Topic: Beat Hazard

[Dirk Temporo]

$10 on Steam, on sale for the first week for $7.50.
http://store.steampowered.com/app/49600/

Another one of those "audiovisual experience" type games. It's a top down shoot 'em up in the same vein as geometry wars, only all the stages play differently (mainly in how your weapons fire) based on what song you play.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoePn7iMQg4

I can't tell if this guy is just really good, or if this is an easy song, because I played on nothing but hardcore for like three hours after I bought it yesterday, and I only cleared like two songs, and only one of those was a perfect. I tried some Infected Mushroom, but they have such a tendency for buildups that explode into absolutely nothing that I'd be left with two huge scary bosses to fight and the music takes a dip and I have no guns!

A lot of fun, hard as hell. Haven't tried easy or normal yet. Don't know if I'll bother.

[KDR_11k]

I've only played the included songs much (PC version, the 360 version's included album isn't nearly as good from what I can tell from the demo) but beating most of them on hardcore isn't THAT hard. Doesn't look like the song in that video has any quiet periods (those prevent you from shooting) so it's not that hard either. The rank up system is pretty damn stupid since Elite rank makes it SO much easier to get scores it's ridiculous. Still a ton of fun though.

Try Mad Mad Mad on Insane.

[Dirk Temporo]

Yeah, one thing that this game has been making me realize is that a lot of my music has dips like you mentioned. There's one song in particular, Project 100 by Infected Mushroom, where there's a lot of buildup and then it drops off, so the game spawns two huge badass bosses with all sorts of missiles and tracking crap, and my guns turn into peashooters as soon as they show up. ;_;