Grid Wars
Writing about web page http://www.incitti.com/Blitz/
When the Xbox 360 launched in December, I don't think anyone really knew what would be the best launch title on it. People had talked about Project Gotham Racing, about PD:Zero, but when the Video Game Design Society got a sneak peak of the 360 in November, I don't think any of us thought that would be the case.
This is because we got our hands on a retro beauty called Geometry Wars, that's available for something in the order of £4.50 from Xbox Live Arcade, and I think every Xbox 360 owner I've spoken too freely admits that they've spent at least as much time on Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved than any other game (and I wasn't that impressed when I played PD:Zero anyway…)
Anyway, I digress. What's really been burning the candles in the Society the past week or so has been Grid Wars, a clone of Geometry Wars written for the PC by Mark Incitti. It's pretty faithful to the original (although slightly easier until you turn the difficulty up, and it has a few different things such as powerups and spawn points for those nasty shapes) and it's frigging awesome if you have a dual analogue pad (or an Xbox 360 pad to just plug straight into your PC). It also runs surprisingly quickly, considering how pretty it looks. It's not quite as beautiful as the original, mainly because it's written in BlitzMax, I'm guessing, but it's pretty good.
And it's bloody competitive… The Geometry Wars veterans get 1mil+ on their first go, yet I'm still proud of the 870000-odd I just acheived…
Mathew Mannion
05 Mar 2006 16:39
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acitydweller
Yep. My wife and i are hooked on gridwars. On easy level, ive scored 2 million in 29 minutes. My wife's clocked in 58 minutes at 11 million. its really crazy and addicting
19 Apr 2006, 19:25
Mark
Hey!
Thanks for playing and Thank You for the nice comments.
Mark
26 Apr 2006, 16:02
Spy
Haha, you got beat by a girl :P
Just kidding. Awesome game, I love it. It’s been the only thing able to take me away from WoW for more than an hour.
26 Oct 2006, 20:55
Ross
Spy what is ur user on WoW?
15 Jan 2007, 16:14
Obe
wow, you’re wife is awesome :D 1.7 here, have no idea how long it took me.
03 May 2007, 08:06
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