While everyone is relaxing and eating Christmas leftovers today I have recorded yet another  game-play video on my Xbox One. This time around it is footage of Halo Spartan Assault, a $14.99 downloadable twin stick shooter set in the Halo universe. If the name seems familiar that would be because the game was released originally on Windows Tablets. It had decent reviews , however to no real surprise,  its “virtual  twin stick” touch screen controls were said to be frustratingly non precise.  Also, it didn’t have any multi player. I never played the Windows version but I am glad to say it controls just fine using the Xbox One controller . Also co-op missions, both local and online, are now added to the game so you can fight off the Flood with your friends, if you so wish. The Xbox One version also runs at 60F/S and in 1080P. For the price of only $14.99 you will obviously not get a Halo 4 quality game experience, and frankly you would be a fool to think you that you would.  However, you do get a lot of twin stick action filled with all of your favorite Halo weapons, vehicles ,characters and sounds. If you played Spartan Ops in Halo 4 you will know some of the characters in Spartan Assault, not that it makes much of a difference to the action. Also the animated cut scenes have a nice art style to them. The original game was created for mobile tablet systems, and thus some of the levels are shorter than you might expect out of a Halo game. But, the replay is strong here with the ability to beat your scores and times, change your load outs,  or just go back and shoot the hell out of stuff. As a Halo fan I was probably expecting a little too  much from this little tablet game, but what is here is good fun, controls well and fits in well with the Halo universe. Over all the game is worth its budget price tag and I hope to play some online co-op sometime in the future. Check out some of the game I recorded below.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvZoaa_SNj0