It is what you have come to expect from most other puzzle games, but it more polished.
User Rating: 9 | Sega Swirl PC
Sega Swirl is nothing new if you go to sites like Pogo. It''s essentially Breakout or Super Collapse with a new coat of paint. Sega even got some marketing in with the design of the swirls which represent the (at the time) new Dreamcast. The game is a really good deal sitting at only $0. It is worth a try even though you've seen the same thing before. The multiplayer online is horrible. Albeit was the first game to incorporate cross-platform play, it was via e-mail and that is just cruel. The play goes back and forth so if you're on dial-up (which most people were in 2000) it would take easily 30 minutes to finish 1 board. The game is great, but the icing on the cake is the off-line multiplayer. Splitscreen is a real treat though, you can set the point limit up to 25,000 (which I played on and it took me about 40 minutes to reach). Also, you can mess with people near the end of the board, when you have no swirls of a certain color everyone elses swirls of that color get eliminated too. It makes it difficult to cheat and leave all of one color so that you can pop them all at once and get a huge combo. If you haven't played it before, I would recommend trying this game seeing as how Gamespot has a link right on the page! -Clay 
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