Developed and Published By: Cold Beam Games
Date of Release: 0ctober 19, 2011
Price: $9.99
Your music wants to kill you!
Welcome to the wild world of Beat Hazard Ultra! Do not attempt to adjust your TV, the trippy graphics are not the result of a malfunction OR an LSD trip. Beat Hazard is a twin-stick shooter that uses your music library to procedurally generate wave after wave of enemy fighters, deadly asteroids, and devious bosses.
The gameplay has you piloting your ship's movement with the left stick, and firing your guns with the right. Through collecting powerups dropped by downed enemies you can increase the music volume, boost your ship's power, and add to your score multiplier. You have an option to choose between the tracks included with the game, or MP3s on your PS3's hard drive. In my experience however, even though I have my music separated into neat folders the songs still showed up as a haphazard jumble, no matter which setting I chose.
Supposedly the game bases enemy waves and bullet patterns on the beat and tempo of the music, but whether I was listening to classical music or heavy metal the experience stayed the same. Still I was able to have a decent time playing beat hazard, and it is certainly more interesting than the PS3's built in visualizer. In my opinion however, they should have stuck with the $5 price point from when it was released on the Xbox 360, but shooter junkies may find something worthwhile in this package.
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