Sometimes, just sometimes, mind you, games don’t need a point.  All they need is some fun gameplay and an interesting hook, and this is the idea behind PowerUp Forever, a new shooter game on Xbox Live Arcade that’s an amazing hybrid of Warning Forever, Geometry Wars and Katamari Damacy.

I know, not exactly the most likely pedigree, but in a game where you fly around, blast stuff, and grow larger and more powerful with every successive level, you can definitely see the connections.  As you grow, you get new weapons, and you’ll need them to take on the new, larger enemies you find that were formerly part of the background.  The difficulty is surprisingly rich, with enemies moving in hard and fast to intercept as early as the fourth level.  Controls have some issues in this game, sadly, as switching between weapons isn’t terribly easy, and the more advanced weapons have an unfortunate tendency to run out of juice quickly, forcing you to switch back to your main gun so rapidly you might well start to wonder why you even bothered switching to the other guns to begin with.

Yes, it’s similar to a whole lot of other games you’ve played, but a couple new twists make this one worth trying.