For You Download: Beat Hazard
December 4th 2011 13:17
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Review: Beat Hazard is a indie music-based space shooter that can be played through Steam, PSN, or XBLA. The hook for this game is that you use music as your power source to blow away asteroids and baddies.
I am really having a tough time trying to describe this one. It uses music tracks as the source for blasting away enemies, and has eye-melting visuals flashing at you all the while. Did i forget to mention that? Oh, well, your blasts are controlled by how heavy your track is and the heavier the track the more your lasers flash and throb. When playing this game you are able to choose from your own music collection, music that they provide, or even some radio stations. Don't get too excited though, the internet radio is a set number of stations that they preselected for the game. Also, you may need to drop an extra dollar in order to play all of your music, if you saved most of your music to iTunes/ in an m4a format. Anyway, you use your musical selections to battle through waves of enemies and huge bosses till the end of the song, and that is the basic idea. You make your task easier by picking up volume and power boosters that will make the song louder, thus making your lasers more powerful, and your blasts just that much more devastating.
The basic game (at least for the computer) gives you an option as soon as you select it, to either play the game in "classic" or a "regular" Beat Hazard modes. The major difference is that in "classic mode" you do not select and buy upgrades or perks, but rather that the starting perks are acquired through what rank you are. Other than that the games play almost identically to one another, and have the same menu options. Both games have: instructions, single player (standard and survival), two player, "chill out" mode, stats and rank, achievements, leader boards, options, and credits. The standard mode plays out where the player has to get the highest possible score in one song, the survival mode is seeing how long you can last through a series of songs played back-to-back, and the "chill out" mode is just like the survival mode but with unlimited lives and the end score is not added to anything. Each of these modes has you selecting a difficulty as well. Everything else offered on the menu gives what the name suggests.
The game is controlled through either a mouse and aswd/'up, down, left, right,' or a game-pad on the computer, and a controller on the consoles. If you so desire to have a friend join you in your quest to destroy asteroids to Billy Jole, then of of you will have to use a game-pad and the other the mouse on the computer. I stated earlier about DLC needed to get the full experience of the game, i would recommend it, but it is not absolutely necessary. I found myself going to Soundcloud to find good music to play for this game, and I have a feeling that if you get this game you will be doing the same. Not necessarily a bad thing to find new music that you love though.
In Conclusion: This game is a tremendous amount of fun, it takes YOUR music and has you battle through it. This is one music game that I have had a really great time playing, and couldn't seem to stop many times. My grievances with the game come from the "chill out" mode being more of a waste than fun, and once aging my own ham-handedness when playing. Also, they push their DLC on you hard, more specifically the Beat Hazard ultra DLC. I don't have Ultra, so I cannot say if it is worth it or not yet. So, that brings us to the main question: is the game worth buying? Yes, this game is well worth $10 US, and that the DLC for the iTunes integration is worth the $1. this game is certainly worth it, I would buy it again if I was given the chance. This game is fun, affordable, addictive, and never does it feel like this game reuses the same sequence for the same song. The game is challenging and fun and should be bought as soon as you can.
Think of it as reloading.
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