A couple of classics make their way to Google Plus
3. Bejeweled BlitzThe Bejeweled series has been doing the rounds for many years on a variety of platforms. Though the puzzle formula has barely changed, which is a good thing, it's still as addictive and entertaining as ever.
The goal of Bejeweled Blitz is to match coloured gems and rack up multipliers in order to get the highest score possible in one minute.
Players make lines of three by swapping gems with adjacent gems. When a match is made, the matched gems disappear and more gems fall into the board from above. Unlike the previous games in the series, Bejeweled Blitz allows the player to swap gems while gems from previous matches are still falling.
If you have some Google Plus buddies who are also playing Bejeweled Blitz, and why not, it can get very competitive as you fight for the highest score on the leaderboard.
4. Zombie Lane
A new take on the zombie action genre, Zombie Lane is a point-and-click slasher that also incorporates RPG elements as you collect items and earn gold and XP.
Your mission is to kill as many zombies as you can and restore the neighborhood to some semblance of normality by collecting bricks and restoring houses while using a diverse range of weapons to slaughter the undead.
Zombie Lane's leveling system rewards you well for progress and there are plenty of achievements and side missions to unlock along the way. Numerous zombie types and tons of weapons, from Molotov cocktails to SMGs, make killing all the more fun (you need to get out more - ed.)
The game also rewards you for racking up combos and harvesting crops, which in turn gives you more XP and gold. The soundtrack and quirky cartoon-style graphics are excellent. The interface makes it easy for you to bring your Google Plus friends into the action, too.
5. Angry Birds
Although Angry Birds has appeared on almost every platform now, it's still wildly entertaining and addictive. This particular port is developed on HTML5 so it represents one of the earlier versions of the game and therefore includes many of the original levels – when the physics-based puzzler really made a name for itself.
If you don't already know, Angry Birds involves use a slingshot to launch birds at pigs stationed on or within various structures, with the intent of destroying all the pigs on the playfield. Level design is brilliant and the levels are incredibly challenging.
This version also includes a new episode named 'teamwork' exclusively for Google Plus users that encourages you to complete levels with friends in order to unlock even more content. If, for some strange reason, you've yet to play Angry Birds, then there's really no excuse not to try this latest port.
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