The fine folks at Buena Vista Games and High Road has tossed a copy of Lumines II and Every Extend Extra for us to giveaway [details after the jump]. Since I don’t have a PSP and since my sister does and has played both, here is what she has to say about these two titles.
Lumines II is a puzzle game where squares of various 2 coloured patterns fall from the top of the screen and the player must move and rotate the pieces to create blocks of a single colour. The bigger the blocks, the higher your score. While you do this, a timeline moves repeatedly from left to right clearing these single coloured areas, giving room for you to do more of the same. If nothing is cleared, the blocks will stack up and once they reach the top, it’s game over. This sequel boasts more levels (or skins) and more play modes than the original. It also features hit tunes from famed artists such as Black Eyed Peas, Missy Elliot, Gwen Stefani and Beck. Tetris junkies will fall in love with this game.
Every Extend Extra is also a puzzle game but with a shooter twist. You control a cursor that moves across a playing field which slowly populates with other floating shapes and you must destroy them by self detonating when they are in close proximity to you. This explosion causes the shapes to explode and the shapes close to them to explode and so forth. Think Geometry Wars (or Asteroids for you old schoolers) but in reverse — instead of a small ship that explodes moving objects that are attacking it by shooting at them, the moving objects are shooting at you and you clear them by exploding yourself. It’s unique presentation is engaging and hypnotic. If you love watching your music player visualization with a passion, you’ll likely enjoy this game too.
Both games have bright, colourful, stylized visuals that look fantastic on that beautiful PSP screen and the trippy electro synth music found in both games’ levels change along with the moves you make. The overall result are two highly addictive and totally immersive gameplay experiences.
Perhaps this giveaway will give you a reason to dust off that PSP, if not maybe one of these downloadable demos will inspire your PSP love-on.
The draw for Lumines II will take place on Friday, January, 26th, 2007.
The draw for Every Extend Extra will take place on Friday, February 2nd, 2007.
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I’ve been checking out your site for the last year or so as part of my morning routine. I share your interest in photography and gaming so your site it always fun to read. Thanks for writing and thanks for setting up this giveaway!
-Karl
Holy crap I missed this one! Sign me up!
PS: Is it greedy of me to keep entering, even though I won something already?
Bah!
Heck sign me up as well. I don’t have a PSP but I might get one if I win. I have enough Sony Credit Card points to get one.
I just got a PSP for Christmas so I can be one of the cool kids, too. I’m currently addicted to “Justice League Heroes” (Wonder Woman throws her tiara at bad guys! How queer is that?!) but I’d like to win a puzzle game. Sign me up!
Oh neat! Every Extend Extra looked really neat and I imported the first Lumines from Japan because I was so excited ot play it when it first came out.
It reminds me old computer games, when nobody knew Windows.