Geometry Wars has always expertly balanced visual chaos with a focused design similar to the best bullet-hell shooters, and Dimensions Evolved hasnвЂ™t gotten sloppy in the downtime between releases. Bright geometric shapes zoom around spitting off particle effects as they attempt to collide with your ship, a reckless spacecraft zipping through levels shooting at anything within reach. The answer to that question, however, turns out to be far more difficult to answer than expected.ДЄt first glance, Dimensions Evolved is still indisputably Geometry Wars. The first question with a sequel like Dimensions Evolved is not вЂњwhatвЂ™s changedвЂќ but вЂњdid they ruin it?вЂќ Though the return of one of XBLAвЂ™s biggest hits is more than welcome, it is hard not to see the surprise release as potentially suspect after a six-year gap and developer shuffle. But six years later what remains of the studio, now reformed as Lucid Games, attempted to do just that with the release of Geometry Wars 3: Dimensions Evolved (2014), a direct sequel that pulls ideas from both Geometry Wars 2 and the royally overlooked Wii spinoff Geometry Wars: Galaxies (2007), as well as liberal inspiration from the adjacent Super Stardust series. With Geometry Wars 2 Bizarre Creations had achieved near perfection and it is difficult to imagine how they would begin to follow up such a monumental release. Aside from perhaps Pac-Man Championship Edition DX (2010) (which borrowed indiscriminately from Geometry Wars aesthetics and leaderboard systems) no game has greater exemplified the arcade game rebirth of the last decade as greatly as Geometry Wars 2 (2008). From the seriesвЂ™ birth as an Easter Egg in Project Gotham Racing 2 (2003) to finding its home on the early Xbox Live Arcade, Bizarre CreationsвЂ™ Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved (2005) made few drastic changes but by its second numbered iteration had refined its twin-stick, neon arcade-shooter score-chase into a neo-retro diamond. Geometry Wars 2 (2008) was never a game that demanded a sequel.

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