We’ve already established that Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved 2 by Bizarre Creations is a great game. It’s simultaneously an excellent shoot-em-up and the best application of math since calculating power levels. It makes us sad to think that there might be some of you out there who haven’t played it yet. And, honestly, you not having the game hurts our own enjoyment. How are we supposed to feel awesome about our high scores if we can’t see how much better they are than yours? Who will we get into a pointless Geometry War with? Our friends? Please. Have you met our friends? They couldn’t even handle a Pre-Algebra War.
So, with that in mind, we’re going to give away a free download code for Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved 2 on Xbox Live Arcade! One lucky GameCyte reader will receive a gift code that will allow them to download the full, unlocked version of GW2 with their Xbox Live account, free of charge, in just over two weeks’ time.
How can you win this code? Well, we felt it ought to go to someone who would be able to get the most out of Geometry Wars; someone who’d take their free game and rack up not just a respectable high score, but an impossible-to-beat one. Someone who wouldn’t be able to rest until they’d dominated their friends’ leaderboard, and who feels actual pain when they’re knocked out of the top slot. A gamer after our own hearts… you know, a petty, competitive, hardcore jerk who’s no fun to play with!
This will work quite similarly to our last giveaway: In order to enter the contest, you need to leave a comment on this post. Last time, we invited you to share your most outrageous geek/otaku moment; this time, we want to hear your greatest gaming achievement. An impossible end boss you defeated, a high score you kept for years, a rival you beat after months of harsh battle. Not only that — we want to hear the hardcore, no-prisoners, do-or-die lengths you went to in order to achieve this gaming feat! Playing 40 games in a row to beat your high score is one thing, but it takes a special kind of madness to walk into the arcade with twenty bucks in quarters and demand that everyone clear away from the Total Carnage machine because, by God, today you’re going to beat that damn game! And I didn’t even make it to the pleasure dome. Still totally worth it!
Entries will be accepted until 11:59:59 P.M., Pacific Time, on Friday, August 22, 2008. A winner will be chosen and announced the following Monday, August 25th. Remember to include a valid email address when leaving your comment, so we can send you the code, should you win. Good luck, and may the craziest gamer win!
August 8th, 2008 at 12:18 pm
We’re the crooks, with the fuzz hot on our trail, blaring their sirens and blinding us with their flashing lights. We spot a jump.
In a beat up corvette, we four criminals laugh and joke at our recent pillage of a city bank. “That clerk was damn near pissing herself!” We head up to the mouth of the jump.
We clip a tricky snippet of fence and head into a barrel roll.
Car full of crooks meets billboard; it’s not a pretty picture. The engine quickly ignites and we pile out of the wreckage. The fuzz hops off the jump and makes a suicidal leap at our smoldering vehicle.
BOOM, lets hope they didn’t get out in time.
We start to jump the fence, a team member gets cut down. We run down an alleyway, another team member suddenly remembers he wasn’t immune to SMG fire and hits the dirt. We turn a corner, there’s a sniper rifle. Its me or my friend at this point.
I say goodbye, a solitary tear down my cheek, and grab the gun.
The police come round the corner; six of them; two must have come from a nearby car. My friend, a true friend to the end, even though I selfishly took his one means of escape, stood to take the bullets. He fired a few pot shots from his pistol, but what for - for nothing.
I let loose a tirade of sniper fire; BANG, one goes down, BANG another, my bullet proof armour won’t hold long, and I feel every bullet jolt to my mortal coil, I stand firm.
BANG, BANG, BANG; three more police hit the dirt, with a fresh bullet in their skull for ballistics to explain in the Morning Newspaper. One left, his concetrated fire ceases; I line up my shot, my one last bullet, BANG
I miss his head - the bullet sinks into his stomach. The pain would be crippling, but it won’t stop him.
We run at each other, tossing aside empty shells that would once be called weaponary.
We throw punches, it would be impossible to declare a victor on face value, each punch swung, hit flesh, bone and soul at the same pinpoint second.
But only he goes down. I stand, a second away from death, but victorious
The match is over, I open the tray, but Grand Theft Auto IV back in its case and head for bed.
August 9th, 2008 at 6:45 am
My greatest achievement had to be getting through MGS4 without any kills or alerts on the hardest difficulty and at the quickest amount of time. It took an insane amount of dedication to reload the save file as many times as I did whenever I was spotted or mistakenly killed a soldier. Some of the soldiers are so fragile in that game that it’s absurd. In retrospect I don’t know if it was even worth the trouble considering I didn’t get anything out of it, but I did it. It was just tedious mind numbing work.
August 9th, 2008 at 10:43 pm
Back in 2002 I was really into DDR and I had 2nd mix for Dreamcast. One time I completed 74 songs in endless mode, which means I went through the entire songlist once and started going through it again. My final score was 135,513,400 points. No clue if that’s real impressive or not though.
