A Simple Idea (Tetris (PC))

Member Name: CokaCola

Product:	Tetris (PC)
Date:	18/08/09 (15 review reads)
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Advantages: Easy to Understand, No Installation Necessarily Required, Available Free

Disadvantages: Gets Boring after a while.

Tetris is a popular computer video game based on a simple mathematical tesselation principle that was created by a Russian Computer Engineer. It is popular on mobile phones, or forum arcades and can be bought for various consoles, although this review concerns Tetris on the computer. You can play Tetris for free at this web address:

http://www.freetetris.org/

Tetris is a game of several levels. Earlier versions of the game are 2D however 3D Tetris has also been created. At the start of the game, the user simply sees an empty space surrounded by walls along either side and the bottom, with the top access to this "space" being open. One after the other, bricks of various shapes fall from the sky through the open top, and you have the ability to move them from left to right, and rotate them at 90 degree intervals. The aim of the game is to tesselate the bricks without leaving any spaces, and for every complete row of squares you fill from wall to wall that row is illiminated and you secure some points for the kitty.

Tetris is a game of different levels. The longer you spend on the game and the more you progress, the higher the level you are on. As the level increases, the bricks fall faster. By the time you get to about level 9/10, the bricks are falling so fast you don't really have much time to think and it becomes more of a game of luck.

The bricks are all different colours, although there are different versions of the game and all vary slightly. Generally I find it's the long vertical orange bricks that I really need. The worst is finding that your first couple of bricks are the small ireegularly shaped ones because then you don't really have many options!

Overall, Tetris is quite a good way to pass some free time and because it's available free online, it's easy to access it from any relatives computer or in an internet cafe. The old cliche that practise makes perfect really does apply with this game and if you play it for a while you'll find your skill increases considerably. I am not sure if this has any benefit to the mind, but the game certainly requires use of spacial awareness and lots of concentration!

Summary: Now one of the most popular games in the world.