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by Arcee on 04.01.11  Rolling out from the Wii and on to your PSP is Vertigo; a racing/puzzle game from Icon Games Entertainment. Now while you may not have the added fun of trying to steer your Xorb (racing ball) with the Wii Balance Board, that doesn’t mean that Vertigo is any less challenging - or fun. It may not be Patapon 2, but it can certainly hold its own against the majority of PSP games out there right now.
Like any racing game, the point of Vertigo is to get your Xorb from one end of the course to the other. Sounds simple enough until you realize that you must guide your sometimes difficult to control Xorb through some very harrowing and dizzying locales like building rooftops, rocky canyons and various other venues with plenty of obstacles put in your way. Getting through them is tricky, and will likely take you a few times to get through, but in the end you should be able to master the controls well enough that you can navigate the field pretty easily after an hour or two. There may still be times where you find yourself cursing at the screen out of frustration, but just calm yourself and look carefully at your surroundings and you should be able to move on with ease once again. In Vertigo, you will also find several gaming modes to challenge you and vary up the fun because after an hour or two on one mode, it can be pretty repetitive. Now, you have your standard Arcade mode where you must navigate the Xorb through different paths in each level and complete it under a certain time. You have Career mode which lets you start off with a timer at zero and finishing each level than the fastest time given will earn you medals for you to display. Practice and Time Attack modes are exactly what you would expect. And for additional fun, and my favorite mode, you have Xorb Bowling. Oddly enough Xorb Bowling is also one of the hardest modes in the game as you really can’t see the pins at the end of the obstacle laden field, but the challenge of it is what made this mode the best for me. My only complaint with the game is the small size of the text. Even on the PSP’s very clear screen, it can be a hassle to read what is coming across the screen. This isn’t too bad as most objectives and directions are easy enough to figure out, but when you need that extra little bit of advice or direction, good luck reading it on screen. It just seems kind of odd considering how beautiful the game looks. Colorful and vibrant, dying (or falling off a ledge) and having your Xorb explode into a multitude of colors is actually the best looking thing in the game. If I could change anything about the game it would be the one minor inconvenience of the text size. Other than that, Vertigo is a solid and fun racing/puzzle game. For $9.99, Vertigo is a solid buy and one that most people will find entertaining enough to warrant the cost. It doesn’t have the replayability of say Dissidia or MGS: Portable Ops, but it is fun and easy enough to be that casual game that you have in your memory stick that you can play for a quick bit while waiting for your coffee at Starbucks or at the book store waiting for your wife to find her romance novels. (Hint, hint!) Best of all, the game will take up very little space on your PSP memory stick, making it an ideal casual game for you to enjoy on the go.
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