Beat Hazard 2009

Is it still worth playing?

A music themed shoot 'em up released in October 2009 for Xbox Live Indie Games, in which a small spaceship fends off waves of hostile ships and asteroids that spawn at random. The music drives it. Destroying enemies earns points and sometimes power ups that raise the score multiplier and boost the effects and sound of the song that is playing. Bosses appear from time to time, with more points and several power ups. Each song is a round, scored until it ends. Those points then count as experience toward ranks, and ranking up unlocks options such as harder difficulties and a higher starting multiplier. A shooter that plays along with your own music still makes a record collection something to fight through today.