As you may know, I recently made my way to this year's E3 summit in Santa Monica. The silence of the awkward shuttle rides from place to place was often filled with bloggers discussing their favorite game. I never truly had one, until I had the opportunity to play this new tittle. Solitaire brings the excitement of card games back to the PC market, and uses the latest technology to provide an absolutely thrilling experience. Check out this review, after the jump.

*wannabe jump*

The game starts its massively deep story line by giving the player a virtual deck of cards. These cards are laid out, and must be organized according to color and number. Personally, I loved the story line and couldn't wait to finish the game just to see what happens. Never before have I been so addicted to a game just for the story line.

Overall graphics are left to be improved. Despite the summit is just to show off games that aren't coming for some time, and mostly aren't finished, I still expect the tittles to be presentable. The developers clearly had more graphics to explore (such as the third dimension) and left much more to be added, however I was told the latest version of the game (not yet on display) would amaze me once the final game came out. We'll see how well it delivers.

The controls leave nothing to be desired. There's nothing like picking up a game and being able to guess the controls. They've done a great job in this sense, and even leave more advanced controls (such as double clicking a card) for the experts.

Game play has several different scoring options (Vegas, Standard, or even None) so you can compete against your friends. However, this leads us to what this game is truly lacking: multiplayer. What kind of developer can release a game and expect it to be successful without mutiplayer? It's games like Army of Two and Little Big Planet that are going to push gaming into a truly new generation. We couldn't even get an online scoreboard, so in order to compare your scores with friends you must write it down or tell it to them! I hope they work on this game, and add some of the features it's currently lacking, however I still think it deserves a verdict.

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Score: 7.83942

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