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So good you'll forget about the first two titles

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: May 16, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Luxor 2, to put it mildly, is a vast improvement over the first two Luxor games. Once you play it, you may never go back to Luxor or Amun Rising again.

What's changed? The core concept of the game is the same, but the graphics are MUCH better...the improvement would be like going from the original Playstation to the PS3. The backgrounds are more creatively designed and are much more immersive, and the balls wobble in their tracks to simulate texture and grow and shrink to simulate depth of field as they move. FX such as lightning, flame, smoke, and explosions are improved as well. The scarabs that push the balls now crawl, roll backwards, and react to powerups.

Basic gameplay hasn't changed, but there are a few new twists, including:
- All the powerups from the first game and the Scorpion from Amun Rising appear, plus new powerups: a lighted net which catches falling coins and treasures, a color-changing cloud, fast-shooting daggers, and a lightning storm which randomly destroys balls.
- When a chain is destroyed, anywhere from one to four or five treasures (jewels, jewelry, etc.) are lauched onto the screen.
- The game now has a ranking system which grades your gameplay; the highest rank is Pharaoh.
- Each level features a bonus game which is very similar to the Challenging Stages in the game Galaga.

If you were at all impressed with Luxor, you owe it to yourself to give Luxor 2 a try.

frustrating

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 8
Date: July 20, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I wish I hadn't have spent the money on it. I can't get past level 10-4 on the normal level to the point of going mad ! I think there are too many levels. Too many opening doors to get to each one.. The marbles are so illuminating that it is hard to see what all is going on while you are blasting them. I find it hard to catch the extra life medallion things with so much illuminating colors. I always mix up the red and orange they are so close in color. The only thing I like is the sphere that changes the color. If they put that on Luxor 1 it would suit me fine. I think they added TOO much to the graphics. They could of just added the new spheres to the Luxor 1 would of been good. I quit playing it and yet now the old game seems boring.

If you Love Zuma - This one isn't as good, but it will do.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: July 01, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I loved the fast pace of Zuma. This clone slows down the rush. The balls come at a frustratingly slow pace. You still shoot colored balls, but you get penalized when they don't match. Yes this game has taken me much longer to beat, but the time spent with it is frustrating half the time.

When I'm trapped on the phone it will do, but I'm not recomending it to everyone I know like I did with Zuma.

better than the first Luxor

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: April 16, 2007
Author: Amazon User

The code was bad on Luxor 1, IMO. It was crash-ey, it demanded a lot from graphics cards and didn't run well on many laptops. This version tailors itself to your system perfectly. I've run it on lower end laptops, where the game runs just fine. And I also have it on my higher end desktop with a good vid card and the graphics are fantastic.

If you like the Snood/Collapse type casual games, you'll like this one, too.

THE PHARAOHS FINALLY MOVE OUT OF ZUMA's SHADOW

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: December 05, 2007
Author: Amazon User

After ZUMA's success, a number of clones appeared - but the LUXOR series is the one that actually improved on some aspects of the concept. As the series progressed, LUXOR games became more and more self-reliant. With LUXOR 2 the franchise starts to find its own way.

A series of colored balls (with the number of different colors increasing every few levels) gets pushed and you have to match them in sets of three or more in order to remove them - and prevent them from reaching the end zone. Instead of having the "shooter" in the center, it is located at the bottom and it slides left and right. This makes for some quite difficult shots (especially when obstructed by the advancing row of balls) and raises the difficulty of the game.
On the other hand, the power-ups are more powerful, at the end of every round a number of coins and gems drop and "catching" them add lives to your paddle. It seems pretty straight-forward yet it can become highly...addictive!

Compared to the first installment of the series, LUXOR 2 is graphically more impressive, enriched as to the dropping bonuses (and...penalties) - yet it will seem somewhat easier to seasoned players of the series; nevertheless, it will fulfill the funs craving for more pharaohnic fun!
My only complain is with clumsy control feeling: much more often here than in the previous LUXORs, your shots will not land exactly where intended.

This is an example of what has come to be known as Casual Gaming: small, resource-light games that are fun for the whole family.
It would be a good idea to download the 60-min trial version from a casual games site, such as REFLEXIVE (you can Google it), and decide for yourself whether this is indeed your cup of tea.
Now that the price has dropped, it is a bargain!

RECOMMENDED!

Frustrating but challenging

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 5
Date: August 12, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I finished Luxor and Amun Rising. Both were OK.
I swear that in Luxor 2 the software makes it very difficult to win. I play at the normal level above Level 9. I have been so frustrated that I've smashed 4 mice. Now I buy a mouse with a replacement guarantee. Since I wrote this review I've upgraded my PC to Vista from XP. When I run Spy Ware software, it targets Luxor as Spy Ware and deletes most of the register data. I have to re-load it. Even so, it's not smooth. It runs erratically. My advice is, do NOT buy this for Vista!!! It won't work, even in Windows compatability mode.

Luxor 2

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 4
Date: April 13, 2007
Author: Amazon User

its not the best, i prefer Luxor 1 over Luxor 2. The imagining on Luxor 2 is shakey and bumpy. Hard to manuever shots.

Up till 4 am!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: August 13, 2007
Author: Amazon User

If you are an addictive type person, don't buy this game. I got it for my wife, and she stays up till 4 or 5 o'clock in the morning playing.

A little frustrating

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 28, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Better graphics - more dimensional. Seems to fire slower than Anun Rising and I'm stuck on level 9-3 which is a little frustrating. Don't like the delay when the level first opens (can't shoot anything for about 3 seconds)and sometimes it gives you colors that you don't need and no where to launch them -- which means a greater chance of losing. If I can't get past level 9-3 soon, I'll probably uninstall.

Very fun game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 23, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Luxor 2 is way better and difficult than Luxor 1, and has better graphics and sound than Zuma Deluxe. You get a lot new levels and more coins, rewards, bonus than Luxor 1 and far more than Zuma. You can play Luxor 2 at various difficult levels. It keeps your records for almost everything that it is in the game so it's very fun and addictive to.

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