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Tetrisphere (N64) |
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24/07/00 (58 review reads) |
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Advantages: Fun, Tetris based gaming.
Disadvantages: Nothing particularly special
Every platform needs at least one Tertris clone and Tetrispheres was the first on the N64. Like tetris you need to destroy the blocks and not allow them to build up to high. Unlike tetris you're firing these boxs at the surface of a sphere which you are free to rotate. If you group together blocks of the same type they will explode off the sphere, if not they will build up on the surface. So as with ordinary Tertris you want to group together the blocks and avoid staking up too many. To win you must remove enough blocks to expose the core of the sphere.
The game is pretty good fun, much in the same way that Tetris is. It takes a little while to get into it mainly because of the need to rotate the sphere to find sets of blocks. Chances are at first if you do get past a level it'll be through plain luck. The 3D aspect of the game is well used, it adds a new kind of consideration to the tetris game, you need to balance speed against optimally placing a block on the sphere, but you can't see all of the sphere at once. Graphics are clear and relatively simple, they don't distract from gameplay which is the main thing.
The most fun this title offers is through the competitive mode. Using a split screen you and a friend can battle it out to strip their sphere first. As you remove blocks from your sphere they get sent to your opponent. Things rapidly get frantic as you both struggle to clear the rapidly arriving blocks.
Tetrisphere is a solid puzzle game title with good multiplayer options. It isn't an outstanding game by far, but is worth considering if you're looking for a puzzle game for your N64. It's getting quite old now so it's the sort of title to look for in a second hand game shop.
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cooly3 - 17/09/00 Love it - Tetris fan me; way back to the 80's PC version and boy does that look dated now! |
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