Geometry Wars 3: Dimensions

It all just works, and we absolutely cannot recommend Geometry Wars 3 highly enough.

It's certainly the most ambitious and fully realized title in the series to date, and it's difficult to imagine a different take that would improve it. In many ways, it is the perfect game.

Geometry Wars 3: Dimensions takes everything that worked about its already-great predecessors, and brings them together into a new dimension of awesomeness.

The perfect arcade game, an adrenalinic and brutally challenging experience that will keep you glued to your joypad. For the more determined and capable players.

This is a definite buy for your Xbox One as it will bring back memories for veterans of the series while introducing the franchise to those who’ve never played it.

For arcade style shooting fans, it feels almost mandatory to have this in your gaming library.

Lucid has succeeded in bringing Geometry Wars back with an almighty bang.

This really is "more Geometry Wars", but it's been quite some time since we've had a new game. The campaign level design offers something new, but the classic mode is where it's really at.

Dimensions arrives with perfect timing. It rescues the best of the series, the drones and the geoms from Galaxies and the HD glory of Retro Evolved, adding new 3D areas that give a twist to all what you thought you learned from the previous ones.

Feature bloat strips this of its purity, and in parts it's unwieldy and unsatisfying. But find a challenge that sparks your imagination, and you'll become surgically attached to the controller. [Feb 2015, p.75]

Compulsive. [Issue#156, p.114]

A great way to bring the franchise to the new generation of consoles. It made a few missteps with some of its levels, and the imaginary stopgaps that slow you down in the adventure mode really shouldn’t have been there, but overall, I definitely enjoyed my time with the game.

Geometry Wars 3: Dimensions is yet another great addition to the series. Lucid Games has added innovative features that makes the series feel like a step forward but also manages to give fans a game that stays true to its roots.

Geometry Wars 3 is a great product, especially if we take into account all the new features which, although without revolutionizing the genre, manage to carry new life to it. If you love twin stick shooters, buy this.

Geometry Wars 3 makes big changes, but retains the excellent core gameplay and delivers another addictive blaster.

Developer Lucid Games has a firm handle on Geometry Wars' twin stick action, but sometimes struggles to put it to good use. The star-based progression system is a head-scratcher of a decision, as it likely blocks the majority of players, and is strictly there to give skilled players a real run for their money.

Geometry Wars 3: Dimensions delivers a lot of what made the original so addictive, while introducing some new modes that are sure to ruffle some feathers.

It's not the perfect Geometry Wars sequel after all this time, but it's still pretty damn fun in its own right.

Geometry Wars 3 brings the tight twin-stick feel of the series to the modern gaming era while also paying homage to the series’ roots. Just steer clear of its online multiplayer game modes.

An amazing twin stick shooter, bestowed by great design and graphics. It's a shame that competition on the adventure's mode leaderboards is pretty worthless, since you'll never know with what kind of upgrades your high score has been beaten, and it lacks an online cooperative, but it still shines as a great example of bringing back sagas of old, with a twist.

The more progress-focused Adventure definitely loses some of that competitive edge in translation, and that's certainly a shame, but it still has that instant, stimulating, rip-roaring flavor that puts the shots into shoot-em-up.

My thumb, however, stands testament to the game's greatness, throbbing in pain as I enter the seventh consecutive hour of geometric action.

Tallying its original content on its own, Dimensions offers a very replayable, highly varied take on a too-long dormant modern classic.

New 3D maps add depth and ideas to a tried-and-true formula, but they aren’t taken far enough to make this feel like a real sequel.

A respectable attempt at adding variety to a modern classic, but one that fails to meet the lofty standards of its ancestors, though there's still fun to be had. [Issue#119, p.79]