Koloomn's large over PSP

By Tom Bramwell Published 8 February, 2006

It's a puzzle game.

PSP owners still looking for something to follow on from the puzzling fun of Lumines (at least, those of you who haven't given up and bought a DS yet) might be interested to hear that 505 Gamestreet has signed up Japanese developer Cyber Front's puzzle game Koloomn for release on February 24th.

You've probably heard of it even if you think you haven't - it's actually the game known to Americaland as Ultimate Block Party. Released in the US late 2005, it got some pretty decent reviews.

The idea is to rotate four blocks in a little square to make same-coloured groups, which then disappear. It's done on a Tetris-style grid, and - not unlike Zoo Keeper - you can start chain reactions with a bit of swift spinning.

There's Tutorial and Practice modes, an "Endless" mode, an Arcade mode and some Vs modes including Wi-Fi multiplayer for two of you. In multiplayer, each cleared colour is like a special attack against your foe - red makes your opponent's cursor bigger, orange makes the colour of your cursor unrecognisable in your rival's play area, blue makes giant blocks drop on him, yellow hides entire rows from him, and purple makes chunks of his blocks clump together unbreakably.

Check out our screenshot gallery to see how it looks and we'll bring you more on it closer to release. Or if Rupert lets me import it, which seems unlikely after the way he raised his eyebrows at "Rio de Carnival DS (the one about tits) - £22" on the last expense sheet.

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About Tom Bramwell

Tom is Operations director of Eurogamer Network and Editor-at-Large of Eurogamer.net. He joined the company in February 2000.

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Comments (18) Latest comment 6 years ago

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  • Eldritch #1 6 years ago

    Looks great! \o/

  • Jd #2 6 years ago

    I dont know what to say.
    from the pics I think id be board of it pretty fast.

    I know we are asking sony to make more games but this isnt what im looking for.
    Tetris is a way better game id have to say.
    sry sony :'( LOL!!!!

  • Jd #3 6 years ago

    Eldritch I have got to ask are you joking or are you serious?

    I mean tell me if it came out today would you go buy it?

  • Eldritch #4 6 years ago

    I like Japanese-style puzzle games, and I like them colourful. So, yes, I'm serious, and, yes, I'd buy it.

  • trevd72 #5 6 years ago

    played the jap version and ther is something of tetris attack to it...v good

  • smoison #6 6 years ago

    This looks wank.

    I have free tetris, thank you very much.

    Back to GTA...

  • Markusdragon #7 6 years ago

    This looks wank.

    I have free tetris, thank you very much.

    Back to GTA...

    And there we have the reason for the current state of the industry in one nice little post

  • Jd #8 6 years ago

    ok after looking at it more carefully I would definately consider this game
    now is this game sumwhat like the lumines game?
    >but I still have to like tetris whether or not this is good.
    this may be one of the top games for psp(that really isnt saying much)
    Edited by 1 at 08/02/06 @ 18:34

  • urban #9 6 years ago

    no no no, far too japgay

  • aine #10 6 years ago

    no no no, far too japgay

    you sure that isn't the reason for the current state of the industry in one nice little post?

  • Jd #11 6 years ago

    aine that is pretty much what I was thinking

    I guess I was slower at typing ?

  • toy_brain #12 6 years ago

    I have it in its 'Ultimate Block Party' form.
    Its pretty decent. Perfect for on-the-go puzziling as the games dont last as long as Luminies, nor are they as short as Meteos (about 10 minutes per game once yer good at it).
    The default highscore table for the 'endless' mode has a no.1 rank thats going to take some practice to beat, and the game itself plays differently to any other puzzler out there. Think a combination of Pokemon Puzzle league, Zoo Keeper and Pyo Pop.

    With any luck this will come out as a budget title, I'm betting £20 (seeings as UBP cost me £25 from a highstreet shop - bearing in mind importing stuff usually costs more - and 505Gamestreet are a budget company) and at that price its good value and an excellent time-waster.

    Although, as its 505 were talking about - you'll probably have a bastard of a time finding it.........

  • JayScott #13 6 years ago

    @ aine

    Both are pretty concise summations. Oh woe is we...

  • Sko #14 6 years ago

    /has a peek at the screenshots.

    /giggles like a girl at how it seems to be spelt 'KOLLON'.

  • Murbal #15 6 years ago

    In stock at Play.com! Today!

    /checks pocket for wallet

  • EraSerX #16 6 years ago

    If you like lumines you should get this. it's great fun

  • sopaman #17 6 years ago

    I've seen it on sale in Spain like 3 weeks ago... Wasn't it released simultaneously all around Europe?

    (Who would want to buy this anyway wehn you can buy the almighty Lumines? \o/)

  • toy_brain #18 6 years ago

    "(Who would want to buy this anyway wehn you can buy the almighty Lumines? \o/)"

    Ummm, perhaps if you've played Luminies so much you've gotten sick of it?.........