I took my XBox 360 hard drive in to work a few days ago to play some coop Tomb Raider: Guardian of Light and show everyone how awesome it is (short answer: very). After that was done, I figured we could try a 4-player game of Geometry Wars 2 while we had the chance. If only I’d known then what was to follow. As some of you may know, the Krome Adelaide office was put on 4 weeks notice about a fortnight ago. I had already handed in my resignation a couple of weeks earlier, so my last day will be this Friday whereas everyone else must work out another 2 weeks. As you can imagine, morale in the office is pretty low, and people are looking for any sort of distraction. Geometry Wars 2 proved to be just what the doctor ordered. After playing the various competitive modes we eventually boiled down to just playing Pacifism, the one game mode where you don’t actually shoot. After playing that competitively to death we switch to playing coop to try and crack the 100 million point mark. It became an obsession. Various strategies were debated and decided upon and then debated again. The friendly encouragement turned nasty. Even Gentleman Joe turned into a big angry Beardface! We got close to the target a few times (I think we got to 86 million once) before (other) Joe finally broke through this morning with a score of 177,904,375. I know this even though I wasn’t yet at work because he texted me the instant after he died! When I arrived shortly after he was still shaking from the adrenaline rush. After that epic win people started to play other games or go off to do work. Later in the afternoon, when no one else was around, I teamed up with Gayan and had a crack. After a few mediocre scores we finally topped Joe’s effort… with 514,593,925! Now it was my turn to be left shaking! And also my turn to text Joe, who just so happened to be out of the office at the time. After the successes of the afternoon I fired up the game at home and decided to have a crack at my solo record of 73mil. You can see the fruits of my labour captured in all its glory in the image above, but let it be known that it took me many attempts to get there, and I only had a few scores that came anywhere close before I got the big one. I don’t know if the beast will be sated at work tomorrow. I think we may have just woken a new evil; 1 billion points! To be honest, I think we could do it.
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I took my XBox 360 hard drive in to work a few days ago to play some coop Tomb Raider: Guardian of Light and show everyone how awesome it is (short answer: very). After that was done, I figured we could try a 4-player game of Geometry Wars 2 while we had the chance. If only I’d known then what was to follow.

As some of you may know, the Krome Adelaide office was put on 4 weeks notice about a fortnight ago. I had already handed in my resignation a couple of weeks earlier, so my last day will be this Friday whereas everyone else must work out another 2 weeks. As you can imagine, morale in the office is pretty low, and people are looking for any sort of distraction. Geometry Wars 2 proved to be just what the doctor ordered.

After playing the various competitive modes we eventually boiled down to just playing Pacifism, the one game mode where you don’t actually shoot. After playing that competitively to death we switch to playing coop to try and crack the 100 million point mark. It became an obsession. Various strategies were debated and decided upon and then debated again. The friendly encouragement turned nasty. Even Gentleman Joe turned into a big angry Beardface! We got close to the target a few times (I think we got to 86 million once) before (other) Joe finally broke through this morning with a score of 177,904,375. I know this even though I wasn’t yet at work because he texted me the instant after he died! When I arrived shortly after he was still shaking from the adrenaline rush.

After that epic win people started to play other games or go off to do work. Later in the afternoon, when no one else was around, I teamed up with Gayan and had a crack. After a few mediocre scores we finally topped Joe’s effort… with 514,593,925! Now it was my turn to be left shaking! And also my turn to text Joe, who just so happened to be out of the office at the time.

After the successes of the afternoon I fired up the game at home and decided to have a crack at my solo record of 73mil. You can see the fruits of my labour captured in all its glory in the image above, but let it be known that it took me many attempts to get there, and I only had a few scores that came anywhere close before I got the big one.

I don’t know if the beast will be sated at work tomorrow. I think we may have just woken a new evil; 1 billion points! To be honest, I think we could do it.