IGN.com, 4/4/2008
8/10
"I'm a sucker for fun addicting games and Blastdown! has both categories covered."

• Speed: In Speed mode, try to reach the score goal before the timer runs out. The timer resets once the target score has been reached. Whenever there are no more plays, the playfield will refill with falling blocks. Try to score as many points as possible without letting the timer expire.
• Marathon: In Marathon mode, try to eliminate the playfield so there are no remaining blocks. If there are no more moves, the level is over and the player will lose one heart for each leftover block. The game ends when the player has no hearts left. Try to score as many points as possible before you run out of hearts.

• Play: Select either Speed more or Marathon mode and begin a new game, or continue a game already in progress.
• Options: Options to toggle sound, vibration, and tutorial text.
• Help: Information on controls and game-play for both Speed and Marathon modes.
• Scoreboard: View top scores and best records for both Speed and Marathon modes.
• About: Customer support information and Legal Information.
• Exit: The selection will exit the game and return the user to the phone's menu.

• To get through early levels, try clearing from the bottom left. This will not maximize score but is a good way of clearing the level quickly.
• Remember that different colors earn different special blocks. Focus on green blocks to earn multipliers for higher scores and yellow blocks to earn lightning blocks to help expand the size of your clears.
• Clear out one color at a time, to try to maximize the last color cleared into as large a group as possible.

• Use wild blocks in Marathon mode to connect large groups of blocks including multipliers and booster blocks. Set up large clears to earn more wilds.
• Conserve your wild blocks for later levels when it gets harder to make groups.