Geometry Wars is one of the most charming success stories of the last few years in British game development. Born of love and making its public debut as an Easter egg in the Xbox game Project Gotham Racing 2, it has since become one of the most downloaded titles on Xbox Live Arcade, and spread its laser-spewing wings atop Nintendo's current generation of hardware with Geometry Wars: Galaxies.
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ThisGenGaming says "Check your Xbox One ready to install lists if you have Geometry Wars Evolved as the game is now backwards compatible on the Xbox One. Geometry Wars Evolved originally released as an arcade title in 2005 on the Xbox 360."
This was on the list since day one...
It was the first title that I downloaded and played to test out Backwards compatibility, when it was only available in the preview program.
I think I did that the night of E3 when they announced it was going live to all preview program participants.
Did they take it down at some point and it's just now coming back?
Maybe it's been gone and I didn't realize it because I already had it downloaded, but it was definitely there from the beginning for me.
Edit: Yeah that is exactly what happened. It never made the final list, it was just in the preview program.
http://www.polygon.com/2016...
Um, yay? I mean, it's great for those that have the game but this is another title that really isn't too high on the votes I don't think.
At the very least, an update on titles announced months ago would be nice.
If MS is getting permissions for these small titles then I wish they would get Sega's Sonic All Star Transformed.
It's time they made a sequel to that wouldn't you say? Idk if sales were that hot for the last one though... Idk maybe they were.
I would love a sequel more than anything. But I don't think it did do that well especially since they released more content on the mobile version and nothing for consoles.
If they can't do a sequel then at least make it BC.
is it me , or does it look washed out on X1? like the brightness was turned up too much?? it doesnt have that crisp vector line pop like it does on the 360.....
Looks fine to me but I'm just going by memory.
I didn't load up the original to compare.
