Tower of the Ancients

«Defy the will of a vengeful God — join the construction industry!»

When Man settled in Babylon, he proposed to build a tower to reach the heavens. But the LORD will not be mocked. He saw the tower, and in His wisdom he smote it, scattered the builders and confounded their language. But what if the LORD had not seen the tower? What if some benevolent priest, wise in His service and mindful of the interests of man, had restrained those ancient engineers and prevented the profane ziggurat from attracting His almighty wrath?

Tower of the Ancients by Small Rockets is a game inspired by old Tetris concept and some religious legend. Your aim is avoid building high tower at any cost, i.e. to prevent the tower from reaching the sky.

It seems to me that Babylon legend is far-fetched here, because the Babylon guys had exactly opposite task — to construct the highest tower possible, right? Anyway, the game is religiously addictive as all tetris-like games.

Stacks of three blocks fall from the sky. Your task is to position each stack to form lines of three blocks of the same type — horizontally, vertically or diagonally. Such lines are then removed from the tower. Try to remove more than one line at a time and you will get addition score.

When you play the game you can’t get rid of some kind of ancient religious atmosphere. 3D graphics and visual effects are truly godlike. The music is some kind of mystery. The game has its’ own strong spirit and it picks out the game in the horde of those tetris remakes.

This game is shareware. You have to pay $14.95 for the registration code to remove all the limitations.

I gave Tower of the Ancients 5 eyes award. You should also check out other Small Rocket games! I don’t want to review’em all, but if I would, I’ll give them all 5 or 4 eyes award. I’m putting Small Rockets in my «recommended» list.