A new twist on ‘Bejeweled’
Nov 7, 2008 Geek, That's Hot
Two of my favorite silly little games to kill time with are Bejeweled and its sequel, Bejeweled 2. I’ve never been able to keep my mouse moving fast enough for them, but they’ve been great fun on my old Palm IIIc, my Treo 650, and now on my iPhone.
PopCap, the maker of the game, has released a new version of the game called Bejeweled Twist that will fundamentally change the way it’s played, while still trying to keep it fun and interesting. From the article:
So what, exactly, is the twist in “Bejeweled Twist?â€
In the original “Bejeweled,†players were given a grid of gems (diamonds, rubies, emeralds, etc.) and had to swap adjacent jewels to make lines of at least three matching gems. With “Twist†you still have to make matches of three, but this time around you maneuver the gems about the grid by rotating a 2-by-2 block of them in a clockwise direction.
But an even more important change to the gameplay is the way that you’re no longer forced to make a match with every move. That is, you can maneuver the jewels around the board as much as you like, and in doing so you can set up bigger, better, higher-scoring moves down the road.
This sounds like it could be a lot of fun despite the fundamental changes, and I look forward to seeing it on my iPhone soon.
