Filed under: Fun, Games, Time-Wasters
Gridshock: fast-paced matching Time Waster
by Jay Hathaway May 25th 2009
Typically, when you're playing a game where the object is to keep the board from filling up with pieces, it's vertical.Being used to Tetris and all its variants, it took me a second to adjust to Gridshock, a game where you match and eliminate colored lights on a horizontal playing field. It's an easy game to get the hang of, but the lights pile up faster as the levels go on, and it's tough to avoid getting overwhelmed.
As in Tetris, you only get one color to work with at a time. Your job is to decide where to put it for maximum board-clearing effect. Any combo of 3 or 4 matching pieces will disappear, and they can be connected horizontally, vertically, or an L-shaped combination of the two.
A meter on the side that shows you when more lights are going to be unceremoniously dumped into your grid, but there's hardly time to pay attention to it.
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
