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Game Review: 94 Seconds

Alex Walls
February 18, 2013

94 seconds

SCIMOB

Free on Apple iOS and Android

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This game has a lot of potential.

Like the hugely popular Words With Friends, 94 seconds tests and improves language skills, this time a user’s vocabulary.   You have (you guessed it) 94 seconds to find a series of words, given the starting letter and the category.   As soon as you submit your answer, you’re given another letter and category.

There are a limited number of aids, called ‘Jokers’, that you can use if you’re stumped and which have been updated for the newest version; for instance, one gives you four possible answers and one allows you to suggest several answers for the same letter and category.   There are also the options to share your score etc on various social networks, as well as metrics like fastest answer, best score and best series without an error.

As a fan of the game Scattergories, I do think this could do well.   It’s a bright, cheerfully animated game with the potential to be challenging and fun (and where tools like autocorrect become part of your strategy).

Buggin’

94 sec_1The problem is, the game seems to be full of bugs.

The score screen either won’t load or crashes the game, so you can’t tell what you got wrong and what you got right.   There are spelling mistakes on the title page and the same letters do seem to reoccur for particular categories – this might be due to a dearth of subjects as answers but then, why choose it as a category in the first place?

There are also ads threaded throughout the game, although there is an option to remove them, if you pay.

There doesn’t seem to be a levelling system, where you move on to harder questions once you’ve gained a certain amount of points, although there are achievements you can gain such as fastest answer, best series etc.

All in all, a promising idea in dire need of some tweaking.

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