@luir: 100% Agree. Live Multiplayer! Please!

Kotaku Towers, use your powers, get live multi. It a really wierd choice. Why do local over live?

Tetsuwan

I find it hard to believe that they couldn't include online multiplayer with this. I mean, come on! In my opinion, online multiplayer is what makes the Xbox 360 next gen. I almost never play games with people at my house, it's always with my brother and other friends who live around the country. How can a studio possibly justify not including online multiplayer?

brokenme74

@eastx: Your going to be waiting for that for a while, believe me ;)
Looking forward to Geometry Wars 2, a week earlier just makes it all the more satisfying.

PITwelve

Xboxlive multiplayer?

Paradox460

I heard somewhere that Castle Crashers and GW were going to be released the same week.

If this is the case... I'm in trouble.

jinkywilliams

@nerdBOY01: Yeah, that would be hot... esp if they did the Ikaruga thing and let you download the top 100 player's replays.

I LOVE that feature in Ikaruga.

thezman

I WISH I WISH the GWre2 had a record mode. But then again this game AINT halo.

nerdBOY01

This guy reaches 16 MILL (video starts at 14 million)

+ Watch video

Once flies appear and the charger guys spawn 8 at once. it's pretty much game over, that what happens to me around 2-3.7 million.

nerdBOY01

I'm terrible at the first GW, but I love watching my roommate play it. GW2 is a must buy, especially for the co-op.

Ghinn

No Xbox Live Multiplayer?..

Just lost my 10bux. Would of been a buy without any further consideration if it was on Live.

innociv

yes yes yes i love geometry wars i was absoultley addicted to it for months i got my high score to just under 4million and i cant wait to play this one

ddollar

GW controls soooooooo perfectly on DS. I hope we see another title on it eventually. It really spoiled me for the console versions.

fuchikoma

WGAS WGAF

SixPounds

@gaijira: Just wait until Calculus Wars. Dealing with all the little dx's and dy's leading up to a boss fight with an eigenvector.

Struct09

"And here...we...GO."

Again.

I've been waiting for this one since I somehow broke 6,000,000 a couple years ago (haven't come close since, haven't really tried much since then), so rest assured, I'll be up and on Live at 3:00 A.M. (EST) next Wednesday.

jollydwarf

@gaijira: Did you get the Pythagoras achievement? It unlocked a gamer picture (why don't more 360 games do that?) which I used for a while.

Kazzahdrane

Waitwaitwaitwaitwaitwait

Geometry Wars Multiplayer?

I'm sold. I only needed those three words.

Grive

Geometry Wars was much more fun than the ill fated Trigonometry Wars. Man, trying to solve for cos(x) while getting blasted by tangents was the definition of frustration.

gaijira

Time to try to beat my 3.4 million score a few more times.

gstaff

@Demaar: Well, 400 points to 800 is a lot even without hundreds. 5 and 10 bucks, and then you have to factor in the fact that you're forced to buy the points bundled, so many people will be spending $12.50 just to get Geometry Wars 2.

I didn't get the hype of the first one. I got it for free on the arcade volume 1 disc that came for free with my Xbox (along with Kameo and PGR3). I didn't really care for it, and I definitely won't care for it at $10.

::goes back to playing Go Go Break Study:::

karasu is my homeboy

Also, Crecente ... is this my tip?

;)

dead_red_eyes

@nerdBOY01:

Damn, that's a pretty crazy score. I've only hit about a million and a half. Shit just gets way too crazy for me.

dead_red_eyes

@Ceezsa:

Hey, a fellow Mississippian.

I don't think online would've worked. Geo Wars is pretty hectic and requires loads of split-second timing to play. I'd wager that even a small amount of latency would make an already hard game that much harder. But I don't want to make excuses for the lack of online play since even laggy online is better than none at all.

EComni

@Owenr22: I'm in the exact same boat. There are like 5 releases, excluding the RB content I want that have been released (or will be) while my 360 is out of commission.

Should only be another week or 2, but damn... I hate having to splurge and get 5 games at once...

thezman

@luir: Yeah, I don't want more people playing this game. I'd rather make it only available to those that decided to buy a specific console... cos I'm awesome and have to have something to brag about to my PS3-owning friends.

/Dumbass.

thezman

Jeez, just when I finished my 12-step program to ridding my addiction of Geometry Wars, Bizarre has to pull this off. First Retro Evolved, then Galaxies, now this?! I don't think they are content with my money any more, they want my soul too.....and I would gladly give it to them if I hadn't already sold it so that 3D Realms could finish Duke Nukem Forever. I think I got hosed.

