Streets of Rage, but it has serious political overtones.  Featuring high definition, hand drawn and animated 2D graphics, tons of political humor and parody, and an original soundtrack composed exclusively for the game, it’s good to see a game of this quality come out of the XNA community.
In Angry Barry you play the role of the titular Barry and fight a vast assortment of characters through 9 stages in your quest for the presidency of the United States. You will have to battle a wide assortment of enemies ranging from secret service members, old political candidates, democratic and republican rivals and a robot villain. Yeah even the robots make it into this political debacle, just like Al Gore in 2000.
Packing all of this into a XNA game seems almost too good to be true. For a measly 400 points you and a friend (oh yes, I said XNA multiplayer) can tag team your way to political victory. So get your credit card handy to make a purchase and remember vote or die, or in this case kick or get your assed kicked!
Pros: Great visuals, gameplay and soundtrack
Cons: No achievements
GamePro Score: 4.5
The Info: Platform: Xbox 360 (XNA), Publisher/Developer: Arrogancy, Players: 1-2, Price: 400 MS Points

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