There are six modes: Deadline, King, Evolved, Pacifism, Waves and Sequence. Deadline is your classic timed mode where you have to kill as many enemies as you can in 3 minutes with infinite lives. King is where you can only shoot when you are in a small circle which the enemies can't enter, the twist is that the circle shrinks once activated, so you have to move to another ring pretty quickly to avoid being killed. Evolved is where you start with 3 lives and 3 bombs (bombs are just an attack which kills just about everything on the screen) and you have to attempt to stay alive and get as many points as possible. Once you reach 100,000 you get another life and bomb and every 10 times this value will also give you a life and another bomb. Pacifism is where you cannot shoot at all and have enemies chasing you, to destroy them you pass through these exploding gates. Waves is a series of different formations of a particular type of enemy (orange) which moves in a straight line, back and forth and you have to attempt to shoot as many as possible. While sequence is 20 levels of different arenas with a sent formation of enemies that you have to attempt to get through, and it follows the same rules as Evolved in its life and bomb distribution.
A great feature of the game is that you don't start off with all of the modes available to play. Initially only Deadline is open to play and you have to score a certain amount to unlock the next mode (king). Then you have to play King to unlock the next and so on. It will only take you about 20-30 mins to unlock all of the modes but it makes the game a lot more fun for that duration of time and introduces the game at a nice pace.
All of the modes are a lot of fun and the majority of them are very challenging, the hardest i would say is sequence. Also the variety of enemy is very good for this game in that there isn't to many that you can't learn the behaviour of them all, but not to little that you won't ever be taken by surprise by the game. Also the graphics suit the game very well, it is very bright and colourful and sometimes shocking in the amount of flashes that are taking place on screen.
The game also has great leaderboard support and for a game that could become very competitive in scores it is done perfectly. For each mode where you select it there is a list of all your friends and their top score in that mode. This means that when you look at the game types you see who is beating you in what and they will see when you take them over as well. There is also other leaderboard in the opening menu where you can view them full screen and see where you rank with your friends or amongst all of the Geometry Wars Evolved 2 players. Of course all of this requires an Xbox Live silver or gold account to make use of.
There are also co-operative and competitive modes that you can play with up to 4 players locally. I won't talk about these much because i haven't had a chance to use it due to all of my mates being out of the country Warp not being here at the moment either. But i hear they are good. The achievements for Geometry Wars Evolved 2 are also very good and you can get 100/200 fairly easily while the rest may take some doing.
There are very few flaws with Geometry Wars Evolved 2, only that it is a fairly short. But for around £7 it really is not an issue and you will feel that you got what you pay for by the time you put down the game after the first hour of having it. So for an XBLA game it is very good and the next XBLA title I am looking forward to would have to be Castle Crashers which comes out at the end of August.
Score
8/10
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