Ever since Tetris became a smash hit on the Nintendo Game Boy, the idea of games based on falling blocks has inspired generations of coders. AstraWare currently trades such a game against email adresses to send newsletters to – can the offer stack up?
Big Box of Blox requires you to sort blocks that fall from the ’skies’. Each block contains three cubes that can be rearranged while the block is in the air:
Blocks can also be moved horizontally and vertically:
Once a group of similar subblocks is established, they disappear:
The game can be played in a variety of modes. Each one contains a few special bricks, but behaves essentially the same otherwise:
This review looked at version 1.00 of the game on a Nokia N71. BBoB can be run from an external memory card and needs 1417KB of memory.
In the end, Big Box of Blox is a somewhat weird Tetris clone. As it is currently (all of July) free (if you are willing to give AstraWare your (disposable) email adress), puzzle game freaks could give the thing a pop. People who prefer action games are better served elsewhere, even though the price of a disposable email adress isn’t high…
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