WORDAMENT Review

Wordament

Price: Free

Located: Windows Platforms Exclusively

Overview:

The hit Windows 7 Phone app has made its way to the Windows 8 Store and will soon become one of the top Windows 8 games. Wordament is a game app that features a 4x4 grid featuring single (sometimes double) letters each square. As long as the square is touching an adjacent square, you can swipe your finger to create 3-16 letter words.

The neat thing about the game is that your score is compared nationally with other people playing the game. At the end of each round, scores are sent to Xbox Live to be ranked. After 10 seconds, you can see how you rank next to 300 to 1,000 people and more.

The game offers "Achievements" to unlock. Anyone familiar with the Xbox Live platform knows that Achievements are an integral part of the Xbox Live social experience.

Pro:

Wordament is a fun, addicting, and guilt-free-time-wasting game to play. It is also fun to beat friend scores and see where you rank against the world. Like the Sticker Tales app, Wordament makes great use of the finger-swipe function.

Con:

Available on Windows platforms exclusively. This game would catch fire rather quickly. The only issue for other platforms is to find a way to centralize the scores and then post them in a centralized way.

Store Rating: 4.25 out of 5 stars

Blog Rating: 4.9 out of 5 stars

This app is fun for people who REALLY like a challenge. However, unless you are an MIT or Harvard Graduate with a degree in English (or even Wordament) and a 5.0 GPA - you may never see your gamer-tag in the top 10 - heck - even 50 slots.

The saving grace is the connectivity it gives you to friends and family and how you rank against them. Thus I give it almost a perfect score and regard it as one of the best Windows 8 games.

-Sean