There's now so little information here that it verges on vandalism! At least put a screenshot of Retro Evolved up, and the pictures of the enemies were nice too.
Nandesuka: please justify why you have deleted my paragraph about this controversy, i had rewritten it in neutral tone, and this controversy is a fact you can't deny, see that digg thread. 90.14.48.122 01:54, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
Doesn't matter much now anyway, it's just been released on Steam with Windows XP compatability. 86.9.71.118 09:12, 19 June 2007 (UTC)
My first ever Wikipedia article has developed quite quickly. :)
Someone needs to upload picture of the magnet and butterflies.
May I ask why the table with these pictures and enemy information was taken out? I found it to be quite informative and made this article stand out as an excellent resource for in-game information. I think you should consider putting it back in, or perhaps moving it to a separate article on Geometry Wars Adversaries. Thanks, Jimothy.
The Windmill IS atracted to you, try it out if you want. Gonna correct it-- SalomonMuriel 03:46, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
The screenshot at the top of the page is from Grid Wars, not Geometry Wars
A free version is here.
Regarding the clone paragraph [1], it's not really notable enough to have in the article. Although clones do take work to create, they're generally relatively easy to create and release, relative to retail games, and therefore we don't usually include writeups for them. The Tetris article doesn't even list external links to individual clones. Regarding the "become an even greater phenomenon" comment, that's certainly possible, but an expanded writeup on Wikipedia won't be warranted until after such notability is gained outside of Wikipedia. (eg. after it becomes a phenomenon, you're welcome to come back and do a longer writeup) Since there are unlikely to be a large number of geowars clones (as with Tetris), it may be okay to keep the external link to the clone, but the expanded writeup is probably not currently warranted. -- Interiot 23:02, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
If a game that started out as a mini game inside of another--and the history of the article shows that the game was not released standalone at the time the article was written--can warrant it's own article, why can a clone of the game not warrant at least a footnote? Especially considering the XBox reaches such a small audience compared to a computer. The XBox is even reaching a small audience where general console gaming is concerned as the original Xbox--where Geometry Wars first appeared in 2003--had only sold 25 million units compared to the PS2's 90 million at the end of 2005. --The Naughty Anon
When arguing for an article's inclusion, please use the assessment instructions rather than citing that an article may or may not have been up to standards. But, if 'grid wars' itself isn't notable, then how about a section on the fact that Bizarre Creations is suing over their IP in attempting to take down the clones? 68.229.162.166 22:10, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
Anyway, how can anybody really know what the highest score is for the original Geometry Wars? They could send in a picture of the screen, but they could always digitally modify it. Or modify the data in their memory unit and load it into their Xbox to upload a new high score. BirdValiant 04:08, 15 March 2006 (UTC)
Now that the game was pulled because Bizarre asked the developer to, Grid Wars has recieved wide media coverage, and I believe notable enough for its own article. I created the article and listed several sources. -- SevereTireDamage 11:31, 19 August 2006 (UTC)
Is it comparable to Tempest rather than spaces invaders ? Rich Farmbrough 13:17 14 March 2006 (UTC).
I'd imagine that the reference is to graphical style - certainly the original Geometry Wars owes a debt to Tempest, and Retro Evolved's neon is reminiscent of Jeff Minter's Tempest 2000 and 3000. -- 130.119.248.11 12:18, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
--72.91.214.104 ( Contribs| talk) 14:57, 21 August 2010 (UTC)
This link would seem to justify inclusion of a mention of the similarity between the two games, yes? There are probably others, but the signal-to-noise on my google search was pretty high, since I don't play either game console. -- nae' blis 01:32, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
OK, there are 2 versions of this game:
There is no "Geometry Wars: Retro" version before Retro Evolved. -- ffroth 05:16, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
Also there is the Wii and DS versions entitled Geometry Wars Galaxies... 76.224.11.97 ( talk) 16:30, 18 December 2007 (UTC)
The game plays a lot like Asteroids. 76.126.35.84 ( talk) 01:27, 11 December 2007 (UTC)
Nooo, this game is more like Robotron 2084. 2 joysticks, move & shoot, and a whole lot of waves of baddies. 68.0.226.163 ( talk) —Preceding undated comment was added at 23:12, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
Since I didn't see a topic on this page for discussing splitting Geometry Wars: Galaxies into its own article, I'll start it. I support this move, since Galaxies is a superset of Retro Evolved and introduces many new gameplay features not found in the original Geometry Wars. Basic gameplay is the same, but there are enough notable differences between the two games to warrant making a new article for this release. — KieferSkunk ( talk) — 00:22, 4 January 2008 (UTC)
are these really considered "enemies" ? xenocidic ( talk) 14:25, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
The article is kind of confusing. The article seems to mix information on GW and GW:RE.
