LEGO Bricks drops Tetris style onto mobile

Let's be honest, the press release for LEGO Bricks, launched today, is going to be the only piece of prose ever written on the game not to mention Tetris.

Indeed, our man Stuart Dredge already cried 'Tetris!' when he caught a quick glimpse of the title on publisher Hands-On Mobile's stand at E3.

And you'd surely think the same if told: "Players use the mobile keypad to manipulate the falling shapes to form a row, which then instantly dissolves."

That said, closer reading of the press release talks of matching vertical and horizontal rows – so perhaps the gameplay is more like old-fashioned kid's toy Connect 4?

Whatever the exact intricacies of LEGO Bricks' dropping-until-stopping schtick, all the other elements that work so well in similar mobile puzzlers like Pile Up! seem to be in place: level timers, gradual speeding up of the falling bricks, and special ones that explode or freeze.

Therefore, until we get our hands on it we're sceptical of the claim that it's really a "unique, new puzzle game experience."

Rather than, say, Tet-*cough*-ris.

The good news is such fare is popular on mobile because it works so well on the format. Click 'Track It!' to find out whether LEGO Bricks gets it right in our upcoming review.