![]() It’s an intense game, especially when you’re returning to previous levels to beat your high score and earn more stars. Boss battles need a certain number of stars to be accessed and collecting them is an increasing challenge. When you finally reach a level that focuses on a mode you’re good at, it feels like you’re flying through like a pro. The different levels make all the difference however. ![]() Maze is just a level set in checkpoint mode, but you’re racing against the the clock to weave around three walls that section up the level. Upon clearing out a wave, you’ll gain extra time. ![]() Again, this gives the sense that all stages could be seen as their own game mode, giving the title tons of content and replay value. Personally, maze has become one of my favorites but that doesn’t mean there isn’t new actual modes as well. One stage known as Titan Planet has you facing off against giant versions of familiar shape enemies that split into smaller versions when blasted enough. This adds a whole new strategy since using your bomb on this level could unleash a wave of foes from the destroyed giants. So it’s best to take it slow, break down the titans, and work them down from large, to medium, to regular sized and destroyed for geoms. Speaking of which, geoms are the bait added to Geometry Wars 2 that increase your multiplier. They are little green bits, usually diamond shaped, that you collect from defeated foes. There are even larger ones this time that I don’t recall from GW2. In this release however, you really have to train yourself to react to the situation properly for collecting them. The first time I destroyed a titan’s medium form, I rushed in to get my geoms, only to be in the center of a regular sized spawn pool and destroyed. It’s tricky and forces you to weigh the risk, but also push forward to get your score as high as possible to collect the important stars you need to move on in the game. Sierra further adds new content by including drones and supers. Drones are tiny upgrades that orbit your ship and provide things such as extra firepower or helping you collect geoms. Supers are special attacks such as laying mines for a limited period of time. Both of these new additions can be upgraded. The tricky part here is getting used to your drone. I can’t count the number of times I’d be lost in combat and flee from my own drone. You can just get caught up in the action. On top of that, there’s even more additions! Bonus powers like rapid spread fire can be collected by destroying a collection of pegs that appear on the field. This is both a great thing and a nightmare depending on where they spawn. Some levels feature a dome shaped field that have a pinch point in the middle between two walls. With little warning, bonus pegs can appear in the center. When you’re in the heat of battle and you get destroyed by the pegs, it’s a horrible cheap defeat.
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