Beat Hazard
Game » consists of 11 releases. Released Jun 15, 2011
Beat Hazard is a twin-stick shooter by a one-man development team. The beat of the music controls your shots, while the song itself supplies the layout of the level.
MicroView: Beat Hazard
Do you love music and hate your optical nerves? Beat Hazard is a fun debut from Cold Beam Games that follows along the lines of dual-stick shooters such as Geometry Wars. The game begin with the classic seizure warning of most games, however no game I have ever played have even come close to truly needing a warning as much as this has.
The basic premise is that colors, enemies and even the power of your weaponry are all determined by the intensity of the music. Naturally, being skeptical of just how well this would work after reading about it, this meant the first song I had to try was Through The Fire and Flames by Dragonforce which, as anyone who has heard the song before knows, is pretty much a relentless assault of guitar riffs to a never-ending drum beat. I figured that if there was any song in my arsenal that would prove to be more intense than the game could accurately depict, it would be that and boy was I wrong.
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