Beesley’s Buzzwords is a pretty decent game considering it’s 7 years old.  Flashbang’s first title came out right after Popcap’s Bookworm in 2003.  It took Bookworm’s word matching concept and innovated it by creating a hexagonal board.  Beesley’s is very similar to bookworm.  You click the hexagonal honeycombed letters to create words and collect honey.  Once you collect enough honey, the game progresses. Beesley went on to be a Finalist at the Independent Games Festival in 2004, but it’s 2010 now and Beesley is showing its age.  Unlike Popcap, Flashbang has not reiterated upon the Beesley concept with sequels and while the game’s word gameplay is still great, the graphics, sounds and overall polish of the game are lacking.  I am a huge fan of word games both digital and classics such as Scrabble so Beesley’s gameplay makes up for a lot of it’s technical shortcomings.

Score: 6/10 – Rank: 8th

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