Geometry Wars: Galaxies

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Like its parent, the Xbox Live Arcade game Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved, Galaxies has the player control a ship that can shoot and travel in 8 directions and is controlled primarily with analog sticks and a single button to activate bombs. The playing space is a flat 2D plane, but unlike Evolved there are multiple planes (or levels) that vary in size and shape. The planes are typically a near-black background lit up with a grid, but enemies are brightly colored shapes that fill the screen with particles and colors when attacking the player.

Galaxies differs from Retro Evolved in that the single-player component has many different levels rather than the single provided in Evolved, each with its own set of score goals. Galaxies also adds a new mechanic of the drone, which acts as a helper ship that can perform one user-selected duty at a time such as rotating shield, secondary shooter, backwards shooter, etc.

The Wii version includes Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved and can interface with the Nintendo DS to download the demo to the system, as well as to unlock new features, including a hidden version of Geometry Wars: Waves.

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• Genre: Dual / Twin-stick shooter
• Genre: Fixed-screen shoot 'em up
• Geometry Wars series

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GameZone	Wii	Jan 15, 2008	9 out of 10	90
DS-x2	Wii	2008	8 out of 10	80
Gamestyle	Wii	Mar 04, 2008	8 out of 10	80
videogamer.com	Wii	Jan 17, 2008	8 out of 10	80
Game Revolution	Wii	Jan 11, 2008	B	75
Cheat Code Central	Wii	2007	3.7 out of 5	74
videogamer.com	Nintendo DS	Jan 14, 2008	7 out of 10	70
Avid Gamer	Wii	Jan 30, 2008	7 out of 10	70
Gameswelt	Wii	Jan 21, 2008	66 out of 100	66
Yiya	Nintendo DS	Feb 22, 2008	D+	33

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