See what you're doing wrong with Geometry Wars' 3D camera
by Ludwig Kietzmann 
{ Aug 4th 2008 at 4:18PM }
The fine folks at Giant Bomb (who, in turn, credit former Joystiq writer Jared Rea) have pointed us to this neat little Easter egg which pauses the game's frantic action and allows you to swoop through the battle grid ... and even to the stars beyond. To access it, press the right bumper together with the back button during any of the game's modes. The analog sticks control the movement and direction of the camera, while the left and right triggers enable vertical adjustment. Neat!
If this still doesn't aid you in getting your blaster bearings, you'd best adopt our strategy for remaining atop the leaderboard: Delete your friends.
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syrik zero @ Aug 4th 2008 4:25PM
Delete friends... Why didn't I think of that...?
Zertoss @ Aug 4th 2008 4:30PM
None of my friends even have GW2. What a bunch of losers.
BIGFAT @ Aug 4th 2008 5:03PM
its the 10 dollar price point that's the colprit.
people just cant fathom paying ten dollars for something that was five.
rivaldi22 @ Aug 4th 2008 5:15PM
If you're implying that GW1 = GW2, then I'm sorry to say that you're just dead wrong. GW2 is more along the lines of GW: Galaxies in its level of variety, which was probably like 30 dollars at most places.
BIGFAT @ Aug 4th 2008 6:46PM
no, what i am implying is that this is a sequel to a 5 dollar game and that its more then the original game regardless of if is better or not a sequel is supposed to be a improvement. But that does not give them the right to charge more.
Ludwig Kietzmann @ Aug 4th 2008 7:53PM
I think making the game gives them the right to charge whatever they want, actually.
And for what it's worth, GW2 has much more content than the original game. Possibly even double.
Cutty @ Aug 4th 2008 8:03PM
I agree with BIGFAT. Since when did sequels jump up in price, regardless of the amount of content in it? Gears of War 2 isn't going to be more than what Gears of War once was.
ogvor @ Aug 4th 2008 4:41PM
I'd really like to play this some more, but my Xbox RRoDed right at the beginning of the "Summer of XBLA". And its still taking 3 weeks to repair them, I thought they would have shortened that by now.
KingOfGods @ Aug 4th 2008 4:55PM
damn I just got my console back today. They shipped it next day all 3 ways for me... total time including weekends 5 days.
ogvor @ Aug 4th 2008 9:04PM
They "said" it would take 2-3 weeks. Maybe I'll get it in five days, or maybe it will be like last time and take 3 weeks. Either way, I'm pissed about it.
caramelzappa @ Aug 4th 2008 4:47PM
I haven't bought it yet, but that's a neat feature.
ice~ @ Aug 4th 2008 4:51PM
doesn't help me trying to activate 30 zones in king, keep getting to 28/29 and those damned diamonds speeding up and get all polygonic on my ass...any tips foe this achievement??? :(
kilodelta @ Aug 4th 2008 5:14PM
speed through the zones. don't spend any amount of time inside them.
when the bad guys reach the zone, they have to fly around it, which buys you a second or two.
it took me a little while to get the 30/30.
rivaldi22 @ Aug 4th 2008 5:12PM
Get better?
I mean, there's nothing to say besides "avoid enemies." Try and activate zones as quickly as possible, before harder enemies show up.
MooseMuffin @ Aug 4th 2008 5:17PM
Don't stay in any zone for too long, as the blues will surround it. When they get faster, fly though them in such a way where they get blocked by the zone as you go to the next one. If you're hitting 28/29, then you know what you're doing. Just do it better =)
Now if I could just fly around the damn edges twice...
MagiKarp @ Aug 4th 2008 5:17PM
That achievement was tough for me too, but once you get to 28/29 rings, it's more about getting lucky with zone placement than anything else, I think. However, I think the blues that have been around the longest are the only ones who are the fastest, so I always found using the zones against them to be the best tactic: trying to force them to go the long way around them. Also, zig-zagging just a little bit can kinda throw them off, but it's super tough with all those friggen pinwheels around. Just pray to the geometry gods to give you a lucky ring zone :) Good luck!
ice~ @ Aug 5th 2008 1:07AM
Ty ty all my advice for wax on wax off is to just wax on first, when u wax off, do it piece by piece instead of one straight flight round the stage
Dustin @ Aug 4th 2008 5:13PM
@ice~ Ugh... I can't get the 30 zones on King, either.
I did just finally win the Wax on and Wax off achievements last night, though. Wax off took me a while :(
As far as the camera goes - can't wait to try it out!
chris king @ Aug 4th 2008 5:54PM
Imagine if they port this to the Wii, and it included headtracking. Am I too far out there, or does seem like the next logical step?
mr mobius @ Aug 4th 2008 7:33PM
Sore on the neck I imagine.
scleond @ Aug 4th 2008 7:01PM
I can't seem to get the wax off one. Although, 7 mil on waves is nice :)
Airos @ Aug 4th 2008 8:08PM
this game gets so friggin hectic!
Brian @ Aug 4th 2008 9:45PM
you gotta love a game that when you look up at the clock and 3 hours just flew by! The game is worth the $10...the extra modes justify that. Ludwig is sick at GW2, I need to beat you in one mode...bizsnatch9.
Hafk @ Aug 4th 2008 11:45PM
Damnit, how can you beat Sequence? I have almost thrown my controller into the TV trying to beat the damn thing.
FSK405K @ Aug 5th 2008 2:20PM
My guess is that whereas reaching 1 or 2 million points is far simpler to achieve in each of the other game modes in GW2 than it was in GW1, Sequence mode is there to show us that we all still are mortal.
Richard @ Aug 8th 2008 11:54AM
this game is all I ever wanted, geometry wars where I can get more than 3 achivements oh and don't go insane from playing the one game mode over and over...