I like videogames.  I like music.  I like having my retinas assaulted by swirls of colorful space dust.

If you enjoy treating your brain to videogames and music like I do, and are enthralled with the amalgamation of the two, then there’s a good chance you’re going to enjoy Beat Hazard as well.  It’s a twin-stick shooter, meaning that you move around with the left stick and fire your weapon with the right stick, but the twist is that Beat Hazard uses your own music to create custom levels.

Beat Hazard uses songs from your Xbox hard drive or streams them from your computer, so you can choose which song you want to play and the game creates a level around it.  Levels begin like the arcade classic, Asteroids, where you reduce large hunks of space rocks into smaller pieces with your lasers before some mean old spaceships arrive to provide put up a fight.  The unique aspect of the game is that everything from  the velocity of the asteroids to the quanity of boss ships you fight is dependent upon the music.

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