# Beat Hazard

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beat-hazard/538854>\
**Category:** The Game Room\
**Created:** [May 10, 2010, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beat-hazard/538854 "2010-05-10T00:38:43Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![rwhbyu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/da6949/32.png) [@rwhbyu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rwhbyu)\
**Post date:** [May 10, 2010, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beat-hazard/538854/1 "2010-05-10T00:38:43Z")

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Anybody played it?

I tried the demo, and it was pretty cool.

For anybody who has played it, any of your own tracks that were more spectacular than others?

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**Author:** ![Airk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9de053/32.png) [@Airk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airk)\
**Post date:** [May 10, 2010, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beat-hazard/538854/2 "2010-05-10T14:31:40Z")

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I played demo, threw a few tracks into it, and found the gameplay fundamentally lacking and the graphics kinda… difficult to follow. Deleted it and went back to Geometry Wars 2.

There are a LOT of good shooters on the 360, virtually all of which offer better gameplay than the gimmicky ‘we generate enemies based on your musicz!’ schtick that Beat Hazard has. I was disappointed.

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**Author:** ![Nicolas\_Bourbaki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecc23a/32.png) [@Nicolas\_Bourbaki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nicolas_Bourbaki)\
**Post date:** [May 12, 2010, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beat-hazard/538854/3 "2010-05-12T01:40:55Z")

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Played the PC demo. I thought the graphics were kinda busy, but I didn’t have more trouble with it than any other top-down shooter. But really, there’s no way to tell if a song will have a good or a frustrating run and there’s not much novelty. I’d probably buy it if it was five bucks, but not ten.  
As to your second question, I got over half a million points on ‘Kashmir’. That was a lot of fun. On the other hand, the game seems to hate everything off of _Help!_ and will drop the all the craziest boss ships on you at once if you play them.