August 13th, 2008 at 9:24 pm
Playing Rockband full track list on expert with a full band.
Here’s my story.
It was this year and rockband came out and well my friends were all really good at guitar hero, I at that point had never even played any rhythmic game, but when rockband came out it was too hard to pass up the opportunity to start my own band!
Well it turns out that not only was I terrible at drums, I also didn’t have a band to play with.
All of my friends that played guitar hero were not remotely close to me anymore, since highschool had just ended and we all went our own ways, or were dedicated enough to play through the entire rockband game so I actually convinced my mom to play with me along with my girlfriend…we had a 3 person band. The drums seemed to be too difficult for them so I decided I would play them, and they could play guitar, none of us ever playing a game like this before.
Well we played for weeks…months actually. And then we saw the grand finale, a 56 set track list, but I didn’t want to waste our time and play it on hard (that’s the best we could do at the time). So I actually went out and got some real drum lessons and my mom and gf just played Guitar3 alot and after a few more weeks I could finally play every song on expert…except Rush (Tom Sawyer) and Iron Maiden (Run to the Hills). We decided to play it anyways, but we needed a singer, funny enough my mom actually use to babysit a professional singer a quite a number of years ago and we convinced him to play with us, after a few practice sessions we got him up to speed on expert.
We actually invited over about 20 people to watch us play all 56 tracks and we made it into a kind of party, anyways we ended up playing all the songs straight (even though we had some mad carpel tunnel forming like 30 tracks in) we kept playing and when the 2 songs I couldn’t play game up, I definitely had a good run, but my mom, gf, and our singer used their overdrives at the right time to keep us in. We ended up getting nearly 5 stars on every song, which for people who use to be oblivious to the game turned out to be pros at it.
We are going to try it again in a few weeks to get 5 stars on every song we might even have to go through twice, and we also bought some tracks so the set list increased.
The worst part about it, is while we were training it was all on my brother’s 360 and account so he got all the achievements while I just purchased my 360 last week (with very few games to date). But next time we play will be on my 360 and we will get some mad achievements.
Thanks to anyone that read it if you would like more gaming stories just let me know!
August 13th, 2008 at 9:27 pm
To add one more thing to my post…one of the best things about the whole rockband experience was I converted both my mom and my girlfriend (who other than mariokart have never played a game in their life) into well…video games addicts now. We constantly play videogames now and my parents bought a nice 46inch tv for us to play rockband on from our previous 18 inch tv…although I don’t live at home, its awesome to get to go home and play some games on it.
August 15th, 2008 at 11:40 pm
I beat Ninja Gaiden (Xbox) on the hardest difficulty. That would be my greatest gaming achievement. I almost threw the controller. My blood pressure rose. I think I died at least 1000 times but I never gave up! It would have been a little easier had I found the health near the start of the Vigoor city rather than after I beat the game
August 18th, 2008 at 4:28 pm
I got OMGWTFBBQ legitly!!!
ha. no that’s not my greatest gaming thing. although I am quite proud of it.
Eh, I can’t say I’m l33t at any one videogame, because every time I think I’m really great at something, I play it with my Asian friend Alex, and he pwns me. Asians being naturally good at video games is not a stereotype. If you had an Asian friend, you’d think different.
I should get him to post on this forum. He’s always bragging about getting 99% in Super Mario World.
ANYWAY, I guess I kind of have two, and both of them involve Orange Box.
I got it for Christmas, and I had never played episode 1 or 2 before, so I beat episode 1 in 1 sitting, and a few days later I beat episode 2 in one sitting; both on hard mode (which is the highest difficulty, fyi for all you non half-life playing heathens).
And I didn’t even cheat!! okay, maybe a little. I hate running out of pistol ammo…
my second is I got the Little Rocket Man achievement completely legitly, didn’t cheat at all. I did look up how to cram that stupid gnome in my car (in the rear window, btw), but I played through the whole thing fair and square.
Let me tell you, it is VERY VERY tempting to slam on noclip and rescue the gnome who just accidently rolled off the cliff and into the bottomless pit in several places in the antlion caves.
“Hey, that rock I just shot at the antlion guard with my gravity gun was wearing a red conical hat… OH SH–!” Yea, that happened a lot too.
All in all, I don’t think I’m very worthy of the prize, that rockband thing sounded pretty kickass.
Too bad I have no musical talent what-so-ever.
August 21st, 2008 at 7:30 am
I know I’ve had better and just can’t come up with them, but I guess one of my favorite gaming achievements would be getting the final achievement for Ubersaw as a Pyro, then getting the final achievement or two for the Axtinguisher as Medic. I guess killing someone with a flamethrower underwater would be up there too.
August 23rd, 2008 at 8:44 pm
A day late, but I’m going to post anyway.
I am oddly proud of the fact I have 150 hours logged on Oblivion and have yet to do the first mission.
August 24th, 2008 at 8:24 pm
So….who won?