THE GOOD:Simple yet challenging gameplay. Easy to pick up and learn.
THE BAD:
No 2 player option.
SUMMARY:
One of the first Russian games to make it to America, Tetris was a simple puzzle game-just position falling blocks of different shapes to make solid lines of 1-3 rows, or even a "Tetris" of 4 lines for big points. But the pieces fall constantly and at increasing rates and if the stack gets too high, Game Over.
Like most puzzle games, the appeal here is in simple gameplay. It's easy enough for a beginner to pick up quickly and learn, with it's slow relaxed pace at first, yet it quickly gets intense and fast enough to challenge skilled players. Getting high scores and making significant progress rewards you with a humorous cinema sequence at the end of the game. There's also a second game option that challenges you to clear a set number of lines form a pre-determined layout.
Graphics & sounds are simple yet clean, with no unnecessary flicker or slowdown even as the game speeds up. Cont...
