Brain Challenge
Ladies and gentlemen, here we start 2007 with another puzzle game: Brain Challenge from Gameloft. Another? Yes, naturally. I believe most mobile games belong to this category, and it will be so until mobile devices with hardware accelerated video display won’t be considered a rarity.
Here we are talking about puzzles. Real ones. My piece of advice: if you don’t like IQ tests or other mind-challenging activities then this is not a game for you. But if you do.. then you are in for a treat!
What is this all about? Gameloft’s Brain Challenge is a large collection of… let’s call them stages although tests would be a good word as well, since that’s what this game’s stages actually are. The tests belong to four categories, and there is no need for a description for them, ’cause the names are self explanatory:
We have logic, math, memory and visual texts. I’ll let you the pleasure to discover the three tests in each category, but I have to say that even if they are not a lot (4 times 3 is 12, right?), the 100 timed levels of every stage will keep you coming for more. You have the option to train your abilities in various difficulty levels (difficulty meaning that you begin playing from a higher level, nothing out of ordinary).
Why do I think this game belongs here(in MobiCritic’s weekly recommendations)? It’s the “Daily brain tests” option that convinced me. This is another name for a campaign mode. You’ll be receiving a single test in every category and whenever you continue (the next day, for instance) the game will resume from the last level played, of course.
I was convinced by looking at a work buddy of mine, who borrows my phone to play one stage every day and plays it until we split up to go home. After all, that’s the purpose of this mobile game: to kill a few minutes until the tube arrives.
My buddy completed about 90% of the game. Can you beat this? 
Weblinks: here, here or the official website
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