Perhaps a Geometry Wars Series article is in order?
Wageslave ( talk) 02:26, 20 April 2008 (UTC)
I propose that we split this article out into a series article, since there are enough official games in the series now to enable such a thing. This article, in its current state, tries to cover the original Geometry Wars minigame in PGR 2, Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved, and Geometry Wars: Waves, as well as provide summary coverage for Geometry Wars: Galaxies and Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved 2. I think that, in terms of notability and content potential, we could repurpose this article specifically for Retro Evolved and move the rest of the content into a general article about the series.
Current releases:
Proposal:
Lemme know what you think. — KieferSkunk ( talk) — 00:16, 31 July 2008 (UTC)
"A new version, Geometry Wars: Evolved, has been produced for mobile phones,[2] and a version has also been released for Windows Vista, as well as a reduced-price Windows XP release on the Steam content delivery network." - that is misleading as it suggests the PC game as called "Geometry Wars: Evolved" when actually it is a port of "Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved", which is identical to the PC version except it doesn't have achievements. Note, also, that the steam version IS compatible with Vista, even though the game's site recommends the msn version for Vista users. Skip1337 ( talk) 11:55, 8 August 2008 (UTC)
The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
I tried to find the MSN Games version of Geometry Wars, but for some reason, it seems like the game was removed from their website. Can anyone confirm this? General Heed ( talk) 04:48, 20 August 2010 (UTC)
Hello General Heed! Tt seems that they deleted the game from their website but I found a demo of the game! Here's the link: https://www.gamepressure.com/download.asp?ID=14842. Hope that fixes your problem! -Jkimaster11 {talk}-33.45 1 September 2017 (UTC)
Apparently some features were removed for the PC release, this needs to be added to the article. [3]-- Craigboy ( talk) 05:51, 8 December 2012 (UTC)
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There's now so little information here that it verges on vandalism! At least put a screenshot of Retro Evolved up, and the pictures of the enemies were nice too.
Nandesuka: please justify why you have deleted my paragraph about this controversy, i had rewritten it in neutral tone, and this controversy is a fact you can't deny, see that digg thread. 90.14.48.122 01:54, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
Doesn't matter much now anyway, it's just been released on Steam with Windows XP compatability. 86.9.71.118 09:12, 19 June 2007 (UTC)
My first ever Wikipedia article has developed quite quickly. :)
Someone needs to upload picture of the magnet and butterflies.
May I ask why the table with these pictures and enemy information was taken out? I found it to be quite informative and made this article stand out as an excellent resource for in-game information. I think you should consider putting it back in, or perhaps moving it to a separate article on Geometry Wars Adversaries. Thanks, Jimothy.
The Windmill IS atracted to you, try it out if you want. Gonna correct it-- SalomonMuriel 03:46, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
The screenshot at the top of the page is from Grid Wars, not Geometry Wars
A free version is here.
Regarding the clone paragraph [1], it's not really notable enough to have in the article. Although clones do take work to create, they're generally relatively easy to create and release, relative to retail games, and therefore we don't usually include writeups for them. The Tetris article doesn't even list external links to individual clones. Regarding the "become an even greater phenomenon" comment, that's certainly possible, but an expanded writeup on Wikipedia won't be warranted until after such notability is gained outside of Wikipedia. (eg. after it becomes a phenomenon, you're welcome to come back and do a longer writeup) Since there are unlikely to be a large number of geowars clones (as with Tetris), it may be okay to keep the external link to the clone, but the expanded writeup is probably not currently warranted. -- Interiot 23:02, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
If a game that started out as a mini game inside of another--and the history of the article shows that the game was not released standalone at the time the article was written--can warrant it's own article, why can a clone of the game not warrant at least a footnote? Especially considering the XBox reaches such a small audience compared to a computer. The XBox is even reaching a small audience where general console gaming is concerned as the original Xbox--where Geometry Wars first appeared in 2003--had only sold 25 million units compared to the PS2's 90 million at the end of 2005. --The Naughty Anon
When arguing for an article's inclusion, please use the assessment instructions rather than citing that an article may or may not have been up to standards. But, if 'grid wars' itself isn't notable, then how about a section on the fact that Bizarre Creations is suing over their IP in attempting to take down the clones? 68.229.162.166 22:10, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
Anyway, how can anybody really know what the highest score is for the original Geometry Wars? They could send in a picture of the screen, but they could always digitally modify it. Or modify the data in their memory unit and load it into their Xbox to upload a new high score. BirdValiant 04:08, 15 March 2006 (UTC)
Now that the game was pulled because Bizarre asked the developer to, Grid Wars has recieved wide media coverage, and I believe notable enough for its own article. I created the article and listed several sources. -- SevereTireDamage 11:31, 19 August 2006 (UTC)
Is it comparable to Tempest rather than spaces invaders ? Rich Farmbrough 13:17 14 March 2006 (UTC).
