Mobile Game Review - Bejeweled

Yes, now each Sunday, there will be reviews of mobile phone games.
So stay tuned so you know which games are hot, and what are not.

The first mobile game reviewed on Game Lick is Bejeweled, which i am playing on a Nokia N96.

Firstly, i must say, that the graphics and sounds of the game are amazing. Such a simple game should really hit with a great style, which Bejeweled does magnificently.
For those of you who are not familiar with the franchise, Bejeweled is a game where you have to move different coloured shapes and symbols on a board so that you get a line of 3+. The longer the line, or the longer the automatic combination of lining these up, the more points you get as they dissappear from the board. There are two mode types to the game,the first is normal mode, where you have to just keep on going until you run out of go's. A progress bar is shown at the bottom to indicate when you are going to reach the next level of the game, when a new board is set up for you to try out and defeat. This mode can keep you going for hours, making the game really fun and have a purpose to get onto the high score board. However, as you progress to higher in the levels of the game, this can seem a bit of a long time wasted on such a game.
The other mode in Bejeweled is Time Trial. This is when there is a tme limit on the user to progress onto the following level of the game. Your progress bar is half full when you start the game and it steps back bit by bit each second, makting you have to comlete the board as quickly as possible. This can be a really fun, wuick game of the PopCap owned game. However, the annoying thing is that the board seems to get really hard as you have less and less moves to go, until you have ran out of moves. There is no major difference between normal mode of Bejeweled and Time Trial, so PopCap could improve this factor.
Despite the annoying habit of wanting to progress in the game, the clever use of technology can allow you to exit the game and save, meaning you can return at a later date to resume from where you left off. There is no major bad points about Bejeweled, it is a suprisingly simple game, which can take anyone ages to complete.

I rate this game 9/10. A must for any phone, this game will defo drain your battery to the last drop.