When I was a kid and had all the time in the world to play games I had no money to buy them. Now I'm an adult with a halfway decent paycheck I can afford to buy any game I want. Unfortunately that paycheck is attached to a full time job so I have little time to play. That is cruel irony. I have always loved beefy games; full blown action adventures, platformers, and the biggest time sinks of all, RPGs. However, it is only relatively recently that I've come to fully appreciate quick fix games; games like Geometry Wars Galaxies that I can play for hours or minutes and still get the full experience.
In celebration of the Large Hadron Collider going into operation today, I present to you: Particle Accelerator the Video Game.
There is a diner in my home town with an ancient arcade cabinet sitting in one corner. The cabinet houses an original Asteroids game in all its vector graphics glory. Geometry Wars takes the basic idea of Asteroids and runs with it, creating a game that manages to be intense and relaxing all at the same time. Anyone who's gotten into “the zone” while playing it knows what I'm talking about. It's easy to just get absorbed in the light show.
Geometry Wars sports no life-like CG models, no fancy texture maps or overblown motion capture. It breaks the visuals down to the most basic shapes and dazzles with cascades of particle effects and streams of light. It's a beautiful game with a look that will never age poorly like yesterday's cutting edge 3-D. The color and motion blend together in a fluid work of interactive art. Don't get too mesmerized by the digital fireworks though, or you'll never see the deadly rotating square that annihilates your ship!
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