http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/geometry_wars_2_review Geometry Wars 2 Bizarre Creations (Xbox Live Arcade) Lots of arcade-style games in recent years have aped Geometry Wars: Top-down, simplified design, emphasis on audio, shoot everything that moves. But in the case of GW, it's not so much the gameplay as the rush that keeps it at the top of this arcade-blaster renaissance. Your little 2D ship is trapped in a wireframe, TRON-esque space, chased endlessly by neon shapes—each class of shape having its own movement pattern. Destroying these things turns the screen into a beautiful mess of broken neon lines and dots, and the waves of baddies ramp... Copyright 2008 Mon, 04 Aug 2008 14:49:06 -0800 Tue, 05 Aug 2008 10:36:26 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss I haven't sprung for the full game, so I've just been playing the deadline mode, but I fucking love it. From my experience, the new Jeff Gordon technique is to zoom back and forth across the bottom. It makes easy work of the evil green dudes and the more agressive but somehow less evil purple ones, and you get all the bonus points because the little bonus nuggets are all in your path as you drive back and forth.

]]> skweetis http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/geometry_wars_2_review#c1092908 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/geometry_wars_2_review#c1092908 Games Mon, 04 Aug 2008 16:47:00 -0800 I always wanted to pick up the Wii version, but you give it a thumbs down?

]]> stinkbug http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/geometry_wars_2_review#c1092918 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/geometry_wars_2_review#c1092918 Games Mon, 04 Aug 2008 16:54:27 -0800 @2: It's fun if you can get it for cheap, and it has the original 360 GW on it. But I like this'un a little more.

]]> Sam M. http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/geometry_wars_2_review#c1092926 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/geometry_wars_2_review#c1092926 Games Mon, 04 Aug 2008 16:56:53 -0800 is that sky-high ratio price-to-fun, or fun-to-price? I don't know enough about games to be sure from the context, but it sounds like you meant fun-to-price. Thought I'd check in.

]]> math idiot http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/geometry_wars_2_review#c1093117 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/geometry_wars_2_review#c1093117 Games Tue, 05 Aug 2008 06:26:42 -0800 I freakin' LOVE this game! It's been my addiction for the past week. Although my only gripe with it is that there is a sort of haze around the shapes. It looks like my eyes are blurring.

]]> j in sea http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/geometry_wars_2_review#c1093204 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/geometry_wars_2_review#c1093204 Games Tue, 05 Aug 2008 10:36:26 -0800