2-4-1 Turbo Pizza and Bubble Town

Most 2-4-1 game packs follow some sort of theme which means they complement one another in some way - much like fine wine and cheese (or a pickled onion and some salt and vinegar crisps for the less refined).

Pizza and bubbles though - when have you ever seen those things together? Unless you've witnessed Michael Jackson rustling up a mushroom feast for his pet chimpanzee. Still, ours is not to reason why and, besides, we're quite happy to have these two games together being as they are pretty good.

A quick analysis of the scores both games received from us when released individually gives you an idea of quality here. Bubble Town - a Puzzle Bobble clone but with cute 'borb' characters instead of balls to fire - scored a respectable 7, while Turbo Pizza did even better with an 8. It's hardly surprising the pizza won out - it always seems to when you're trying to decide what to eat at the end of a drunken night too.

So, beginning with the weakest link as it were, Bubble Town is a pretty straightforward puzzler where you fire coloured borbs at clusters of them on the screen, try to match three like-colours to make them disappear, and do all that before the ceiling drops down and crushes the little fellas.

Which all sounds very simple (not to mention, done before) - but Bubble Town does have plenty of its own personality. As noted in our original review (written by myself, so it must be true):

"The borbs themselves also have a bit more personality than plain old bubbles. Each has a little face and they even nod off to sleep. Sleeping borbs need to be hit with a like-colour to wake them up, then they disappear the next time they're hit.

"In addition, there are levels which divert from the standard vertically shaped ones, bunching the borbs in a rotating shape in the centre of the screen. The bosses, which appear every few levels, use a similar formula. You need to clear the borbs surrounding the central 'overlump' boss to kill him."

All in all, Bubble Town gets the thumbs up in most areas other than originality and also length - the 31 levels are a bit miserly for a puzzle game, even if they aren't exactly a walk in the park to complete.

Moving onto the second game in this bundle, Turbo Pizza, and you probably won't be too surprised to learn it's a food-juggling game where you serve customers against a time limit.

As our original review said:

"It's a simple idea and one that's been done in various games on mobile before but this game's tight gradually increasing difficulty level, cute graphics and easy-to-play stages make the experience much more palatable than most."

You serve your customers coffee, ice cream, cakes and - of course - pizza, all to order. Happy customers cough up cash for their edible purchases and this, in turn, can be used to upgrade your kitchen with faster staff and better ovens and coffee machines.

Its 40 levels are insanely addictive and put other food management games out there (Ratatouille, I'm looking at you) to shame.

It's even more palatable with Bubble Town tagged onto it too. Although, at the same time, we've seen plenty of better puzzlers pass through since its original release. Still, both of these games in one bundle remains quite the bargain.

2-4-1 Turbo Pizza and Bubble Town

Practise your kitchen management skills in the insanely addictive Turbo Pizza then - if the heat gets too much - you've got Bubble Town's simple, but slick, puzzling to embark on too
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Kath Brice
Kath Brice
Kath gave up a job working with animals five years ago to join the world of video game journalism, which now sees her running our DS section. With so many male work colleagues, many have asked if she notices any difference.