So
what is this all about? The game objective in Q-Lat 2 is to turn all
the balls of the Play Field to one single color. The balls change color,
when two balls collide. The ball with more velocity turns the other
ball to it's own color. So e.g. if a blue ball hits a red ball, the
red ball turns to blue. Simple enough?
Player(s)
control one ball (each) on the Play Field. Player's ball is marked with
a flare floating around the ball. In two-player game Player 1 is indicated
by letters "P1" and Player 2 by letters "P2".
Balls can have 5 different colors: Blue, red, green, violet, and gold.
The balls can also be gray (metal), witch is not included as a color.
When all the balls (not including the gray ones) are turned to the same
color (e.g. blue), all the balls explode and the field is completed.
Get ready for the next field!
Bonus
color: When the field is completed, you get extra points of all balls,
whose color is same as your bonus color. To see what's your current
bonus color, look at the panel on the right side of the screen. A blinking
light indicates witch color is the bonus color at the moment. Watch
it carefully, because you can change it if you want, or by accident.
Time:
Time is always against you. If you take a look at the panel on the right
side of the screen, you'll see a bomb with a timer in the middle. When
time runs out, the game is over. There is no way of stopping the clock,
but you can get extra time by collecting certain bonuses. When a new
game begins, the clock is set to five minutes. If you are a good player,
you can postpone the inevitable for more than 10 minutes. My record
at the moment is 12 minutes!
Conclusion: In Q-lat2 your objective is to score as well as you can,
before the time runs out. That's it. No world to save, no bad guys to
kill, no blood to spill. Just a screen full of balls waiting to be exploded.
Go get 'em tiger! *Sounds boring? Well try to explain Tetris so that
it sounds interesting...*