In this screen shot I just swapped a Hyper Cube with a green gem, so all the green gems are disappearing and racking up my score. Swap a Hyper Cube gem and all gems like the one you swapped it with disappear from the screen, causing a major downward cascade of gems and scoring many more points than even a Power Gem explosion. If you're able to match five gems in a row, a Hyper Cube gem appears. Match that Power Gem with three or more gems in a row and you create an explosion that removes all nearby gems regardless of color or shape and scoring major points. When you match four gems in a row, those four gems are removed and replaced with a single Power Gem. Power Gems twinkle and Hyper Cubes have a rainbow effect so they're easily identified as shown here: The biggest change is that there are two new classes of gems: Power Gems and Hyper Cubes. It adds new wrinkles to what was already an incredibly enjoyable game without detracting from what made it so enjoyable in the first place. There's also (still) a free-to-play sponsored version of the original version on the Web:īejeweled 2 is a great sequel. The premise - click any two gems to swap their positions match three or more gems in a row vertically or horizontally to remove them from the screen and score points.įor what it's worth, there are application versions of Bejeweled and/or Bejeweled 2 for the Mac, the PC, several brands of smart phones including our beloved iPhone, and the iPod. Now, here's my review.īejeweled is the original "match three gems in a row" game. Good news: It's currently on sale for a limited time for just $2.99, which is a darn good deal if you ask me.Įnough of that good news/bad news stuff already. Good news: PopCap Games recently released a native iPhone application version of Bejeweled 2 that's a whole lot better than the PopCap Web version (which is still available at and still free) and several magnitudes better than Diamenty ever was.īad news: The iPhone application version isn't free.īad news: The retail price of Bejeweled 2 is $9.99, a price many users (myself included) consider outrageous. Good news: The good news (or great news if you believe Arkadiusz) at that time was that PopCap Games was offering an "official" version of Bejeweled for the iPhone and it was prettier than Diamenty, more fun to play, and absolutely free with no advertising. I also said, just between us chickens, that I suspected that PopCap Games lawyers delivered this Great News to Arkadiusz but who knows. In my review of Diamenty I said, "if you've ever played Bejeweled (Mac & PC) you know exactly how Diamenty works," which basically meant that Diamenty was a note-for-note rip-off of PopCap Games' Bejeweled. I liked it a lot and called it, "addictive, fun, and free."īad news: Then, a month later I reported the bad news - that Diamenty was no longer available and its URL now displayed this announcement: Good news: In July 2007 the good news was an iPhone game called Diamenty, a free "match three jewels in a row" game played using your iPhone's Web browser. The story leading up to this review of Bejeweled 2 is one of those good news/bad news things. Jaco Pastorious and Peter Erskine join Wayne Shorter and, of course, Joe Zawinul to create this masterpiece. This is Weather Reports quintessential line-up captured live.This group does a marvelous job of moving seamlessly be Part white rap, part alternative, part pop, and part rock, the Bumblebeez grabbed a hold of me with "Pony Ride," and didn't let go. In the long series of R.E.M.'s evolution, this album (finally?) showcases their ability to capture on tape what had been happening in the live for years: heartfelt, sweat-filled performances that just.Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not The trio's surprisingly big sound evokes Pink Floyd (without ever sounding like any Pink The Secret Machines' inaugural album, Now Here is Nowhere is both old and new in its sonic assault.
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