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Gaming Archery With A Challenge: A Quick Review Of 'Arrow Heads'

Arrow Heads is a multiplayer shooter game where you become an archer looking to fight other archers in multiplayer combat rounds. You'll choose your fighter and enter one of several combat areas where you'll need to run around and try to kill your opponents using only arrows. This kind of game adds a new bit of challenge to the standard shooter as you have a projectile that isn't instantaneous, and you have to carefully plan for where people are going to be as you try to shoot them down. The first to 10 points in a round is the winner.

The biggest challenge to all this is how you control your bow. You move around with the left stick but you aim with the right in a sort of dual stick controls, but with the exception that the right serves as the pull-back to the bow. So the longer you hold the stick, the further back the bow goes, the longer it stretches out, and the more power it has behind it. You can pull off some wicked shots with your bow if your timing and accuracy are spot-on, but often times you'll probably end up doing some mild guesswork as to where people will be.

Along with the standard fighting, you get specialized weapons that will drop from time to time, giving you items like lighting points, fire arrows, bombs, laser beams, bear traps and more. Some of these are simply stalling tactics to keep you in place of knock you dizzy for a moment, others are just instant death with no recourse and some of the best homing skills you'll see in a shooter. There are also hazards within every level like exploding barrels that will do some hefty damage if you happen to be nearby.

Overall, Arrow Heads is an awesome local co-op game that will have you fighting for hours with your friends. The single-player modes are alright and will help you get some practice in, but nothing beats four-player mayhem. That being said, there's not much else to the game, so basically you're just buying it for multiplayer fun.

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