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Egg Mania
Developed by Hotgem and published by Kemco, Egg Mania is a fun for all variant of Tetris.
The characters in this game are just a bunch of eggs with arms and eggs. Hey, that rhymes. Already better than Soulja Boy! All of the eggs have a different personality. One for instance is a devil, the other a girl, then there’s a samurai, a DJ and more. Each of them have their own loading screen in which their characters are distinguished from the other.
The music in the loading screen and the menus can get rather tiresome after a while seeing as its the same music, but in the game itself they are rather varied. It’s fun music that’s in tune with the game and never brings the game down.
Graphics wise there isn’t much to say. The characters and the backdrops are really well done whilst the blocks and the effects are average.
Now then, on to the meat of the game! The gameplay!
The main mode of the game is basically Mortal Kombat meets Tetris. You pick a character and start off at the bottom of the food chain. Which is represented by a rectangle on which the opponents are placed from the bottom to the top. Which is the MK part of it. Then there’s the Tetris gameplay with a twist!
There’s an air balloon at the top of your field that you need to go to. Before the opponent reaches his own balloon. Moments after the level starts, blocks start to fall down from the roof which you can catch with your egg. The block stays in your characters hands whilst a ghost shape appears that tells you how you will drop it, which you can change obviously. Then you either decide to drop the block or let it fall down. You need to make full rows without holes to reach the top or your structure will become unstable and it will crash down on you until its stable once again.
On your way to the top, you can get power-ups or weapons to use.
Power-ups: You’ve got the mortar, which places a layer of cement where you want it to fill in a hole. You’ve got the high jump and then there are others.
weapons: The bomb, which you can toss at your opponent and you’ve got the thunderstorm, which strikes your opponent making him fall down in to the water.
Depending on your difficulty setting and where you’re at on the food chain, flying enemies or swimming enemies will lunge at you and try to make you fall or take your block away.
The controls to do all this take a little getting used to, but in the end you don’t even have to think about it. You’re just doing it.
Then there’s other modes like bomb mode, which starts you off on a construction and bombs fall down which you can toss at your opponent. This is basically a destroy your opponents tower first sort of deal.
There’s also survival, which is a never ending story to see how far you can go.
You can make a custom game.
And finally you’ve got a tournament.
This game is awesome and fun. Play it if you can. If you see it somewhere and you have a lot of friends over all the time, then definitely buy it!
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve played this game with my mother and my friends and neighbors. This is the one game we play besides Crash Team Racing and Hogs of War. It’s fun, addicting and Tetris! Buy it!
This has been Puddle Jumper for the Last Gen Review of Egg Mania, See you next time.
Developer(s) HotGen
Publisher(s) Kemco
Platform(s) PlayStation 2, Xbox, Nintendo GameCube, Game Boy Advance
Release date(s)
September 11, 2002[show]
GameCube
NA September 11, 2002
JP September 27, 2002
PAL October 25, 2002
Xbox
NA September 11, 2002
JP October 3, 2002
PAL October 25, 2002
PlayStation 2
JP September 12, 2002
NA September 12, 2002
PAL October 25, 2002
Game Boy Advance
NA September 16, 2002
JP September 27, 2002
PAL November 22, 2002
Genre(s) Puzzle
Mode(s) Single-player, Multiplayer
Rating(s) ELSPA: 3+
ESRB: E (Everyone)
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