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Team up with your friends to lead embattled punk rock band Charlie Murder in their epic quest to save the world from rival death metalers Gore Quaffer and their legions of evil. RPG it up as you hoard insane loot to buff your character (and look excellent), earn fans to unlock powerful finishers and teamup moves, get tattoos to channel your. Charlie Lawson placed pillows under the heads of his victims after they were killed. The Lawson Family, captured at a Winston-Salem studio a few weeks before the murders. On March 1, 2008, most of the deeply religious Caffey family, of Emory, Texas, was slaughtered in the dead of night with.22 caliber bullets and swords before their humble, cabin-style home was burned to the ground. The patriarch, Terry Caffey, lived to tell what he heard that night, and the perpetrators shocked even seasoned investigators, according to “Killer Couples” on Oxygen. Carl ' Charlie ' Brandt (February 23, 1957 – September 13, 2004) was an American serial killer. A former resident of Fort Wayne, Indiana and longtime resident of the Florida Keys, Brandt shot his parents on January 3, 1971 when he was 13, killing his pregnant mother. Co-Op gameplay information about Charlie Murder on Xbox 360. Find co-op news, reviews, and more info about this game. Four players choose from five characters they can customize, upgrade,.

Charlie Murder is an action role-playingbeat 'em up video game developed by Ska Studios and published by Microsoft Game Studios for the Xbox 360 and Ska Studios for PC. First revealed in January 2010 as an Xbox Live Indie Games title, the studio announced in May 2010 that the game would undergo a 'complete overhaul' and be published in 2012 through Xbox Live Arcade for the Xbox 360. Charlie Murder was eventually released on 14 August 2013 to positive reviews, with critics praising the game's soundtrack and hand-illustrated visuals. Versions for Microsoft Windows, Linux and macOS were released on May 12, 2017 via Steam.

The game features five playable characters—all members of the garage punk band Charlie Murder—who fight a demonic army raised by a former band member in an attempt to save the world from the apocalypse. Charlie Murder has both single-player and four-player online and offline cooperative gameplay modes. The game was created using Microsoft's XNA tools.

Gameplay[edit]

Charlie Murder is a side-scrollingbeat 'em up game with role-playing game elements. Players select one of five band members to play as; the lead vocalist and band namesake Charlie Murder, guitarist Lester Deth, bassist Tommy Homicide, backup vocalist Kelly 'Skelekitten' Skitten, or drummer The Rexecutioner.^{[citation needed]} Players can complete the game alone, or can team together with up to three other people, through either offline (with all of the players using the same Xbox 360) or online cooperative gameplay (co-op).^[1] With each additional player, the number of enemies that appear on screen at once increases. Players can also fight each other in special areas of the game.^[1] The game takes place across several different areas, including a construction site, a graveyard, a pirate ship, and a mall. Players are pitted against a large variety of enemies, including zombies, witches, ninjas, giant rats, yetis, and sharks with dynamite strapped to their heads.^[1][2] Interspersed between the normal combat levels are a number of minigames and special levels, including driving and flying levels.^[3]

Players fight using two buttons to string together combinations of light and heavy melee attacks. Players can also use grabs, launch enemies into the air, use character-specific special attacks, and pick up and use weapons. In co-op mode, players can also team up to execute highly damaging group attacks.^[1] Scattered throughout the game are bosses, unique and challenging enemies that have more health and are more difficult to fight than normal enemies. There are also 'minibosses', enemies that are less challenging than bosses but more challenging than regular enemies. Minibosses have the ability to block and counter players' attacks, which few other enemies in the game do.^[3]

Each of the five band members has a unique character class, which vary from one another mainly by the special magical attacks, called Anar-chi, that they can use. Anar-chi attacks include Tommy Homicide's ability to summon acid-coated buzzsaws and The Rexecutioner's ability to summon and use a debris-spitting drum kit. Players are able to use new abilities by visiting an in-game tattoo parlor. Tattoos, and the special abilities that they unlock, are character-specific.^[1] Players can also unlock new abilities, including additional combination attacks, group attacks, and the ability to use two weapons at once, by leveling up.^{[citation needed]}

Players use an in-game Windows 8 phone to manage their inventory, level up, read emails that explain game mechanics, and scan QR codes that unlock items and give the character money or followers (the game's experience point equivalent).^[3][4] Players earn money by defeating enemies,^[2] and outside of combat, they can purchase weapons and armor (all of which is visible on the character), stat-boosting food and alcohol, and the aforementioned tattoos from shops.^[1][2][4]

