Trango

ill trooper - I definitely agree with your theory about 4:3 vs 16:9. Last December I was trying my hardest to hit 500,000 in GeoWars playing on my very very nice HD projector with 92 inch screen. Then I went to my parents house for the holidays and proceeded to get 1.8 million on their standard def 30" TV.

After that trip, I experimented playing with the Xbox set to 480p (in 4:3 aspect) vs 720p (obviously 16:9). I consistently do better when playing in 4:3 aspect ratio. My current high score is just a touch shy of 3 million (something like 2.993 mil) but I can't break 2 million when I play on 720p.

My theory is that the game gives you roughly the same viewable area, but in widescreen mode, it chops off the top and bottom and extends the sides. That slight difference in viewing range up and down decreases the time you have to react to enemies coming on the screen from the top or bottom. Atleast that's my theory...

And now I'm gonna have to go play again... you know, to test the theory some more... :)