Wordology Review
Fans of word games take notice. Wordology is an extremely polished and addictive word game for the iPhone and iTouch devices.
The object of Wordology is to clear the board by spelling out words using 5 x 5 stacks of lettered tiles. Each tile you use disappears revealing the next letter of the stack. Points are scored by the length of the words you create and collect awards.
Each level becomes progressively harder to complete. For example to progress to Level 2 you need to have less than 10 tiles remaining in the board. To get to level 3 you need to have less than 9 tiles remaining, and so on.
You start the game with 3 lives. You lose a life everytime you misspell a word, or let the timer run down used will cause you to lose a life.
Wordology has a 250,000+ vocabulary built in, so finding words shouldn’t be hard!
Scattered throughout the levels are varying colored tiles which will help or hurt you depending on their color.
Green tiles found in the playing field will gain you an additional life when used in a word. Red tiles when exposed will hurt you by speeding up the countdown timer. Gold letters will give you triple word score, while silver will grant you Double word scores.
To create words you simply touch each letter. If you need to erase a letter just touch it on the screen and it will be removed. Shaking the iPhone or iTouch will remove the entire word.
Each letter is weighted for scores based on complexity of use in a word. For example A=2 points, B=4 Points, and Z and Q are worth 5 Points each when used. These points are added up and multiplied by any bonus scores collected.
What really makes the game great is the additional detail put into the game. You have a Personal, Local, and Global Leader boards, as well as current, Previous, and all time Stats for the game.
However My favorite and most addictive feature is the Awards section of the game. I keep coming back trying to complete my bookshelf with the 16 available awards.
Wordology comes with 4 Different game modes, Slow, Normal, Lightning Mode, and Freestyle (non timed) modes.
Graphically the game looks crisp, clear and very polished. The whole package is themed well adding to the professionalism of the application.
Audio Wise the game is good. Typewriter sounds when you press each tile, as well as out of time and correct or incorrect word spelling tones. These can be turned on and off via the menu.
Overall I have to say I’m really enjoying my time with Wordology, its easy on the eyes, addictive, and challenging and easily one of the better word games on the iPhone and iTouch devices.
The Good
Excellent presentation
Huge word library
Awards, Leader boardsThe Bad
slightly hard to see countdown timer
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This looks like one of the best word games ever in terms of graphics! I would love to try it out!
theres so many word games i cant keep track of them all. But i love em and try to get as many as i can…within reason.
Like twitsty text this is another word games. Many are coming out currently. This has good effects and looks unique
nice crisp graphics. I have alot of word games but who couldnt use some more?
looks very similar to wordjong. haven’t played it on the ipod, but the ds version was very fun.
looks pretty cool, too!
definitely worth checking out. good review as always!
the presentation is really cool. ive been looking for a word game that presents itself well and has a fun style of play, because without that word games can get a little boring and this just might be the one.
The layout and presentation do look very good.
i like the presentation and graphics. Seems like a high quality word game.
This seems like it could be very fun. I like that it looks to have a lot of thought put into it, most word games are just copycats of previous word games.
wow nice graphic
cool word app
like it