Meteos

Publisher: Nintendo

Platform: DS

Category: Arcade / Puzzle

Rating Info

Release Date: 23/09/2005

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Number of Players: 1-4

Meteos Description

The Nintendo DS trumpeted its astounding aptitude for the humble puzzle game right from its release, when early adopters thrilled to the joys of Zoo Keeper and Polarium. Now the latest puzzle sensation that everyone is talking about finally comes to the UK: Meteos. Meteos is designed by Masuhiro Sakurai (of Super Smash Bros. fame) and developed by Q Entertainment. Also involved in the project was ex-SEGA man Tetsuya Mizuguchi, acclaimed creator of SEGA Rally, Rez and the not entirely dissimilar puzzle game Lumines for PSP. Like most puzzle games, it has an arbitrary storyline: you must defend your planet from a rain of deadly meteors sent your way by the malicious inhabitants of planet Meteo. But you don't want to worry about that too much. Suffice it to say that it falls firmly into the family of puzzle games that demands manipulation of blocks of various shapes and colours. As they fall unceasingly from the sky, you must - you guessed it - group like with like with a flick of the stylus. Get enough of one colour together and they'll blast off into the stratosphere and beyond, taking any more blocks in their path away with them too. There's a catch though - you can't slide the Meteos sideways so a little more concentration will be required. As you progress, you'll be able to unlock other 'planets' which you must defend from this interstellar assault. Each planet has different qualities: some are wider in terms of how far they stretch across the screen - this means that the blocks will fill the screen more slowly but there are more to worry about; on some planets the gravity is stronger than others so you need to generate more thrust to get the Meteos off the screen. Each planet also has a different graphical appearance, as well as inhabitants with differing abilities. This being the ultra-flash DS console, you're able to play over WiFi against opponents. They don't even need their own Meteos game, although you'll have more options to choose from if they do. The game also stores the data of every player you face, so that you can gloat over victories and rue defeats long after the intense battle has finished. Games like this are exactly what the DS is about. If you have one you should buy it.

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Reviewed by: DBT	Date: 06/06/2007	Rating:
This is the single most adictive puzzle game I have ever played - and that includes the original Tetris on the Gameboy. All you have to do is use the stylus to move bricks vertically up and down to make horizontal rows of the same colour - as more and more bricks fall down in the usual way. The thing that makes this different (other than the stylus, without which the game would be impossible or, at best, frustrating) is that instead of dissapearing they are rocketed upwards off screen. If your load of bricks is particularly heavy, they can fall back down... But you can move blocks within this pile to keep them going. It's amazingly simple and addictive. It was the first game I bought with my original DS and it's still the one I turn to more than any other. BRILLIANT!

Features

Defend more than 30 planets, each with its own alien race, theme music, block style and gravitational laws.

Explore planets in Star Trip, challenge CPU players of any skill, play multiplayer, survive deluge mode or spend launched Meteos to unlock new planets and features.

Link wirelessly with up to three friends and have a war of the worlds as players select which planet to launch their Meteos toward. Team up, customize items or establish time or stock limits - players can play however they like.

Using DS Download Play, players can take on up to three friends with only one game card.

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