Grid Wars 2
Posted on August 17th, 2006
What happens when you take the retro classic like Asteroids and pump it up on adrenaline and fast computers? Geometry Wars for XBox. Don’t have an XBox? No problem, Mark Incitti has made Grid Wars 2, a superb clone of the game in Blitz Basic and it is available for Windows, OS X, and Linux. The gameplay is fast-paced and addictive - it’s been a while since I’ve been so enthralled by such a simple game. The premise is the same as Asteroids - destroy everything. get powerups for better weapons. The really cool thing is the Grid. I won’t claim to completely understand how the game works, but there seems to be a grid that represents gravity, and it is warped by any object on the game field. The controls are unusual - you set your direction of fire independent of your movement direction. An in-depth review is here Hard to explain - just download and check it out (before the XBox peeps get the clone taken offline)
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