Four In a Line Free

As well as things like Checkers and Tic-Tac-Toe another maybe obvious 2-player game that has a classic feel is "Connect 4" or as this AI Factory game is known "Four in a Line". The game sees 2 players, each playing with separate coloured disks, taking it in turns to drop a disk into a plastic contraption attempting to to make a line of 4 (either vertical, horizontal or diagonal).

From the title screen (seen to the right of this paragraph) you can select to play with a friend sharing the phone or with the AI. Whilst it's good that you can play on your own, can I actually ask...how many people do play Connect 4/Four in a line by themselves? It just doesn't really seem to be a single-player idea (unlike computerised chess which is a good idea).

So now onto the gameplay, the controls are incredibly simple, you press the screen above the vertical line that you want to drop your disk into. Much like the real version of the game it's incredibly simple to play though

 it's not really a game that lends it's self to the idea of being played on a phone screen. As with the similar games that have been ported from "real" games the game is incredibly limited to what it can do and it shows. Whilst the controls are effective the game is so simple they really couldn't mess it up.

Graphically the game is not only limited but also rather dull. The game set is unexciting and plain looking whilst the background is boring and dull there isn't any change in backgrounds and although it looks "authentic" is looks...boring as well.

As boring it looks the sounds don't really help. Like many similar games the sounds are limited to "movement" sounds, a select sound on the option screens (as seen to the left) and a small celebration sound. Although the game could have added background music it instead goes for silence with a horrible echoey "thud" of piece being places.

Whilst the game is authentic and replicates the original game it sort of has the same problem or so many other games that have been converted to becoming video games. They developers really can't add anything to it, unless they want to bundle 3 or 4 games together or really modify it to the extremes they are stuck with the same basic principle of the original "real" version. Of course we don't need to set up the real copy or tidy up the piece if we play it on the phone it just doesn't any anything special to make it download-worthy.

Addictiveness-4/10. It's Connect Four and not something that has much in terms of addictiveness. With 2 players you might play a few games but certainly won't be hooked.
Controls-9/10. They do exactly what you would expect of them.
Graphics-5/10 Authentic but nothing amazing, in fact it looks a bit boring and dull.
Sounds-3/10 Just very basic “movement” sounds, and "ending" sounds, nothing amazing but something.
Originality-0/10 It's Connect Four. Not original in the slightest.

Total score
21/50

Overall it's worth a 5 minute mess about on 2-player but that is literally all. Unlike the Optime Software games you can't even name yourself (so no Buttface's here). It's just very boring and dull in all honest.

Game score C-