The best thing to come out of Russia since Vodka (or so I'm told), Tetris has been fun for gamers since it's inception. There have been countless version, and this review focuses on the GameBoy version (der).
Tetris as we all know is a very complex game. It centers around a lone communist insurgent, attemtping to collapse the foul capitalist pig dogs of the Demoratic Russia. He accomplishes this task through the dropping of large blocks on the heads of the rich and well-off. Once enough blocks have been dropped to align, they vanish, so a new row of capitalists may be crushed. Once in a while, a Tetris will be achived, in which four lines are eliminated at once. This is equvalent to droppng a nuke in Red Square, to send all of those money grubbing greedy capitalist scum to whatever god they choose.
Controls aren't much of an issue here, as ovethrowing the governemt has never been so easy. B and A rotate the block, so that it may be better positioned for its quest of destruction, while the D-Pad moves the piece, for precise targeting of Capitalist hot spots, such as country clubs, and banks.
The graphics aren't all that great, but they never really have been in Tetris. It's all very simple 8-bit imagry. It would have been nicer to see the flailing arms of the enemy-of-the-workers as they are crushed by the might of the people, but it will do.
The sound is nothing to write home about to Mother (Russia, heh). It's all simple beeps and boops, no wails of anguish from the ruling class here. The music is pretty good, with a selection of digital Russian beats, kicking it old-school.
All in all, it is one of the best portable versions (if not the best) of the seminal Capitalist killing simulator. Come on, bring out the Red in you, and drop some blocks.
