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Beat Hazard 2 – Music Game Review
Beat Hazard 2 is a Music/Casual/Music game from Cold Beam Games Ltd, first launched in 7th April 2020.
It’s rated 9+ and currently has 11+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Beat Hazard 2 Stand Out
Experience your music collection as 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. Beat Hazard 2 seamlessly mixes the love of gaming and music. Together they become greater than the sum of their parts.
Beat Hazard 2 improves on and ramps up the awesome zen feeling of battling to your own 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!
Pushing the boundaries of music powered gameplay, the sequel includes procedurally generated boss ships. Each track will create a unique archenemy ship for you to vanquish.
Each track you play will also creates a unique player ship, anything from a tiny 'Mosquito' ship to a huge 'Brute' battle ship! Created ships are consistent, if you discover an awesome ship tell your friends so they can unlock it too!
Touch or gampad
- Support for Bluetooth controllers
Full support for your local files
- Mp3, wma, flac, ogg, aac, m4a, wav
Internet radio stations from SHOUTcast
- Play to thousands of stations from around the world
Procedurally generated boss ship!
- What monsters will your tracks unleash?
Cross Platform Per song leaderboards
- Battle against your friends to own your favourite tracks
Upgraded blistering visuals the lighting
Awesome Original Sound Track
- Composed by the great Johnny Frizz
Note: Game will work with music from iTunes, but not Apple Music.
This Music game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Beat Hazard 2 is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 12th June 2023
Recent improvements include:
Bug fixes.
Download & Availability
Beat Hazard 2 is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Beat Hazard 2 on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
Its a great game and Ive had zero problemsmy only issue is, like some others have said, our phone getting hot quickly and the battery draining. Perhaps theres just too much going on? Idk but hopefully theres a fixotherwise you should only play for short periods of time which is incredibly disappointing.
We love the game honestly we just wish we could use YouTube music or Spotify to play stages also it would definitely increase the player base and even help some people discover new music or playlists just a suggestion thanks for all your work amazing game.
Loved, LOVED the first version of the game, played it forever. Second version came out, and we saw it wasnt updated for years, seem to recall it running hot for others. Saw it was updated and took the plunge, only to watch the authorization screen go on and on and never took us to the game. Tried again. Turned off the app. Turned off the phone. Still no dice. Runs hot AND cant play the game. Sure hope they fix it soon. First one was so much fun.
Really great, and fun to get new ships and compete for scores. Excellent controller support. Supports local music only, so you play your collection by syncing throuh via iTunes. If you have an iPad, be sure to choose standard zoom; otherwise, things look funky.
The game is on another lever. We would like to use our Spotify songs just a thought.
We have over 1000 songs on our phone because of Apple Music. Please release an update ASAP that will allow beat hazard 2 to support music streaming services such as Spotify and Apple Music. We like getting new ships every time we complete a new song. But Im almost running out of new ships since we can only play about 422 songs. The remaining songs are what we bought through Apple Music. Please get this update released ASAP so that we can continue to acquire new ships through the completion of new songs. Thank you.
We enjoyed the first one so much! Yet, we felt that this was a HUGE step backwards. Yes, its beautiful, but there are things that we miss from the first one that arent in BH2. One thing is the floating screen… We cant stand that the screen doesnt move with the ship, like in the first one. Our thumbs get in the way of some ships and end up getting destroyed. Another things is why remove the single thumb control?! We played this game because we wanted to chill and have a visual experience while listening to music that we store on our phone, but the dual stick wasnt for us. Lastly, the GAME RUNS EXTREMELY HOT and this is coming from an iPhone 12 user. Its unfortunate, but we actually want a refund. This is sub par to the first one. The only reason that we even went from the first one to this one was because we wanted to support the developer; however, this is not what we expected.
We want a refund, doesnt find or play any of our music. So whats the point.
We used to play the first one in an iPod. We saw an ad and downloaded it. It is not compatible with Apple Music, so if you think you can play songs from there it wont. After one song the phone has heat up so much that we got a warning to have the phone cool down before using again. It works great with an Xbox one controller with little to no lag input. If theres a patch that fixes the heating problem Ill probably come back to edit this review. Also have more songs added.
How was the first game so awesome, and this sequel feels like a giant leap back. The fact that developers havent seem to have done anything to improve the experience is incredibly disappointing. It feels so cramped and awkward. Maybe one day theyll fix it.
We seriously want our money back this app does not start at all. We tap the app to start opens up black screen 1.5 sec and crash.
Lemme make this short. The page that says this things cans your files for mp3s and ext doesnt even work. Im extremely disappointed.
But we cant even play the game while offline and it crashes at times.
Game runs beautifully on iPhone 11 pro max, at first it would hang on the 321 Go screen, now it works normal. However the phone gets so burning hot we feel like it might explode. So we dont play it very much. Hoping for a patch to make it run cooler.
Sadly, the updates made no difference for us. The battery drain is worse than any game we've played in many years and after one song, our phone got searing hot right through the case like we left it in the car during the summer. This is all on low graphics and 10% effects. We'll have to drop our rating because for us, the game is unplayable now. It's not good for the phone to get constantly this hot. We're going to have to remove this app unfortunately.
For some reason it only recognizes a few of the songs Ive bought and downloaded on our phone, sometime just one or two from an entire album. How can it recognize one but not all of the songs off an album when they were bought and downloaded together? Defeats the whole purpose of buying the game. Extremely disappointed. Save yourself the disappointment and money, dont buy this game.
A game should not have issues on the loading screen. It freezes at various parts of opening the game. Dont buy until this is fixed.
Good game but disappointed that Apple Music downloads are not compatible. Wish they would have told us that before the purchase.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.16
- Size: 74.49 MB
- iOS: 12.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy Violence
- Developer: Cold Beam Games Ltd
Last updated: 12th June 2023 | Genre: Music, Casual | Developer: Cold Beam Games Ltd