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Rebirth - It's Like Tetris With a Makeover!
Tested version: 1.2
Latest version: 1.2
Requires Android: from 1.5
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Summary
Tetris is at the head of the gaming family as its oldest and most respected member. In the gaming world, Tetris is about as ancient as the Egyptian pyramids. Far from being forgotten, however, the original Tetris game serves as a constant source of inspiration for new games for smartphones, looking to give the old-school game a more modern look. Rebirth is yet another attempt at inventing a new tetris-like game with colored blocks, bonus points and more.
Rebirth is a testament to the fact that, despite the time and technological progress, falling block games are never out of fashion.
Features & Use
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For fans of traditional Tetris, Rebirth will take a bit of getting used to and will require you to abandon your old gaming impulses.
The entire game revolves around one single shape: the cube. And these falling cubes come in only two colors: blue and yellow. Don’t let the simplicity of it all trick you into thinking that the game is a piece of cake. Instead of thinking in terms of lines, you’ll have to readjust your brain to think in 4x4 squares. Same colored squares disappear automatically, clearing the way for more blocks to fall.
Rebirth comes with 3 different playing modes:
Challenge
Collect as many points as you can without letting the blocks pile up to the ceiling. A pulsating red line slides across the screen, pulverizing any same colored squares along its path. You advance through the levels the more square you delete. Every now and then you’ll come across “joker” blocks that can, for example, wipe out all blocks of the same color at once. In order to collect the maximum number of points, try thinking strategically and create colorful combos.
Time Attack
Delete as many blocks as you can within 90 seconds. It’s designed for those people that are really short on time.
Puzzle Mode
Now this is a really cool and creative playing mode! Here you have to recreate a given puzzle shape with the blocks. The trick is to make the entire puzzle shape of the same color. There’s no time limit and it takes a lot of concentration to solve these tricky puzzles. There are a total of 30 puzzle shapes to unlock for bonus points.
Bottom Line:
Rebirth is a game that shows how much creativity developers can put into what appears to be an old classic to make the game both modern and entertaining. With the three different modes, there’s something for every kind of player. You can either work at a puzzle, fight against the clock or try to amass a record number of levels – it’s totally your choice. This game taught me not to judge a game by its screenshots: what appeared to be a boring Tetris wannabe, turned out to be a surprisingly addicting and creative game designed for people of all ages.
Screen & Controls
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Rebirth is definitely going for an early 80s look that’s a mixture of David Bowie and a sci-fi blockbuster. And the funny thing is – it’s neither cheesy nor pathetic. Everything you’ll ever need is located clearly on the main menu. In the Settings, you can adjust the music, sound effects and turn on higher graphics (for more powerful Android phones). As you could probably guess, the music is a mixture of ambient techno and house. Personally, I actually enjoyed the background music, but you can always turn it off if your musical tastes are somewhat different.
Controlling the falling squares is very simple and intuitive. Just drag and drop the squares to where you would like to position them. Tap the square to make it rotate. And that’s all it takes to play Rebirth.
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Rebirth is available for free from our AndroidPIT App Center.
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Market Comments
A Google User, Apr 15, 2013
Not fixed yet If your on Android 4.0(ice cream sandwich) this game will fail to run past 10 seconds. From looks of comments and dates dev is no where close near fix. Don't waste the bandwidth untill dev post a fix.
A Google User, Apr 14, 2013
Looked Awesome One HTC one S and constantly force closes why? Fix please
A Google User, Mar 6, 2013
Crashing Crashing all the time within first 10 seconds of gameplay, any mode.
A Google User, Feb 4, 2013
Rebirth ...A clone of Lumines? Very unoriginal. Good if you don't have a PSP or a copy of the game, but it literally is identical to Lumines. But not as good.
A Google User, Jan 27, 2013
awesome game with a few problems. past level 50 the frame rate gets way too. choppy. Keep the speed but fix the studdering and it'll be 5 stars.
A Google User, Jan 19, 2013
Get it Great Lumines clone where the ads don't detract from the experience.
A Google User, Jan 18, 2013
Awesome. Greatest Game Ever. I have an SGS3 and this game is my number one favorite. My high score in Challenge mode is 107,135.
A Google User, Jan 9, 2013
Fix the 4.0.4 version PLEASE!! This phone has yet to recieve the Jellybean update and I want to play this game, but can't because of that "bug". I actually downloaded this game for the first time in September and now it's December and still no fix?! Are you guys even working on one?
A Google User, Dec 23, 2012
Awesome I don't know why this game isn't more popular it's amazing. Great job!
A Google User, Dec 21, 2012
I missed this game so much Now that I've got a device running JB, I just had to reinstall this great game. It's a bit awkward playing on a tablet but I know I'll adjust.
A Google User, Dec 11, 2012
Almost epic... Works well on my Samsung Galaxy S3. Would love change in colors and music. Very close Lumines clone... controls kinda slow to respond. Would like a more fast pace game but other wise... good play.
A Google User, Nov 23, 2012
Crashes I have always loved lumines so I downloaded this on my samsung gs3 and it constantly crashes. Might try it again in a few days.
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