Most weeks when new Xbox Live Arcade games are released you’ll find a mini review here, on my blog, about them within a day or two. This week I’m not going to be reviewing either Xevious or Rush’n Attack because I could not make myself play either one of them long enough to be able to put together a proper review.

I was not anticipating liking Rush’n Attack because it is not a game type I generally enjoy. I gave it a try anyway, but after playing through the demo twice I just could not make myself spend any more time with it. Anyone who is a fan of the game probably will like that they took the time to enhance the graphics, but other than the game still plays as lousy as it ever did.

When I saw a vertical shooter was coming to the Xbox Live Arcade I was pretty excited because I’m a big fan of vertical shooters. I’ve probably played Xevious before, but I don’t recall a specific time if I have. For me Xevious is one of the worst vertical shooters I’ve ever played. You move so slowly that unless you know the attack pattern of the enemy ships it is almost impossible to kill them all. Also, one thing I’ve never liked in a vertical shooter is when you can’t take out all of the enemies with your primary weapon. In Xevious you can’t shoot any of the ground based enemies with your primary gun. Instead you have to position the targeting reticle over them and drop bombs on then. This would not be too bad except that you have to have it lines up almost perfect to get the kill.

After playing through the demo twice of each of these twice I delete them from my Xbox 360 because they are so lame. Unless one of these games was one of your favorite childhood games don’t even bother with the demos because they stink.