This game makes no bones about it - it tries to draw from the success of Puzzle Quest. It's a few years old now, but in a lot of ways the game feels older than that. The game plays well, but there are things that remind me of the older budget title PS2 games of old. Like many puzzle games, the key is three in a row - but unlike many of them, they can simply be clustered and do not have to be in a straight line. So you can make an L and do not need a row of three vertical or horizontal matching titles.
Instead of your successes being measure in magical attacks, it is in possosing forces. Your purchase soldiers and move them to attack the other army. When one side loses their entire set of troops, they lose. At first glance I figured I was looking at a Puzzle Quest knockoff, but the sliding tiles and the army component gives it a very different feel. When it was new, this game was $20, but I've sen it for as low as $3 online.
The graphics are pretty rough. They just are not attractive to look at at all, but thankfully they are probably the least important part of the game. The music is pretty entertaining, and the gameplay itself actually surprised me with how solid it was and that it was not just a ripoff of Puzzle Quest. There is a multiplayer component, but honestly we did not use it much. The single player mode was deep enough to keep us entertained for a good period of time, and for fans of this kind of game, you could do a lot worse for three to five dollars.
So, are you saying...actually saying...a ZOO Game is good? I seriously thought they were just low budget junk games made to sit at registers and get unsuspecting Wii owners to purchase them.
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"The Company has a library of approximately 100 games, and targets publishing approximately 50 new games in 2010."
50 GAMES IN ONE YEAR?! That's almost one a week!
Anywho, thanks for sharing on this, seriously. I would have passed them straight over, and not thought twice about it. Now, just MAYBE, if I see some ZOO game that looks interesting, I may be willing to give it a try.