Japan only: Xbox 360 Tetris

by Blake Snow { Dec 31st 2005 at 1:00PM }

One of the games that may have slipped under the radar for the Xbox 360 is Tetris: The Grand Master Ace. The game was a Japanese launch title and is currently not available in North America. That's not to stop the game from being a nice little puzzle that's gotten a good import user review via GameSpot. From the review: "Tetris: The Grand Master Ace is a great little game, with a nicely thought out online mode, which encourages having fun with others even if your not playing versus. Trying to unlock the achievements add to the addictiveness of a game which already was very hard to put down."

Combine the classic gameplay of Tetris with Xbox Live? I'm in. Now if we can only get a US port.

[Thanks, Sajith]

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

bandersnatch @ Dec 31st 2005 1:10PM

Tetris Worlds for the original Xbox?

http://www.gamerankings.com/htmlpages2/561782.asp?q=tetris

Darren Johnson @ Dec 31st 2005 1:17PM

Please bring Tetris to the US! As one of the Xbox 360's biggest fans, I have to admit my disappointment with their lack of family/party (read: wife-friendly) games. Some of the arcade games are a start, but adding Tetris to the lineup would help out a lot. How about a really cool HD version, with Geometry Wars type explosions when you get a line? My wife would hate the 360 a lot less if it had Tetris...

GWing_02 @ Dec 31st 2005 1:20PM

Be careful what you guys say, this is a user review, not GameSpot themselves.

Johan @ Dec 31st 2005 1:36PM

Whoohoo, and where are all those people that said 360 didn't have any great titles?

Where are they now?!! Huh?!

Jeff @ Dec 31st 2005 2:08PM

"Combine the classic gameplay of Tetris "

Yeah, but *is* it the classic gameplay of Tetris?

The past few Tetris iterations have changed the gameplay so significantly that it's taken all the challenge out of it. The one thing they've added that's the bane of most real Tetris afficianados is that you can rotate a game piece forever once it gets to the bottom row before it sets. You couldn't do this in the original game; it basically gives you as much time as you want to get it right.

Does this game play like old Tetris or new Tetris?

GoHome @ Dec 31st 2005 2:54PM

One of the best games available on the PSP is a tetris clone.

William @ Dec 31st 2005 2:54PM

Screw you Sony fanboys, forget MGS4 and the next GTA, we got mofo TETRIS!!! ONline!!!

KJA @ Dec 31st 2005 3:07PM

ME WANT ON DS! This version of Tetris would best suit the DS with it's new online gameplay. Now all we need is another ploy where Tetris would be packed in with the DS where like Gameboy was.

kingmanor @ Dec 31st 2005 3:18PM

can't they just make this downloadable thru Live like geometry wars? do you really need to buy this in a box in a store?

Greg2k @ Dec 31st 2005 3:31PM

Puyo Pop Fever Revolution plz. THAT would kick ass

Jago @ Dec 31st 2005 3:41PM

There is gonna be a version of Tetris for the DS...and it comes out next May:

http://ds.ign.com/objects/726/726069.html

Jago @ Dec 31st 2005 3:42PM

Oh oops...I got the Europe date confused with the US date...either way it'll be out early-mid 2006 :-)

Dasutin @ Dec 31st 2005 4:07PM

Wow only give the biggest puzzle game to the Japanese! I like tetris! I could play that for a long time!

http://www.dasutin.com

gamer1 @ Dec 31st 2005 5:30PM

I'd really like it if they could make this an Xbox Live Arcade game rather than a full XBox 360 game for the US. I mean, isn't that what XBox Live Arcade is for? Unless the game is over 600MB, I think it could be done, although they would still need to make a trial version and scale the achievement points from 1000 to 200. The cost to distribute the game would be alot less and the end user could probably pay about 1200 Microsoft Points (15 dollars) for the game. I'd buy it at that price. However, if they do release it in the US, they would most likely release it as a full game, considering that they would only need to region code and repackage the game to rerelease it, unless the game is in Japanese.

Necrophiliac @ Dec 31st 2005 7:36PM

does anyone know if this is region locked or can i import it?

chuck @ Jan 1st 2006 5:09AM

The title looks like Grand Master AGE. not ace.

beaker @ Jan 1st 2006 7:42AM

Microsoft is leaving money on the table for not releasing this immediately in the States. I mean, why not? It needs to be a ramped up, very difficult version so that the Leaderboards mean something.

All LiveArcade games need to be set at GW difficulty, with steady and quick progression to Almost Impossible. God, I love the idea of the return of quarter-sucking monster games. (Minus the quarter-sucking...of course).