Plot[edit]

The game's protagonist, Charlie Murder, is a member of a garage punk band of the same name. Charlie kicks one of the founding members, Paul, out of the band, and begins to experience chart-topping success creating music in a new genre with new bandmates. Under the name Lord Mortimer, Paul forms his own band, Gore Quaffer, and makes a pact with a demon, raising an army of demons and undead in order to destroy Charlie Murder.^[1] Charlie and his band are killed at the beginning of the game, fight out of hell, and are reborn on Earth amidst an apocalypse caused by Lord Mortimer and his army.^[4] In order to stop the apocalypse, Charlie Murder must defeat Gore Quaffer in a Battle of the Bands.^[2]

During the game, a series of flashbacks detail the game's backstory. As Charlie and his new bandmates experience success without Paul, the latter becomes increasingly upset, eventually vowing revenge. The flashbacks neither paint Charlie Murder in a wholly positive light, nor Paul in a wholly negative light.^[4]Charlie Murder has an in-game talk radio station, which plays in enemy-free areas. Additional information about the band and about the game's world is presented in the form of people calling into the radio program.^{[citation needed]}

The game has two endings that depend on whether or not the player has acquired all of the hidden pieces of Smockula by the time of the final battle. If the player has not gathered the pieces, then the game immediately ends upon Lord Mortimer's defeat, and a credits montage reveals that, back when Mortimer was Paul, he was childhood friends with Charlie. This is considered the 'Bad Ending'.

If the player collects all the pieces of Smockula and has them equipped during the final battle, then Lord Mortimer is incapacitated instead of killed, and Charlie Murder confronts the demon who granted Mortimer his power, a being known as the Angel of Chaos. After the Angel's death, Mortimer turns back into Paul and he and Charlie reconcile. The credits montage shows how each of the surviving band members now live comfortable, happy lives. This is considered the 'Good Ending'.

Development[edit]

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Charlie Murder was first announced in January 2010 in a Ska Studios blog post as an Xbox Live Indie Games title set for release in March 2010. The game's plot was a four-member band's journey to save Skelekitten (Murder's girlfriend) from a rival metal band.^[5] A demo of the game was showcased at PAX East 2010. In April, Ska Studios founder James Silva announced that the game was in development for an unidentified platform and would no longer be released through Xbox Live Indie Games. Joystiq noted that the demo ran on Microsoft XNA Game Studio 4.0, which is designed for the Xbox 360, Microsoft Windows computers, and Windows Phone 7.^[6] Ska Studios announced in May that the game was to undergo a 'complete overhaul', and would be released through Xbox Live Arcade in 2012.^[7] The game was eventually released in August 2013 as part of Summer of Arcade, an annual Xbox Live Arcade promotion known for releasing several of the platform's most acclaimed games.^[8]

Ska Studios' first games, including the Xbox Live Arcade game The Dishwasher: Dead Samurai (April 2009), were developed entirely by James Silva. Michelle Juett was a tester for The Dishwasher: Dead Samurai, and the two met in person for the first time at the September 2009 Penny Arcade Expo. They began to date a year later, and Juett eventually left ArenaNet to join Ska Studios, becoming its second employee. Charlie Murder was one of the first games that the two worked on together. Silva did all of the game's programming work, while Juett handled its marketing. Silva and Juett worked together to design the art and compose the soundtrack.^[9]Charlie Murder's music was produced by Silva and sung by the pair.^{[9][10][11][12]} In an interview with Joystiq, James Silva explained that he used major game conferences, such as PAX East, as public betas. The conferences allowed Silva to expose a large number of people to the game, providing him with the opportunity to solicit feedback and discover issues. The couple also invited friends over for parties in order to test the game while it was in development.^[11] Silva proposed to Juett at the Charlie Murder booth at PAX 2011, using an in-game cutscene built in as a secret for the occasion.^[9]

Charlie Murder was the third Ska Studios game published by Microsoft Studios. During development, Microsoft Studios provided Ska Studios with usability testing and play testing feedback, handled localization, and found and suggested bug fixes. Microsoft required Ska Studios to create picture packs (Xbox Live account customizations), but was not responsible for the Windows Phone 8 game mechanic. Ska Studios had complete creative control over the game itself.^[10][12][13]Charlie Murder was promoted as a free Xbox download with Microsoft's Games with Gold program during the month of June 2014.^[14]

