Bizarre to "move on" from Geometry Wars

By Robert Purchese Published 14 September, 2010

"We don't want to over-saturate it."

Liverpool developer Bizarre Creations has tucked Geometry Wars away for the foreseeable future while it grazes on pastures new.

"It's just a great thing having titles that people love, that they associate with our studio - and Geometry Wars is one of them. It's very close to a lot of fans' hearts," designer Peter Collier told VideoGamer.com.

"I guess it's just one of those things, that it's a great and very proud feeling having something that the fans adore so much, but we don't want to over-saturate it by carrying on with it. It's maybe something that we keep as something we love, and move on to other things, you know?"

"There's nothing on the current horizon," he added, "but we can't rule anything out."

The fantastic Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved 2 was the most recent take on the IP from Bizarre. It's a two-stick shooter that gradually floods the boxed playing area with hundreds of brightly coloured and different enemies.

Bizarre has said before that there were no plans for a third Geometry Wars game, despite strong sales.

For the moment, Bizarre - creator of Project Gotham Racing – is hard at work on James Bond 007: Blood Stone. For once, there's no film in sight, but Daniel Craig and Joss Stone will punch and pout in a completely new story. Eurogamer sent Christian Donlan along to Blood Stone's summer reveal.

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About Robert Purchese

Bertie is Eurogamer's Senior Staff Writer. When he's not hunting down news stories he's often found playing with his kids or gabbling about fantasy games and strange online worlds. @Clert on Twitter.

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Comments (14) Latest comment 2 years ago

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  • Sunyavadin #1 2 years ago

    Good to see them not milking the franchise with worse and worse sequels that make us forget why we love the original. Thanks guys.

  • JahB #2 2 years ago

    NOOOOOOOOOOO!!! While I agree with #1, i want moar Geo Wars.

    Saturate me goddamit!

  • Mr.Monkey #3 2 years ago

    Doesn't Geometry Wars Galaxies count as a sequel? Or is it classed as a remake?

  • J0rdan_KZ #4 2 years ago

    Galaxies wasn't developed by Bizarre, it was made by Kuju if I remember rightly.

    To be honest, all I'd really want is Geometry Wars 2 with online multiplayer... Maybe some new power ups and enemy types?

  • easy_lee #5 2 years ago

    Galaxies should be considered a trashy rehash at best.

  • Toothball #6 2 years ago

    I liked Geometry Wars but I'm glad to see them leaving it behind.

  • InfiniteFury #7 2 years ago

    The original Retro Evolved is still to this day the most played game on my 360. The sequel was good in it's own right but it seemed to be missing something.

    Good on them for letting things be, maybe they'll come back with it and do something incredible on the next Xbox.

  • metalangel #8 2 years ago

    "That indie version of Gravitron is way better, and a tenth of the price!"

  • Diogo_Ribeiro #9 2 years ago

    More Geometry Wars should be released into the atmosphere, ensuring complete global saturation.

  • Shinetop #10 2 years ago

    Wow, already?

  • JayKwon #11 2 years ago

    I liked the first more than the second to be honest. But I liked them both very very much. Great game to play inbetween other games, or when you don't have a lot of time on your hands, or when you're waiting for your friends to come a long and when they do you can show-off your massive score and the total chaos you're in, in which only you know how to handle your brave spaceship dodging all kinds op vivid coloured enemy space ships.

  • Skurmedel #12 2 years ago

    The last game was the best yet. I also want to be saturated. It was better than PGR 4 damnit!

  • Razz #13 2 years ago

    Galaxies lacked some of visual treats of it's high definition cousins, but it was a brilliant game in it's own right. I play it on both the ds and the wii, I had hoped for a 3DS sequel but I guess that's not going to happen now ;_;

    Geo wars in 3D would be mind blowing

  • hiddenranbir #14 2 years ago

    How can they over-saturate it when they destroy all possible clones with lawsuits? :p