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Twisted Pixel pushed its way onto the Xbox LIVE Arcade scene earlier this year with The Maw. An original title based on an original IP, we thought it was pretty damned impressive for the studio’s first effort.

Its sophomore effort, another original Xbox LIVE Arcade title called ‘Splosion Man, looks to continue the studio’s tradition of working with unique and original IP. When it was announced earlier this year, we thought it was a joke — the studio pitched it as a game about as an exploding man who does lots of exploding and explodes scientists into pieces of tasty steaks.

Really.

It had our attention, for sure. But is ‘Splosion Man, the game that kicks off Microsoft’s Summer of Arcade, any good? Hit the jump to find out, and excuse how many times we use varations of the word “explode.”

’Splosion Man (Xbox LIVE Arcade)
Developer: Twisted Pixel
Price: 800 MS Points
To be released: July 22, 2009

If you’ve already read our preview, go ahead and skip over the next few paragraphs, or excuse the redundancy. ’Splosion Man follows the adventure of an experiment gone wrong: a lab rat is turned into an unstable and combustible anti-hero, hell-bent on escape from a locked-down underground facility. Security, as you’d expect, is tight. And it includes lasers. Killer robots. Moving platforms that move up, down, left, and right at varying speeds.

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