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Mars Needs Cows

Mobile Devices | Larian LeQuella | April 20, 2005
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Mars Needs Cows

Developer: PopCap Games
Publisher: Astraware

ESRB: NR


This is a silly title that involves you solving a series of puzzles to get specific barn-yard animals to the center of your screen. You tap the animal you need and then a direction arrow. The animal will continue to move until they encounter an obstacle. The object of course, is to place obstacles so that they stop on the center of your screen. If the stop there, a hovering UFO will beam them up (it boggles the mind to think what happens once those innocent animals are aboard the UFO. Or are they just going home?).

There is a small status bar on the left of the screen that tells you which animals you need (apparently Mars needs more than just cows!). Not only that, but before each "level" you are told what animals you need. It starts off easy enough. You have some animals, and it's generally pretty easy to figure out how to get them to the center of the screen. However, as each level passes, you get more and more obstacles to overcome. Angry farmers may shoot your animals. Wolves may gobble them up. They may fall down into bottomless pits. Heck, the electric fence goes up, and the poor, dumb animals kill themselves if you direct them at the fence.

You are able to undo moves if you see that you made a mistake. Also, if you are totally stumped, the game will give you the solution (apparently, no matter how impossible it looks, there will be a solution).

Generally, this is a fun diversion that keeps you occupied for a while. Since no two puzzles seem alike, you can't just memorize a set of solutions, but rather you need to figure them out. It's a light and fun little game. I didn't explore it deep enough to find any sort of "Save Game" setting, but for the purposes of wasting time, I really didn't find that necessary. Setting it on the hardest setting gives you a nice brain-workout pretty much right from the start. It's not a Mensa exam, but it will pass the time.

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About the Author, Jan Stephan Lundquist (A.K.A Larian LeQuella)

Hail, I am Larian LeQuella, an Elven Ranger of Hibernia, and a servant to Lady Guinevere. Not only that, I am also the voice for all rangers of any land, and any master to the gods at Mythic. If ye wish to find out anything in particular about me though, I suggest ye read the scroll I have hung on a post that bears my name. It's actually easy to get to in the web that spans the world. Just scribe my name.

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