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Assimilation is a board game for home computers, played with virtual marbles of different colors. The ten different game boards are each laid out with a pattern of spaces in which the marbles sit. The object of the game is to cover the board with your own color of marbles, by "assimilating" the marbles of your opponents. Only a few basic moves are possible, such as clones, jumps, and teleports. The game is designed to be easy to learn but difficult to master.
~ All Game Guide

Review: Overall

Assimilation contains the basic elements of a great puzzle game, including the much sought after but not always realized tradition of "easy to play but hard to master." You can "assimilate" gameplay instantly since only two moves are possible, jump or clone, as you try and block the enemy and control the game board. The premise is simple and the elegant graphics, refined music, and complimentary sound effects provide a quality look and feel, all of which make it hard to understand why Assimilation doesn't fulfill its rich potential.

Pinpointing exactly where Assimilation goes wrong is difficult, but most of the problem can be attributed to its lack of excitement. While the deliberate pace encourages you to think through your moves, the resulting action doesn't reward you enough for the effort -- even winning a board awards you with only a small banner. Although games with multiple computer players are a bit more thrilling, there's simply no satisfaction to be had in the long run.

Most everything in Assimilation is first-rate, except gameplay, which makes it feel secondary. With clearly designed game boards, beautifully rendered textures, and sharp animations, Assimilation is easy to enjoy visually, and the sound effects are perfect. Unfortunately, these elements are wasted on a game that most players won't care to play.

Assimilation is a great effort, but fans of puzzle games will find it lacking. Its originality and simplicity are its strength, but all the pretty graphics in the world can't make up for the lack of enjoyment.
~ Eden Miller, All Game Guide

Review: Enjoyment

The premise is interesting but gameplay is dull.
~ Eden Miller, All Game Guide

Review: Graphics

The graphics are the best element and are quite beautifully done.
~ Eden Miller, All Game Guide

Review: Sound

The sound effects complement the game perfectly, but aren't special in any way.
~ Eden Miller, All Game Guide

Review: Replay Value

The initial slight addictive quality wears thin fairly quickly.
~ Eden Miller, All Game Guide

Review: Documentation

The manual outlines installation and offers an explanation of the basics.
~ Eden Miller, All Game Guide
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Assimilation (from Greek assimilatio; "to render similar") may refer to more than one article:

  • Assimilation (linguistics), a linguistic process by which a sound becomes similar to an adjacent sound
  • Cultural assimilation, the process whereby a minority group gradually adapts to the customs and attitudes of the prevailing culture
  • Assimilation (biology) the conversion of nutrient into the fluid or solid substance of the body, by the processes of digestion and absorption
  • Assimilation (meteorology), the process of objectively adapting the model state (of a numerical weather prediction model) to observations in a statistical optimal way taking into account model and observation errors.
  • Assimilation (philosophy), incorporation of new concepts into existing schemes
  • Assimilation (sociology), the blending or fusing of minority groups into the dominant society

See also

  • Assimilating race in science fiction
    • Assimilation (Star Trek), process used by the fictional Star Trek Borg race to integrate a being into their collective structure
    • Biological assimilation is also used by the Zerg spawn in the StarCraft series as a way of incorporating the genetics of other species into their own genepool.
    • In Superman, assimilation is the method of being stabbed or injected with kryptonite
  • In psychoanalysis, a mutual penetration of conscious and unconscious contents
  • In Piagetian developmental psychology, one of the twin processes whereby concepts are modified (along with accommodation)
  • In computer science, the modification of anti-virus software to detect a new virus
  • In typesetting, the symmetry property possessed in varying degrees by a typeface that creates mirror relationships and other similarities of form between letters
  • L'assimilande, a novel by Paul Laurendeau about fast-paced linguistic assimilation triggered by a technical device called the glottophore.

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