Grid Wars free game download
71GridWars is a free down-loadable (for PC or Mac) old-school-style shooting game that's remarkably similar to Geometry Wars on the Xbox360.
"Grid Wars" improbably colourful arcade shooter with brilliant game-play, very similar to a well known game "Geometry Wars". Playing "Grid Wars" you operate a spacecraft repulsing attacks of aggressive geometrical figures. And when all these rhombuses and circles will clamp you in a corner - you will change radically your view of geometry.
Your small ship sits in a one-screen grid and vectorized enemies spawn to attack. Use your any directional gun to stay alive while you rake in points. Along the way a few power-ups will give you a hand, and there's always the emergency screen-clearing bomb you can unleash. It's a classic game with a few modern tweaks that makes it worth anyone's time to give a try.
Everything about GridWars screams simplicity. There are only a few different types of enemies, each with its own personality. The little green things chase you, the purple diamonds cluster and tail you around the board, the red circles mess with the grid (and thus the "gravity"), etc. One shot obliterates anything in your path, but the sheer number of baddies is what gives the challenge.
Controls in the game are extremely customizable which is very, very good. The best way to play GridWars is with a dual analog gamepad one stick to pilot, one to shoot. This gives you the greatest sense of freedom. If you do not have a dual analog pad there are a number of other options, even using the mouse in conjunction with the keyboard which I find no problem at al. It's important to spend some time before you start to set up a comfortable control scheme. You'll need it.
The only real goal in GridWars is to stay alive. That is, of course, harder than it sounds. In typical retro fashion you progress by gaining points and the difficulty ramps up by increasing enemy speed and number. The soundtrack (which I will call a minimalistic electronic orchestral symphony, to sound intelligent) keeps your demeanor calm and determined, which in the end is all you can rely on.
Analysis: I am not a fan of shooters. My eyes just glaze over when I see the familiar top-down point of view with a ship flying around. But GridWars looked enough like Asteroids for me to give it a try. Strangely enough, I love the game. It's good in short spurts, as I don't really care about advancing until I scream at the vector enemies. But the whole package is very well done, even if it's just a clone of another game.
Shaving excess game-play to reveal the core mechanics of what makes a game fun can be difficult. But the end product gives you that great sense of accomplishment with very little work. To me, that's the definition of a casual game, and GridWars does it very well.
This is old school video gaming is at it's best! Simple to learn, difficult to master. It takes strategy and some fast moving fingers, especially on the "hard" setting. Sometimes it's nice to be able to distract yourself for a few minutes with a good, simple video game and this one definitely delivers.
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