Sunday, January 25, 2009

Fill It For Free

The problem with "Fill It For Free' is not anything to do with the game. It is well designed. It is fun and challenging. You can compete against yourself or against the world by trying to get the highest global score. No, my only problem with Fill It is that I have seen the same game concept countless times.

Recently I reviewed Mars Invasion. This game is almost identical, just without the nice graphics. To say that the graphics for "Fill It" are bare bones would actually be paying the game a compliment. The graphics are virtually non-existent. I know the game is free, but even free games must have some sort of standards. Some people just don't care about graphics. for them, this game will be fine. In fact, they may like it better because it loads so fast. The more graphics a game as, the longer the typical loading time.

Your job is divide up the screen and section of portions without getting hit by the things racing round. You try and trap them in smaller and smaller sections of the playing area until you complete the minimum score for the level. It is usually about 80 percent. That means that you must keep sectioning off smaller sections until the bad guys are confined to just twenty percent of the original playing area.

As you go up in levels, there is one more bad guy added. So level one, there are just two guys to look out for. Level two, you have three guys. The farthest I could get was level five. With six guys swarming all around, it really is very hard to rope of a single section, let alone eighty percent of the area.

Once again, if you want faster loading times and don't mind very basic graphics, this game is for you. Otherwise try Mars Invasion for the same playing experience with better visuals.

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