Waves 2: Notorious

Great game. Very different from the original with many great changes. Hope a lot more gets fixed during the early access phase. Pros: + Huge replay-ability + Beautiful Visuals + Nodes offer great challenge + Lots of smart additions to the original + Challenging arenas Cons: - Same terrible song over and over (worse than all songs from the original) - Audible triggers and queues are tough to distinguish - Loadout section makes no sense at all - Cubes seem nearly impossible to kill now Wish List: - Explanation of the loadout screen - Make killing cubes a bit easier (seems like sure death when one shows up) - More track selection, or allow for custom tracks to be added via music folder like GTA5 - Multiplayer support - Better sense of accomplishment progressing through the grid Overall, this is one of my favorite twin stick shooters now, but I just hope a few of the cons get fixed up in the upcoming patches. Keep up the great work devs!

Reviewing Alpha 3.5. This review is most useful if you've played the first Waves, a game I am a huge fan of. Waves (the first one) was a simple twin stick shooter. There were only a few enemy types, a gun, a bomb, slowmo and a few game mechanics. This made it simple fun and you could play for a few minutes or for a couple of hours. Waves squared (this one) is better in almost every way. The same game modes are there, however the game is much faster paced and aggressive now. No more waiting 2 - 3 minutes before it got exciting, now you wait 1 minute and you're swamped. To counter this however you can take a certain amount of damage, rather than the 1 touch kill of the first game. Overall I would say this game is slightly harder because it is so quick. The arenas are no longer round, they're oddly shaped with obstacles that both benefit and hinder you. No longer can you simply run in circles and shoot backwards. The big change is an upgrade system where you can change your primary we...

I love the original Waves and have so far not been disappointed by the promises of this sequel. Can't wait to see how it shapes up over the course of Early Access. Pros: - Faster pace than the original - very frantic and enjoyable in combination with the new shield/energy mechanic - New GRID mode is great - The updated graphics are very shiny! Cons: - I may need new right thumbstick for my 360 controller by the time this game makes it to full release!

RIP Rob/SquidInABox 2022 [b]Waves 2 is a Early Access game that has been in development for years. Whatever reviewers or myself may say about this game is subject to change because of the nature of Early Access. Waves 2 may have been a bit different when I first played it a long time ago, but I don't quite remember. Waves 1 is my favorite twin-stick shooter of all time. It's why I bought Waes2 in Early Access and my expectation of this game is biased because of and towards the original.[/b] Also, Waves and Waves 2 are similar enough to compare to each other, but different enough to feel different. Imagine Super Mario Bros on the NES, and a sequel in the same engine with the same player movement, arsenal, and power ups, but enemies are alot more difficult and to compensate for that difficulty, Mario can take a few extra hits and has health regeneration. Waves 1 was a straightfoward, arcade style experience where you only had one "character" and one simple, circular map, but a variet...

tl;dr: I love this game. Buy it. Review: Just nominated Waves2 for the "Just 5 more minutes" Steam Award. This games has cost me more hours of badly-needed sleep than any other game, in addictive little 5 minute increments. tight controls smoothly escalating difficulty awesome visuals great soundtrack intelligent array of weapons/power-ups well thought-out enemy spawning I'm as close to 100 years old as I am to 20. My gaming time is limited and precious to me. Waves2 delivers. Always a joy. Never thought anything could equal the arcade version of Tempest. I was wrong. My favorite twin-stick (hell, one of my favorite games). Ever.

I liked original Waves a lot, though could play only at minimal settings. Hope there will be more optimisation here since it lags really hard. UPD: Thanks, everything is really awesome! Performance is great and I can finally enjoy.

He will be missed... I was wondering why i havnt seen one of my fav games to pass the time on... i played the original and now the second. it has so much potential... I hope his legacy doesnt end here. i hope someone continues his design and progress... i will still continue playing and we all will keep him in our memories!

As a massive Geometry Wars fan I love this game I have kept coming back over the years to watch it's progression. Not sure why it only says 0.9 hours on Steam but I have definitely played more than a few hours. I have been hoping for a release one day but when I read the sad news today that the author has died of cancer and his partner has released his games for free as his final gift I found it quite sad. This gem will forever be in early access but since it is now free there is no reason not to give it a go.

Great game! Please release the OST ;_;

This game, even as early access is one of the best shooters I've ever played. (I'm not young been gaming for 30 years.) Without doubt anyone who liked Waves original will love this game. It's just better in every way. The same goes for Geometry wars fans, I love that series (Geometry wars 3 was best IMHO) but Waves 2 equals that. It really is that good. The game play itself is fast, frantic, addictive and looks better than most games of this genre. The menus are somewhat confusing at first, but this is offset by the great game play. Arcade is easy to jump into, but other than that the menus are not really intuitive. May seem like a small thing, and the game is still early access so once it's easy to understand all the options it will be much more beginner friendly. I could go on about the game play, but its so much fun it's better to try yourself. Another nice thing rare in this genre is that the game engine is great and has several graphics options. Maxed out it looks just great....