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Limbo is a Adventuring game available on the 360. It can be played in Singleplayer Thirdperson modes.

Limbo is a Adventuring game. Adventure games are enjoyed for two reasons: they provide enemy encounters that require tactics and strategy to conquor, and they create a fantasy world in which to explore and adventure.

Limbo can be played in a Singleplayer mode. Single Player Campaign games focus on one player's experience. Rather than collaborate with other players either locally or online, players progress alone. The campaign style of gameplay offers a connected series of challenges to play through. These chapters work together to tell a story through which players progress. Single player games are able to focus on one experience of a scenario, so that it is usually a richer, more visceral game.

Limbo can be played in a Thirdperson mode. Third Person games view the world from over the right shoulder of the character being controlled. This enables you to see the character you are controlling as well as their surrounds. Although not as immersive as first person, third person games enable more complex moves and interactions with the environment.

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Reviews

Haiku Gamer review Fri, 03 Jun 2011

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Kirby is one of Nintendo's most loved, but most under-utilised characters and this is the first Kirby game on a console since the Gamecube's Kirby Air Ride in 2004.
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Game People review Thu, 14 Apr 2011

This week we talk about Limbo's unusual aesthetic, edifying gameplay and general index of all that videogames usually aren't.

Before the tape started rolling, here are our scribbled notes.
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Story Gamer review Sat, 25 Dec 2010

Limbo 360 is a beautifully morbid monochrome platformer which works on the imagination, its sparse narrative leaves space for players to fill in the gaps themselves.

At first, you start up Limbo and it seems like nothing is happening. You're watching a black/grey image of woodland, the screen suffused with a gentle glow. After a few seconds you press a couple of buttons, but nothing seems to be happening.
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Tired Gamer review Thu, 09 Dec 2010

there's little doubting that the cult hit of this gaming year unfolds courtesy of the fearless, nether-world wanderings of a small boy with glowing eyes. at the start of Limbo, he wakes, sits up, stands, and in your own time you encourage him to walk with your thumb.

there are no introductory sequences, no loading-screen tips, no explanations. you do not know who he is, where he is from, or where he is now. all you know is that rightward is onward and here is not home.
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Mousey Gamer review Sun, 21 Nov 2010

Limbo's mechanical challenge made me unsure whether to flee or advance. I pictured a small boy running from the woods not just because of fear but also the frustration of unsolved puzzles.

Oh, ok. I see it now. That thing over there has to go over here then I do that thing; rinse, wash, and repeat. Get out your thinking hats and a bottle of aspirin, it's time to play Limbo.
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Returning Gamer review Sun, 14 Nov 2010

Limbo recreates cinematic platforming, but then transports it to a better place. Both new and old, it seemed to be written exclusively for someone like me, who is back to play games again after being away.

Perhaps it's true that the first cut is the deepest - as Rod Stewart delighted in reminding us all through the 80's. My first proper gaming machine was the Amiga, and it still holds the magic of that first foray into videogames. So much so in fact that once Commodore shot themselves in the foot with the A600, A1200 and finally the CD32, I wasn't sure where to go next. I had something of a time out.
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Bike Gamer review Sat, 09 Oct 2010

Limbo XBLA led me astray. Deep into its dark void of platforming magic, and away from any thoughts of bikes. A ride in itself though, I'll be circling it for a good few evenings I think.

As someone who has a ridiculously overactive imagination, I'm pretty easy to scare. That said, I love to be frightened a little bit and am addicted to things like horror movies. When I sat down to the opening scene of Limbo, little chills of glee tingled down my spine and a smile slowly crept across my face.
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Scripted Gamer review Fri, 01 Oct 2010

In today's instalment Fred talks Bob down from a fear of spiders in XBLA's Limbo.

Confused? Listen to the Scripted Gamer Pilot episode to meet our reviewers and hear how it all started that fateful day.
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Scared Gamer review Thu, 23 Sep 2010

Limbo XBLA caught my imagination indefinably. From the very beginning it managed to exploit and manipulate my fears, fears both innate and inherited from a lifetime of gaming - and all to tremendous effect.

Waking in the world of Limbo nothing is explained. Pressing the start button I watch as a small boy regains consciousness. Together we scramble to find our bearings in the monochrome world. In a single breath the world is exquisite and terrifying. An indefinable solitude envelopes us; it speaks of safety but also of a loneliness that frightens. There is no sound, no life in this world.
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Soulful Gamer review Fri, 17 Sep 2010

Limbo XBLA takes puzzle-platforming into the dark. Brooding atmosphere and brevity make Limbo a mix of realised potential and a stilted vision. The opening half intrigued and terrified me in equal measure with a moving tale of a dead boy. But the latter portions felt forced as they resorted to puzzle mechanics rather than story telling and failed to keep its emotional and soulful edge.

Limbo's beginning few hours were atmospheric. I hold a deep fear of spiders so the encounter, pursuit and conclusion of Limbo's opening section took my breath away with its creepy depiction of a giant, malevolent arachnid.
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Dressup Gamer review Thu, 05 Aug 2010

Limbo XBLA is a beautiful puzzle adventure with a sinister and disturbing underbelly. Delivering no narrative of its own, I was free to invent my own adventure, which proved as affecting as any pre-built storyline.

Limbo begins without title screen, tutorial or introduction to who you are or why you inhabit its strange world. In fact to begin with, I didn't even realise that my character was on screen. Wondering why nothing was happening, I fiddled with my controller and eventually two dots of light appeared and my character emerged from the darkness ready to begin.
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