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Scrabble
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Until now, Scrabble has generally been reserved for days when you're stuck inside during the British summer holidays when it's raining. But the little game with the letter tiles has made it onto the Game Boy, so now you can have all of that scrabbly goodness in the palm of your hand. As well as the standard game--where you get some letters, make spellings up and then shout "what do you mean there's no such word as QXZYJHD?", there is also a conundrum round where you and your opponents get the same seven letters and have to arrange them into a word. You can play against up to three other players (either computer players or friends--although you'll all have to use the same machine as the game doesn't make use of the link cable). If you play against the computer you can choose a difficulty level--Novice, Easy, or Hard--and the pictorial representation of the opponent changes depending on which level you play, from a man with a dunce's hat to the expert who looks like Einstein. It's a nice touch which gives you the impression of playing against someone rather than just the computer AI. There are also various options you can choose to spice up play: you can set "word challenge" to on so that your opponent can dispute a word you put down (otherwise the dictionary will do it automatically when you place your tiles; the intelligence of this changes as you go up difficulty levels), and you can also turn off the "miss a turn" function when you get a word wrong. It's very simple to pick up and play, and the board is reproduced in the original colours. Basically, this is a very addictive game for people of all ages. --Kristen Bowditch
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4/5 |
Scrabble for beginners
(March 28, 2002) |
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The complexity of this game is not realy chalenging enough for the wordsmiths out there, but if you want a simple game with a limited dictionery then look no futher. |
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4/5 |
Scrabble down the sides of the sofa, find the cash & buy it!
(January 15, 2002) |
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As much fun as all the other games are for the gameboy, you can beat a good puzzler to bring you back again and again. Tetris did it first and now I think Scrabble has a similar hold over me!. It has all the possibilities of the original game but with out the tiles sliding all over the place if you want to play it in bed (sadly I've reached the age). Lots of fun and you can play against a partner, or two or three people (if the bed's big enough or you're on the train, say), or you can play against the computer of animated people with furrowing brows . You can also play a combination of people and computer.
The downsides we have found, are that if it says a word isn't right there's nothing you can do, as you can't add to it's dictionary (something the GBA might be able to put right). You can't watch the board while the other person takes their turn as you'd see their letters. It also allows you to put the same word down more that once which is not usual.
But these are, honestly, only little niggles.
It's an irresistable word game that you can take anywhere. |
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5/5 |
Excellant
(December 21, 2001) |
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This game is fantastic! The detail ,the game play everything! But be warned it is highly addictive and very hard to beat the CPU! |
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5/5 |
Ubi Soft do it again!!!
(December 07, 2001) |
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I didn't think a scrabble game would work on hand held consoles - but this works really well - its intuitive, and easy to use, but gives you a good game. recommended. |
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2/5 |
Top Game!!
(November 15, 2001) |
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This is the best game I have ever seen. The graphics are top! The artist is a genius - he must be some sort of magician to get graphics of this quality out of a color game boy.
And the game play is the best I have seen on this sort of game. Top Marks!! |
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