In my continuing coverage of Windows 8, and Microsoft's new app store in the consumer preview - I would like to review another great game that I can play for hours at a time. In case you missed my last Windows 8 review, Jazz: Trump's Journey - it is truly an amazing game with a great story and fun puzzles. The game I am reviewing today is quite simple but very engaging, it is called Wordament.
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| Windows Phone 7 Version |
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Wordament it is you versus the world. You are given a 4x4 grid of letters and two minutes in which you must create as many words as possible by using your mouse or a touch screen. Legal words will show up green, already found words yellow, and illegal words red - the longer the better! Wordament was originally released on Windows Phone 7, but has been ported to Windows 8 and looks better than ever!
Wordament is a unique kind of word game—a word tournament—where you are competing with the whole internet to be the best word searcher in every game. Every player is competing on the same board, in real time, to get the highest score. Will you be the Wordament champion?
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| Windows 8 Version |
After the round you have a 45 second intermission where you can view the words you found, the ones you didn't, and the words that other players found. You can also view your rank of all the players in that round. While I cannot speak to the Windows Phone version directly, the Windows 8 version does have some issues with resuming games. For example, if you return to the desktop on Windows 8, then back to the game, the countdown timer for the next round may be stuck. In this case you will have to close the game and restart it. I am very impressed with the 24/7 live concept of this game, I would recommend a chatroom being available during the intermission period to make the game more social. I love playing this game in my free time, and I give it a 80/100.
In my continuing coverage of Windows 8, and Microsoft's new app store in the consumer preview - I would like to review another great game that I can play for hours at a time. In case you missed my last Windows 8 review, Jazz: Trump's Journey - it is truly an amazing game with a great story and fun puzzles. The game I am reviewing today is quite simple but very engaging, it is called Wordament.