Ryguy226

@BulletzBill: Thanks for the info. I am not sure now if this will be a purchase for me. Me and friend of mine went back and forth beating each others high score. He is now in Texas and I in Mississippi so an online multiplayer would have been golden. Hopefully they patch it. The DS has multiplayer between two local DS's so it should not have been that hard to do console to console multiplayer.

Ceezsa

@luir: If there's anything I can't stand, it's people who rally for exclusives. You don't want anyone else but your fellow fanboys to enjoy the game...who's the greedy one?

Robotube

Next week is going to be so awesome. This and Pixel Junk Eden. It's like Christmas in July for downloadable games :D

Struct09

@luir: Stop offering us your Kool-Aid, fanboy.

GrrSnort

Nice. I have not played the first in a while but I will definitely get this day 1.

Gray665

Thanks alot Microsoft, you bastards! I bloody love Geo Wars and decide to bring this out while my 360s dead you wankers!

Owenr22

My top score GW(retro evolved) 3,812,000

nerdBOY01

I gotta get my XBox fixed!!!

nerdBOY01

Could they please make the game so you last more than five f***ing seconds? Seriously. My high score isn't great. Only like 800K. But that's like two minutes of playing. Can't they just stretch out the learning curve a little more? God.

mcmurder

@luir: How is making a product available to more people being greedy? I'm sorry, but you sound as bad as the Sony fanboys who were complaining when FF13 went multi-plat. Besides, other Geometry Wars titles have already been released for other platforms like the DS.

Cloral

woohoo! Time for some insane shump action.

jello44

best news all week

NightMystic

@R0YB0T: I know, this is why I'm damned pissed off if this game pushes Bionic Commando even further.

Zantagor

Awesome, I've yet played the original though..... I was a cheap-ass and just downloaded Echoes instead...

Turel777

local multiplayer only?
now that sucks

luir

SHMUP

NOT

SHUMP!

roker

@Zantagor:
No way in hell are they releasing Bionic commando: RA and Geometry Wars 2 in the same week.

Two weeks ago was what?
Oh yeah!
Crossword Puzzles and Double D Dodgeball.

That would be like me giving you a punch in the nose and force feeding you dog shit, and then 2 weeks later I give you some money out of my pocket, and compliment you on your good looks.

R0YB0T

Man, I dunno hey... 800 points? Geometry Wars is great and those sure do sound like mighty fine additions, but I can't help but feel that price is a little steep. There are a surprising number of XBLA games that have much more depth than GW for the same price. With the current library that's a bit hard to choke down...

Might sound dumb, but I'd definitely buy it if it was 400 or even 600 points. 800 though. I dunno... the difference sounds like so much when you're dealing with "hundreds" of points.

Demaar

@luir: Yeah, any company that wants to make more money by selling games to more people is just devilish and greedy. All the best companies try to limit their target audiences.

Note: Sarcasm.

eastx

@Ceezsa: Yep, IGN confirmed that multiplayer is local only. :-(

BulletzBill

sounds good, the first one is great.

noliferuin (PSN+XBL)

@maniacmayhem: Ha! I never HAD a life as a ladies man to begin with!

I...win?

TitillatedOcelot

this looks incredibly good, especially the co-op
i hope it stays a XBLA exclusive, betrayals with multiplatform gaming is not something i would like to see Bizzarre doing
and that stands for any platform
this kind of thing shows a level of greed that i dont want to believe that exists

luir

Time to put my life as a ladies man on hold.

maniacmayhem

[news.dengeki.com] Here's a 2nd site that gives a July 30th for Bionic Commando, and July 31st on PSN. I hope this means both Geo and Bionic, or that Bionic hasn't been pushed back or else I'll be major pissed. Not that I don't care about Geometry wars, but Bionic Commando has been announce MUCH earlier, and is already late.

Zantagor

looking forward to this

lochnessjason

Geometry Wars 2, Bionic Commando: RA, and Castle Crashers are all I want for the next few months.
1 down, 3 to go!

R0YB0T

Woo hoo! I can't wait.

justinbox360

I never got the first, but I'm seriously considering this one.

insaneo

Sweet! I'll most likely be picking this up. Mind you, it's not getting any play until I get all my trophies on Super Stardust!

TitillatedOcelot

Wait. SO is that no online multiplayer

Ceezsa

Wow, those are some good features. I got tired of the first one pretty quickly despite its beautiful aesthetics, but multiplayer should add a lot to this sequel.

eastx

WHAT??? Bionic Commando Rearmed was due out July 30th according to [watch.impress.co.jp] this better not mean that Microsoft decided to delay it again!

Zantagor