Tetris Worlds (Game Boy Advance)

GameSpot editors' review

• CNET editors' rating: 1.0 stars Terrible
  Detailed editors' rating
  Overall score: 2.1 (1.0 stars)

• Reviewed by:
  Ryan Davis
• Reviewed on: 12/10/2001
• Updated on: 05/17/2006
• Released on: 09/05/2001
• Originally published on GameSpot: Tetris Worlds (Game Boy Advance) Review

One of the key draws of Tetris has always been its elegant simplicity--a simplicity that allows for open interpretation, which is attested to by the countless forms it has taken on consoles, the PC, cell phones, calculators, and various Web-based platforms. Now, Blue Planet Software has brought six different variations on the Tetris formula together for Tetris Worlds on the GBA. With its wealth of gameplay modes, passable presentation, and its classic, nostalgia-triggering music, Tetris Worlds probably would have been one of the best iterations of Tetris yet. Unfortunately, Tetris Worlds also introduces one particular change to the gameplay that renders the classic game all but unplayable.

Graphics and sound have never been make-or-break categories for Tetris games, but Tetris Worlds handles both of them capably. The music is made up of all the old classic Tetris tunes and a few completely forgettable new songs. The Tetris field itself looks like, well, Tetris. Each mode has its own screensaver-style backdrop, where you'll see polar bears tromping across a tundra or a jellyfish cruising through the deep sea. It's all decent-looking window dressing, if not slightly distracting from the game at hand.

As previously mentioned, Tetris Worlds is composed of six different flavors of Tetris. In Cascade Tetris, individual blocks that make up the different shapes will slide down independently once they land. Square Tetris gives you extra points for creating a four-by-four square of blocks. In HotLine, the only way to make a line clear count is by clearing lines at certain levels in the playfield. In Fusion Tetris, you'll occasionally be given an atom block, which must be attached to the fusion block buried at the bottom of the playfield to advance to the next level. In Sticky Tetris, shapes are made of multiple colors that will fuse with similarly colored blocks to form gigantic immoveable slab. Then there's plain old white-bread Tetris, which works just like it did in 1985.

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