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by Brad Linder Jan 2nd 2008
I have an absolute weakness for physics games, and while Civiballs isn't the strongest physics-based game, what it lacks in the physics department it makes up for a few times over in style and fun.
In Civiballs, you are presented with a few colored balls, and your goal is to get those balls into the same-colored urn on the level. The "civi" part of Civiballs is that there are 3 sets of levels to play, each representing a different civilization. While the civilization doesn't affect gameplay, the artwork for each level is beautifully themed to it's appropriate era.
To play the game, you are given only one tool - a sword with which to cut the chains that are holding the balls. The puzzle part of the game is in figuring out what order, and with what timing to cut each chain. Do it right, and all the right balls end up in the right urns, with no stray balls entering an urn (a no-no). Do it wrong, and you get to start over again.
Civiballs is not terribly deep on gameplay; the entire game can be completed in about 15 minutes. But if you enjoy this type of game, it will be a very enjoyable 15 minutes.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
srudesigns said 5:10PM on 1-02-2008
Or get firefox and add if you're still not happy download the FlashGot extension :D
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michael said 9:29AM on 1-04-2008
Or don't bother using Firefox at all and going straight to Opera.
Or just keep IE7 which seriously isn't that bad. Pretty good actually if you'd try it.
Matias said 9:25AM on 1-03-2008
Why there is no really good download managers in any browser? Why do we need to just to install one? Cmon, Firefox should have a better download manager, with resumming and all, but no. That´s the only thing that I don´t like from firefox. I´m using flashgot with flashget and THAT rocks!
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GoOrange said 1:57PM on 1-03-2008
I stumbled across this the other day and downloaded it, but haven't gotten around to installing it. It looks cool, but I don't think there will be enough there to get me to switch from Firefox.
Still, I'll have to install it and play around with it soon out of curiosity.
-Jeff
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Chris A said 12:04PM on 1-04-2008
I think IE7PRo is great. Its sharp looking, gives IE mouse gestures and has an ad blocker. My bigest problem is that it has a built in spell checker, the company has no privacy policy and its made in china. So essentially every word you type gets sent over seas for them to use as they please.