Geometry Wars Galaxies review Nintendo DS

Geometry Wars: Galaxies is one for fans of a good old-fashioned arcade space shooter - this descendent of Xbox Live's Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved is fast and frantic and well-suited to the DS. It'll keep you blasting away happily for hours, but is it really worth its rather high price-tag? Find out what we think in our review of Geometry Wars: Galaxies for the Nintendo DS now!

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Geometry Wars: Galaxies review for Nintendo DS
N ot since GCSE trigonometry have triangles been so scary. Yet solving Pythagoras' theorem was a cinch compared to avoiding ten or more of the blighters in a tight corner, each hell-bent on smashing your tiny spaceship into a gazillion pieces. They're not the only ones, either – those squares and diamonds are at it too. Welcome to Geometry Wars… you're going to love it.

Comparisons will inevitably be made to the game which spawned it – Xbox Live Arcade game Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved – and indeed, a version of that game is included here. Yet the main game is more an expanded version of Geometry Wars: Waves, which came as a freebie extra in Project Gotham Racing 4. Here you have to collect ‘geoms' from destroyed foes, which act both as a bonus multiplier and a currency for unlocking galaxies. There's a lovely risk/ reward principle at work, where you have to venture too close to enemies just to collect more geoms to boost your score. A nice touch.