Blacklight Reactive

Attention: Blacklight: Tango Down is on XBLA. You don't have to be a dumbass like me and buy it for PC! You have been warned!

Yeah I had one of those stupid impulse-shopping moments and bought Blacklight, ironically enough, via Impulse. Actually it's not ironic at all. Stardock named it that on purpose knowing that people will buy shit from their house if they think they can play it right away. Well think again assholes! You still have to download it, and then download Windows Live (why doesn't Windows Live come installed on Vista?) and then install both of them, and then realize that the two programs are somehow smelted together, and then wrestle with Windows Live's idiotic interface. I still don't know if I can play Blacklight offline. It certainly won't let me play it without logging into my profile. Not that you would want to play the single player game.

The PC version isn't necessarily bad, it just doesn't run as well on my PC as it does on the 360. And while a twitch shooter like Unreal belongs on the PC, a more tactical game like Blacklight demands the button layout of the modern controller. Let me demonstrate with a mathematical expression:

WASD + mouse = Awesome

WASD + QERFCV1234 + Shift + mouse = Frustration

I'm sure there are some hard core PC jocks out there who can handle it but I'm not one of them. The 360 controls are practically identical to Modern Warfare's (which I'm sure wasn't an accident) so they fit me like a glove. So now I have to decide if its worth buying twice, or rather worth paying $30 for. $15 yes, go get it, $30 I'm not so sure. I suppose I could chalk it up as a donation to a struggling start-up. Maybe I can score some karma for when I am (hopefully) in the same position.