When you think you have you angle in the right place, you shoot your little red, green, blue, or yellow (etc.) ball with the A button and hope you land it in the right place.ĭon’t forget to catch the things that fall from the collapsed balls. Your little golden-winged ball shooter slides back and forth across the bottom of your screen via the left thumbstick. You are a little golden-winged ball shooter (I have made that the technical term for it) at the bottom of the screen. But then again, it is the 360, you could just plug in your own soundtrack.Ĭontrolling Luxor 2 is quite simple really (and should be!) and this is one place where Luxor 2 differs from Zuma. I hate it when a games music is so annoying you don’t want to play it even when it is a game you like. The music is kind of dull, but then it does have a way of blending into the background as part of the game, which, in my opinion, is how all video game music should be. Nefertiti’ Necklace, Viaducts, Villages and Oil Lamps are just a sampling of the backdrops all of them with their own unique paths forcing you to take crazy angle shots that will make you hold you breath until the ball lands in its place. The colors are bright and cheery and every board is set against an Egyptian backdrop. The visuals, and sound for that matter, are nothing to write home about.
There are four different ways to play, all single player, though they are all basically the same: Adventure, Survival, Practice and Pharaoh’s Challenge. Any true Zuma fan will like Luxor 2 because its new, but eventually gravitate back to Zuma. Even the ball collapse sound is pretty close. That being said, Luxor 2 is fun, but aggravating that they sent down another version of a game we already have. I have know idea whos was first, but I got to Zuma first and it sucked me in. The creators of this game, Mumbo Jumbo, realized the hold Zuma can have on its’ biggest fans so they decided to send us their version. The first time it came down the wire it was called Zuma. There are a whopping 88 levels! Though someone should let Xbox know that we already had this game. At the top of that list at the moment, is Luxor 2.
Anyone who knows me can tell you that I have become an arcade junkie.