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Elements Interactive is a well-known developer of, in addition to some games (some of them being very cool; for example, Quartz2, which even has multiplayer capabilities and has been reviewed in the Definitive Multiplayer PPC Game Roundup), the Edge multiplatform gaming library. Their latest, just-released title is a FREE and, in spite of this, pretty decent Tetris-clone which is supposed to demonstrate the caapbilities of Edge.



Availability, compatibility

The game is available here for both Microsoft mobile platforms (tes, Smartphone too) and the desktop Windows, all Symbian platforms and even GP2X.

The Pocket PC version is even compatible with PPC 2002 and runs just great even on my 5-year-old iPAQ 3660. Also, I haven’t run into problems on my other test Pocket PC’s either (non-overclocked WM5 AKU 2.3 HTC Wizard, WM5 2.01 VGA iPAQ hx4700, WM5 A12 VGA Dell Axim x51v and WM2003SE VGA F-S Pocket Loox 720). That is, it’s compatible with all OS’es from PPC2k2 to WM5.

In addition to the D-pad, the hardware buttons (drop down, rotate, menu) worked on all these devices flawlessly.

Visuals

The game is compatible with all the three screen configurations of the Pocket PC: QVGA, VGA (yes, it uses high resolution) and square (240*240) screens. It’s VGA-aware (uses high resolution on VGA devices) and has some pretty good visuals particularly when you drop a title to make the game a bit faster.

Music

It has in-game music too. It’s a bit repetitive (after all, the in-game MOD file – embedded in \Program Files\S-Tris 2\res\bgm.epk if you want to have a look at it / change it to something else / extract it - is some 26 kbytes only in compressed form), but is still pretty good, particularly with a free title.

Verdict

Go get it!

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player911

Looks great. I don't have a Tetris clone installed... but tetris was always a great game because you could just pick it up and put it down anytime. Great for those little 5-10 minute waits.