Tetris Comprehensive Review ;0

Game Report - Tetris

Tetris is a tile-matching video game created by Russian software engineer Alexey Pajitnov in 1984. There are many versions of Tetris made by different companies.

General Overview

In Tetris, players must complete lines by moving differently shaped pieces (tetrominoes), which descend onto the playing field. The completed lines disappear and grant the player points, and the player can proceed to fill the vacated spaces. The game ends when the playing field is filled. The longer the player can delay this inevitable outcome, the higher their score will be. In multiplayer games, the players must last longer than their opponents, and in certain versions, players can inflict penalties on opponents by completing a significant number of lines. Some adaptations have provided variations to the game's theme, such as three dimensional displays or a system for reserving pieces.

Gameplay

The largest part of the tetrion consists of the playfield measuring ten spaces across by twenty spaces down. It has other parts explained below.




Randomly selected tetrominoes, or shapes consisting of four square blocks, fall from the top of the playfield one at a time. Each tetromino enters the playfield with a given orientation and color depending on its shape. Part of the tetrion, called the piece preview, shows the next pieces that will enter the playfield.

The player can rotate the falling tetromino ninety degrees at a time within the plane of the playfield by pressing the counterclockwise or clockwise rotation buttons, provided the piece has room to rotate. Some versions of the game nudge the tetromino away from the wall or other blocks in order to make room.


The player can shift the falling tetromino sideways one space at a time by pressing the left or right arrow or holding it for quicker movement, provided the piece has room to move. Pieces cannot shift through walls or other blocks.

At the top left, or in some cases the bottom right, of the tetrion is an area called the hold box where a player can store a tetromino for later use. At any time while a tetromino falls, the player can move it to the hold box, and any tetromino held earlier now moves to the top of the playfield. After moving a tetromino to the hold box, the player must then lock the resulting tetromino before holding again.

Each tetromino moves downward slowly by itself. Generally a player can use some method to "drop" the tetromino, or make it move downward faster. Once the tetromino lands on the floor or other blocks, the piece will delay shortly before locking in which time the player can move it. After locking, a player can no longer move the tetromino

When a tetromino locks and by doing so fills all empty spaces within one or more rows of the playfield, those full rows will clear. Remaining blocks above will move down by as many rows removed.

If the playfield has not filled up with blocks, the next piece enters.

Intended Audience

As the game is quite simple to play so people of all ages could potentially go on and play the game.

Sound and Style

As there's many versions of the Tetris game made by many companies so not all of the features are the same between the versions. On the original version of Tetris, the only sound that the game played is the theme song for Tetris during the whole gameplay experience.

Difficulty

The Difficulty of the game could be changed to be harder or easier but overall Tetris’s game mechanics is quite easy and simple to understand so people could be quite addicted to the game due to its simplicity.

Positive and Negative Aspects of Tetris

The positive aspects of Tetris are a couple things. The first aspect is the physiological aspect, which studies have shown that playing Tetris could increase brain efficiency as Tetris requires brain power to formulate a strategy to get as many points as possible.

The Second aspect is how addictive the game is, people could get really addicted to playing Tetris as the game is really easy to get into. Also, playing the game could improve the critical thing part of your brain. This mechanic of noticeable improvement and reward makes you want to come back and play another round (or seven). Interestingly, Tetris may also be good for stamping out other, more harmful addictions.

In my opinion, there are no negative aspects of the game that I could think of.