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Description
An evil planet named Meteo is sending storms of world-ending meteors across the galaxy, and only your puzzle skills can stop them. As blocks rain down, use the stylus to align similar ones and launch them back into space. As blocks fall from above, players must align similar designs by groups of three or more to launch them back up. Players can move blocks only vertically (preferably with the stylus, although the game can be played with the control pad). As players unlock planets, they must learn each one's unique gravitational rules and block style. There are an incredible number of modes, from Star Trip (progress from planet to planet) to wireless multiplayer to deluge mode, where the Meteos fall at a steadily increasing rate. Not only that, but almost every mode is customizable, allowing players to set the difficulty level of their opponents, time or stock limits, or even item sets. Items vary from vision-obscuring smokescreens to Meteos-destroying hammers.
Quick Glance
ESRB Rating: E (Everyone)
Game Genre: Puzzle
Release Date: 2005-6-27
Max # of Players: 4
Summary
Product Title: Meteos
Manufacturer: Nintendo
Lowest Price: $5.42
Power Score: 4.4 | 26 Reviews
Game Information
ESRB Rating: E (Everyone)
Game Genre: Puzzle
Release Date: 2005-6-27
Maximum Number of Players: 4
General
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Strengths: Fast paced and challenging action, new and innovative use of touch screen
Weakness: Gameplay types are limited, controls can be frustrating
Meteos for the DS is an excellent puzzle game that packs quite a punch. This puzzle game will fit anyone looking for lots of quick gaming fixes, though those who want to play for extended periods of time may be turned astray by this game's lack of variety and overall monotonous gameplay. However, multiplayer and a highly entertaining gaming premise makes this title worthy of being in every...
Strengths: Great time-killer that you can pick up anytime. Colorful, makes good use of the DS dual screens.
Weakness: None really.
Got this for less than $20 on sale. Great little time-killer game at that price, appealing to any age once you get the hang of it. Sort of an odd variation on Tetris, but with more action. Haven't had a chance to try the multiplayer feature but would like to.
Strengths: Nice design. Fun, easy game to play.
Weakness: After a while the levels just keep increasing in speed and then it feels all your doing is just moving the stylus back and forth trying to land all the pieces in place.
Starts off as a fun and easy game to play. Similar to the idea of playing tetris, but in a different way. It was fun, but after a while as the level of the speed increases, you just start moving your stylus up and down trying to make everything fall into place. It's a hard game to find now since it's older. Luckily, found it used and in good condition for a good price. Even the employee wanted it...
Strengths: Addictive, good soundtrack and nice colors
Weakness: Hard to master
This game is one of the best puzzle games ever made. Before it was tetris which involved blocks dropping in different shapes. Meteos is the New tetris which involves using the stylus and making lines of 3 or more of the same shape and it will send up to the upper screen achieving points. And you can do combo chains one each another. This Game is very addictive and fun especially in multi-player...
Strengths: A puzzle game with a plot?! Fun single card multiplayer.
Weakness: Single player experience can become tedious after a while.
Meteos is a puzzle game similar to Columns for the Sega Genesis where the goal is to line up three blocks of the same color in order to eliminate them (by firing them off screen). Combos and quick reaction time come into play quite a deal in the game. Its frantic pace keeps players on their toes and engaged. There are branching story paths within the game where different alien species battle it...
Strengths: addictive gameplay
Weakness: none
Well practically there thousands upon thousands of puzzles out there...all are which are very similar to each other. So how does Meteos stand out. Well, it all starts with the innovating DS controls. Meteos are pretty much Columns with the DS touch screen controls. You use the stylus to rearrange blocks in the attempt to get three colored one in a row. Meteos is a refreshing take in the copy-cat...
Strengths: Easy to learn; Colorful; One cartridge multiplayer.
Weakness: Repetitive such that Single Player mode loses replay value fairly quickly.
First and foremost, this game is fun, colorful, and kinda cutesy. Meteos is a puzzle game similar to Columns; however, a more contemporary comparison can be made to Pokemon Trozei. The point of both games is to get three or more blocks of the same color directly adjacent to eachother (horizontally and vertically, not diagonally) in an attempt to get rid of them. The difference is that in Meteos...
Strengths: Colorful graphics; intriguing premise
Weakness: Blocks are too small; doesn't necessarily require skill
This is one of those rare puzzle games that actually tries to employ a plot. The idea is that you're trying to save planets from an evil planet called Meteo. You defend each planet from the "Meteos" by launching them into orbit before they accumulate too high. This is accomplished by using the stylus to switch the order of colored blocks in each vertical column with the idea of matching three of...
Strengths: THE BEST puzzle game on the DS
Weakness: None!
Meteos was one of the first puzzle games on the DS, and to this day, remains by far the best. It is right up there among the handful of MUST HAVE DS games. It makes excellent use of the touch screen. As in most puzzle games. pieces (meteos) fall from the top and stack up. You use the touch screen to drag the meteos up and down in their columns, trying to get 3 or more together. When that happens...
Testseek.com has collected 4 expert reviews for Meteos and the average expert rating is 83 of 100. The average score reflects the expert community’s view on this product. Click below and use Testseek.com to see all ratings, product awards and conclusions.
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Meteos receives an overall TopTenREVIEWS rating of 3.59 out of 4.00. It is ranked the #310 game of all time, #3 game of 2005 for the Nintendo DS and #5 Nintendo DS game of all time. The rating and ranking is based on an average of 87 critic scores, awards and other criteria. To see a breakdown of the game ranking, read individual critic reviews, or see how other games ranked, click on the link...
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Tetris Attack was a first for me. It was the first time I became enamored with a Tetris game. It was also the first time I could beat my sister at a puzzle game. (Women may not make up the bulk of gaming purchases, but get them addicted to a puzzler and you're as good as dead in multiplayer.) Tetris Attack had the perfect blend of action, strategy, and voice-heightening excitement. "No, not more...
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Considering that Meteos comes to us courtesty of Tetsuya Mizuguchi, creator of the popular PSP puzzle game, Lumines, you're bound to hear comparisons between the two titles. Although putting the two games head-to-head seems natural , it's not a very fair comparison as the two games, which similar in some aspects, are very different beasts.
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Q Entertainment, a recently formed Japanese development house, has already been wowing handheld gamers with its first published title, Lumines, a fantastic and trippy take on the Tetris-line gameplay on the PlayStation Portable. The studio's got plenty more up its sleeve as its second game, Meteos is just as brilliant a puzzle game, this time exploiting the touch screen function of the Nintendo...
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Meteos (DS)
Strengths: easy to learn - hard to master, simple, addictive
Weakness: can be exploited, thin on story
Meteos is a puzzle game along the lines of Tetris. The evil planet Meteo is showering other planets with colorful "matter" (i.e. blocks). Your job it to move the blocks so that there are at least three in a row, either horizontally or vertically. You can only move the block vertically (up and down) but you can move the blocks that have already landed. If you get three in a row of the same color,...
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