Customer Reviews

Zoo Cube

5 star:		(5)
4 star:		(1)
3 star:		(0)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

I JUST WANT TO FIRST STATE THAT THERE IS NO GORE IN THIS GAME. The Gore note up there seems to refer to the animals being twisted into the shapes, but this is never seen happening, and there is no graphic display of mutilation anywhere to be found.

I've waited a long time for a worthy successor to Tetris, and this is it! Let's just hope it doesn't languish in obscurity, because it's possibly the best puzzle game I've ever played.

Easy to learn, yet extremely challenging, this is an addictive experience. I lose hours every time I play. Where does the time go? Into an truly innovative and interactive puzzle game. The action revolves around a cube on which you stack colored shapes( animals who have been transformed, according to the rather flimsy plot), trying to match two of the same kind( like Noah) so that they will be "rescued" and transported from the playing field. The shapes come from three sides, and by rotating the cube on it's three axes, you catch & match to rack up a high score. But be careful! If you allow more than five unmatched shapes to collect on a side, your Zoocube will overheat, and it's Game Over. The action starts off at a nice pace and moves to a frantic flipping frenzy as you desperately try to keep the rain of shapes at bay.

I believe the engine must be fairly deep, as you are always provided with the correct piece in plenty of time - IF you can manipulate your cube to pair it with its partner, which is a lot harder than it sounds.
To increase the challenge, you can play in KO mode, where you start with pieces accumulated and must eliminate them..... but only enough peices are provide to do the job, and you aren't allowed mistakes.
And, if you can unlock it, you can play KO Blind, where the pieces aren't colored!

What about on Gamecube, you ask?? As much as I love it, I think the Game Boy Advance version is superior. I think the controls are a little bit easier and a little bit tighter, and while it doesn't have the same level of graphics and sound, it's still impressive and the flow of the game is much improved without the cutscenes.

Man this game rocks! It's Tetris with not just an x-axis that pieces fall down, but a y- and a z-axis that pieces ALSO fall down. These "pieces" are in the GBA version colored blocks, or yellow stars, or other shapes and colors - and your job is to rotate the cube so that they fall onto and connect with matching pieces. It seems easy, but man, when those pieces are flying at you from every direction, and you have about 1/2 a second to rotate the cube in every-which-way to connect all of them together in just the right locations, you'll feel like you're rotating a rubix cube at lightening speeds, in fury and panic cause you're about to lose.
So that's the gameplay. The multiplayer feature is cool because it not only lets you *compete* with a friend via GBA link cable, but you can also *cooperate* with your friend. In the latter case, each of you has your own cube, and the screen is split. You work together in this mode to collect points. That's a great way to promote TEAMWORK to your kids!
The controls are difficult to master. That's because with only 4 arrow keys, up, down, left, and right, how do you rotate your cube in 3D space on all axes? Sometimes I'll be playing and while I'll try to flip the cube up-and-right, I'll flip it some other direction - because so far I haven't learned all the indicators that tell you which axis you'll rotate on if you press-which-directional button. I think the difficulty is changeable, however I could be wrong.
Although the publisher named this ZooCube (1 word), some retailers including online retailers spell it in two.

I took a chance on this game because I love puzzle/stragey type games....I was NOT disappointed. Had a cute story to it and I found it addictive like tetris. It was hard to move the ark around to the sides I need at times but once you get the hang of it you pretty much can't stop playing. I gave this game a rating of 5 because it give me the challenge I wanted and the fact I really enjoyed playing it plus it being addictive made me feel that I did not waste my money on it.

Let me just start out by saying that this is a highly addictive game. Easy to learn how to play, anybody can pick it up within a matter of seconds, yes, seconds. A simple concept of having to remove shapes from the screen. Shapes are constantly coming in from different sides of the screen, but the Heads Up Display (a.k.a. HUD), makes it easier to know which side they are coming from. The player also has the option of shutting the HUD off. However, the note of Gore for this game is uneeded. I have not yet seen an animal, and infact, the only animal in the game that I have seen, would be the monkey of the front of the box. I suppose, the note is there, because of the concept of animals being twisted into different shapes. But enough about that. The game gets harder as you move on (which games don't?), but again, it is a simple concept and anybody can play it. Highly recommended for puzzle and brain game buffs.

This game is really exciting to play . Its never boring ! The cube is in a continuous motion with shapes coming at you from more than one place (side ) at a time . I bought it for myself , but my kids love it also ! The only thing that we didn't like is ,you don't know what animal you are freeing ! We have only unlocked 4 of the oceans (or seas ) . No animals yet . I guess you have to unlock all the oceans to see the animals !! I think there are a total of 8 oceans and seas . Its loads of fun !!!

I initially bought this game for my nephew. Long after he had moved onto Super Sonic Mario XIII (or whatever), I was still glued to the screen, trying to somehow fit another flying three-dimensional object onto to my Zoocube. Similar to Tetris, somehow this puzzler never gets tiring and I had to buy my own cartridge.