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A nice idea, but poor implementation

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 51 / 53
Date: December 18, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Where Brain Boost Gamma Wave helps with memory, Brain Boost Beta Wave helps with your concentration. I think pretty much ANY video game should help with that! Every video game has you focussing on the task at hand, whether it's defeating the current boss or solving a puzzle.

Still, I'm a sucker for brain boosting games. I play and enjoy Brain Age, Big Brain Academy, and several others. Studies have certainly shown that your brain is a "use it or lose it" part of your body.

So just how does this game help with your concentration? First, the plot. It involves scientist, robots, and silliness. I really don't see why any brain game should have a plot. The other Brain Age style games don't bother. To have to page through screens here to get to the actual game is a bit silly. Hopefully their future releases will dispense with those meaningless screens you have to page past.

So, the actual game itself. There are five minigames. These are:

Find a Match - they show you a grid of images, and you click on the two that match.

Shape Recognition - they show you a tetris-like image, and you have to choose which of the four images shown match it.

Addition - they show you a bunch of numbers, and you have to sum them up.

Remember Sequence - they show you a series of images, and then you have to click on which one was the "3rd shown" or "5th shown" or whatever they choose.

Moving Dots - I actually like this one. They put a random number of dots on the screen, in motion. You have to count them up while they're moving and click on the total.

I really have to question how some of these have anything to do with concentration. Adding up numbers isn't a matter of concentration. It's a matter of math skill. Finding a match would seem more like memory to me. I suppose since they titled the other brain game "memory" they had to name this *something* to convince you to buy both of them, but I'm just not seeing the concentration angle.

Also, you have four levels for each of these mini-games, and then all you do is move on to the challenges. The challenges come in four levels and ... yes, it's the exact same 5 minigames. So you're playing the exact same games, it's just that they are now "challenges" instead of "training".

There isn't any charting of your progress. You have no idea if you did better yesterday than you did today. In the training area, you just max each level out to 100% and then it's done. You're only doing 20 of each puzzle so it's not THAT hard.

Maybe I'm spoiled by Brain Age and Big Brain Academy. Those games test your brain, but they are really *fun*, they track your progress, they make you want to come back and play again tomorrow. They show you how well you're doing. With this game, it feels like homework, and you don't even get a sense of accomplishment or progress.

A nice idea, but poor implementation.

Worst of all the brain games

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 7 / 8
Date: January 14, 2007
Author: Amazon User

We own the Big Brain Academy, the Brain Age and this one. Big Brain Ac. is far the best one. For Kids and Adults, as it has different difficulties. You cannot put it away! The Brain Age is ok but my son (7) doesn't like it. I like it for the Sudoku. Gamma Wave is not a hit. At the beginning is a story, you dont need and then you just turn it off again because it is boring. Dont waste your money on that one!

Not as much fun as Brain Age or Brain Academy

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: March 04, 2007
Author: Amazon User

As an adult gamer, I didn't care for this game. I have tried Brain Age and I think it's so much better than Brain Boost: Gemma Wave. Brain Boost is just a memory game, period. There is nothing else to do on it except just to test your memory. 3 ways to test your memory, numbers, pictures and colors. Each test was pretty long. After awhile I got bored with it quickly. For variety, get Brain Age or Brain Academy.

Even my nephews ages, 7 and 8 didn't care for it either. They liked Brain Age better.

It really had so much potential!

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: January 27, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I skip the goofy story. It was totally not needed! The games are okay. I do wish you could get a record of how you've been doing and how much better you are getting. I am glad I found this and Beta Wave on sale for 9.99. I would have been really disapointed if I had spent 20.00 each! But for 20.00 for both was not so bad. I still play it because the games themselves are good. Maybe the next version will be better...because I would definately give them a try. I think the creators were in too much of a hurry to get this one out while the trend of "brain games" was still hot. A couple more months of research and trials would have been a benefit! So watch this item for sales...or used. Worth 9.00...not 19.00!

Try Big Brain Academy and Brain Age first.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: March 17, 2007
Author: Amazon User

If you have already played out Brain Age and Big Brain Academy, you might find this is a pleasant little diversion to play with. The story might as well not be there, I've never bothered with it, because I don't need some silly story to work on my memory.

I wouldn't pay more than $10 for this, but at that rate, it was worth it to have an extra diversion when I have to sit around and wait for something.

Anti Brain drain device

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: March 20, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Feeling like you play a game and you come away lesser of a person for giveing it your time, well this game will do the opposite.
You suck the game dry and your brain is the benefactor for it.
Don't give up , GET EVEN.

good

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: December 03, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Good to have with Brain Boost Beta Wave. Still learning the games(lessons). Sorta cartoonish but I don't mind. Reading glasses for us older users are a must. There are 5 or 6 (games) subjects to work on, and I'm still trying to do so. There is a mission to compete, which I haven't even ventured into!

It's not Brain Age 1 or 2 but is still challenging. I enjoy just "relaxing with it" at times. Sooner or later I'll get thru the whole thing!

Worth having as something different.

Get Big Brain Academy or Brain Age instead

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 14, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Don't waste your money. The Brain Age and Big Brain Academy are SO much better and so much more fun. The countdown between "problems" in the games gets old really fast. The pictures all have the same color palette, so sometimes it's incredibly difficult to differentiate between them, which I suppose might be helpful for memory recall, but the way they are laid out in this game just makes them annoying and frustrating. To me, the story is actually the best thing about the game, but you have to play the stupid games in order for it to advance, and the characters' reactions when you don't complete the game are patronizing and irritating. But at least the story breaks up the motonoty of the games themselves. I absolutely would not recommend this game, especially since Brain Age and Big Brain Academy are so far superior!

Try Brain Age instead!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 24, 2007
Author: Amazon User

The background story is extremely silly, and there's no way to measure your progress. Brain Age is the better deal, as you can compare the results of multiple users, and it also has Sudoku.

brain boost

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 13, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game to use my brain in a fun way, I am satisfied and entertained all at once. I am glad I own this game not like the other types this one is helping me to keep my head sharp.

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