- Single player game inlcudes seven modes of gameplay
- Increasing levels of complexity and difficulty as players complete each level
- Simple gameplay, easy to pick up without instruction
- Cinematics involving the Mino characters and evolving backgrounds motivate players to clear levels
- 1-4 players
Tetris is the best puzzle game--nay, one of the best things--in the world, ever. Tetris Worlds isn't--the developers have taken one of the most perfectly designed games ever and made it significantly worse.
As half the population of the world must know, the goal of Tetris is to collect together a variety of geometric shapes that fall from the top of the screen so that they fit together to make one or more horizontal line. Fail to do so, and let the shapes pile up to the top of the screen, and it's game over. It really should be that simple.
There have been over 20 different versions of Tetris created in the 15 years since the game's creation and yet bizarrely almost all of these have managed to ruin the beauty of the original. It's as if developers have a blind spot for the game: they either muck up the control system, ruin the pace and atmosphere or try to add in unnecessary complications. Tetris Worlds avoids all these obvious mistakes but just at the last, ruins everything by allowing you to keep rotating and moving a shape indefinitely once it hits the bottom of the screen, completely ruining the carefully balanced difficulty curve and making the whole thing pointlessly easy.
It's a real pity because otherwise the presentation and some of the extra options, particularly the four-player mode, are really good. But with the heart of the game ripped out in this way there really isn't much point. Get Tetris DX--the deluxe version of the Game Boy original--instead; it's worlds better (ho ho).--David Jenkins
Product Description
Tetris Worlds takes the simple yet highly addictive puzzle play of Tetris to the next level with colourful 3-D graphics, seven gameplay modes, and intense multiplayer action. Gameplay takes place in seven unique worlds, each with its own set of rules for playing Tetris. Among the new versions are the all-new Hotline Tetris and Fusion Tetris. As you complete levels, Tetris Worlds ups the ante by increasing the complexity and difficulty. Artwork includes the Mino characters, while futuristic backgrounds evolve while you play. The gameplay is true Tetris--still straightforward and highly addictive. Tetris Worlds supports up to four players.
PlayStation2