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Mahjong Elements HD
Genre: Board
Publisher: FDG Entertainment
Developer: FDG Entertainment
Release: 05 August 2010
Genre: Board
Publisher: FDG Entertainment
Developer: FDG Entertainment
Release: 05 August 2010
Absolute Reversi Review
by Lucas M. Thomas - IGN.com | 27 August 2010 12:00A.K.A. Turncoat, A.K.A. Othello.
The third installment in Tasuke's new "Absolute" series to come to America, Absolute Reversi follows quickly and closely in the footsteps of Absolute BrickBuster and Absolute Chess before it. It uses the same menu, same music, same set of playable characters and same division between a free play mode and a more focused, directed challenges mode that gives you specific missions to complete in each Reversi match. It's not original, since we've already seen it twice before. But the asset recycling still doesn't bother me much, and still works well.
Reversi is the tile-flipping board game where two players go head-to-head, one of them playing white, one of them playing black and both of them trying to flip the other guy's tiles over to his color. That's accomplished by sandwiching one or more of your opponents' pieces between two of your own, and the game's lead often shifts back and forth a lot as you start with just four pieces in play and ultimately expand to have every available space on the grid covered. Whoever has more of his color visible at the end wins.
Closing Comments
It's a classic game design, and Absolute Reversi's version of it certainly offers two bucks' worth of content. The only reservation I have about this one is prior competition -- Nintendo has already offered its own version of Reversi called Turncoat, as part of the Clubhouse Games Express: Strategy Pack release. If you already bought that five dollar download, you don't need this new one. And if you want to toss a couple more bucks on your buy, you might also considering stepping up to that Clubhouse instead of Tasuke's option -- since you'd get Reversi and four more strategy-oriented board games too.
Supplied by IGN.com
