Windows Phone Game Review: Metro Pipes

Metro Pipes for Windows Phone

Every now and so you lot run across a game for your Windows Phone that is unproblematic, entertaining and a swell time waster. Metro Pipes looks to be 1 of those type games.

Metro Pipes is a puzzle game where you lot rotate pipe sections around to clear a path from Point A to Point B. The game does take two modes, Speed and Puzzle, to keep things from getting stale and game play has its challenge. Metro Pipes does take a footling fourth dimension to get used to the navigation and game play goals. It won't take long to get the hang of things and then Metro Pipes develops a fleck of an addictive quality to it.

The main menu offers you options to play either game style, view the game's settings and access the about and help screens. Metro Pipes does accept Scoreloop integration, which you lot tin turn off in the options carte.

Each game style is a collection of progressively unlocked levels that tin can be re-played. When yous start launch either game mode, you are presented with a tutorial screen that will explain the unlike aspects of the game. Once you've got a handle on things, hit the dorsum button to begin.

Metro Pipes game play

Game play with Metro Pipes is rather uncomplicated. You have a collection of pipes that include elbows and straight sections. You tap to rotate the pipes to make connections. Create a series of connections from the archway and leave points, hit the "clear" push to remove the pipes and collect points. If you connect two entrance points, the pipes brainstorm to buckle and things go boom (which is not good).

Speed Mode on Metro Pipes has your racing rise h2o to make all the right connections. To make things challenging, you lot have a variety of pipes that have unique effects. For example, some pipes tin only be rotated a limited number of times. Once you achieve that limit, the section is locked in place. As y'all connect the entrance and exit points and clear the pipes, some of the water is drained which gives you more fourth dimension to solve the remainder of the puzzles. You have to keep the rising water at bay until the water meter runs out (basically a timer) and then you lot can advance to the next level.

As yous clear pipes in the Speed Mode, additional pipes will populate the game lath and you earn inventory pipes. Inventory pipes tin can be exchanged with piping sections on the game board. The inventory display overlays the h2o meter.

The Puzzle Manner with Metro Pipes is a series of levels where, again, you take to shift the pipes to connect the entrance and go out points. To complete the level and advance you'll have to clear a set number of pipes that are indicated before yous beginning the level and in the upper right corner of the game screen.

While you may not be racing against ascension waters, in Puzzle Mode the pipes won't replenish so you lot'll accept to choose your moves a little more carefully. Yous may remove too many pipes and forbid additional connections between the 2 points from being possible. Puzzle Mode is a slower paced selection than the Speed Mode simply time is nevertheless critical in that you volition be graded based how quick you clear the set number of pipes.

Metro Pipes

Game play is challenging, graphics uncomplicated and Metro Pipes does make for a decent time waster. Just there is room for comeback. While there are help sections that go you pointed in the right direction, I couldn't help but experience these screens needed more information. Maybe a diagram of what's what on each game style. The other suggestion I would take is to move the h2o meter position in the Speed way. It took me a few minutes to figure out where information technology was and I think moving it to run forth the bottom or top of the screen might help with the game screen layout.

Still, while I can find a few nits with Metro Pipesmost are more than objective and not actually detrimental to the game. I found Metro Pipes to be a prissy time waster of a game. At that place is a scrap of an addictive quality to the game in one case you get the hang of game play. Metro Pipes is advertizing supported but the ads only announced periodically on the game'due south menus. You get the full screen for game play save the leader boards that line the left side of the screen.

Overall, if y'all are looking for a challenging puzzle game for your Windows Telephone with a bit of an addictive quality, give Metro Pipesa try. Again, it's a free advertisement-supported game that you can discover here at the Windows Phone Market.

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