Bookworm

"Adictive!"

Introduction
When I first played this game I knew nothing about it, and since I had already read a review about it here on gamefaqs I decided to try it... I wasn't expecting much of this game when I first heard about it, but I was surely surprised after playing it for a while...

Gameplay
It is quite simple to play this game... You just create your profile, which is required for storing your name and your best score, and also your best word... Word? Yeah, in this game you win points by forming words in a grid-like screen... I mean, you see lots of random letters in there and you can just join the ones who are next to each other, in order to form words... If you make lots of small words (for example, words with 3 letters) you will be in trouble, since some red letters will start falling and once those hit the end of the screen, you loose. The gameplay is really easy to master, as you just have to press a key on the first letter and then on the other ones... Quite easy, but.... REALLY ADICTIVE, I must say...! Finally, you get ranked for the points you make in the game, and the ranks are quite funny, as you will notice if you play this game!

Story
Of course that this game doesn't have any story at all... You can see a quite funny Worm (the bookworm, of course! ), but I don't think that even that worm has a story...

Graphics/Sound
In this type of game this stuff doesn't seem to matter as much as in the other games... However, the graphics seem nice and the sound is just the normal one, not the best one you can seen around but it isn't bad either...

Play Time/Replayability
This game is quite nice both in play time and replay value, however it is somehow boring, but adictive. I mean, virtually you can play this game forever, as it doesn't have an ending, but you would get bored of it at a certain point...

Final Recommendation
This game may be very good or even very bad. It depends on who is playing it, since if you like puzzles and word games you will surely love this game. However, if you don't like those type of games, you will find this game to be quite upseting. That clearly explains the final score I gave to the game...

Reviewer's Score: 5/10, Originally Posted: 04/18/04