Poppit! (Mobile)

GameSpot editors' review

• CNET editors' rating: 3.5 stars Very good
  Detailed editors' rating
  Overall score: 7.2 (3.5 stars)

• Reviewed by:
  Steve Palley
• Reviewed on: 08/02/2005
• Originally published on GameSpot: Poppit! (Mobile) Review

Poppit!, a simple balloon-popping game that happens to be the most popular game on EA's Pogo casual games site, is functionally no different from the other dozen or so Elimimatch clones on mobile--you match groups of like-colored objects to get rid of them. That said, this casual offering's connectivity with the larger Pogo network, which offers raffle drawings and prizes, makes it immediately more compelling than most of the competition.

In Poppit!, a friendly cartoon cactus directs you to work your way through a screenful of brightly colored balloons, by clicking on pairs (or larger groups) of the same color. If you create a space by popping a large group, the remaining balloons will fill the void by floating toward the top of the screen. There's no limit on time or the number of moves you can make, but the game is over as soon as you have no pairs to pop, so you have to pop carefully to make caches of color drift together. The larger the popped group, the more points you get.

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