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Death by Cube
Mixed or average reviews
Based on 23 critic reviews
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Game Info
Publisher: Square Enix
Developer: Premium Agency
Genre(s): Shooter
Players: 8
ESRB Rating: T (Teen)
Release Date: January 20, 2010
Summary
[Xbox Live Arcade] Developed by Premium Agency, DEATH BY CUBE is a strategic twin-stick shooter in which players attempt to defeat cube shaped enemy robots of all sizes. With simple yet challenging game play, DEATH BY CUBE allows players to destroy an army of oil covered enemies in addictive and map-specific combat. Take on missions in single player mode or enjoy heated battles in online and offline multiplayer modes. LEO is a robot, one who awakes to find that he has lost his memory. All he knows is that he must reboot the heroine robot SELSIE, so he sets forth on a mission hoping to regain his memory. To his surprise, he finds the world is now filled with battalions of enemy robots, drenched in bright red oil, and shooting bullets every direction. What will LEO find beyond the barrage of enemy robots, bullets and red oil? [Square Enix]
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What The Critics Said
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
XboxAddict
It’s an interesting take on the Twin-stick shooter genre and while the story really isn’t anything special or engrossing, at least it has one unlike the majority of others.
Read Full Review >TeamXbox
Death by Cube is such a simple game, yet so much fun and so satisfying once you dig in to the upgrade systems.
Read Full Review >Gamer 2.0
Death by Cube has some great potential to achieve in a sequel; it’s just that right now there are some serious flaws that are holding it back from achieving commercial success. Did we mention that it soon becomes frustratingly, bang your head against the wall hard? DBC is fun for a good thirty minutes, and after that you are better off putting it down, which is not worth the 800 Microsoft Points ($10) to download. Just go for the trial version.
Read Full Review >The Onion (A.V. Club)
Players with the ultra-competitive wiring to endure Cube’s frustrations will find a satisfying level of strategy beneath its berserk facade.
Read Full Review >WonderwallWeb
Something a little different but doesn’t have enough hold to make you stay with it for long periods.
Read Full Review >X360 Magazine UK
Highly recommended for those new to the twin-stick shooter. [Issue#56, p.105]
Teletext GameCentral
Yet another downloadable Robotron clone, but one with some interesting, if peculiar, ideas.
Read Full Review >9Lives
Death by Cube seemed like a very good game at first. The first half hour I had incredible fun, but fast the notes were increasingly red, meaning bad, worse, impossibly bad. The game has potential, but having to replay a level eight times to unlock enough coins to advance, is a tad overboard. The pure chaos and difficulty make for a lack of tactic. You’re basically raping your controller, in the hope of escaping the battlefield alive, realizing you’ve only gathered a measly 350 coins. That’s with the next level costing 4600 coins. It’s not a bad game, but it does pay homage to its title. Dying by cubes is your infernal fate in this game.
Read Full Review >Gamer Limit
There's some enjoyment to by found here, but by the end of the experience fun will be nothing more than a fond memory.
Read Full Review >NZGamer
Twin stick shooters are normally awesome - this one isn't. Avoid it unless you like extremely hard games or pretending things are good to just to annoy people.
Read Full Review >Edge Magazine
It shows that this most predictable of genres is still capable of throwing out interesting surprises. [Mar 2010, p.97]
Console Monster
A surprise hit. Whilst there are better titles of a similar nature available on the Xbox Live Arcade, the game provides great enjoyment amongst a vast amount of frustration, mostly caused by the high difficulty setting. If you enjoy the trial, Death by Cube is a worthy purchase, even at 800 Microsoft Points.
Read Full Review >Official Xbox Magazine
We're sure some of the more masochistic shooter fans will bask in Death By Cube's tough-as-nails difficulty level, but all others should move along. [Apr 2010, p.83]
GameShark
In the end, Death by Cube is a decent, cheap arcade shooter for any fan who needs a quick fix.
Read Full Review >GameFocus
The folks at Premium Agency were clearly inspired by Geometry Wars, and just added some blood and cubes. But, in the end there is a dead online multiplayer community, with little hope of attracting players from the single player campaign. Anybody looking for a less frustrating Shooter/Strategy should take a pass on this one.
Read Full Review >Cheat Code Central
There are a lot of levels and unlockables to discover. Also, earning ranks and setting high scores could keep you busy for days. However, the multiplayer component is not well supported, and gameplay soon gets dull and repetitive.
Read Full Review >Gaming Age
Unless you still fantasize about the dually-analog genre, you may find your money better spent elsewhere.
Read Full Review >IGN
Death By Cube looks, plays, and feels like a community game, which makes the $10 price tag all the more upsetting. It’s generic, frustrating, and not really fun. I don’t see why you’d pick this up over Geometry Wars or any of the other twin-stick shooters out there.
Read Full Review >GameSpot
Death By Cube is an amateurish two-stick shooter with a lot of design flaws.
Read Full Review >Thunderbolt
The only thing Death By Cube has to offer that its competition doesn’t is an excessive level of blood (or red robot oil), but that alone doesn’t warrant a purchase.
Read Full Review >MS Xbox World
Leo's quest to find out what happened to him should have been more about a journey why gamers won't pay 800 Microsoft Points to play Death by Cube. The story, graphics ,and sound are mediocre at best and not something Square Enix fans would expect from such a distinguished company.
Read Full Review >Eurogamer
The sad truth is that there are better looking, better designed twin-stick shooters on the Indie Games channel for a fraction of the price, produced by inspired individuals who have moved on from Beat the Blockoids. Give them your Microsoft Points instead.
Read Full Review >1UP
DBC's trouble goes deeper than simple poor design; there's no vision here, no sense of what the "point" of the game is.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this game is 6.2 (out of 10) based on 5 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Tomasz T. gave it a1:
A robot who have lost memory is shooting cubes/robots which die in a very bloody way. Very poor graphics, repetitive/boring gameplay, weird game concept.
