Madballs in Babo: Invasion

Madballs in Babo: Invasion is an indie game developed by Playbrains and released in 2009. It was published by Microsoft Game Studios. It is available on Xbox 360 and PC (Microsoft Windows). It carries an ESRB E10+ age rating.

Its themes are action, comedy and horror. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player. There are 17 achievements to unlock.

Madballs in Babo: Invasion holds a critic score of 80 out of 100. That places it above 65% of the 5,101 rated indie games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2009 averaged 67, so it scored 13 points above the year average.

The main story runs about 8 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 12 hrs, roughly 1.5 times the length of the critical path.

The minimum specification calls for Intel Pentium 4 1.8 GHz or any Dual Core processor, 768MB RAM (XP) / 1 GB RAM (Vista/7) and DirectX 9 level card w 64 MB VRAM – NVIDIA GeForce Series 6 or better, ATI 9600 or better, Intel Extreme Graphics 2 or better. At 1GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.

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Madballs in Babo: Invasion launched on 17 September 2009, within three weeks of S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat, Pokémon SoulSilver Version, Pokémon HeartGold Version and Halo 3: ODST. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4.

Released around the same time: S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat, Pokémon SoulSilver Version, Pokémon HeartGold Version, Halo 3: ODST.