Rotastic: frenetic death rotation

The deathmatch mode in Rotastic seriously needs to be in the demo, it's way more fun and features far more interesting maps than the boring one in the demo. I only got to play against bots, but the deathmatch mode has you aiming and focusing your momentous rotating goodness and working with the maps to get your rotation as tight as possible to ensure you won't be killed trying to kill someone else. Very awesome action.

Rotastic's demo is awful; game isn't

I'm really glad sites like www.xblafans.com exist to review obscure XBLA titles like Rotastic because the demo for the multiplayer is pretty lackluster. I can understand that fear of showing off too much of your game in the demo, but showing off boring maps is a bad idea.

Rotastic is a simple game and it does what it wants to very well. Hold A to grapple onto anchor points and swing around them (in perfect circles) and use momentum to go to different points. Different multiplayer modes exist in the game but the only two that can be played are the one for collecting jewels and one for getting points (which is essentially the same thing except points are also awarded for tricks and kills). Speaking of kills, the game has a deathmatch mode but there's no deathmatch maps playable in the demo, despite it being the best part of the game other than its simplicity. Cutting enemies ropes while they're rotating at the right angle can send them rocketing towards the floor, it's pretty hilarious!

Check out Rotastic and my buddy's review for it as it is a great couchy sort of multiplayer game. And the single player isn't horrible either.