Monster Island now on the Windows Phone Marketplace along with a PDLC Xbox Live Achievement

Monster Island

Information technology's fourth dimension to take a break from Sid Meier strategy games for a while and settle into some nice throwing things at other things. I am, of course, speaking of Monster Island, the latest Xbox Live release from Miniclip.

Monster Isle is basically a monster-themed version of Fragger. Instead of a grenadier, y'all're now a monster who must defeat invading monsters. Aim and throw five different kinds of monster grenades to destroy your stationary enemies. With a whopping 262 levels (and more promised in a future update), it offers plenty of bomb-throwing fun.

Monster Island features a robust in-game shop in which players tin can buy new characters, level unlocks, level skips, and level solutions using in-game currency. Being a Miniclip title, it also allows users to purchase coins with Microsoft Points. That's non then bad in and of itself, but the Large Spender Achievement really requires players to purchase not i, but iii coin packs!

Monster Island

The cheapest coin pack costs eighty MSP ($1), and so users would need to spend a minimum of $five.99 ($2.99 for the base of operations game plus $3 for three coin packs) in order to earn Monster Island'southward full 200 GamerScore. Of class, larger packs actually offer more than coins per dollar than smaller packs, then why couldn't the Accomplishment just be for ownership a single pack? More importantly, this is the first Windows Telephone title to actually require players to spend additional coin in gild to get all of the base game'due south Xbox Live Achievements. Even amid Xbox 360 games that practise is extremely rare (if not prohibited outright), then information technology's startling that Microsoft allowed it here.

Peradventure information technology'due south natural for publishers to test the limits of what they can sell to users as PDLC, simply many would concur Miniclip has gone as well far on this one. It's a shame too, as without the annoying PDLC component (and multiple in-game pop-ups encouraging players to spend their coins), Monster Isle is probably the most robust Angry Birds-type game on Windows Phone. The massive quantity of levels and variety of playable characters and bombs, not to mention some clever level design, certainly makes information technology worth a look. Could 'Big Spender' have only slipped through the certification process past mistake? We've contacted Microsoft and volition study back if they reply.

Monster Isle costs $2.99 and there is a free trial. Get it here on the Market place. Alternately, yous can cheque out the Flash version at Miniclip.com.

Update: Currently the game is only available in the United states of america. We'll let you know when this changes.

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