Grid Wars

By: Albert Lai

On: May 23rd, 2006

Now, some of you may be glad that TIGSource is back, but I think no one is
happier than the staff at PCGamer. Oh, sure, they claim that they’re
the ‘best-selling magazine about PC games’, but we know what site they surreptitiously
check for stuff to fill out the freeware section of the Gamut. TIGSource! Well,
probably not TIGSource, because they wouldn’t still be talking about Cloud if
they checked this site often.

Enough about PCGamer. Some of you may remember "Geometry Wars" that
was featured as a game on the XBox360, as well as a high-score
video. Well, if you aren’t really into blowing your wads (of cash) on it
to play this game, Grid Wars may make the wait worthwhile!

Grid Wars
is a standard Robotron-style game. However, faithfulness of this recreation
raises it several steps above the other Robo-likes.
The sparks and distortion patterns created by your shots and enemy deaths seem
simple at first, but quickly evolve into stunning light-shows as the game progressively
becomes harder, even if the graphics don’t match up to the real Geometry Wars.
The monster designs range from black holes, snakes, and things that, if I were
to try to describe them within this list, would break parallelism so bad my
English teacher would come back just to smack me upside the head.

One more thing, when you start this dongle up, make sure that you set the controls
to either mouse or keyboard, since the game sets the control scheme to dual
analog sticks by default.