Quick Review: SPB’s Quads

When you think of mobile gaming Windows Mobile tends not to be the platform that comes to mind. Indeed, 3D gaming on Windows Mobile does not tend to be much to write home about. But that doesn’t mean you can’t have a great gaming experience on Windows Mobile.

For the last week or so I have been playing SPB Software’s great new game called Quads and it is a great time waster. It’s a puzzle type game, much like Bejeweled, that has a nice interface, graphics and gaming concept.

The idea of the game is to eliminate the coloured squares on the screen by finding four squares of the same colour that form the corners of a parallelogram, also known as a Quad. Once you select these corner pieces the whole Quad disappears from your screen to be replaced with new squares. The larger your Quad, the more points you get.

There are also other items that will drop with the squares such as dynamite, nuclear bombs and others that will help you crank the score up even higher. These extras really add a nice edge to the game. Nothing like some explosions to hold my attention.

SPB Quads is playable in two modes; a never-ending type mode and a timed mode. Since this is just a time killer for me I prefer the never ending one. It’s too much pressure watching the timer on the timed mode. I’m so old.

For $10 this game is worth it. Well done SPB!

More screenshots here.

Free evaluation copy here.