Bejeweled 2 On iPhone Now Contains "Bejeweled Blitz"
If you update the Bejeweled 2 app on your iPhone a new even more addictive mode will be added called "Bejeweled Blitz". This mode plays similar to Bejeweled only with a 1 minute time limit meaning your highest score is based on whatever you can pull off in a minute.
There are also new power ups; Multiplier Gems which multiply your score and are generated randomly (so the more gems you clear, the more likely a new gem will be a multiplier), and Star Gems which destroy and entire row and collumn when cleared and are generated by clearing gems in a T or L shape. Clearing 5 gems at once still creates a "Hyper Cube" that can destroy all gems of a single color.
On the iPhone version of Bejeweled Blitz, your high score ranked on an ad hoc leader board amongst all your Facebook friends, which is reset every week. And I can tell you first hand: This makes it way more addictive. The app update has been out for a few weeks and each time the score gets reset my Facebook rivals and I try to jump back to the top of the list.
It's a fun, frustrating, mildly social affair. You should go check it out for yourself, and add me on Facebook if you want to compete against my usually pathetic score.
Bradamantium
Posted to Video Games on 2 December 2009
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I had to actually stop myself from playing Bejeweled Blitz because it was absorbing too much of my spare time.
That and I felt the game was almost rigged like the way the drops in Puzzle Quest "feel" rigged. And I would always get more competitive trying to beat any score above 175K.
Evil game. Eeeevil.