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Great game!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 12, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This game really challenges your thinking and that is what I love about it! You ust can't help but get absorbed into the habit of quick thinking!!!

What's Your IQ?

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: February 12, 2008
Author: Amazon User

In 1997, Intelligent Qube came out and completely took the puzzle world by storm. Much like Tetris, Intelligence Qube was a game that was nothing short of simplistic. Because of its simplistic formula, however, it was a widely addictive game that really forced you to use your brain. Unfortunately, the game is extremely rare these days and like many rare highly sought after video games, comes at ridiculous prices.

A game has never been simpler to learn than Intelligent Qube. Each level has several rows. Then the cubes begin to "march" forward. The entire point of the game is to capture cubes. You simply press X to lay down a trap and then X again to capture it. There are a couple of complexities to the gameplay that make it quite a challenge. For one, while your goal is to capture cubes, there are certain cubes that you shouldn't capture. These are forbidden cubes, and the penalty for capturing one is losing a row of the level you're on. There are also green cubes called advantage cubes. Capturing these allows you to set a trap that will capture all the surrounding cubes. At first, Intelligent Qube seems easy, but the game is much more complex than you think. As the game progresses, the cubes march forward and there are more rows of cubes to deal with. Just the same, the placement of the marching cubes is completely random.

At times you may even have to run in between cubes to get to the ones you must capture in order to avoid forbidden cubes. Should you ever get crushed by the cubes, they'll automatically roll off the edge of the stage and a row will collapse. If that happens you'll have to go through the same set again. If you successfully capture all cubes without capturing any forbidden cubes you'll gain another row.

The game is very deep in its strategy. It's a lot easier to screw up than it looks. The game is not that long, but the levels can throw you for a loop. Especially the advantage cube which will even capture forbidden cubes if they're in range. There's really nothing more to the game than that.

Graphically, Intelligent Qube looks incredibly smooth. For a puzzle game like this, it looks top notch. There's not a whole lot to the graphics, however as aside from the cubes and your little sprite running around there's nothing too complex to the graphics.

However, the best part about Intelligent Qube is easily the soundtrack. Beautifully orchestrated. You'll be tempted to pause the game just to listen to the music of the stages. This is easily one of the best sounding Playstation games ever released

In spite of its age, Intelligent Qube is still a great game. If anyone is looking for a simple, yet addictive puzzle game, then you'll find it with this game.

welcome to the hostile wasteland

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: April 15, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This is a brain-changing game. Get in your car and drive afterwards, and everything on the road in front of you becomes tumbling cubes ...I rented it ...a couple years ago, and loved it. Now it appears to be a collectors' item. I can honestly say I will someday pay x amount for it, ...

Although i only have the demo...

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 11
Date: June 18, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Just because i only have the demo of the game (i was lucky and bought my ps in 96) it is a awesome game, i have been looking for it 4ever. id really appreciate it if anyone finds it for under [price] cuz i have been looking and all they are are auctions. i want to buy from a store like thing. ...

incredible

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: July 17, 2001
Author: Amazon User

First of all its called Intelligent Qube not Cube...but thats not im portant waht's important is that everyone knows how awesome this stratagy game is i love it, its addicting and fun and suggest you all go on a search to get it cause its hard ... to find

This Game Is Addictive!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: November 03, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Man, I can't get enough of this game! I once played it about 5 years ago on a demo. I finally found it on eBay for $45 which isn't bad considering how rare the game is. And I've been playing it for the past week now! And I'm not even a big fan of puzzle games. This game's better than Tetris. If you haven't bought this game yet, go get it on eBay. You won't regret it! But do NOT buy it on Amazon. Their sellers charge way too much. The game is very simple to learn, and once you master it, it's awesome.

The Greatest Playstation Games ever produced.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: July 18, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This game has its origins in the Japanese game market. It was produced only for 6 months for the us market by Sony. Why for only 6 months i don't know. It is easier to find in the NTSC/J format along with it's sequil. The premis of this game is a fast paced puzzle environment. It really tests your wits. In a way it could be described as a scrolling rubix cube game for your playstation. It even gives your mock I.Q. at the end. Hence the name Intelligent *Q*ube not Cube. Look for this game on Amazon zshops or auctions and be prepared to pay at least some money. You won't want to let this game go once you have a copy.

The best game no one ever got to play

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: March 24, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I have been looking for this game since I got the demo with my Playstation almost 10 years ago. When I finally spotted it sitting behind the glass at a local game store, I screamed like a little girl and pounced on it the way a falcon catches a hare. I had to have it.

What's different from the demo? There's music now, which seems a little bit out of place but has its own cathartic kind of quality. There are eight increasingly ridiculous stages and then the Final Stage, which consists of four devious puzzles. My chops were still fairly fresh, and I was able to beat the game in one sitting, but it took 3 hours and I had to continue twelve times, and I wound up with a final IQ of 12 since the game resets your score when you continue. I plan on replaying it nonstop until I beat it without continuing.

This game is still every bit as much fun as the demo was in 1997. The controls remain responsive, the puzzles are still fresh, and the game is still unlike anything before or since (including the rather lousy PQ). This game is my most prized possession.

Simple, yet disturbingly addictive

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: March 24, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This was the first (and only) puzzle game I've ever bought for a video game console, and it hooked me from the first five minutes of starting it up.

The concept here is really simiple. You're a tiny guy (or gal) on a big platform of blocks suspended in a world of darkness. You're sitting there, minding your own buisness, when suddenly huge smashy blocks appear at the end of the platform, coming right towards you. There's nowhere to hide, nowhere to run to. Your only chance is to set explosive devices and destroy the blocks before they reach you. If you fail...well, lets just say it won't be pretty.

So you run around, frantically destroying the blocks before they reach and crush you. It's very simple gameplay, but add in the fact that things go faster and faster, and the challenge gets harder and harder as the game goes on, and you've got a challenging game that's easy to learn, almost impossible to master.

So we've got fun and challenging gameplay, but absoloutly terrible graphics. By todays standards, Intelligent Qube is a visual mess. The charachters are terrilbly ugly and everything has a first generation playstation look to it. The game also gets impossibly hard as it goes on. I never got past the fourth level, which says a lot about how hard this puzzle is.

But the graphics and difficulty can be easily forgiven, considering how addictive and compelling the gameplay is. In it's finest form, Intelligent Qube is a perfect example of superior gameplay over superior graphics. This is one puzzler that stands the test of time quite well.

Must have for Brain Game challenge addicts!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 7
Date: May 16, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I got addicted to this game when I played the demo on one of our old demo CDs for the PS1. I had a really hard time finding it, and had to pay a lot for it when I did, but its worth it! If you are an old tetris pro or just love a challenge, don't hesitate to buy Intelligent Qube for yourself!

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