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XythXyth Avatar Join Date: 2003-11-04 Member: 22312Members
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<div class="IPBDescription">Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved</div><a href="http://www.steampowered.com/v/index.php?area=game&AppId=8400&cc=US" target="_blank">For $2.50 on Steam!</a>

Seriously, porting this to PC was the best idea ever. So, who else has purchased/become addicted to it? My current high-score is only 221k, those stupid purple boxes get me every time.
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  • TychoCelchuuuTychoCelchuuu Anememone Join Date: 2002-03-23 Member: 345Members
    <a href="http://worldofstuart.excellentcontent.com/grid/wars.htm" target="_blank">Look, it's Geometry Wars only free and much better!</a>
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  • QuaunautQuaunaut The longest seven days in history... Join Date: 2003-03-21 Member: 14759Members, Constellation, Reinforced - Shadow
    <!--quoteo(post=1634601:date=Jun 19 2007, 12:33 PM:name=TychoCelchuuu)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(TychoCelchuuu @ Jun 19 2007, 12:33 PM) [snapback]1634601[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->
    <a href="http://worldofstuart.excellentcontent.com/grid/wars.htm" target="_blank">Look, it's Geometry Wars only free and much better!</a>
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    Totally can't figure out how to make it do keyboard commands.
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  • HybridclawHybridclaw Join Date: 2003-11-03 Member: 22271Members
    <!--quoteo(post=1634608:date=Jun 19 2007, 03:49 PM:name=Quaunaut)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Quaunaut @ Jun 19 2007, 03:49 PM) [snapback]1634608[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->
    Totally can't figure out how to make it do keyboard commands.
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    Me too, I could only get it to work with a mouse
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  • FaskaliaFaskalia Wechsellichtzeichenanlage Join Date: 2004-09-12 Member: 31651Members, Constellation
    <!--quoteo(post=1634608:date=Jun 19 2007, 09:49 PM:name=Quaunaut)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Quaunaut @ Jun 19 2007, 09:49 PM) [snapback]1634608[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->
    Totally can't figure out how to make it do keyboard commands.
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    Press ESC

    then
    options
    controls
    then set dual analog to keyboard
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  • TychoCelchuuuTychoCelchuuu Anememone Join Date: 2002-03-23 Member: 345Members
    Quanaut, I thought you have a 360? Can't you just use that controller?
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  • QuaunautQuaunaut The longest seven days in history... Join Date: 2003-03-21 Member: 14759Members, Constellation, Reinforced - Shadow
    edited June 2007
    K, well, I don't think its better than Geometry Wars, but it is a good placeholder.

    Geometry Wars though...its just so much smoother, faster, and in general requires more strategy. The enemies in Grid Wars are similar, but no where near as fast in movement, and the most annoying enemy, the green boxes, aren't even hard, in Grid Wars.

    <!--quoteo(post=1634613:date=Jun 19 2007, 12:56 PM:name=TychoCelchuuu)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(TychoCelchuuu @ Jun 19 2007, 12:56 PM) [snapback]1634613[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->
    Quanaut, I thought you have a 360? Can't you just use that controller?
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    I don't have that thingy to get it to hook up to my PC. Its a wireless controller, anyhow.

    Said thingy: <a href="http://www.xbox.com/en-US/hardware/x/xbox360wirelessgamingreceiver/" target="_blank">http://www.xbox.com/en-US/hardware/x/xbox3...gamingreceiver/</a>

    I really oughta get one though. I mean, if I'm gonna get that 360 Racing Wheel...
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  • TestamentTestament Join Date: 2002-11-02 Member: 4037Members
    Aren't 360 controllers just USB?
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  • PulsePulse To create, to create and escape. Join Date: 2002-08-29 Member: 1248Members, Constellation
    edited June 2007
    <!--quoteo(post=1634601:date=Jun 19 2007, 12:33 PM:name=TychoCelchuuu)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(TychoCelchuuu @ Jun 19 2007, 12:33 PM) [snapback]1634601[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->
    <a href="http://worldofstuart.excellentcontent.com/grid/wars.htm" target="_blank">Look, it's Geometry Wars only free and much better!</a>
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    So I'm guessing you've never played Geometry Wars? Grid Wars is a poor substitute for the real thing.

    Is this the same as the one released on the Windows Marketplace, ie. no online leaderboards? If so, fail game is faaaaaaaaaiiiiiillllllll.

    <!--quoteo(post=1634623:date=Jun 19 2007, 01:22 PM:name=Testament)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Testament @ Jun 19 2007, 01:22 PM) [snapback]1634623[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->
    Aren't 360 controllers just USB?
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    Not the wireless ones.

    Edit: My current high score is 328K.
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  • TestamentTestament Join Date: 2002-11-02 Member: 4037Members
    edited June 2007
    Grid Wars 2 is amazing. Giving me a stiffy. Black holes are an amazing game mechanic.