Reception[edit]

Charlie Murder received 'generally favorable' reviews, according to video game review aggregatorMetacritic.^[15] The game's music was highly praised.^[1][4][16] The game's hand-illustrated visuals were also praised by reviewers.^[1] Critics felt that the music and visual style complemented the game's punk rock theme,^[1] and Official Xbox Magazine's Cameron Lewis praised the game for being rich in personality and detail without being over-polished.^[1]

Reviewers were less enthused about the game's user interface, and found that many gameplay details went unexplained. IGN's Jose Otero found the inventory management system, which lacks an easy way to sort items, to be problematic.^[3] Chris Carter from Destructoid noted that the game's intricacies are described in messages on the in-game phone, which he considered difficult to navigate and read, and that the messages were often insufficiently clear and detailed.^[4]

Critics compared the game to Ska Studios' previous side-scrolling beat 'em up games, The Dishwasher: Dead Samurai and The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile. Game Informer noted Charlie Murder's similarity to the Dishwasher series,^[16] and Destructoid's Chris Carter believed that Charlie Murder was an improvement over the previous games, in both presentation and in the amount of personality that the characters had.^[4] There was a consensus among reviewers that the game was more enjoyable in multiplayer, with Hardcore Gamer saying that the game felt designed for cooperative play.^[2]

References[edit]

1. ^ ^abcdefghijklLewis, Cameron (8 August 2013). 'Charlie Murder review'. Official Xbox Magazine. Future US, Inc. Retrieved 6 March 2014.
2. ^ ^abcdeVincent, Brittany (18 August 2013). 'Review: Charlie Murder'. Hardcore Gamer. Hardcore Gamer, LLC. Retrieved 6 March 2014.
3. ^ ^abcdeOtero, Jose (20 August 2013). 'Charlie Murder Review'. IGN. IGN Entertainment. Retrieved 30 December 2013.
4. ^ ^abcdefghCarter, Chris (9 August 2013). 'Review: Charlie Murder'. Destructoid. ModernMethod. Retrieved 6 March 2014.
5. ^Lowrie, Nigel (19 January 2010). 'Charlie Murder set to take the Xbox Live Indie Games stage this March!'. Ska Studios blog. Ska Studios. Retrieved 24 March 2014.
6. ^de Matos, Xav (6 April 2010). 'Charlie Murder now coming to an unannounced platform'. Joystiq. AOL Inc. Retrieved 24 March 2014.
7. ^de Matos, Xav (5 May 2010). 'Charlie Murder 'sells out' to Xbox Live Arcade in 2012'. Joystiq. AOL Inc. Retrieved 24 March 2014.
8. ^Cocke, Taylor (11 June 2013). 'Summer of Arcade 2013 lineup announced'. Official Xbox Magazine. Future US, Inc. Retrieved 24 March 2014.
9. ^ ^abcMeunier, Nathan (30 October 2013). 'Charlie Murder: The love story?'. Polygon. Vox Media Inc. Retrieved 25 March 2014.
10. ^ ^abCohen, Corey (16 August 2013). 'Murder Incorporated: A conversation with Ska Studios'. Official Xbox Magazine. Future US, Inc. pp. 1–3. Retrieved 24 March 2014.
11. ^ ^abConditt, Jessica. 'Charlie Murder preview: Anarchy in the XBLA'. Joystiq. AOL Inc. Retrieved 8 May 2014.
12. ^ ^abSilva, James (29 March 2013). 'The Blood of the Indies'. Ska Studios blog. Ska Studios. Retrieved 24 March 2014.
13. ^Xbox Wire Staff (12 August 2013). 'Charlie Murder: An Indie, Blood Splattered, Punk Rock Love Song'. Xbox Wire. Microsoft. Retrieved 24 March 2014.
14. ^Carter, Chris (16 June 2014). 'Charlie Murder and Super Street Fighter: AE are free on Xbox Games with Gold'. Destructoid. Modern Method. Archived from the original on 17 July 2014. Retrieved 24 May 2015.
15. ^ ^ab'Charlie Murder for Xbox 360 Reviews'. Metacritic. CBS Interactive. Retrieved 6 March 2014.
16. ^ ^abcRyckert, Dan (14 August 2013). 'Anarchy In The Streets'. Game Informer. Retrieved 30 December 2013.

