Geometry Wars Retro Evolved², Woah!

Alan downloaded Geometry Wars 2 the day it was released on Thursday of last week (31/08/08) for the xbox360 and paid I think 600 credits for it, iirc. All I have to say is it is worth it - the graphics have improved slightly since the first Geometry Wars and as Alan put it "they have put some damn nice shaders on there". It's alot shinier - it helps to have just bought a HD 37" TV for it to play on, too!

SHINYNESS!!!

I am one of those people who tend to get bored with games quickly if I have to repetitively try something because I keep dying, but in GW2 I will keep going all damn day if I have to, its so much fun. My favourite mode on there is Pacifism. It's a fully defensive mode where you get only one life, no attack and a boat load of blue squares chasing after you (which is amusing in multiplayer mode, but will talk about that in a second) and a load of gates which spawn in random places. It's fine to go through the middle of the gates because not only does that kill the gate but it kills any blue squares close to it too. It is one of the few games which makes me feel like my heart is about to jump out and where I will actually scream out loud over things.. its quite hilarious. The things chasing after you are so damn quick and you know that if you don't react quick enough you're going to go 'PLOP' and thats it.. annoying unsympathetic squares of doom.

ALSO, the new multiplayer implementation; gosh this was such a good idea. We had four of us playing the other night - Ozz, Mike, Alan and myself - and we played for about an hour which is good going for an arcade game if you ask me. You get the choice of the six game modes that you get in single player, but you can either go competitive or co-operative. We tried both; competitive is hilarious because not only do you lose track of your ship amongst everyone elses and the millions of other shapes and swirly colours on screen but you're also at the same time trying to be tactical and getting the other guys confused and killed. Co-operative is damn fun too, as your all not trying to get each other killed or stealing kills but you're just shooting in any direction and trying to get the highest score possible. Again; losing your ship amongst the frenzy will happen unless you are some kind of cyborg. It was amusing because Alan being already good at this game and the other three of us being kinda noobish kept dying within the first 30 seconds and losing the entire teams life but Alan would keep going alone and got a high score of like 19 million or something, so we ended up trying to distract him while he played without us, haa. On Pacifism, multiplayer is amusing. The poor sod who gets the blue ship will get confused with the blue squares and most likely die first.. or at least, I did.

I have to mention aswell the amazing music. In the Evolved game mode it has music from the original GW so that was fun to dance around to because as we know, its teh best arcade game music evar. But there's new mixes in the other game modes which aren't as awesome as the Evolved music but still really cool. When I find somewhere you can download, I will post it up.

So all in all a fantastic game, great for multiplayer especially if you're all slightly drunk (forget the drugs, its an acid trip just playing that game) and it will create a scenario of laughs and then very serious concentration faces, and then.. WTF WHERES MY SHIP GONE? faces.