Tetris Blitz

Tetris Blitz was a variant of Tetris. It was developed by EA Salt Lake published by Electronic Arts. It was released free on mobile platforms such as iOS, Android, and Windows Phone. It was released in 2013 and was given mixed reviews. On January 20, 2020, EA announced that the game would be discontinued on April 21, 2020. As of April 22, 2020, it is no longer downloadable on the App Store and Google Play, but due to a glitch, the user may still play the game if he or she has the game already downloaded.

This article is about the variant of the original 1984 video game. For other uses, see Tetris (disambiguation).
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Developer(s)EA Salt Lake
Publisher(s)Electronic Arts
Designer(s)Alexey Pajitnov
Vladimir Pokhilko
Platform(s)Android, Windows Phone, iOS
ReleaseMay 17, 2013
Genre(s)Puzzle
Mode(s)Single-player, multiplayer

The game had power-ups to boost your score up. Classic ones were Time Shift, Lasers, Quake, and Multiplier. New ones came soon afterwards, thus, they created a "Retro" mode that only consists of the old powerups listed. The game has 4 modes: classic, retro, battles, and tournaments. (One of the new powerups even temporarily added a Progressive (Corporation) powerup.) The latter two were unlocked after leveling up. The pieces had gravity, meaning when a line is cleared, the remaining left over floating parts of the tetrimino fall down to the bottom.

Frenzy mode

By clearing lines, it fills up a frenzy meter, which in turn, activates frenzy mode. Frenzy mode constantly adds frenzy blocks to the bottom half of the screen, kind of like garbage in multiplayer versions of Tetris. The goal is to objectively stay in frenzy mode by making combos, or clearing lines in rapid succession. If a tetrimino does not clear a line, the frenzy meter drops. It takes around 5 misplaced blocks before frenzy mode ends. When frenzy ends, the frenzy blocks stay on the screen, turning into regular blocks with random colors.

Reception

The game was given mixed reviews. Google Play rates it with 4.2 stars.

See also

References
  1. "Tetris Blitz". Metacritic. Archived from the original on 2019-08-22. Retrieved 2019-08-23.
  2. "Tetris Blitz Review – the Used Car Salesman Version of Tetris". Game Informer. Archived from the original on 2019-08-23. Retrieved 2019-08-23.
  3. "Tetris Blitz". 29 May 2013. Archived from the original on 2016-12-20. Retrieved 2019-08-23.


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