Pogo Island from EA joins the growing list of casual DS games
Electronic Arts is, and has been, the giant of the video game industry. They publish for every platform in nearly every territory where video games are sold, and they seem to dominate wherever they are. EA has even expanded into the web-game territory with their successful casual-gaming web-site hub pogo.com.
Now EA is set to release a new Nintendo DS game that is a compilation of those web-games into one well-fitting DS cart. The game is called Pogo Island. And it features five easy-to-play games that anyone who frequents pogo.com will recognize. Many people may have already played them.
The five games featured in Pogo Island are:
* Word Whomp: This game presents you with a jumble of letters from which you have to form as many words as you can in a preset amount of time.
* Poppit: Which is a Bejeweled-style game with balloons instead of gems.
* Tri-Peake Solitaire: As the name suggests, this is a variation on standard solitaire.
* Squelchies: Where a bunch of colored aquatic creatures are advancing downward and you have to use the touch screen to move the bottom-most creatures from one column to the next to match up three colors and clear those creatures away.
* Phlinx: This is quite similar to the classic puzzle game Puzzle Bobble, where you fire colored balls from a cannon at the bottom of the screen to match up three balls on the top screen and clear those away. The difference here is that you can move the cannon between three preset locations.
You can access all these games through the quick-play option if you just want to get some quick gaming in or compete for a high score, though Pogo Island also offers a story mode of sorts, which lets you play through a board game to access the five Pogo games, plus a handful of very short microgames. You’ll also be able to earn tokens by playing well in the DS game, and these tokens can be transferred back to your account on Pogo.com (using the DS’s Wi-Fi function). The tokens are then utilized as currency on the Web site, and can be used to enter contests and so on. Which will be nice for those who already frequent Pogo.com, and give them a little something to look forward to here.
Pogo Island is a simple game that will be attractive to those who are just looking for a quick and easy to play game that they can casually pop in and out of when they have a few minutes, which fits nicely with the plenty of other casual games that line the DS library.
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