Brain Age Calculated

Brain Age is a new and interesting game for the DS. It essentially tests your mental capacity and tries to help increase it over time. The games inside of Brain Age determine your metal ability, or brain age, based on how well and how fast you solve a series of puzzles. The game is adored by fans all over the world and hopefully it’ll bring a nice new genre to the mix.

Gamespot’s review of Brain Age covers the majority the game has to offer. It seems the author wasn’t a big fan of the game and the score reflected that. The author covers the multiplayer mode but wishes for more, which is understandable. He enjoyed the Sudoku games, which are available everywhere, and the unique use of the dual screen displays. His major gripe was the lack of variety, but I think there is plenty of content to go around. He also seemed to think the speech and hand-writing recognition was shoddy at times even though there is no calibration. At the GDC demo I saw, it looked like it was working fine so maybe it’s just him.

Finally, he was unsatisfied with the multiplayer functions, stating they were lacking in features such as scoreboard transfers. Overall, he gave the game a 7.2, which is decent, but a lot of people would disagree and give it a better score. Nonetheless, the review sums up the game quite nicely and direct to the point. Not a whole lot of fluff here, which is in an incredible amount of reviews when you think about it.

Brain Age is a new and interesting game for the DS. It essentially tests your mental capacity and tries to help increase it over time. The games inside of Brain Age determine your metal ability, or brain age, based on how well and how fast you solve a series of puzzles. The game is adored by fans all over the world and hopefully it’ll bring a nice new genre to the mix.

Gamespot’s review of Brain Age covers the majority the game has to offer. It seems the author wasn’t a big fan of the game and the score reflected that. The author covers the multiplayer mode but wishes for more, which is understandable. He enjoyed the Sudoku games, which are available everywhere, and the unique use of the dual screen displays. His major gripe was the lack of variety, but I think there is plenty of content to go around. He also seemed to think the speech and hand-writing recognition was shoddy at times even though there is no calibration. At the GDC demo I saw, it looked like it was working fine so maybe it’s just him.

Finally, he was unsatisfied with the multiplayer functions, stating they were lacking in features such as scoreboard transfers. Overall, he gave the game a 7.2, which is decent, but a lot of people would disagree and give it a better score. Nonetheless, the review sums up the game quite nicely and direct to the point. Not a whole lot of fluff here, which is in an incredible amount of reviews when you think about it.