The original Xbox 360 game, statically recompiled to native PC code with the ReXGlue SDK. PC Plus builds on saulob's excellent PC port. It's not emulation: the game's own code runs natively, with high frame rates, high resolutions and modern options. PC Plus adds real mouse aim, keyboard prompts and controls screens and much more. What PC Plus adds:- • Real mouse aim. Shots go straight to the cursor, instantly, like a modern twin-stick shooter. Right-click bombs, Escape pauses. A controller still plays the original way. • An animated neon crosshair that spins and pinches as you fire, so it never gets lost in the chaos. • Keyboard prompts and a keyboard and mouse controls screen, drawn in the game's own style. • Online leaderboards. Pick a player name and the game's Everyone boards show PC Plus players from around the world. • Nearby players, in place of Xbox Live friends. Each mode lists the players just above and below you, and while you play, the corner shows the next score to beat, moving up as you pass each one. • Pick your colour. Green, Blue, Purple, Pink, Gold, Rainbow or any colour you like, for the menus, HUD, icons and crosshair, right from the game's Settings menu. • A results screen after every single-player run, inspired by Pac-Man CE DX: your score over time with deaths, bombs and your best moment marked, the enemies you destroyed, and what your black holes and gates were worth. It sits over the Game Over screen and never slows a retry. • Watch your runs again. Every single-player run is saved as a replay, and Watch replays, in the panel left of the main menu, plays them back exactly, at any frame rate. Star the ones you love to keep them. A replay never counts: no score, stats or achievements. • Watch the top runs. Watch replays has an Online tab: every leaderboard's top 50, and any run with a replay plays from there, or from Watch Replay on the game's own leaderboard screen. It opens on the run just above yours. When your best makes a top 50, its replay is shared too; Share my top runs as replays in the launcher turns that off. •Make your own modes. Custom modes, in the panel right of the main menu, plays the game's modes with new rules: no gates, a score that's how long you survive, more or fewer lives and bombs, endless bombs, a time limit, faster or slower play. Five come with it (Pure Pacifism, Overdrive, One Life, Bomb Party and Speed Test), and making your own is a small text file in user_data/mods: see docs/MODDING.md. Custom runs keep their own bests and replays, and never count for leaderboards, achievements or unlocks. • Master Deadline and Master Evolved. One life, and the only help is a bonus bomb at 100K, 1M, 10M and 100M. Press RB (or 3 on the keyboard) on the Single Player screen to turn to the Master page. Both are always open and have their own online leaderboards, and their leaderboard opens from the Master page. • Every mode open from the start. No unlocking, no "Game mode unlocked!" and no first-time rules screens: this one is for veterans. • Deadline's hidden spawn rank, if you want it. Turn on Deadline rank info and the HUD shows K (weighted kills), G (geoms) and the rank the next wave will set, with a little pop when a wave raises it. Off by default; it only shows information, so runs still count online. • A launcher that looks like Geometry Wars, and PC PLUS+ on the title screen.
ESRB Rating: Not Rated
Genre(s): Action | Shooter