BlowOut is a side-scrolling action video game, a run-and-gun shoot-em-up in the tradition of games such as Contra and Metal Slug and a power-up-based exploration structure akin to Metroid. In the game, the player takes the role of John "Dutch" Cane, a space marine sent to check up on researchers on the space platform "Honour Guard" only to discover that they have been horribly mutated. On January 26, 2009, the game was re-released on the Xbox Live Marketplace as part of the Xbox Originals program. Source: Wikipedia, "BlowOut", available under the CC-BY-SA License.