Stone Frogs have practiced and refined their aim-and-spit skills for years, it seems.
Another game review here, this time, for PC/Mac. The game is called, Zuma.
Zuma is, well... It's one of those Desk-And-PC employee games. It's meant to distract one from a long day at the office, and isn't entirely fun, but is definitely addicting.
Don't get me wrong, it's fun and all, but after shooting colored rocks out of a Stone Frog's mouth for an hour, you need a break. Or, at least a change of music.
Gameplay Alright, Zuma is, if you haven't guessed, a Puzzle game. I highly doubt that any of our CoD HURCOR readers will care to finish reading this, so, leave a trolling comment, and I'll laugh and chuckle in hysterics.
Back to Zuma, what you essentially do is, you take control of a Stone[d] Frog, and click to shoot these little colored stone balls, into -wait for it more stone balls. The object is to rack up enough points, by matching up stone balls of the same color, to stop more from appearing, and to prevent them from going into the mouth of one of those little skull plaques. There are a few Power-Up balls, as well. I shall list them now.
Reverse Ball- This stone ball appears, and when you destroy it, it makes all of the other stone balls roll away in reverse direction, for approximately 5 seconds.
Explosion Ball- ... Do I really need to explain it? It blows up all stone balls in the surrounding area.
Accuracy Ball- This stone ball makes an aiming cursor appear, and makes your Frog shoot faster, and more accurate.
Pause Ball- This stone ball makes everything move at the speed of a drunk snail.
Note:: Power-U Stone Balls appear randomly, and in any color. To gain their powers, simply treat it like the other stone balls: Match it up, and destroy it. Sound
Alright, this is somewhat a buzzkill. There's really only about 7 different tracks per round.
Tracks 1-7: Played during the game, depending on your rank. [Rabbit, Eagle, Etc...]
Track 8: Played when your balls are about to be eaten by the skull.
Overall
... If you have $10 to burn, and want a quick puzzle-fix, then I'd recommend Zuma. If puzzley games are your fix, great. That's why I got it.
If not, well, I wouldn't recommend. You're likely to be disappointed.
That about sums up the review. Screen shots were taken on my eMac.
[Here is the screenshot- Level 1, had some issues capturing it. And what is a TIFF file? Answer that, please? Grab wasn't working...]