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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Game Vortex	Wii	2007	90 out of 100	90
Gamezoom	Wii	Feb 27, 2008	86 out of 100	86
Eurogamer.net (UK)	Nintendo DS	Jan 04, 2008	8 out of 10	80
Kombo.com	Wii	Dec 13, 2007	8 out of 10	80
Hooked Gamers	Wii	Jan 15, 2008	8 out of 10	80
Tweakers.net	Wii	Feb 29, 2008	7.5 out of 10	75
GameSpot	Wii	Nov 27, 2007	7.5 out of 10	75
PAL Gaming Network (PALGN)	Wii	Feb 20, 2008	7 out of 10	70
Gameswelt	Wii	Jan 21, 2008	66 out of 100	66
Daily Game	Wii	Dec 17, 2007	6 out of 10	60

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