If you’re a fan of Geometry Wars (and let’s face it, everyone is), you can bask in the glory that is the XBLA sequel. Yes, I know the first XBLA title was technically a sequel… it’s just semantics people.
The game is now available on the Xbox Live Marketplace for your shooting pleasure for 800 MS Points ($10).
Go hit it up. At least play the demo and get entered in Microsoft’s summer arcade contests.
Everyone has played Geometry Wars either for the XBLA or as part of Project Gotham Racing, but one thing you haven’t done is play with a buddy over Xbox Live. In Geometry Wars 2 you can now have multiplayer buddies with friends and let me say that it looks fast paced and fun. Check it out.
In what can only be termed as insanely bizarre, here’s a trailer for the new Geometry Wars - Galaxies title for the Wii.
I was hoping to get a good idea of the controls from the trailer, but instead I’m now dumber for having watched it. Come, join me in the world on confusion.
You read that right. The flagship title of the Xbox Live Arcade on Xbox 360 was developed to be distributed as a free download. IGN sat down with Ben Ward, Bizarre Creation’s community and web lead, to discuss all things XBLA. Other than the main questions of Boom Boom Rocket, the new game from Bizarre (being published by EA), they also discusses the success of Geometry Wars, and it came to be.
When asked about the development of Geometry Wars, Ward had this to say:
Geometry Wars was really intended as a gift to hardcore gamers and we initially wanted to give the game away for free. When it became evident that we couldn’t do this, we said to Microsoft “what’s the absolute bare minimum we can charge”. They said 400 points, so we went with that.
Wow. Microsoft and their greedy pockets needed to step in and make us pay for this game. Sure, it’s easily worth $5, but when the developer is trying to make it free, let them. It’s better for the consumer. Especially with the 360 and XBLA being in it’s infancy when the game was released.
Hopefully Boom Boom Rocket will live up to Bizarre’s standards and entertain us all for hours on end.
Just a reminder that fl0w for the PS3 is being released today for $4.99. This should be the Geometry Wars for the PS3. All reviews of the game are terrific. I’m looking forward to downloading this today. The PS3 needs some good releases, and this looks to be the first of the next few weeks.
So EA today announced (press release here) they’re “making” an XBLA game, called Boom Boom Rocket. The game is actually being created by Bizarre Creations, the people behind the widely successful Geometry Wars and Project Gotham Racing. The basics of the gameplay is that you fire off rockets in time with music as you travel through a 3D city.
Knowing EA, they’ll charge way too much for the base game, then you’ll have to buy the rockets on the Marketplace for 200 points each. Yay for EA ass-raping people with pricing! I would probably pass this up on principle because it’s EA, but Bizarre makes some great stuff. We’ll have to see how the gameplay goes and how much it costs
