Meteos (Nintendo DS)

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Description

Most of the game's action takes place on the bottom of the DS's two screens, where colored meteors plummet downwards towards a planet's atmosphere. There, they form columns that the user can manipulate with either the stylus or a combination of the D-pad and A button. When three or more meteors of the same color are arranged either vertically or horizontally, they "ignite" and rocket up towards the top screen. Rockets carry upwards any other metors that happen to be above them, and by stringing together several ignitions it is possible to lift many blocks at once. The ultimate objective of the game is to lift as many metors as possible back into "orbit" in the top screen; the game is over if the bottom screen fills up completely with meteors. Meteos features many different "planets" that the user can play on, each with subtle variations (such as in gravity) that affect gameplay.

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Alternate Titles

• "陨石大战" -- Chinese spelling (simplified)
• "メテオス" -- Japanese spelling

Part of the Following Groups

• Gameplay feature: Multiple endings
• Genre: Tile matching puzzle (creation)
• Meteos series
• Middleware: CRI

User Reviews

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Critic Reviews

Game Shark	Jul 27, 2005	A	100
Digital Press - Classic Video Games	Sep 09, 2005	9.5 out of 10	95
Lawrence	Jun 28, 2005	93 out of 100	93
4Players.de	Jul 19, 2005	90 out of 100	90
GameSpy	Jun 24, 2005		90
Eurogamer.net (UK)	Jul 14, 2005	9 out of 10	90
Jeuxvideo.com	Sep 23, 2005	17 out of 20	85
Gamesmania.de	Oct 18, 2005	85 out of 100	85
Game Informer Magazine	Aug, 2005	8 out of 10	80
Thunderbolt Games	Jul 18, 2005	8 out of 10	80

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Trivia

1001 Video Games

Meteos appears in the book 1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die by General Editor Tony Mott.

Competition

Tetsuya Mizuguchi, Meteos' producer, also produced Lumines, a Sony PSP game that is commonly held to be Meteos' most direct competitor.

Development

Producer Tetsuya Mizuguchi claimed to have been inspired by a myriad of pop culture monoliths during the game's production, including the television program "24" and the classic arcade game Missile Command.

Digital distribution

The first Nintendo DS game to be distributed wirelessly through proprietary download stations (a centerpiece of Nintendo's strategy at the E3 2005 expo) was the playable demo of Meteos.

Awards

• 4Players
  • 2005 – Best Puzzle Game of the Year
• GameSpy
  • 2005 – Nintendo DS Puzzle Game of the Year

Related Web Sites

• E3 2005: Meteos Interview (Interview with Masahiro Sakurai and Takeshi Hirai, respectively game designer and director of Meteos, on IGN.)
• Hands-on preview (with developer comments) (A preview of the game, featuring comments by game producer Tetsuya Mizuguchi.)
• Nintendo Meteos (Official game web site by Nintendo of America.)
• Planet of Meteos (Official site (in Japanese). Presents a quantity of information and extra details on the game's characters, environments, story, game play videos, and more.)