Friday, August 1, 2008

Geometry Wars 2 and the state of downloadable games

Geomtery Wars 2, released this week on Xbox 360's "Xbox Live" online network, is the best downloadable game of the year, and perhaps EVER on any current-generation console. Definitely going to get added to The Score's tournament event schedule.

It's amazing the quality of the downloadable titles on all three consoles (PS3, Xbox 360, and Wii). The Wii's downloadable games (called WiiWare) are, in particular, of a very high quality as a group. Xbox 360's downloadable stuff is hit and miss, but when it hits, they really hit with some great software. PS3 is really getting up and running, although some would probably arguing they're just dying a slow death...

Quality downloadable titles (as opposed to games purchased at retail) is really good for The Score because it allows us to achieve a large degree of diversity in our event selection. We should be able to easily fill up our smaller tournaments (4-8 people each), given the proper marketing channels, using some of these downloadable games as the source content for our events.