Tetris Elements: Multiple gaming styles to challenge your strategy skills

Review about Tetris Elements by Valuesoft
In Tetris Elements you'll face a new spin on the classic puzzle-clearing strategy game. Multiple gaming styles to challenge your strategy skills! Fire, ice, wind, and space add exciting perils to the addictive Tetris fun, while bone jarring earthquakes throw off your puzzle-clearing strategy. Prove you can handle the powerful forces of nature with five new ways to play, plus all the fun of Classic Tetris, in Tetris Elements!

Classic: Survive as long as you can in this game of Classic Tetris! Rotate the Tetriminos to complete each line, mastering the art of clearing multiple rows, even hard dropping Tetriminos for maximum high scores. It's Game Over when your stacks of incomplete rows prevent new Tetriminos from entering the Matrix.

Stratosphere: Watch out for ricocheting meteors in Stratosphere Tetris! Moving through the anti-gravity atmosphere, these meteors can be your friend or foe. Learn to use them to get out of tight spots, while refining your reflexes to recover from blasted rows and intercepted Tetriminos. Watch for the shooting stars, which send the unpredictable meteors crashing into your Matrix!

Earthquake: Earthquake Tetris incorporates the challenging elements of Tetris Cascade with earth-shaking tremors for added challenge! Sudden jarring rumbles shake your screen and knock your Tetriminos out of queue. Survive these earthly outbursts to increase your score.

Tempest: Prove you can manage two Matrices in Tempest Tetris! Watch for caution alarms and lightning that warns of your switching Matrix. To master this game, remember which pieces you need on the other side and hold them for a double high score.

Fire: Hard drop your Tetriminos in Fire Tetris for a superheated chain reaction. Heat enough pieces in a row to cause a fiery explosion that clears up to eight lines at once!

Ice: Feel a chill as you attempt to clear each row in Ice Tetris. Growing icicles break from the icy Matrix, slamming down all Tetriminos in their path. Steer clear of falling icicles that will take your Tetrimino down, or use your razor sharp reflexes to get your Tetrimino in the icicle's path to trigger a winning cascade.

This game is totally not Boring. There are so many different games this software, that one can never get bored. Once you start to get tired of playing one way, you can change to another type of play and wait until you get tired of that type.

There's a cool feature that allows you to use any mp3 you have on your system as background music during the game because the default music is pretty dull. The graphics are very poor and there is no way to use a controller, you must use the keyboard.

Product Features

• Earthquake incorporates earth-shaking tremors into your Tetris game -- see if your lines can survive this for an increased score
• Avoid the ricocheting meteors in Stratosphere
• See if you can manage two matrices at once in Tempest -- remember which pieces you need on the other board and hold them for a double-score
• Feel the chill as you try to clear each row before the icicles slam your lines, in Ice Tetris
• For old-school classic action, there's even classic Tetris!

Product Details

• Price: $18.99
• ASIN: B0002YIUN8
• Release Date: October 25, 2004

Game Information

• Platform: Windows XP, Mac OS X
• Media: CD-ROM

System Requirements:

• Windows:
• Windows 98/ME/2000/XP
• 500 MHz processor
• 128 MB RAM
• 100 MB free hard-disk space
• 16-bit color display
• 800x600 resolution
• 8x speed CD-ROM drive
• DirectX 9.0 or higher (included)
• DirectX-compatible video and sound card
• Mouse
• Macintosh:
• System 9.1 OSX or higher
• 500 MHz processor
• 128 MB RAM
• 100 MB free hard-disk space
• 16-bit color display
• 800x600 resolution
• 8x speed CD-ROM drive
• Mouse

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