The Dishwasher: Dead Samurai is an Xbox Live Arcade title that has cropped up from the community side of things but far from being something you might find free on the front of a computer gaming magazine in the early 1990s, the title has a sumptuous art style that touches on being MADWORLD-esque in its visceral, bloodthirsty (despite its enemies being cyborgs) and swirly effects capacities.  But while it looks stunning and boasts quite a pleasing variety of enemies and, to a much lesser extent, gameplay (including online multiplayer), the controls are spongy and occasionally confusing and some of the battle scenes are protracted and frustrating.

Overall, however, The Dishwasher: Dead Samurai is competent, stylish and fun; there's a story, if you can be bothered with it but there's no real requirement to follow it, other than if you're allergic to your controller's B button and thus cannot skip the comic-strip cinematics, though that does mean that you can't perform the amusing throws and endulge yourself in some of the more fancy combos. 

81%
800 Microsoft points well spent.