Like the awesome but mostly ignored Wii version of Geometry Wars, Geometry Wars 3 (which was a free PS+ rental this month) has a great single player “adventure” mode. Each level takes one of the main score attack modes and requires you to beat a certain score or clear a level in under a certain time with the rules of that mode, or perhaps with no smart bomb or extra lives. In addition, every so many levels, there’s a boss …
With two earlier levels completed on Silver (actually one was Silver, the other Gold), I had enough geoms to unlock the final planet. Which was really easy – I even got Gold on it! So that’s it – all done. Apart from going back and bettering my scores and leveling up the other drone states I’d not used much. Sweep and Turret are at max, Attack is almost there, but pretty much everything else is untouched. After completing the game, …
I’ve done all the levels now, bar the final planet on the final galaxy. I’ve got 140,000 geoms, and need 200,000 to unlock it – that’s two more Bronze-to-Silver improvements. I’ve just realised – why is each galaxy a galaxy? They’re clearly solar systems. Hmm.
All these Geoms I’ve been collecting – hundreds of thousands of them – were all used up by the last few planets in the penultimate galaxy. Meaning I didn’t have enough to open the final galaxy. So I went back to some earlier levels and managed Gold where previously, I’d only managed Bronze. That let me in, and with the first three planets there all Gold’ed, I’m back in huge credit! Sadly, it costs LOADS to unlock each planet, so …
Right, I’m on the penultimate galaxy, and I’ve done three of the planets there. Not many left now! They’re all getting a bit hard though, and I haven’t managed a Silver rank in ages.
I don’t really know what to write. I really love the game, but it’s just “shoot stuff”, so there’s no real way of making an interesting diary post out of that… I’m over halfway through unlocking the galaxies, though.
This just gets better! Every planet has a different “quirk”, like you’ve only got one life, or you have huge splitting baddies, or there’s no break from the action at all, or the “grid” is a maze with walls. I’ve been powering up my Turret, which seems great for taking down huge swarms, especially on the more open levels. I had plenty of opportunity to power it up too, considering the number of times I had to attempt a level …
That’s right – Wii and DS. The Wii game arrived today, and, to my surprise, it lets you send a copy of a port of Retro Evolved to your DS. Hurrah! First up was the Wii “Galaxies” mode. It is ACE. I was expecting a slight drop in clarity of visuals (over the 360 Retro Evolved) but there isn’t really. It’s just not HD, that’s all. The level-based nature is a big difference to the game, but it works really …
One go on this, just to see how crap I have become in the time I haven’t played it. And? A rubbish score of about 130,000 points. Five months ago, that would have been great, but anything short of half a million these days is just weak.
Gah! I thought a quick blast on this might give me the most fantasticnessable score evaar. Sadly, the best I could manage in a few goes was a (frankly, awful) 81,000. RUBBISH.
440,000! Yeah, I know it’s still low in the grand scheme of things, but I’m now beating some two-thirds of the people on my friend’s list. Which is all that really matters.
391,000!!!!!! ACES. And then the rest of my attempts were crap. I lost a life at 1,200 points on one of them. RUBBISH.
Ubarpowaz! On my second attempt today (after a long break from the game) I managed about 340,000 points! OK, so compared to others it is still pretty crap (although I went up about 10 places in my friend list leaderboard), but it’s a big improvement on the 240,000-odd previous best. And it got me another two achievements – 250,000 Points, and Survived 250,000 Points – the latter as I’d not died until after 300,000. And then lost all five lives …
Just one game unpon returning from the pub, and I beat my high score! I’m on 227,000 points now! Yes, I am aware that that is still a rubbish score.
Once again, things started well (188,000 points), but successive games got progressively worse (ending at about 20,000). I’m rubbish at this, when I know I can do so much better. And it makes my eyes bleed real actual blood.
