Fishbowl

Community Games is host to a dozen or thereabouts multi-player-only mini-games. Presented for your consideration: another one — Fishbowl.

Fishbowl is a nicely presented though rather static game where you race to fill your score-o-meter by eating shrimp and avoiding mines which empty your meter.

Periodically, a power-up pearl pops in which has one of four effects if you snag it: red makes you invulnerable to mines, blue makes your meter fill twice as fast, green makes you move faster, and black…empties your meter. Thanks for that.

Fishbowl will allow you to play alone, but suggests that it is rolling its eyes at the pointlessness of such an endeavor. And pointless it is, as you will win, eventually, unless you can’t manage to avoid the mines. Maybe it would keep small children entertained.

With four local players, or up to eight on a network, it could be a bit of fun. For a while. Eight seems like it would be a bit crowded, but, at a guess, you’ll never have to worry about that happening.

<br/><a href="http://video.msn.com/video.aspx?vid=ebdafa71-e703-4df7-82d5-b7828e0ce0a5" target="_new" title="Fishbowl">Video: Fishbowl</a>

A shrimpy 200 Points nets you this shrimpy game.

This title was 200 Points at the time of writing this review but has since been reduced to 80 Points.