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Incredibly Addicting!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 11 / 12
Date: January 18, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Zuma Deluxe is like several PC games in that the goal is to eliminate balls by shooting balls of the same color at the chain. For example, with Luxor, the shooter is at the bottom of the screen and your goal is to eliminate all of the balls.

In Zuma Deluxe, the goal is the same except that the frog shooter is at the *center* of the board and rotates 360 degrees. Chains of various colored balls snake towards an opening. If the balls reach that opening, you lose a life. (You get 3 lives per game, but can accrue additional lives if you score 30,000 + points if I recall).

There are quite a few puzzles within each Level; however, you have to complete ALL the stages in order to reach the next Level. For example, I'm on Level 6 which happens to have 6 Stages. I can't get past this tricky Stage 6, so I keep getting knocked back down to Stage 1 of Level 6.

Random balls will light up during gameplay and if you eliminate the chain that contains these particular balls, you get special temporary perks. For example, there are balls that will create a laser shot for accuracy, slow down the balls, stop the balls, reverse the balls, or fry all the surrounding balls (this one is my fave!).

Also, there is a coin that shows up randomly on the outskirts of the maze and if you hit the coin, you get extra points. You also get extra points for shooting chains in the middle of "gaps".

There are triangular mazes, circuituous square mazes, and even mazes with two openings. Perhaps the most tricky, however, are those that snake under one another, making it difficult to track the balls.

You can play two versions: Gauntlet and Adventure. You can choose to make the game full screen or small screen.

My only complaint is that I bought this game in the store and like Bookworm (another Pop Cap game), I had to re-download a game using a universal .exe patch in order to get the game to work. Without it, the game starts with a 60 minute "trial period" that won't allow you to play beyond it. This is a serious glitch that Pop Cap Games needs to deal with, because it affects other games, too (such as Insaniquarium). If you need the patch, un-install Zuma Deluxe and re-install using http://beta.popcap.com/pubfiles/PopCDFix.exe

I highly recommend this addictive PC game!

No.1 Time Waster

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 13 / 16
Date: August 19, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Very easy to play, hard to master, weirdly addictive.
I play it for months, couldn't finish level 13 and -thankfully- I got bored.
Available at Realplayer website for download at the same price.

Most addictive game I ever played! Super fun!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 10 / 12
Date: November 04, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I have been playing Zuma for months and I have to tell you it is the first thing I do in the morning and the last I do at night before going to bed. It is by far the best PC game I have ever played! In the beginning I had a hard time getting to work on time or going to bed on time in the evening. It is also the first thing I do when getting home from work. I have had to discipline myself to get my housework done first and then play Zuma. Highly highly recommend this game. If you like arcade type games this is the best!

ridiculously addictive

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 6
Date: July 29, 2005
Author: Amazon User

great game, a tetris for the 00's. Can't get past level 8. a very fun game

My first game of Pop Cap and one of the best in my opinion.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 6
Date: June 02, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This game was introduced to me by my aunt last year. After that, all of my families began to play this game. Especially we teenagers in the family, we often compete with each other.
This game is really wonderful. The color is plentiful but not glare at all. The movement of both the frog and the balls is so smooth. The image that come up between 2 levels is great and creative. I think the sound of the game was what attracted all of us most. The sounds when the balls are bombing, the balls knocking together, and passing a level, are so great. All the sounds and the images always make us so excited, and we can't help playing! I think playing this game is a good training of observation, it's good to people of all ages. So all parents in my family love children to play this game.
I didn't like playing computer game before, but this game made me felt that there is such a wonderful game exists! I love this game very much, and it's fit for your children, you can also have a good time with this game of course!

Satan's Invention to Waste Human Time on Earth

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: September 21, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game is the most additive game I have ever played. Tetris on steriods. Gets progressively harder and most find that they "reach a wall" on the eighth level (at least I did).

I renounce thee, Satan that is Zuma.

Fun game.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: July 07, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Very addictive. Found it quite exciting. Have finished it many many times so that just goes to show that once you've beat it, you can still enjoy it. You can try to beat times, scores, etc, so there is more than just one game here.

Completely addictive

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: February 20, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This is a super fun game. There are 12 levels of increasing difficulty, and boy does it ever get hard after level 9. You find yourself wanting to defeat that little spinning, spitting frog if it kills you. Great game.

Really, a fun, fun game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 7
Date: October 03, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This is a great game. Don't be fooled initially by the ridiculously easy early levels. The game gets hard quick and its a real challenge and tons of fun.

Annoying Yet Addicting!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: June 09, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Zuma was first shown to me by one of my friends. I was watching them play it for a while, and I asked them for a turn. I was so facinated I had to get it! After I had the game for a few days, I realized that I wasn't getting anywhere with the game and I got extremely bored. I picked it up the next day and tried again. This game is very fun, but it gets easily annoying and boring. It is a very challenging game, but not in the sense where you feel like you must defeat it. There's no real motivation to this game, it just absorbs your mind. That's why overall, I only give it four stars, but in fun I give it 5.

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