The mere fact these reviews took until now, is because it was impossible for me to put them down long enough to write. It’s as if the developers were sitting around with one question in mind: “How can we make Bejeweled even more addictive?” In 2 days, I’ve logged in about 24 hours of game time already and that’s whilst performing other duties. And finally, in Diamond Mine you can excavate treasure by destroying gems near the soil.Ĭombining the addiction of Bejeweled and Poker clever. Ice Storm sees columns rising to the top of the board, where you need to line gems to make them drop or freeze to death. There’s Butterflies, where you must prevent these critters from flying to the top of the board to get munched by a spider. Like that you’ll unlock Poker, where making a line gives you the card from that gem color. You can also unlock some mini-games by doing well in the main modes. I must’ve whizzed through it in no more than 2 plays it’s just so damned addictive. You unlock relics as you complete these tasks, but it’s the variety of mini-games that will keep you going on until total completion.
This mode gives you simple goals to complete in a wide variation of mini-games. It is here that it becomes apparent how well-thought PopCap produced their sequel and didn’t settle on just an update. Quest rises to the top and takes the best feature award to its name. It’s exhilarating to say the least!īejeweled 3 - Quest Mode *click to enlarge* As the clock ticks, playing becomes more and more stressful and that results in sweaty palms and rash decisions.
Lightning is a concept built on speed: You line up gems as fast you can and collect time gems to add to your counter once time runs out. Some mantras are just plain strange or even confusing: “I will succeed in my effort to quit.” Excuse me? Although this is better than just playing forever, it still is a strange mode. The new endless mode is Zen, in which you can relax with numerous options to find your center, such as breathing help, ambient sounds and quirky self-help one-liners. There’s still a Classic Mode and an improved Endless Mode, now called Zen but Lightning and Quest are the show stoppers. The up-tempo soundtrack joins in all this and completes the compelling combo of exciting gameplay.īut the true winner here is the sheer amount of new features PopCap could think of. Even the sounds help keep the thrill alive, with pressuring effects, pushing you to the extreme when time starts running out. With the ability of lining up gems while others are falling, each game becomes a climatic and heart-pumping race. This is a lot more fulfilling as you can save up special gems to clear in later levels.īut more importantly, the animations are seamlessly fluent and that keeps the game-flow tight and exciting. Those flying gems also get incorporated into the new board even the special gems. They even updated the rainbow wormhole with gems flying in it, so the nausea effect from before is a lot less now. The impressive explosion effects flash on your screen to dazzle you with their brightness. It kept going: “Ain’t nobody dope as we I’m just so fresh, so clean.” And I don’t even like hip hop. While playing, I had a song stuck in my head. The graphics come off polished and refined, with higher-end pc’s able to view a game that is just plain nice. It’s hard to believe such it could be altered so much, but lining up gems has never been this well done. The startup screen from Bejeweled 3 offers up 4+4 modes. But rather than an update, this game deserves to be judged upon its own merits. You can look at that review and get all the info you’d need. Sure, Bejeweled 3 is still the same basic concept of lining up and disappearing gems on that aspect it’s no different from Bejeweled 2. You can stop reading here, but for those interested, I’ll tell you why. The short answer is: Yes, very much so even. But since its concept is fairly basic, the main question here is: Is this game different from the Bejeweled 2 and is it worth my time and money? However, PopCap Games has a huge following for their franchises and Bejeweled 3 could well be the most popular one. It’s a bold move to release a sequel to a casual game on the same day as Disney’s TRON: Evolution and Blizzard’s World Of Warcraft: Cataclysm.
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