''Faces...tris III'' is a
puzzle video game
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developed by
Spectrum HoloByte in 1990 for the
Macintosh
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,
Amiga
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and
MS-DOS
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.
Gameplay
''Faces'' is fourth in a series after ''
Tetris
''Tetris'' (russian: link=no, Тетрис) is a puzzle video game created by Soviet Union, Soviet software engineer Alexey Pajitnov in 1984. It has been published by several companies for multiple platforms, most prominently during a dispute o ...
'', ''
Hatris
is a puzzle video game developed by Alexey Pajitnov for Bullet-Proof Software. An arcade game, arcade version was manufactured by Video System.
Gameplay
''Hatris'' plays similarly to Pazhitnov's previous ''Tetris'', in that game objects fallin ...
'' and ''
Welltris
''Welltris'' is a puzzle video game, developed by Doca and licensed to Bullet-Proof Software. It is an official game in the ''Tetris'' series. Adaptations were made by Sphere, Inc., for Spectrum HoloByte, and by Infogrames. It was released for M ...
''. In ''Faces'', horizontal slices of two persons' faces fall side by side from the top of the screen, and the player must position them before they hit bottom. The player maneuvers the slices left and right to make faces as they stack up in piles, preferably with all the pieces from the same person's face. When the pieces stack up to the top of the screen, the game is over.
Reception
The game was reviewed in 1991 in ''
Dragon'' #168 by Gregg Williams in "The Role of Computers" column. The reviewer gave the game 3 out of 5 stars.
Reviews
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The Games Machine
''The Games Machine'' is a video game magazine that was published from 1987 until 1990 in the United Kingdom by Newsfield, which also published '' CRASH'', '' Zzap!64'', '' Amtix!'' and other magazines.
History
The magazine ran head to head w ...
- Sep, 1990
References
External links
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GameFAQs
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at
MobyGames
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ReviewCompute!
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Reviewin
Info
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1990 video games
Amiga games
Classic Mac OS games
DOS games
Falling block puzzle games
Spectrum HoloByte games
Video games developed in the United States
Video games scored by Ed Bogas
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