Word Arena - Review/Preview [Updated]

The Windows Telephone Marketplace has its fair share of word games and in the coming days, its numbers will grow by at least one. Z Games, the developers of Bubble Burst and Pandemic, accept submitted Discussion Arena to the Market. Word Arena reminds me of Wordrix and Wordament but with a few more features. We had the opportunity to get a sneak top at Discussion Loonshit and found it to be an enjoyable Windows Phone game.

To find out more about this new word game for your Windows Phone, slide on past the suspension.

Word Arena Main Menu

The game concept is simple, yous are given a 16 letter, 4x4 filigree of messages and you have to notice all the words hidden within the grid. Y'all play confronting the clock (two minutes) and against other players (who are viewing the same letter grouping) in an online loonshit. You just trace the letters with your finger to create words of three or more letters. You can trace letters in whatsoever direction as long equally you don't back trace. In that location is a rotation symbol in the upper correct corner of the game screen that volition rotate the letter grid. This comes in handy if y'all showtime to get stumped in finding words.

Right words are highlighted in green, words you've already selected highlight in yellow and incorrect or misspelled words are highlighted in red. If you lot merely approximate, a popular-upward box will appear that tells yous to terminate guessing.

Word Arena Game and Summary

At the end of each game, a listing of all the words will appear along with your stats and placement amidst other players. From the player ranking, you can tap on a actor's name and add them as friends or ship them a message (more on this in a fleck). Word Arena also has a practice style where you tin piece of work on your spelling skills without worrying about competing against other players.

In addition to the game, Word Arena also has a conversation feature and Live Tile support. The Live Tile will display notifications of any new letters received.

Give-and-take Arena'due south settings encompass muting the audio, customizing your player proper noun, turning on/off push notifications and championship screen groundwork, and how you have actor messages. You basically accept the choice to accept letters from anybody or just from those players you tag every bit friends. Yous tag players every bit friends from the leaderboard and your friends list can be managed from a folio in the round summary hub.

In playing Word Arena, the app ran smoothly with no bugs, glitches or crashes experienced. Game play was challenging and has an addictive quality to information technology. Who knew so many words could be generated from 16 letters.

If you like Wordament, I think you'll like Word Arena just as well. It shares the aforementioned game play concept only gives you the ability to chat amongst the players and with Live Tile support, you can keep track of your incoming messages better.

Word Arena is scheduled to be a costless, advertizing-supported game on the Market place and information technology is our understanding the game should be bachelor whatever twenty-four hours now. Once a Zune Link becomes available, we'll add it to the post.

Update: Nosotros have been contacted past Y'all vs. The Internet, Wordament'south programmer, and take been informed that there is a legal dispute that may event Word Arena's release. At this point, it is uncertain when or if Word Arena will brand it to the Marketplace.

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