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Beat Hazard Ultra

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3.6/5

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3.6

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Beat Hazard Ultra
Description
Welcome to a new experience in gameplay mechanics: Beat Hazard Gameplay Powered by YOUR Music! Experience your music collection like never before with this intense music driven arcade shooter. Each of your songs will have its own unique ebb and flow based on the music. Power up your spaceship and...
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3.6/5

( 7 Reviews )

3.6

7 Reviews

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Product details
2010, Cold Beam Games, ...
System requirements
Windows 7 / 8 / 10, 2.0GHz processor, 512+MB of RAM, 256MB of video memory, 9 or later, 400+MB of fr...
Time to beat
5 hMain
15.5 h Main + Sides
23.5 h Completionist
18.5 h All Styles
Description
Welcome to a new experience in gameplay mechanics: Beat Hazard Gameplay Powered by YOUR Music!

Experience your music collection like never before with this intense music driven arcade shooter. Each of your songs will have its own unique ebb and flow based on the music.

Power up your spaceship and watch as the music boosts your firepower. Unleash hell on the enemy ships when you max out with weapon pickups!

Beat Hazard seamlessly mixes the love of gaming and music. Together they become greater than the sum of their parts.
 
  • Unique music driven gameplay
  • Gameplay possibilities as vast as your music collection
  • Can you last a whole album in Survival Mode?
  • Go Head to Head in local 2 player mode
  • Or play local 2 player Co-op
System requirements
Minimum system requirements:
Why buy on GOG.COM?
DRM FREE. No activation or online connection required to play.
Safety and satisfaction. Stellar support 24/7 and full refunds up to 30 days.
Time to beat
5 hMain
15.5 h Main + Sides
23.5 h Completionist
18.5 h All Styles
Game details
Works on:
Windows (7, 8, 10, 11)
Release date:
{{'2010-04-15T00:00:00+03:00' | date: 'longDate' : ' +0300 ' }}
Size:
312 MB

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nederlands
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Overall most helpful review

Posted on: February 18, 2020

AmethystViper

Games: 242 Reviews: 4

Cannot recommend this release

Before people get their pitchworks and try to silence this review, I love Beat Hazard, it's one of my favorite games since discovering it on Xbox LIVE Indie Games, it's a simple and fun twin-stick shooter with a lot of replay value thanks to the ability to use your own music to play the game, and the Ultra version added new content and features that helped breathed new life to the game. However it seems like every new update recently has been hurting the game more than anything else. I don't own this on GOG though I do own the Steam and DRM-free Humble Store version, however the problems are pretty much applicable across these releases. As of writing, the game suffers from a broken fullscreen bug that causes it to not work upon launch (even using BeatHazardPref.txt doesn't work), poor support for wireless Bluetooth XInput controllers with no vibration or analog trigger function, Shadow Missions not working properly, and with the DRM-free builds, missing Internet radio support, and most damning of all, a bug that breaks the folder options to change between the game's own music and ones stored on your computer while rendering Internet radio inaccessible. This not only kills most of the appeal of this game, but also renders the game unplayable as, if you index too much music that the game can't handle it without the folders working, it crashes thanks to this bug. It seems like the dev doesn't care about fixing this game anymore now that Beat Hazard 2 is out while this is just an afterthought, and even worse shipping this game in a broken state for unsuspecting customers. The version of Beat Hazard on DRM-free platforms are even worse thanks to these game-breaking problems I mentioned, the dev not playtesting the game, and shipped it that way. May as well stick to the CD-ROM version I got from Amazon for $1. It may not have the new content from Beat Hazard Ultra, but unlike the recent updates for the digital releases, at least the CD version works fine out of the box.


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Posted on: December 19, 2023

KiNgBrAdLeY7

Verified owner

Games: Reviews: 16

Dev uses scummy practices

He bans people without warns and without it showing anywhere, effectively shutting down the multiplayer part (and in the games who have that feature, the top10 reward). In order to unban somebody, he blackmails the person to change their review, if the latter is negative. A veteran player named "Crusader Exterminator" on steam, fell prey to that practice and despite trying to reach support with proof on the issue, they still took neither action, nor any part in that mishap. His clone named "Wolfpig" (or Pigwolf?), posts something to bait you in the forums and if you reply to it, you also get a completely unjustified forum ban, with the reason "toxic". I rarely refund my games but for this series, i am extremely sorry of being unable to!


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Posted on: October 19, 2022

sdasda7777

Verified owner

Games: 374 Reviews: 12

Inferior version, but not a broken mess

I own both Steam and GOG version, so I can factually break down what the differences are. Personally, I didn't have any problems with fullscreen mode (you can also always switch it with Alt+Enter). The internet radios work as well, see appendix. Shadow Missions also do seem to work properly on GOG version. What I do unfortunately think is a big deal is that you can't build your own ships in GOG version. I have spoken with the dev and they confirmed it. That sucks pretty hard in my opinion, but I think even then it is worth it. Appendix: Internet radios: To make internet radios work, you just have to place working internet radio addresses in .pls or .m3u format (you can the links here: https://www.internet-radio.com/, but I recommend validating them with this utility: http://www.coldbeamgames.com/netradio.html) inside radio2.txt in the game folder, in this format: ; add your radio streams here ; comments can be added like this ; Merge 104.8 http://uk7.internet-radio.com:8040/listen.pls ; Zero Radio http://uk7.internet-radio.com:8188/live.m3u end;


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Posted on: January 28, 2025

ElFotofobico

Verified owner

Games: 55 Reviews: 1

as it is, totally Amazing!

just that, amazing. nice gameplay, epic colours, perfect music readings, plus now, you can use AI to generate "battles" at your will, even with your own lyrics, i do, and i F* love it. 5/5 (P.D. just to kill some time, don't expect an insigtful travel)


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Posted on: December 21, 2019

hectichead

Verified owner

Games: 434 Reviews: 5

Worked Now Doesn't... Refund!

The game worked first time round. i say it was ok nothing great. You quickly looses patience with it. Fun at first. Then next day played it i went to standard mission. and it crashed. Pretty crap game anyway. You can add your own music from computer on it but missions are boring. People have had the same problem with game crashes and GOG didn't even Respond. Seems they only give credits back not actual refund which is a blow to the wallet espically if a game is discounted works first time then takes your money and fails to work.


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