Remember that dick friend that thinks its so goddamn fucking hysterical to pound the top of your beer bottle so that it bubbles over? Do you frequently fantasize about shattering the bottle across their face and stabbing them in the femoral artery, just so you can giggle and proclaim, “Dude, your blood is totally overflowing, LOL!” as a crimson fountain gushes from their leg? Are you also a fan of not spending life in prison for murder? If so, congratulations- Barf and Beer is right up your alley.
This game is incredibly basic, presumably so that one might drink actual beer and play this game simultaneously. The basic premise is: chug your beer as fast as possible while trying not to spew your guts all over the place. As you pound your golden refreshment by mashing the A button, you steadily turn a sickly shade of green until you either shower the screen with projectile vomit or tap B to burp out the pressure.
This terrifying moment of separation anxiety from your glass, as any alcoholic knows, is when you are most vulnerable. Even if you're wise enough to ease off the sauce before you make yourself hurl, your ruthless, bastard friends can hit you with a mythical Cackling Weasel Knuckle Explosion as you expel a mighty belch, fracturing your liver and liquefying your stomach lining on contact. While you hunch over the bar decorating the floor with your soggy chunks, your friends will laugh at your demise and gleefully down the rest of their pints... unless you stop regurgitating your lunch and return the favor- in which case you're entitled to throw the controller in the air, take a swig from the nearest bottle of liquor, jump on the couch while performing the degrading sexual gesture of your choice and shout, “Chug like an elephant, sucka punch like a chimpanzee, bitches!!”
The only thing game is lacking is some useful customization that would make the combination of real/virtual chugging contests more efficient. Unfortunately, the controls are mapped so that you use the A/B buttons and the D-pad, which, regrettably, makes this game a bit of a two-hander. This design oversight prevents you from mapping the A/B buttons to the left trigger/bumper, which would have given you a free hand to hold your REAL beer with. I'm still a little distraught that such an obvious scenario wasn't taken into account. Also, I would have liked the ability to put my own photos/avatars on my Drunken Olympians' bodies. But that is just a minor complaint compared to the lack of having a free beer-holding hand.
Overall, this is a highly amusing game to play with a couple of your idiot friends when you're all sitting around on the couch drinking yourself retarded. And it only costs about 3 Keystones (200 MS points, which is a much more confusing and far less tangible currency) to buy! Ideally, you have 3 friends to come play with you because you're such a winner. However, you can always add spare CPU opponents if you can't round up REAL friends to come drink FAKE beers with you... but I'm hoping you're cooler than that.
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Danimal- thanks for stoppin by. I doubled back and checked out the help screens in the game in case I missed the analog stick suggestion, but there's never any mention of controls besides the basic A/B/D-pad setup. I did, however, take the analog/right bumper/right trigger method out for a spin and it does work effectively as I successfully consumed a Jack n' Coke while playing, though I am partial to using the D-pad myself (old NES habits die hard). If there's a way for you to update your help screens to include the advice about the analog sticks and triggers, you should definitely do that... it makes playing this game even more fun. even if you gotta swap it up and hold your beer southpaw (which is appropriate if you live in Georgia and drink Southpaw)...
anyways, good work on the game, hope it does well for ya. let us know if you've got anything new in the works in the future!
Hey, I actually made this game and I'd just like to say thanks for the awesome review!! This is by far the most entertaining one I've read so far. I agree that it would be a shame if you couldn't play with a single hand - fortunately you can use the analog thumbsticks just like the D-pad. So if you use the right thumbstick, you can play the game with your right hand and hold your beer or your woman or whatever else you want with your left :) Maybe this should have been more clear in the help screens.
As far as using your own photos or avatars, that's an awesome idea and a lot of people have suggested that. Sadly, although I think the XNA tools give you access to gamerpics, they don't let you access avatars, or the camera :( And the camera would be necessary I think, since you'd need to take multiple pictures of the players. Trust me if the camera were available, the games up there would be *totally* different :)
Anyway thanks again and enjoy!
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