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Monday, July 19, 2004

Gamebox Gems 2.0: A Box Load of Gems for Under Ten Shekels

Posted by Steve Sharp in "SOFTWARE" @ 09:30 AM


The Ruby Connection
The Ruby Connection is one of the few timed games in this collection. Gems are scattered on the screen, the player must find paths to connect like gems, and clear the screen before time expires. The game starts off so painfully simple that it’s hard to comprehend the complexity and level of difficulty that comes with the higher levels. After Jewel Master, this is my favorite game. The Ruby Connection is easy to get into, and it’ll get the player’s pulse rate up.


Figure 3: The Ruby Connection.

Sunstone Swap
Sunstone Swap, at first glance, looks suspiciously like Bejeweled. The game begins with the screen filled with various gems. The player tries to rotate clusters of four gems to align strings of at least three similar gems and thereby eliminate them. The game is consistent in theme and quality with the others in the collection, and while the concept of this game is similar to Bejeweled, it is slightly different and is still a challenging and addictive game.


Figure 4: Sunstone Swap.

Crystal Cave-In
Crystal Cave-In is a strategy-based jewel matching game. The player drags individual gems that fall from the ceiling three at a time and tries to eliminate them by grouping them in blocks of five. This particular game didn’t hold my interest as well as several of the others. While the game is strategy-based, more than anything else, the player’s success seems to depend mostly upon dumb luck in getting the right gems at the right time.


Figure 5: Crystal Cave-In.

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