Geometry Wars and Bejeweled
The XBOX 360 has a cool new feature called “XBOX Live Arcade” that let’s you download “small” games for about $5 each. My two favorites are Geometry Wars — a game where you play as a geometric shape dedicated to destroying other geometric shapes before they destroy you — and Bejeweled, which is everyone’s mothers favorite game.
Geometry Wars looks like one of those music player visualizations, or more accurately, like what it must be like to be trapped up in the sky as part of an amazing fireworks display. The game is insanely simple, but more fun in a lot of ways than the glossy, big budget “next-gen” titles you have to pay $60 for.
Bejeweled, as you probably already know, is addicting in the Tetris sense of the world. Two days ago, one of my old Halo 2 friends sent me a message asking me why I was playing such an old game.
Seeing that he was still playing Halo 2, I had to reply with the same question.
(Huhm, anyone notice how this has sort of become a gaming blog? Never thought that would happen — remember back when I just wrote about politics?)
