#Bejeweled 2 scoop away full

It's not as smooth as ZooKeeper on the DS - still the benchmark for block-swapping touch-screen interfaces - but after a few minutes' practice you won't find it gets in the way too much. The iPhone/iPod touch version, which is as good as the game's ever looked on Apple's pin-sharp display, also takes advantage of the handheld's sexy touch-screen input for control, allowing you to shuffle gems around with your fingertip - tapping a piece to select it and then tapping the adjacent square you want to move it to.

Observant gamers will quickly learn to spot potential four- and five-strong groups and line them up, producing more powerful gems that create explosions or delete other gems of the same colour when they're themselves despatched, while queuing up lucrative chain reactions becomes second nature. As ever, you can only move gems that will form scoring groups when they switch position with their neighbour.

#Bejeweled 2 scoop away full

Faced with a grid full of gems, your job is to create lines of three or more of the same, which then disappear, allowing the gems above them to tumble into the gap left behind. Oh.įor their part, the programmers on PopCap's iPhone/iPod touch port of the 21st Century Tetris have played it by the book as well, producing a basic, unspectacular conversion that ejects some of the extra modes available on other systems.įortunately the core gameplay is as compelling as ever. They'll be putting on disappointing press conferences and charging 30 quid for fancy carry cases before you know it.

First monkeys, then kart racing, and now Bejeweled 2. Say what you like about Apple, but it's clearly taking this portable games console thing seriously. Compatible with: iPhone/iPod touch with 2.0 firmware.