Brick People iPhone Review
Sega are traditionally well known for their crazy arcade games that combine over the top Japanese pop stylings with bizarre music and spot effects, yet also maintain a cutting edge of addictive, fine tuned gameplay. Examples of this are Chu Chu Rocket! and the sublime Space Channel 5, both titles for Dreamcast, a console that for many was like owning a custom Sega arcade machine at home, such was the quantity of arcade ports available.
Sega obviously hope that Brick People follows this fine tradition of their arcade games performing well on a home format, and while I wouldn’t go so far to say that the game is a disappointment, I don’t feel enough has been done to ensure the success of these odd little brick climbers and their game.
In its arcade incarnation, you physically stacked plastic bricks up against a big screen that the brick people would climb up to reach pieces of fruit scattered around the stage. It was a neat bit of tech, but definitely the type of game that you would try once for the experience and walk away from, never to tempt more credits away from more popular machines. In fact, the game probably only lived long in the memory of those unscrupulous souls who walk away with pockets full of the unprotected bricks.
Well, at least on this iPhone version no one can steal the bricks, right?
Like the arcade original, the idea is to build towers and paths of bricks that the little fella’s can climb and jump from to reach pieces of fruit hanging all around the level. Here, instead of real bricks, you can drag an unlimited amount of virtual bricks from the left and right hand side of the screen and drop them into play. There are all different kinds of fruit, some of which have an impact on the game, such as the peppers that set your tiny team on fire.
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