Egg Mania
- August 30, 2002 00:00 AM PST
Kemco�s upcoming competitive puzzler is high in protein, high in cholesterol, and full of unborn chickens.
Ever wanted to catch blocks was they fall from a hot air balloon and then build a tower out of them as an egg with an afro? If so, consider yourself officially insane, and consider yourself a prime candidate for digging Kemco�s Egg Mania: Eggstreme Madness, a fun, frantic puzzler with personality for PS2, Xbox, and GameCube.Ostensibly a Tetris clone, you and one other player (computer or human controlled) will fight against one other and a rising tide of water to build a tower out of irregularly-shaped bricks as they fall from the sky. Unlike Tetris, however, you actually control a little egg-shaped character on the screen with jumping and diving abilities�it made quite a big difference in gameplay in the game�s preview build. Adding to the chaos were leaping enemies that would grab bricks from your hand or knock you into the sea, and power-ups like bombs that could be hurled at your tower by your opponent. Poorly constructed towers (i.e. towers with giant gaps) eventually collapse under their own weight, meaning poor architects will often undo their own progress in the race.
As games get more and more cinematically sophisticated, it�s getting harder and harder to find a simple, solid puzzle game on these new-fangled next-gen systems. Egg Mania (despite the fact that it stars, well, anthropomorphic unborn chickens) is certainly looking like a good egg.
