XBLIG Review: Avatar Deathmatch – Say hello to my little (foam)
friend!  Avatar Deathmatch is a first person shooter multiplayer
game where your Xbox Live avatar must fight to survive. The game
pits you and your avatar against three foes in a battle to the
death… with NERF guns.  Battle over Xbox Live using shotguns,
Uzi’s, hand guns and even some power-ups in ten minute epic
battles of avatarness in this surprisingly solid XBLIG.   When I
first saw the cover art for Avatar Deathmatch, which pays homage
in a not so subtle way to a certain multi-billion dollar FPS, my
first thought was how Lighthouse Games Studio was going to get
around the pesky little rule that XBLIG’s can’t have the avatars
using guns.  In a fairly clever move the developers chose to use
toy guns that resemble the classic NERF toys, and use the term
“knock out” rather than imply death.  Anyone with half a brain
can see through this ploy, but you do what you have to do to
meet rules that sometimes don’t make a whole lot of sense. 
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