Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved
Posted: Thu Dec 23, 2010 8:06 am
Anyone play this freakin' awesome game? If so, what do you think? If not, and you have a 360, download it now. It's worth the 400 gamerpoints/$4.99. (there's also a version for gameboy and PSP I think, and the PC). It reminds me of an EG game, something the students would have played in their free time; and the display, the way the game is presented, is reminiscent, at least in my mind, of what the actual battles would have looked like to commanders; the symbols representing ships and missiles. It seems exactly like the one-ship view in the simulator is described. And as it gets more and more hectic and intense, and the screen fills with innumerable enemies all trying to get you, I can feel the intensity of those swarming battles the students were having. It starts off real slow, and before you know it you're swimming in enemies and you learn the strategy real quick (or you die.) My best score is about 2 million, and it seemed like an accomplishment at the time but looking at the leaderboard there's people with tens of millions of points and that seems unbelievable to me. (note, not retro evolved 2. the first one. i don't like the second one as much.)