Geometry Wars is the Killer App of the Xbox 360

MTV's Stephen Totilo has crowned Geometry Wars as the Killer App of the XBox 360. In the vacuum of a Halo title, he might be right. CliffyB says "It's like an interactive version of those acid-trip musical visualization devices." A few weeks ago I posted a comment to Dean Takahashi on Mercury News, asking why anyone would want XBox Live Arcade games in the face of Project Gotham Racing 3 and Perfect Dark Zero. But it's obvious that games like Geometry Wars can be highly addictive for the consumer and highly profitable for the publisher. I thought the first Geometry Wars in Project Gotham Racing 2 was pretty cool, especially the fact that the leaderboards were integrated with XBox Live. Exposing that to everyone in the 360 world seems to have been a gold mine for Microsoft. Now everyone wants a piece of the XBox Live Arcade direct download pie. SiN, the new FPS game, may give gamers the basic game engine for free and make them pay for episodic downloads. I feel like we are back to the days of shareware games. Nuff said.

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