I'd imagine that the reference is to graphical style - certainly the original Geometry Wars owes a debt to Tempest, and Retro Evolved's neon is reminiscent of Jeff Minter's Tempest 2000 and 3000. -- 130.119.248.11 12:18, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
--72.91.214.104 ( Contribs| talk) 14:57, 21 August 2010 (UTC)
This link would seem to justify inclusion of a mention of the similarity between the two games, yes? There are probably others, but the signal-to-noise on my google search was pretty high, since I don't play either game console. -- nae' blis 01:32, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
OK, there are 2 versions of this game:
There is no "Geometry Wars: Retro" version before Retro Evolved. -- ffroth 05:16, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
Also there is the Wii and DS versions entitled Geometry Wars Galaxies... 76.224.11.97 ( talk) 16:30, 18 December 2007 (UTC)
The game plays a lot like Asteroids. 76.126.35.84 ( talk) 01:27, 11 December 2007 (UTC)
Nooo, this game is more like Robotron 2084. 2 joysticks, move & shoot, and a whole lot of waves of baddies. 68.0.226.163 ( talk) —Preceding undated comment was added at 23:12, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
Since I didn't see a topic on this page for discussing splitting Geometry Wars: Galaxies into its own article, I'll start it. I support this move, since Galaxies is a superset of Retro Evolved and introduces many new gameplay features not found in the original Geometry Wars. Basic gameplay is the same, but there are enough notable differences between the two games to warrant making a new article for this release. — KieferSkunk ( talk) — 00:22, 4 January 2008 (UTC)
are these really considered "enemies" ? xenocidic ( talk) 14:25, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
The article is kind of confusing. The article seems to mix information on GW and GW:RE.
Perhaps a Geometry Wars Series article is in order?
Wageslave ( talk) 02:26, 20 April 2008 (UTC)
I propose that we split this article out into a series article, since there are enough official games in the series now to enable such a thing. This article, in its current state, tries to cover the original Geometry Wars minigame in PGR 2, Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved, and Geometry Wars: Waves, as well as provide summary coverage for Geometry Wars: Galaxies and Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved 2. I think that, in terms of notability and content potential, we could repurpose this article specifically for Retro Evolved and move the rest of the content into a general article about the series.
Current releases:
Proposal:
Lemme know what you think. — KieferSkunk ( talk) — 00:16, 31 July 2008 (UTC)
"A new version, Geometry Wars: Evolved, has been produced for mobile phones,[2] and a version has also been released for Windows Vista, as well as a reduced-price Windows XP release on the Steam content delivery network." - that is misleading as it suggests the PC game as called "Geometry Wars: Evolved" when actually it is a port of "Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved", which is identical to the PC version except it doesn't have achievements. Note, also, that the steam version IS compatible with Vista, even though the game's site recommends the msn version for Vista users. Skip1337 ( talk) 11:55, 8 August 2008 (UTC)
The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
I tried to find the MSN Games version of Geometry Wars, but for some reason, it seems like the game was removed from their website. Can anyone confirm this? General Heed ( talk) 04:48, 20 August 2010 (UTC)
Hello General Heed! Tt seems that they deleted the game from their website but I found a demo of the game! Here's the link: https://www.gamepressure.com/download.asp?ID=14842. Hope that fixes your problem! -Jkimaster11 {talk}-33.45 1 September 2017 (UTC)
Apparently some features were removed for the PC release, this needs to be added to the article. [3]-- Craigboy ( talk) 05:51, 8 December 2012 (UTC)