What is Gridz?

Command an army of toolbots, with the goal of building up your territory, destroying opposing forces and hacking your rivals into oblivion. Gridz is a unique strategy title boasting colourful graphics, addictive gameplay and a cast of 15 different toolbots to carry out your bidding.

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Ever since the release of Tetris, developers have been trying to attain that grail of elegant simplicity and frenetic gameplay. Gridz doesn’t have Russian music, but it does have all the other elements of a great arcade game.

The object is to capture the entire screen with your color while preventing other players from doing the same. First, capture each square in a grid of NetSpace by setting markers around it. Then, send a builder-bot to activate the markers and turn the color on. Send hacker-bots to destroy other markers and striker-bots to destroy other bots.

Some grids contain token rings (groan). Tokens let you buy enhanced versions of the builder, striker, and hacker robots between rounds. Much of the strategy consists of figuring out which bots you’ll need to take out the other players.

On a 2D board, Gridz would not stand out. But the game puts the view up and slightly to the back of the board, so you’re looking down on it. And that’s not the only eye-candy. Each player can choose different textures to fill in their grid. And most important, the bots have personality. Each level of bot gets its own name, and every hot has a different behavior. Strikers progress from little buzz saws to lobbing bombs, hackers move from slow pounders to demolition flails, and builders grow from little gnomes to weird Rube Goldbergian contraptions.

The best strategy is to buy bigger and better strikers to take out the other guy before he gets you. At press time, the game did not support network play, but Green Dragon promised it by October 1 as a free update from its Web site. Net play will be the icing on the cake for an already addictive game. 

Tafel, Kathy. (December 1997). Gridz. MacAddict. (pg. 69).

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Architecture

IBM PowerPC

System Requirements

From Mac OS 7.5 up to Mac OS 10.3

Compatibility notes

Requires 16MB RAM. Levels beyond 10 may require up to 24MB.

Emulating this? It could probably run under: SheepShaver