![]() You can use the geoms you collect to upgrade your drones and supers, separate from your bombs. ![]() But the Campaign mode is a ton of fun, and it’s where Lucid expands upon the formula and adds their own touches. If the game was just the Classic modes, and it cost $4.99, I’d have few complaints, they’re fun enough as it is. They just have different levels and parameters. There’s also the Adventure mode, where there’s 50-odd levels to complete, all with star ratings, but they’re just as much high score chasers as the Classic modes are. The five high score modes from Geometry Wars: Touch/ Retro Evolved 2 are here in Classic Mode: Deadline, Retro, King, Pacifism, and Waves. The geoms that enemies drop go toward your score multiplier, so it’s worth collecting them whenever it’s safe to do so. Some modes give you limited amounts of time others give you limited lives my personal favorite, Pacifism, makes you unable to shoot, instead giving you gates to go through that can detonate enemies. It all consists of arena-based challenges where you move and fire with independent joysticks, and can deploy bombs. I believe the modern bunch of dual-stick shooters owe their popularity and conceptual genesis to Geometry Wars, back when Bizarre Creations was making them. If you’ve played a Geometry Wars game before heck, if you’ve played a dual-stick shooter before, you know the deal. ![]() Lucid Games absolutely knocked it out of the park when it first came out on console and desktop, and now it’s on iOS. And with all that, you get Geometry Wars 3: Dimensions. Yet it has a particular color scheme that makes it something that’s familiar in many ways, but ultimately is its own creation. Visually, it sticks the glowy geometric style of Geometry Wars, but throws in some new touches, like spherical 3D boards similar to Super Stardust. Mix those in with the new modes introduced by the Retro Evolved 2 game, and throw in some original creations, like Sniper, where there’s limited bullets to use. These are levels where you have to hit certain score thresholds to get stars and to advance. It then adds in the adventure mode, centered around what Geometry Wars: Galaxies introduced. The game is this: it’s the base modes of Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved 2, which formed the base of the long-gone Geometry Wars: Touch. They iterated and tweaked upon a winning formula without rocking the boat too much. That’s what Activision’s Sierra imprint and Lucid Games have done with Geometry Wars 3: Dimensions ($9.99).
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