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 Exit Nights Although we thought collectable card games couldn't be successfully brought to the handheld, Exit Nights pleasantly surprised us. The game is a little slow and tough to jump into, but the patient player will be rewarded with a fun strategy game. START WITH SINGLE PLAYER When you begin, you'll need to amass a set of powerful cards, so playing the single player mode is a must unless you want to be slaughtered by a prepared opponent. The "Exit" nightclub offers dozens of opponents in five different modes. You can also visit the store to purchase more cards and sell your duplicates for cash. As you play or shop, 10 different club-style soundtracks add to the nightclub atmosphere. Cards are played one at a time, as shown in the screenshot below, onto a grid. Adjacent cards "battle" each other, where stronger cards (indicated by the dots on each card, and the strength key shown near the bottom of the screen) beat weaker ones. The game is complete when the grid has been filled with cards and the winner is the one who has successfully "converted" the most cards to his/her color.
Once you have become accustomed to the game play and feel you have enough cards to take on a live opponent, you can challenge your friends via infrared. The game play is exactly the same as single player mode, except that you have the additional ability to trade cards and money. This feature is critical because it allows you to "help out" your friends, by giving them more powerful cards and get them more addicted to the game, by offering them rare cards you have worked hard to earn yourself. We would have liked to have seen the game ship with a few "established profiles" containing cards so we could quickly jump into a multiplayer game but, admittedly, that would take something away from the single player game, since the cards would not have to be earned.
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