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August 2008
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The editors liked
Integrated leaderboards and Geoms give incentives to keep playing
Five new gameplay modes
Plus lots of fun offline multiplayer
Improved visuals.
Excellent offline multiplayer and incredibly fun new game modes comprise the best additions to Geometry Wars.
Five new play modes
All of them great
Geoms make building your multiplier more strategic
Cooperative mode
Especially copilot
Is a blast
Competitive mode is even better
Ultra addictive and plenty of room to constantly improve your scores.
The editors didn't like
Some of the multiplayer modes aren’t particularly fun
Abstract: When the Xbox 360 launched back in November of 2005, the lineup of launch games wasnt exactly stellar. Sure, retail titles like Call of Duty 2 and Condemned saw both critical acclaim and good sales results eventually, but that first day we turned on ...
Abstract: Id like to think the much-adored Geometry Wars franchise came about after head developer Steven Cakebread took a trip down memory lane and decided to fuse Robotron 2084 with a Tomy Lights Alive. The resulting franchise-to-be was ace, with Geometry War...
Who am I kidding? Any fans of the series have already downloaded Geometry Wars Retro Evolved 2. So for all the newbies, and for those who though the first title was a bit blah – go download yourself a demo of Retro Evolved 2 from the Xbox Live Arcad...
Integrated leaderboards and Geoms give incentives to keep playing; five new gameplay modes, plus lots of fun offline multiplayer; improved visuals.
Some of the multiplayer modes aren’t particularly fun; no online multiplayer.
Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved 2 takes what was already a solid game and improves upon it, resulting in what is easily one of the best XBLA titles to date.
Excellent offline multiplayer and incredibly fun new game modes comprise the best additions to Geometry Wars.
No online multiplayer is a sure downer.
The total package of Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved 2 is significant enough to attract back old and new gamers alike. The new game modes and offline multiplayer are sweet enough additions that it makes Geometry Wars once again like candy – addicting a...
Gorgeous, perfectly balanced and ludicrously addictive, Retro Evolved 2 is the new high water mark for old-school arcade shooters. Buy it, but don't you say I didn't warn you......
Abstract: In a lot of ways Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved was the perfect game to launch the Xbox Live Arcade download service. It was an addictive little game with simple (yet effective) graphics, tons of replay and online leader boards ... all for a mere five do...
Abstract: Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved 2 is the first, true sequel to the wildly successful entry that spawned a slew of twin stick shooters for Microsoft's arcade platform on the Xbox 360. Like any good sequel, Evolved 2 manages to introduce quite a few new mod...
Abstract: I just recently went on an XBLA shopping spree after obtaining a 4000 point card for my birthday. I was going through all the XBLA games that I wanted to buy and I saw GW2 was out. Immediately I was skeptical both because of the lack of depth in th...
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Published: 2008-07-31, Author: Tom , review by: cnet.com
Abstract: Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved was one of the premier games for the Xbox 360 launch. It established low-cost downloadable games as a worthy alternative to full-priced, big-budget fare and made leaderboard races between friends a reason to keep playing th...
