Q*Bert

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Will you master it or will it master you? Help Q*bert safely navigate his cube world by changing all the cubes to one colour whilst avoiding Coily the Snake and other enemies. Seem simple? Well don't underestimate the task of this challenging puzzle game that will test your skill and mental dexterity to the full. Special features include multiple power-ups, bonus rounds and hidden levels.Amazon.com What's a Q*bert? He's a cantankerous little orange feller with an anteater-like snout and a penchant for swearing in an alien tongue. Don't worry, parents, his swearing is cutely expressed in asterisks and squiggles, accompanied by an audio clip of garbled electronic noises. Q*bert was the star of his very own coin-op video game that debuted back in 1982, challenging players to hop from cube to brightly colored cube while avoiding missteps and collisions, and this PlayStation remake contains that old game in its entirety. Also here is a brand new set of challenges spanning 24 lamp-lit levels.Q*bert doesn't make a very smooth transition from arcade to PlayStation, mostly because of its lack of decent control. In the original, coin-op version, players used a joystick that could move only on the diagonal to hop along cubes, changing their top color. In this version, the existence of the two sticks on the PlayStation analog or dual shock analog controllers is ignored. Instead, you must tilt your controller and use the D-pad to diagonally move Q*bert across the playing field. Still, the game has an inspired design, with cute characters, funny sound effects, and plenty of power-ups. But the control interface has a huge impact on gameplay, and in this case it's negative. --Jeff YoungPros:Includes the entire, original arcade gameGroovy, psychedelic graphicsCons:Very hard to controlConfusing menu designs Product description Will you master it or will it master you? Help Q*bert safely navigate his cube world by changing all the cubes to one colour whilst avoiding Coily the Snake and other enemies. Seem simple? Well don't underestimate the task of this challenging puzzle game that will test your skill and mental dexterity to the full. Special features include multiple power-ups, bonus rounds and hidden levels. Review The typical retro-game update these days takes a pretty standard approach. Find a 2D classic arcade game, put it in polygons, give it some sort of quest-type feel, and put it on shelves. While the 1982 arcade game Q*Bert already had a bit of a 3D element to it, it's been given the standard treatment. But awkward level design and poor presentation make the 1999 release of Q*Bert a dull endeavor, to say the least. Not too many gameplay elements have changed here. Q*Bert is still a crazy orange... uh... ball thing. OK, picture a ball with two legs, two eyes, and a vacuum-cleaner hose as a nose/mouth combo sort-of-thing. Your world is made up of tons of connected cubes. Your job is to change the color of the cubes by hopping from cube to cube. Each cube you touch changes color. Various obstacles and monsters stand in your way - from bouncing balls to returning evildoers Coily, Ugg, and Wrong-Way, who all hop around on the cubes hoping to land on our hero, which, as in the old version, causes Q*Bert to emit a bellow of cartoon cursing. While every level in the original game (which is contained on the disc and is playable with classic or updated graphics, though the between-level music is different than the original) was a simple pyramid, the updated game goes crazy with its level design. The problem here is that it's occasionally very hard to judge depth, and at times the levels look like they came right off the desk of MC Escher himself. This makes hopping around a real chore, and it's occasionally tough to see how all the cubes line up. In the game's standard mode, along with all the old Q*Bert gameplay elements, are things like power-ups. Shields, keys, bombs, torches, and more can be found on the game's various levels. The items don't really mix up the gameplay at all, and the game gets boring within 30 minutes. A two-player head-to-head mode is also included where you can try to recolor your cubes before your friend can change all of his. The game's graphics have been updated in the most basic way. Everything has become polygonal, but that's about it. So Q*Bert looks a little more robust n

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