    Does anybody know of any other awesome PC shooters? This brings back playing Ikaruga until 5AM in the morning. I want that again.
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  • PetcoPetco Join Date: 2003-07-27 Member: 18478Members, Constellation
    Grid Wars 2 sure have some nice eye candy. Any way you can get an extra lives on that game?
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  • TestamentTestament Join Date: 2002-11-02 Member: 4037Members
    By surviving long enough for an extra life powerup to spawn.
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  • PetcoPetco Join Date: 2003-07-27 Member: 18478Members, Constellation
    edited June 2007
    Sort of lazy to play this game over again. My first try I died real early because I wasn't sure what the control are and what powers ups were, using bombs for no reason, etc.

    Second try, I made it to 150k+ points before dying.

    I died once because I got cornered/surrounded or so and didn't want to "waste a bomb".

    Second time I died, I died while trying to get a power up.

    Third time, ran out of bombs and was cornered. An extra bomb powerup was close too.


    Third and Fourth time I played - I died randomly from enemies that spawned near me. I never got past 70k points.

    Though again, it has nice visuals and music which probably will get me to keep playing sometime.
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  • LikuLiku I, am the Somberlain. Join Date: 2003-01-10 Member: 12128Members
    437061 in Grid Wars, I turned everything down so Bombs and Lives spawn more often. Sadly, most of my deaths because of those certain spawn patterns where you become surrounded... that's hell to get through without using a bomb. During the end I didn't have any bombs, so every time that happened it was a death. Those red guys that chase you are a pain in the ass.
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  • TestamentTestament Join Date: 2002-11-02 Member: 4037Members
    I wish it had a very hard mode. Hard mode is when it starts to get fun, but it's not quite chaotic enough
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  • Private_ColemanPrivate_Coleman PhD in Video Games Join Date: 2002-11-07 Member: 7510Members
    I bought it yesterday, since I really liked grid wars.


    Geometry Wars is much more polished and more difficult, although I wish they incorporated Grid Wars' black hole scoring system.
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  • PulsePulse To create, to create and escape. Join Date: 2002-08-29 Member: 1248Members, Constellation
    edited June 2007
    [this is not a warez forum - puzl]
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  • TestamentTestament Join Date: 2002-11-02 Member: 4037Members
    I don't have a credit card so tried to pirate Geometry Wars and it crashes every time I start it, so it looks like I need SSE for it, which means I'll buy it with my new PC.
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  • PulsePulse To create, to create and escape. Join Date: 2002-08-29 Member: 1248Members, Constellation
    <!--quoteo(post=1634872:date=Jun 20 2007, 10:50 AM:name=Testament)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Testament @ Jun 20 2007, 10:50 AM) [snapback]1634872[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->
    I don't have a credit card so tried to pirate Geometry Wars and it crashes every time I start it, so it looks like I need SSE for it, which means I'll buy it with my new PC.
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    Are you sure it was "cracked" for XP? The one from Windows Marketplace is supposed to be exclusive to Vista.
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  • TestamentTestament Join Date: 2002-11-02 Member: 4037Members
    edited June 2007
    [this is not a warez forum - puzl]
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  • TychoCelchuuuTychoCelchuuu Anememone Join Date: 2002-03-23 Member: 345Members
    Testament, just have a friend with a credit card buy it and pay them back.

    The Steam version runs on XP so that's what you'll want to get, not the one from the Windows Marketplace.
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  • TestamentTestament Join Date: 2002-11-02 Member: 4037Members
    <!--quoteo(post=1634887:date=Jun 20 2007, 11:23 AM:name=TychoCelchuuu)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(TychoCelchuuu @ Jun 20 2007, 11:23 AM) [snapback]1634887[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->
    Testament, just have a friend with a credit card buy it and pay them back.

    The Steam version runs on XP so that's what you'll want to get, not the one from the Windows Marketplace.
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    I can't run it if it requires SSE. Which my processor doesn't have cuz it's so old.
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  • TychoCelchuuuTychoCelchuuu Anememone Join Date: 2002-03-23 Member: 345Members
    That or it was just saying that because you downloaded some weirdo cracked copy hacked together by some 8 year old in Hong Kong while he was hopped up on PCP.
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  • TestamentTestament Join Date: 2002-11-02 Member: 4037Members
    <!--quoteo(post=1634895:date=Jun 20 2007, 11:57 AM:name=TychoCelchuuu)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(TychoCelchuuu @ Jun 20 2007, 11:57 AM) [snapback]1634895[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->
    That or it was just saying that because you downloaded some weirdo cracked copy hacked together by some 8 year old in Hong Kong while he was hopped up on PCP.
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    I'd wager more on SSE. I couldn't run Plasma Pong either 'cuz of it.
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  • PetcoPetco Join Date: 2003-07-27 Member: 18478Members, Constellation
    Is there any way to change some of the game settings to "cheat" without using the ingame settings?

    gridwars.bmx seems like it has a lot of the settings.
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