You’ve gotta check out this game! It’s like a mix between the old school arcade titles of Tempest and Asteroids but with a hint of steroids and a dose of acid. The game mechanics are easy to pick up, you simply shoot at different baddies (which move at different speeds and in different ways, making some more threatening than others) and fly around to avoid the respawning waves.
The first version of this game exists as Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved (most notably it’s appearance on the Xbox 360). Galaxies is a Nintendo specific version (namely for the Wii and DS). In Galaxies you are given a number of stages to survive, with varying shapes, baddies, and complexities. You are also given a companion NPC ship which can provide you with attack, defense, and collection abilities (for Genoms, used to unlock other stages). Your companion levels up the more you use it, and proves necessary in more advanced challenges. The wiimote and nunchuck can be used as controls, as well as the Wii Classic Controller; unfortunately the GameCube controller cannot be used with Galaxies. The game can also connect to the internet and download leaderboards for each stage so you can compare your skills to the world. There is no online multiplayer for the game, but cooperative gameplay exists. And as an added bonus, Galaxies includes Retro Evolved on the disk. While a storyline or sequential experience does not exist for Geometry Wars, the arcade style pick-up and play nature brings out addictiveness that I haven’t felt in many recent Wii games. Find a copy and you won’t be able to put down your controller!
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that looks really trippy and amazingly fun… almost reminds me of rez
feel the power of the wii
another great thing about it is with the wii classic, you never have to press any buttons (except for the button that launches bombs), so you wont get CTS as quickly!
score!!
always a plus