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Developer: Ska Studios
Publisher: Microsoft
Release Date: Out Now
Price: 800 MSP

Insane, explosive, bizarre, outrageous and hilarious; words that can be used to describe Charlie Murder, yet not even cover half of what this game can throw at you. If you were someone who grew up in the days where side-scrolling brawlers such as Streets of Rage and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles were all the rage, you’ll certainly have been overjoyed with the abundance of exceptionally good modern entries that have exploded onto the scene.

Charlie Murder, however, is something else entirely. At first glance, it looks like your typical side-scrolling beat-em-up, but Charlie Murder takes on a personality of its very own by adding a smattering of crazy RPG elements into the mix and churning out what can only be described as an acid trip.

Only a few months ago, a friend of mine and I were complaining that there were very few games that featured local co-operative play which offers something different from the norm. Charlie Murder blows that theory straight out of the water with its absurd action-packed brawler action that takes lunacy to a whole new level. Charlie Murder is a 4-player side-scrolling brawler with the added option of drop-in, drop out co-op along with the ability to play multiplayer online across Xbox Live.

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A strong quality that the game manages to excel in is the huge amount of customisation options, which will delight fans of RPGs, and suggests that there is the possibility of expansive opportunities in the near future. Players can equip Charlie and his entire band with a large variety of hats, shirts, gloves and other accessories, and each of them add to your stats and upgrade your character (which is where our RPG elements come into play). What I found throughout the game, as you enter secondary locations and discover new levels, the clothing stores, pet stores, tattoo parlours, and bars that you can stop by remind me a little of The World Ends With You. I believe that is just a small part of what intrigued me and sucked me in just a little more than I would have thought.

Upgrading your character is done via pressing left on the d-pad, which, in turn, brings up a Windows Phone, from which you can then scroll through the many options with the right or left button of the Xbox 360 controller. From the menu you can choose which special abilities, counters and overdrive abilities you wish to use, from dual-wielding to team-attacks. There is also an option to increase the damage of weapons, such as guns, and also increase the amount of items you can hold at one time. After upgrading your special ability, the four categories you can then focus on upgrading are strength, speed, defense and “an-archi”.

This Windows Phone isn’t just a nifty looking menu for your inventory though. Pressing up on the d-pad will allow you to see how many followers your band has managed to accrue over time; right on the d-pad will allow you to check inbox messages that give you hints and tips throughout the game, as well as amusing text messages that will give you a small insight into Lord Mortimer’s disgruntlement. Finally, pressing down on the d-pad will open up your phone’s camera, and with this you can take photos of suggested QR codes in order to gain “special items” throughout the game.

One thing that really drew me to the game in the first place was the zany, whacky and wonderfully drawn character models, and this is definitely somewhere that the game excels. The background art is beautiful and each of the locations have a personality of their very own. The animation is smooth and the art vibrant and eye-catching, right down to the kick-ass punk rock character style.

Charlie Murder shines so much more in co-operative play. Bosses are easier to take down and cause less damage, and there’s the added bonus of being able to grab whatever you find in-game to level up your character in co-op mode. Alongside this, multiplayer play opens up the ability to do team-attacks, which definitely adds to the excitement and enjoyment of the game. Playing solo works fine, but the game is definitely at its best when playing with two or more players.

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Unfortunately it’s not without its drawbacks. Though it’s not of everybody’s opinion, the menu was slightly fiddly in the first instance and took some getting used to, and I also found the check-point save points a tad frustrating. Dying means having to start over from the beginning of the current level (and you will die). It’s a game to play in short bursts because too much of something good can become excessive. Though it seemed to get overly repetitious for me to play for long periods of time, there’s nothing here that I can really point out fans of this genre won’t fall in love with.

Download this game if you are a fan of side-scrolling brawlers or games about punk-rock. If you like RPGs, looting, upgrading and levelling up, this will also likely be your cup of tea. Likened to Castle Crashers on acid, with a much more impressive soundtrack, the game is without a doubt the most ultra-violent, fast-paced assortment of crazy you will get to experience in a while.

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Charlie Murder, developed by Ska Studios, is available to download on Xbox Live Arcade for around £9.99 or 800 MS Points.