Geometry Wars

Addictive: When you think of this word in a gaming sense you think Tetris, Space Invaders and in recent years Pro Evolution Soccer.

Now when I bought my Xbox 360 I thought about all the games with beautiful graphics and next generation game play that would be burning a hole in my retina, but not for one second did I think that the most addictive of all the launch titles would be a Xbox Live Arcade game, this game being called Geometry Wars.

Now the graphics in this game may not be next generation quality, but it has the two main ingredients which I think every successful game needs, basically it is addictive and it is original and when you think of all the other games that have these ingredients you can immediately tell why it has been such a big hit with everyone who has downloaded games from Xbox Live.

The Game

Now the main purpose of this game like many others is to shoot things, you control a small magnet shaped ship which you use to shoot at the objects on the screen, the more points you get the more difficult this gets as you seem to be like a magnet to them in the game when they fly at you at uncontrollable speeds, later on there is even small red ships like yours which chase you, oh and look out for the warps which drag everything into them and then explode, in fact sometimes it gets so crazy on the screen you wonder which way you can manoeuvre to avoid the army of shapes heading towards you.

In the game there are 12 achievements to be unlocked, these involve trying to survive the first 60 seconds without using your guns & bombs (very difficult) to getting high scores, others include saving up bombs but all of them are fairly difficult to achieve until you get used to the game and unlock a few,  unfortunately I seem to be lagging behind the people on my friends list when it comes to high scoring, but at least I can score higher than 10,000 now.

There is not doubt that this game will win the hearts of many and the only negative thing I can think to say about it is that it's not graphically spectacular and sometimes can make you want to throw your wireless pad at the screen.

Xbox Live

The most fun thing about this game is the leaderboards, I mean let’s face it who doesn’t want to trounce their friends high score, this provides hours of fun and frustration and the satisfaction when you finally beat your friends is excellent, it can just take a whilst sometime though.

The Verdict

The developer have took this game as a extra in PGR and made it a classic in it’s own right, sure it does have next generation graphics but would this make it any better? I think not.

Site Rating  85%

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