Forget Perfect Dark Zero and Call of Duty 2. The breakout shooter for the Xbox 360 so far is Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved. The brainchild of Stephen Cakebread of Bizarre Creations, the original Geometry Wars was a mini-game tucked away in Project Gotham Racing 2. Now there's a time attack version of the flashier, more polished sequel in Project Gotham Racing 3 - but you don't need to shell out $50 for it unless you want the racer too. A more complete version is only $5 (aka 400 Microsoft Points) in the Xbox Live Marketplace. Hey, $5 is a steal for the best launch title since Halo. Perhaps this will prove an important lesson for Microsoft: it's the steak, not the sizzle, that sells games - though the sizzle can help...
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