Today's timesink: Geometry Wars 2 leaderboard site live

by Justin McElroy { Aug 14th 2008 at 11:45AM }

Hey gang, terrible, terrible news: You can now check your status on the Geometry Wars 2 leaderboards at any moment of the day, thanks to a Bizarre Creations application that's just gone live. While you can't check your status as it compares to your friends, you can see, in real-time, how you stack up against the rest of the world.

It's not just the time you'll spend plugging gamertags into the site to see how everyone ranks that's so troubling. It's watching your status slipping while you toil at the office, debating if it's worth faking food poisoning to get back in the Pacifism top 10,000 that's really going to mess with you. (Spoiler alert: It's totally worth it.)

[Via CVG]

Tags: activision, bizarre-creations, geometry-wars-2, xbox-live

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Vegeta (aka Ska Oreo) @ Aug 14th 2008 11:49AM

Geometry Wars 2 is really the only thing I use my 360 for now.

sigh.

I really do need to buy more games.

Vcize @ Aug 14th 2008 1:57PM

Wow, time to get back into it man. There are more awesome games out than I can even keep up with, and the fall is just absurdly lined with great looking games.

Vegeta (aka Ska Oreo) @ Aug 14th 2008 2:06PM

I know but right now, I'm unemployed and I need the money to pay for books for school. I only had a little extra left over to buy an xbla game.

caramelzappa @ Aug 15th 2008 1:40AM

Same here, but I'm not too broken up about it, it's loads of fun. Plus, I'm really looking forward to a lot of games coming out soon, especially the stronger titles for the XBLA and Gears 2.

Good luck getting a job, I'm in the same boat.

LeadBoxx @ Aug 14th 2008 12:02PM

Oh why can't we have a filter for just our friends!

Tom18230 @ Aug 14th 2008 12:02PM

69 million :| !

I wonder how long that took?

vile @ Aug 14th 2008 12:10PM

i just broke 100k on pacifism 2 nights ago :-p

freecajunlove @ Aug 14th 2008 1:36PM

It's still weird that 8 million in KING will get you in the top 200.

Vcize @ Aug 14th 2008 1:58PM

I'm having a real tough time with that one.

Vcize @ Aug 14th 2008 1:58PM

Err, that should've gone below under WilsonGoneWild's post.

WilsonGoneWild @ Aug 14th 2008 1:44PM

The achievements in this game are actually good. I enjoyed dodging 8 lines of enemies without firing in Waves for a cool 15 points.

I need a life.

KilgoreTrout XL @ Aug 14th 2008 3:46PM

My favorite was "wax on wax off"- really hectic (and now I can finally play pacifism without spending the entire time on the walls, dying.)

Vcize @ Aug 14th 2008 1:59PM

This game just keeps getting better and better.

Now to see how far behind I am...

Nmaster @ Aug 14th 2008 2:44PM

Pacifism is actually the one mode I am in the top 10,000 for.

*proud*

Delgado @ Aug 14th 2008 3:30PM

Man, on the original I can't even break 200,000, how the hell do you guys do it? I just don't understand what I'm doing wrong :'(

caramelzappa @ Aug 15th 2008 2:24AM

The scoring is completely different in Geometry Wars 2.

Instead of your multiplier increasing with the number of kills you get, and going back to 1 every time you die, when you kill an enemy it leaves little yellow "Geoms" and each one you collect increases your multiplier. These were introduced in Geometry Wars Galaxies for wii/ds. Unlike galaxies and evolved, when you die your multiplier doesn't go back to 1.

So it's a LOT easier to get higher scores, don't feel bad.